Roger Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Romancing the Real
Romancing the Real: Folklore and Ethnographic Representation in North Africa. SABRA J. WEBBER. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. xxvill + 293 pp., figures, maps, photographs, appendix, references, indexes
Entre le sacre et le profane
Anthropology and the Middle Ages
Cultural Materialism
In its specific theories Harris's cultural materialism has often proven illuminating. As a model of and method for studying culture, however, it is seriously flawed. One of the dilemmas it faces is the conflict between its epistemology and the assumption of infrastructural determinism: if empirical science is a superstructural concomitant of a particular infrastructure, then it can be neither more valid than any other view norcausally or practica…
The semiotics of reciprocity
General/Theoretical
Medusa's Hair
General and Theoretical
Sororicide/Filiacide
Homicide of patrilateral kin on the justification of "restoring the family honour" is here differentiated from other assaults on family members. It is also distinguished from vendetta, which, though aimed at the restoration of family honour, affects strangers. This study outlines the social characteristics of the instances of homicide, attempted homicide, and forced suicide for family honour that occurred in Israel between May 1973 and December 1…
General and Theoretical
Toward a Semiotics of Middle Eastern Cultures
There exists a growing body of literature which either explicitly or implicitly utilizes semiotic theory to discuss various sign systems in the Middle East. I believe that by exploring these works and linking them to similar studies, we can acquire a fresh perspective on the symbolic life of the people of the Middle East. I do not argue that semiotics can or should replace other paradigmatic approaches to out analysis of culture, but rather that …
Behind the wall of meaning
Images and Self-images
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currenc…
On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Symbolic readings of ritual acts rely on a distinction between the symbolic and the instrumental that is hard to sustain. In order that we take public lectures and academic papers-which are certainly ritual acts-intellectually seriously, it is enough that they not be obviously false. A further argument against reading them symbolically is that the symbolic reading involves projection of hidden meanings which have not been intentionally put there.…
Ethnology
Sexual Dialetics and Strategy in Berber Marriage
Two distinctive approaches have been utilized to investigate marriage and the family among the Berbers of North Africa. One has found its focus in the formal organization of political entities; the other in the interaction of volitional individuals seeking to use the moral-legal code for their personal benefit. This paper seeks to examine the paradigmatic consequences of an interplay between these two perspectives. The problem under examination i…
Ballets of the Atlas
The Martignoni Affair
The material for this article is drawn from eleven documents in the U.S. National Archives 'World War II collection of seized enemy records: Personal papers of Benito Mussolini ...' T586, roll 425. My attention was drawn to them by the work of the French historian Max Gallo on the subsidies paid by Italy to French and British fascists. Angiolo Martignoni was a conservative Councillor of State in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of the Ticino fro…
Choice or Force
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Roger Joseph; Choice or Force: A Study in Social Manipulation. Human Organization 1 December 1974; 33 (4): 398–401. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.33.4.m7t37xguw02h11w6 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bo…
The economic significance ofCannabis sativa in the Moroccan Rif
Obituaries
Ingredients of Fieldwork
Sororicide/Filiacide
Homicide of patrilateral kin on the justification of "restoring the family honour" is here differentiated from other assaults on family members. It is also distinguished from vendetta, which, though aimed at the restoration of family honour, affects strangers. This study outlines the social characteristics of the instances of homicide, attempted homicide, and forced suicide for family honour that occurred in Israel between May 1973 and December 1…
Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currenc…
On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Symbolic readings of ritual acts rely on a distinction between the symbolic and the instrumental that is hard to sustain. In order that we take public lectures and academic papers-which are certainly ritual acts-intellectually seriously, it is enough that they not be obviously false. A further argument against reading them symbolically is that the symbolic reading involves projection of hidden meanings which have not been intentionally put there.…
Cultural Materialism
In its specific theories Harris's cultural materialism has often proven illuminating. As a model of and method for studying culture, however, it is seriously flawed. One of the dilemmas it faces is the conflict between its epistemology and the assumption of infrastructural determinism: if empirical science is a superstructural concomitant of a particular infrastructure, then it can be neither more valid than any other view norcausally or practica…
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
The economic significance ofCannabis sativa in the Moroccan Rif
Obituaries
General and Theoretical
Toward a Semiotics of Middle Eastern Cultures
There exists a growing body of literature which either explicitly or implicitly utilizes semiotic theory to discuss various sign systems in the Middle East. I believe that by exploring these works and linking them to similar studies, we can acquire a fresh perspective on the symbolic life of the people of the Middle East. I do not argue that semiotics can or should replace other paradigmatic approaches to out analysis of culture, but rather that …
Ingredients of Fieldwork
Obituaries
The economic significance ofCannabis sativa in the Moroccan Rif
The Martignoni Affair
The material for this article is drawn from eleven documents in the U.S. National Archives 'World War II collection of seized enemy records: Personal papers of Benito Mussolini ...' T586, roll 425. My attention was drawn to them by the work of the French historian Max Gallo on the subsidies paid by Italy to French and British fascists. Angiolo Martignoni was a conservative Councillor of State in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of the Ticino fro…
Choice or Force
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Roger Joseph; Choice or Force: A Study in Social Manipulation. Human Organization 1 December 1974; 33 (4): 398–401. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.33.4.m7t37xguw02h11w6 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bo…
On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Symbolic readings of ritual acts rely on a distinction between the symbolic and the instrumental that is hard to sustain. In order that we take public lectures and academic papers-which are certainly ritual acts-intellectually seriously, it is enough that they not be obviously false. A further argument against reading them symbolically is that the symbolic reading involves projection of hidden meanings which have not been intentionally put there.…
Ethnology
Sexual Dialetics and Strategy in Berber Marriage
Two distinctive approaches have been utilized to investigate marriage and the family among the Berbers of North Africa. One has found its focus in the formal organization of political entities; the other in the interaction of volitional individuals seeking to use the moral-legal code for their personal benefit. This paper seeks to examine the paradigmatic consequences of an interplay between these two perspectives. The problem under examination i…
Ballets of the Atlas
Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currenc…
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
General and Theoretical
Toward a Semiotics of Middle Eastern Cultures
There exists a growing body of literature which either explicitly or implicitly utilizes semiotic theory to discuss various sign systems in the Middle East. I believe that by exploring these works and linking them to similar studies, we can acquire a fresh perspective on the symbolic life of the people of the Middle East. I do not argue that semiotics can or should replace other paradigmatic approaches to out analysis of culture, but rather that …
Behind the wall of meaning
Images and Self-images
General and Theoretical
Sororicide/Filiacide
Homicide of patrilateral kin on the justification of "restoring the family honour" is here differentiated from other assaults on family members. It is also distinguished from vendetta, which, though aimed at the restoration of family honour, affects strangers. This study outlines the social characteristics of the instances of homicide, attempted homicide, and forced suicide for family honour that occurred in Israel between May 1973 and December 1…
Medusa's Hair
The semiotics of reciprocity
General/Theoretical
Cultural Materialism
In its specific theories Harris's cultural materialism has often proven illuminating. As a model of and method for studying culture, however, it is seriously flawed. One of the dilemmas it faces is the conflict between its epistemology and the assumption of infrastructural determinism: if empirical science is a superstructural concomitant of a particular infrastructure, then it can be neither more valid than any other view norcausally or practica…
Anthropology and the Middle Ages
Entre le sacre et le profane
Romancing the Real
Romancing the Real: Folklore and Ethnographic Representation in North Africa. SABRA J. WEBBER. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. xxvill + 293 pp., figures, maps, photographs, appendix, references, indexes
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