Gillian Feeley-Harnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Feeley-Harnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Feeley-Harnik |
| SIGNATURE | FEELEY-HARNIK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 388 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Lewis Henry Morgan
Morgan's The American Beaver and His Works (1868) argued for animals to be understood as living thinking communicating beings. Working in northern Michigan with Ojibwe (Anishinaabeg), Morgan documented beavers' lives in the region Ojibwe called Ish-ko-nau'-ba - 'Many Remnants of Water'. Following their insights, Morgan argued that the 'persevering labors of the beaver' were communicative acts of sentient creatures, expressed in familial works tra…
The Ethnography of Creation
The Ethnography of Creation
Religion and Cultural Studies
Relative Values
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors-a group of internationally recognized scholars-examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied …
Ravenala MadagascariensisSonnerat
Conservationists in Madagascar emphasize the need to educate local farmers about proper land use, while often ignoring the ideas and practices of expatriate residents in past and present debates about Malagasy ecology. The premise of this article is that we need to study both within the same analytical framework to understand the complexities of social-ecological change in Madagascar. The ravinala or "Traveler's Tree" (Ravenala madagascariensis),…
Communities of Blood
Lewis H. Morgan's Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1871) is credited with inventing the anthropological study of "kinship" from a comparative perspective (Trautmann 1987). Since Émile Durkheim's critique of 1898, Morgan is also said to have reduced kinship to biology in keeping with Anglo-American cultural assumptions about "blood relations" given in nature. Yet, on closer inspection, Morgan's "consanguinity" proves to b…
Religion and Food
Religion and Food: An Anthropological Perspective1 Get access Gillian Feeley-Harnik Gillian Feeley-Harnik Gilhan Feeley-Harnik is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXIII, Issue 3, Fall 1995, Pages 565-582, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXIII.3.565 Published…
A Green Estate
A Green Estate
A Green Estate
A Green Estate
A Green Estate
A Green Estate
Systemes de Pensee en Afrique Noire. Le Sacrifice V. Cahier 6, 1983
Lotte Schomerus-Gernböck, Die Mahafaly. Eine ethnische Gruppe im Süd-Western Madagaskars, Beiträge zur Kulturanthropologie, Berlin
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The King's Men in Madagascar
Opening ParagraphThe 'great songs' (antsa maventy) with which Sakalava praise their royalty extol them as unique and precious beings in whom all wealth in persons and things is, or eventually will be, concentrated, causing them to grow enormously and inexhaustibly fat, yet ever greedy for more. Solely because of their ancestry, their houses will be royal residences, their hats will be royal headdresses with special names. Above all, their people …
Pouvoir des vivants, langage des morts
Pouvoir des vivants, langage des morts: idéo-logiques sakalava. Par Jean-François Baré. Paris: François Maspero, 1977. (Dossiers africains dirigés par Marc Augé et Jean Copans). 144p., tableaux, cartes, bibl. FF25. - Volume 50 Issue 4
Divine Kingship and the Meaning of History Among the Sakalava of Madagascar
Myth and history are not so different as was once thought. People may have different interpretations of the same 'historical facts'. History may therefore be used like myth to support alternative social programmes. Some would even argue that there are no 'historical facts', but only interpretations: that there is no history which is not a purely existential invention, bound to the culture that conceived it. Why should some people have invented hi…
Relative Values
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors-a group of internationally recognized scholars-examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied …
A Green Estate
Religion and Food
Religion and Food: An Anthropological Perspective1 Get access Gillian Feeley-Harnik Gillian Feeley-Harnik Gilhan Feeley-Harnik is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXIII, Issue 3, Fall 1995, Pages 565-582, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXIII.3.565 Published…
Divine Kingship and the Meaning of History Among the Sakalava of Madagascar
Myth and history are not so different as was once thought. People may have different interpretations of the same 'historical facts'. History may therefore be used like myth to support alternative social programmes. Some would even argue that there are no 'historical facts', but only interpretations: that there is no history which is not a purely existential invention, bound to the culture that conceived it. Why should some people have invented hi…
The King's Men in Madagascar
Opening ParagraphThe 'great songs' (antsa maventy) with which Sakalava praise their royalty extol them as unique and precious beings in whom all wealth in persons and things is, or eventually will be, concentrated, causing them to grow enormously and inexhaustibly fat, yet ever greedy for more. Solely because of their ancestry, their houses will be royal residences, their hats will be royal headdresses with special names. Above all, their people …
Communities of Blood
Lewis H. Morgan's Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1871) is credited with inventing the anthropological study of "kinship" from a comparative perspective (Trautmann 1987). Since Émile Durkheim's critique of 1898, Morgan is also said to have reduced kinship to biology in keeping with Anglo-American cultural assumptions about "blood relations" given in nature. Yet, on closer inspection, Morgan's "consanguinity" proves to b…
A Green Estate
Ravenala MadagascariensisSonnerat
Conservationists in Madagascar emphasize the need to educate local farmers about proper land use, while often ignoring the ideas and practices of expatriate residents in past and present debates about Malagasy ecology. The premise of this article is that we need to study both within the same analytical framework to understand the complexities of social-ecological change in Madagascar. The ravinala or "Traveler's Tree" (Ravenala madagascariensis),…
Lewis Henry Morgan
Morgan's The American Beaver and His Works (1868) argued for animals to be understood as living thinking communicating beings. Working in northern Michigan with Ojibwe (Anishinaabeg), Morgan documented beavers' lives in the region Ojibwe called Ish-ko-nau'-ba - 'Many Remnants of Water'. Following their insights, Morgan argued that the 'persevering labors of the beaver' were communicative acts of sentient creatures, expressed in familial works tra…
Divine Kingship and the Meaning of History Among the Sakalava of Madagascar
Myth and history are not so different as was once thought. People may have different interpretations of the same 'historical facts'. History may therefore be used like myth to support alternative social programmes. Some would even argue that there are no 'historical facts', but only interpretations: that there is no history which is not a purely existential invention, bound to the culture that conceived it. Why should some people have invented hi…
Pouvoir des vivants, langage des morts
Pouvoir des vivants, langage des morts: idéo-logiques sakalava. Par Jean-François Baré. Paris: François Maspero, 1977. (Dossiers africains dirigés par Marc Augé et Jean Copans). 144p., tableaux, cartes, bibl. FF25. - Volume 50 Issue 4
The King's Men in Madagascar
Opening ParagraphThe 'great songs' (antsa maventy) with which Sakalava praise their royalty extol them as unique and precious beings in whom all wealth in persons and things is, or eventually will be, concentrated, causing them to grow enormously and inexhaustibly fat, yet ever greedy for more. Solely because of their ancestry, their houses will be royal residences, their hats will be royal headdresses with special names. Above all, their people …
Lotte Schomerus-Gernböck, Die Mahafaly. Eine ethnische Gruppe im Süd-Western Madagaskars, Beiträge zur Kulturanthropologie, Berlin
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Systemes de Pensee en Afrique Noire. Le Sacrifice V. Cahier 6, 1983
A Green Estate
A Green Estate
A Green Estate
A Green Estate
A Green Estate
A Green Estate
Religion and Food
Religion and Food: An Anthropological Perspective1 Get access Gillian Feeley-Harnik Gillian Feeley-Harnik Gilhan Feeley-Harnik is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXIII, Issue 3, Fall 1995, Pages 565-582, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXIII.3.565 Published…
Communities of Blood
Lewis H. Morgan's Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1871) is credited with inventing the anthropological study of "kinship" from a comparative perspective (Trautmann 1987). Since Émile Durkheim's critique of 1898, Morgan is also said to have reduced kinship to biology in keeping with Anglo-American cultural assumptions about "blood relations" given in nature. Yet, on closer inspection, Morgan's "consanguinity" proves to b…
The Ethnography of Creation
Religion and Cultural Studies
Relative Values
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors-a group of internationally recognized scholars-examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied …
Ravenala MadagascariensisSonnerat
Conservationists in Madagascar emphasize the need to educate local farmers about proper land use, while often ignoring the ideas and practices of expatriate residents in past and present debates about Malagasy ecology. The premise of this article is that we need to study both within the same analytical framework to understand the complexities of social-ecological change in Madagascar. The ravinala or "Traveler's Tree" (Ravenala madagascariensis),…
The Ethnography of Creation
Lewis Henry Morgan
Morgan's The American Beaver and His Works (1868) argued for animals to be understood as living thinking communicating beings. Working in northern Michigan with Ojibwe (Anishinaabeg), Morgan documented beavers' lives in the region Ojibwe called Ish-ko-nau'-ba - 'Many Remnants of Water'. Following their insights, Morgan argued that the 'persevering labors of the beaver' were communicative acts of sentient creatures, expressed in familial works tra…
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