Tok Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tok Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tok |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology for Most of Humanity, By Marshall Sahlins
Journal Article The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology for Most of Humanity. By Marshall Sahlins Get access The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology for Most of Humanity By Marshall Sahlins Princeton University Press, 2022. 208 pages. $27.95 (hardcover). Tok Thompson Tok Thompson University of Southern California [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…
Heritagelore and an Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Culture and Heritage under Construction
Taking inspiration in Barbro Klein's work, this article focuses on the production of a particular type of institutional lore that we call heritagelore. Heritagelore, as we are advancing the concept here, is composed of the discursive practices within the walls and the organizations of museums. It is the lore that shapes and at least partially structures the types of stories that directors, museum boards, curators, programing staff, and other muse…
Listening to the Elder Brothers: Animals, Agents, and Posthumanism in Native Versus Non-Native American Myths and Worldviews
Contrasting with much of Western discourse, Native American myths frequently ascribe world-creating deeds to non-human animals. Further, Native American stories display a remarkable slippage between the worlds of the human and non-human animals, a slippage that continues into worldview, rituals, and everyday life. Using these stories as a starting point, this article seeks to connect the current theoretical movements in posthumanism with those in…
Folklore beyond the Human: Toward a Trans-Special Understanding of Culture, Communication, and Aesthetics
This article argues for broadening the purview of folklore as a discipline to include nonhuman agents as well and suggests that aesthetics could be productively used as a touchstone with which to begin to connect the discipline of folklore to other studies, particularly ethology, through the theoretical framework of posthumanism
What Does it Mean to Be a Human? Green-Skinned Troublemakers and Us
This article seeks to illuminate and examine the contemporary cultural roles of nonhuman humanoids in establishing and negotiating a sense of “human” identity, with a particular focus on the marker of green skin. Internet trolls are currently a major problem in our social relations online in the world today, and the belief of extraterrestrial aliens is growing, along with the growth of globalizing discourses. The green-skinned troublemakers are l…
The Thirteenth Number: Then, There / Here and Now Število trinajst: takrat, tam / tukaj in zdaj
The number thirteen has several strong connotations in a number of diverse cultures. What is surprising, and puzzling, are the similarities of associations (the moon, women’s magic, omens, etc). This paper attempts a cross-cultural view of the number thirteen, and arrives at a hypothetical explanation to account for the widespread occurences of the phenomena.Several cultures have been investigated, but the ones in which thirteen is an “ominous” n…
Gone Native: Immigrants, Natives and the Quest for the 'Real Alaskan
Alaska's large representation of Native cultures, combined with a crisis of identity among non-Natives, has led to the primacy of Native folklore and culture in setting the goalposts for what constitutes a ‘Real Alaskan’. This paper investigates the dynamics of such intercultural learning (from Native to non-Native) in Alaska, with a particular focus on the combination of the everyday and pragmatic with the postcolonial and symbolic, resulting in…
Communicating with the Spirits
Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation—trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship,…
The Irish S Tradition: Connections Between the Disciplines, and What?s in a Word
Ladies and Gentlemen, The North Road Pounders: An Inquiry into Identity, Aesthetics, and New Authenticities in Rural Alaska
This essay seeks to understand a particular musical ensemble and related ritual traditions in a rural immigrant community in Alaska. While some of the materials used in the ensemble are gathered locally, other articles are mass-produced, and one element, an interpretation of the Australian dijiridu, is the result of information gleaned from the Internet. The cultural complex is viewed as "local" as well as "global," and "invented" as well as "tra…
The Irish S Tradition: Connections Between the Disciplines, and What?s in a Word
Listening to the Elder Brothers: Animals, Agents, and Posthumanism in Native Versus Non-Native American Myths and Worldviews
Contrasting with much of Western discourse, Native American myths frequently ascribe world-creating deeds to non-human animals. Further, Native American stories display a remarkable slippage between the worlds of the human and non-human animals, a slippage that continues into worldview, rituals, and everyday life. Using these stories as a starting point, this article seeks to connect the current theoretical movements in posthumanism with those in…
Folklore beyond the Human: Toward a Trans-Special Understanding of Culture, Communication, and Aesthetics
This article argues for broadening the purview of folklore as a discipline to include nonhuman agents as well and suggests that aesthetics could be productively used as a touchstone with which to begin to connect the discipline of folklore to other studies, particularly ethology, through the theoretical framework of posthumanism
Gone Native: Immigrants, Natives and the Quest for the 'Real Alaskan
Alaska's large representation of Native cultures, combined with a crisis of identity among non-Natives, has led to the primacy of Native folklore and culture in setting the goalposts for what constitutes a ‘Real Alaskan’. This paper investigates the dynamics of such intercultural learning (from Native to non-Native) in Alaska, with a particular focus on the combination of the everyday and pragmatic with the postcolonial and symbolic, resulting in…
Ladies and Gentlemen, The North Road Pounders: An Inquiry into Identity, Aesthetics, and New Authenticities in Rural Alaska
This essay seeks to understand a particular musical ensemble and related ritual traditions in a rural immigrant community in Alaska. While some of the materials used in the ensemble are gathered locally, other articles are mass-produced, and one element, an interpretation of the Australian dijiridu, is the result of information gleaned from the Internet. The cultural complex is viewed as "local" as well as "global," and "invented" as well as "tra…
The Irish S Tradition: Connections Between the Disciplines, and What?s in a Word
Communicating with the Spirits
Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation—trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism.Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship,…
Gone Native: Immigrants, Natives and the Quest for the 'Real Alaskan
Alaska's large representation of Native cultures, combined with a crisis of identity among non-Natives, has led to the primacy of Native folklore and culture in setting the goalposts for what constitutes a ‘Real Alaskan’. This paper investigates the dynamics of such intercultural learning (from Native to non-Native) in Alaska, with a particular focus on the combination of the everyday and pragmatic with the postcolonial and symbolic, resulting in…
The Thirteenth Number: Then, There / Here and Now Število trinajst: takrat, tam / tukaj in zdaj
The number thirteen has several strong connotations in a number of diverse cultures. What is surprising, and puzzling, are the similarities of associations (the moon, women’s magic, omens, etc). This paper attempts a cross-cultural view of the number thirteen, and arrives at a hypothetical explanation to account for the widespread occurences of the phenomena.Several cultures have been investigated, but the ones in which thirteen is an “ominous” n…
What Does it Mean to Be a Human? Green-Skinned Troublemakers and Us
This article seeks to illuminate and examine the contemporary cultural roles of nonhuman humanoids in establishing and negotiating a sense of “human” identity, with a particular focus on the marker of green skin. Internet trolls are currently a major problem in our social relations online in the world today, and the belief of extraterrestrial aliens is growing, along with the growth of globalizing discourses. The green-skinned troublemakers are l…
Folklore beyond the Human: Toward a Trans-Special Understanding of Culture, Communication, and Aesthetics
This article argues for broadening the purview of folklore as a discipline to include nonhuman agents as well and suggests that aesthetics could be productively used as a touchstone with which to begin to connect the discipline of folklore to other studies, particularly ethology, through the theoretical framework of posthumanism
Listening to the Elder Brothers: Animals, Agents, and Posthumanism in Native Versus Non-Native American Myths and Worldviews
Contrasting with much of Western discourse, Native American myths frequently ascribe world-creating deeds to non-human animals. Further, Native American stories display a remarkable slippage between the worlds of the human and non-human animals, a slippage that continues into worldview, rituals, and everyday life. Using these stories as a starting point, this article seeks to connect the current theoretical movements in posthumanism with those in…
Heritagelore and an Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Culture and Heritage under Construction
Taking inspiration in Barbro Klein's work, this article focuses on the production of a particular type of institutional lore that we call heritagelore. Heritagelore, as we are advancing the concept here, is composed of the discursive practices within the walls and the organizations of museums. It is the lore that shapes and at least partially structures the types of stories that directors, museum boards, curators, programing staff, and other muse…
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology for Most of Humanity, By Marshall Sahlins
Journal Article The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology for Most of Humanity. By Marshall Sahlins Get access The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology for Most of Humanity By Marshall Sahlins Princeton University Press, 2022. 208 pages. $27.95 (hardcover). Tok Thompson Tok Thompson University of Southern California [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Folklore (3 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works)