Andrew Buckser
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3621675 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Buckser |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Buckser |
| FIRMA | BUCKSER A |
| AFILIACIONES | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Costs of Tenure in Higher Education
Debates about tenure in American higher education have focused on morally freighted exemplary cases rather than the dynamics of organizational systems. This approach has generally assumed that tenure represents a financial drag on institutions. An analysis of tenure's organizational effects, however, reveals a more complex picture. Tenure supports a range of institutional practices that have direct—and calculable—resource implications. A detailed…
J udaism
This entry discusses Judaism as an anthropological subject, reviewing its basic beliefs and rituals and its place in the anthropological literature. Judaism is a monotheistic religion with about 14 million adherents worldwide, the great majority in North America, Israel, and Western Europe. Between the destruction of Jerusalem in the first century ce and the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state in 1948, Judaism existed primarily as a diaspor…
Secularization, Religiosity, and the Anthropology of Jewry
This paper explores recent anthropological studies of Jewish culture and their implications for our understanding of Jewish secularization. Studies of Jewish secularization have often depicted the process in black and white terms, as a choice between the survival and the dissolution of the Jewish people. Anthropological research, by contrast, has demonstrated a great deal of variability in the meaning, development, and outcomes of the concept. Th…
On and Off the Margin
In recent decades, the ethnography of Jews and Judaism has followed the larger movement in cultural anthropology toward a focus on the margin—the cultural, geographical, and demographic borderlands where questions of group and individual identity are negotiated. The article explores this literature and the questions it raises about the nature of Jewish community and culture. It discusses three areas where marginality has had a particular resonanc…
Fieldwork Assignments in the Anthropology of Religion
This article discusses structural, logistical, and administrative issues associated with the use of participant observation assignments in teaching the anthropology of religion. Fieldwork presents extraordinary opportunities for teaching students about the nature of cultural difference, but it also poses pedagogical challenges that require careful planning and supervision. The article reviews problems including the scope and nature of the observa…
We Are Few
Institutions, Agency, and Illness in the Making of Tourette Syndrome
Medical anthropology has increasingly emphasized the importance of agency in the experience of illness. As sick people rethink and contest social constructions of their symptoms, they influence both the course of their own illnesses and the larger cultural models within which they exist. By shaping the ability of people to exercise such agency, institutions play a powerful role in the making of illness. This paper explores this process in the neu…
Cultural Change and the Meanings of Belief in Jewish Copenhagen
Anthropologists have moved away from using belief as the defining feature of religion, portraying it instead as something whose nature and significance vary among times and cultures. This raises new questions about how specific notions of belief come into being and their connections to social, cultural, and political systems. This article explores these questions in the Jewish community of Copenhagen, focusing on two periods when ideas about beli…
Before Your Very Eyes
In this article, I examine the ways that people with Tourette Syndrome (TS) manage the motor and vocal tics characteristic of this neurological disorder. To mitigate the powerful stigmas associated with TS, individuals must either remove tics from public view or strive to recast the way that they are perceived. Drawing on ethnographic research with TS sufferers in Indiana, I elaborate three strategies by which this is done, strategies referred to…
The Empty Gesture
This article, based on fieldwork with people with Tourette Syndrome (TS), explores how problems of cultural classification shape the experience, treatment, and social significance of disease symptoms. TS resists incorporation into the standard con ceptual frameworks through which Americans understand illness. Its symptoms seem to stand between the psychological and the neurological, between the uncon trolled physicality of movement disorders and …
Chabad in Copenhagen
After establishing its mission in Copenhagen, Denmark, over ten years ago, the Hasidic group, Chabad, has little success to show for its proselytizing efforts. Yet it is admired and welcomed by the religiously liberal Danish Jews for its stringent religiosity, cultural otherness, and commitment to social ethnicity. Despite the profound ideological differences between the two, relations between and the Jewish community have been markedly positive.…
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The Puppet and the Dwarf
The Larger World
I live in the state of Indiana, in a small city about an hour northwest of Indianapolis. To many people on the coasts of the United States, I might as well live on Mars. Residents of New York and California tend to regard the Midwest as a featureless wasteland, and I have spent a good deal of time at anthropology conferences explaining to other Americans exactly where Indiana is. I was surprised, then, when my first informant among the Danish Jew…
After the Rescue
In October of 1943, the Danish resistance rescued almost all of the Jews in Copenhagen from roundups by the occupying Nazis. In the years since, Jews have become deeply engaged in a Danish culture tha
Religious practice and cultural politics in Jewish Copenhagen
The small Jewish community of Copenhagen is one of the most liberal and assimilated in Europe. In its liturgy, its leadership, and its ritual practice, however, it maintains strictly orthodox forms. In this article, I examine how this orthodox dominance has persisted, despite the often vigorously expressed dissatisfaction of the liberal majority. I argue that the confluence of Jewish religious forms with the cultural setting of contemporary Denma…
Class, Networks, and Identity
To Wit
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The anthropology of religious conversion
Part 1 Preface Part 2 In Memoriam: Morton Klass Chapter 3 The Anthropology of Conversion: An Introduction Part 4 Part One: Conversion and Social Processes Chapter 5 Continuous Conversion? The Rhetoric, Practice, and Rhetorical Practice of Charismatic Protestant Coversion Chapter 6 Agency, Bureaucracy and Religious Conversion: Ethiopian Felashmura Immigrants to Israel Chapter 7 Converted Innocents and their Trickster Heroes: The Politics of Prosel…
Keeping Kosher
Anthropologists have frequently noted the importance of foodways in demarcating ethnic and other group identities. The destabilization of such identities in late modernity implies deep changes in the meaning of ethnic cuisines. This essay explores the impact of such changes on the meaning of kosher practice among Jews in Copenhagen. A close engagement with Danish culture has made Jewishness increasingly difficult to define since the Second World …
The Puppet and the Dwarf
Jewish identity and the meaning of community in contemporary Denmark
This article examines social, ritual and political structures in the Jewish Community of Copenhagen, Denmark. This community maintains great vitality despite profound fragmentation in its membership, as well as intensive interaction by its members with non-Jewish culture. It does so by providing flexible contexts for participation by its members, so that Jews with profoundly diverse understandings of group and self can engage with Jewish identity…
Secularization, Religiosity, and the Anthropology of Jewry
This paper explores recent anthropological studies of Jewish culture and their implications for our understanding of Jewish secularization. Studies of Jewish secularization have often depicted the process in black and white terms, as a choice between the survival and the dissolution of the Jewish people. Anthropological research, by contrast, has demonstrated a great deal of variability in the meaning, development, and outcomes of the concept. Th…
The Empty Gesture
This article, based on fieldwork with people with Tourette Syndrome (TS), explores how problems of cultural classification shape the experience, treatment, and social significance of disease symptoms. TS resists incorporation into the standard con ceptual frameworks through which Americans understand illness. Its symptoms seem to stand between the psychological and the neurological, between the uncon trolled physicality of movement disorders and …
Before Your Very Eyes
In this article, I examine the ways that people with Tourette Syndrome (TS) manage the motor and vocal tics characteristic of this neurological disorder. To mitigate the powerful stigmas associated with TS, individuals must either remove tics from public view or strive to recast the way that they are perceived. Drawing on ethnographic research with TS sufferers in Indiana, I elaborate three strategies by which this is done, strategies referred to…
Modern Identities and the Creation of History
Anthropological analysis of the construction of history and tradition has focused on the role of the past in expressing group identities and interests. It has done so primarily in contexts where group identities are relatively clearly marked, as in nationalist movements or colonial situations. In many places, however, including many modern urban settings, group identities are ambiguous and poorly defined. In such contexts, standard approaches to …
Group Identities and the Construction of the 1943 Rescue of the Danish Jews
The rescue of the Danish Jews from the Nazi roundups of 1943 has become the defining image of Judaism in Denmark, both within the country and to the world outside. This article examines the way in which this story about the past has been constructed, focusing particularly on its portrayals of the types of groups involved and on the motivations of the rescuers. It argues that the dominance and durability of this story in defining Jewish identity i…
Religion, Science, and Secularization Theory on a Danish Island
The theoretical and empirical foundations of secularization theory have come under increasing criticism in the past decade. The paradigm remains generally accepted, however, for the nations of Fennoscandia, where modernization seems to have coincided with a deep decline in religious belief. Using a case study of two religious movements in northwestern Denmark, this paper contests the validity of the secularization thesis in the region that still …
Religion and the Supernatural on a Danish Island
Andrew Buckser, Religion and the Supernatural on a Danish Island: Rewards, Compensators, and the Meaning of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 1-16
Religious practice and cultural politics in Jewish Copenhagen
The small Jewish community of Copenhagen is one of the most liberal and assimilated in Europe. In its liturgy, its leadership, and its ritual practice, however, it maintains strictly orthodox forms. In this article, I examine how this orthodox dominance has persisted, despite the often vigorously expressed dissatisfaction of the liberal majority. I argue that the confluence of Jewish religious forms with the cultural setting of contemporary Denma…
Anthropology of Religion Section
Religion and Spans of Ambiguity on a Danish Island
Journal Article Religion and Spans of Ambiguity on a Danish Island Get access Andrew Buckser Andrew Buckser * Purdue University * Direct correspondence to Andrew Buckser, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1365. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 58, Issue 3, Fall 1997, Pages 261–275, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712216 Published: 01…
Tradition, Power, and Allegory
The nineteenth century was a time of radical change for the little island of Mors in northwestern Denmark. Among the most dramatic was a wave of religious awakening that divided the island's population into two energetic religious movements. Each of these movements proposed a distinctive vision for the island's future. One foresaw a land of industrious free farmers, united by a common faith and a common rural culture, embracing and celebrating th…
Sacred Airtime
During the 1960s, independent conservative churches wrested control of national religious broadcasting in the United States from the powerful mainstream denominations that had previously dominated it. This paper examines how they did so despite enormous disadvantages in size, power, funding and technological expertise. It argues that the technology associated with national paid-time broadcasting created strong, non-geographically based bonds betw…
Tradition, Power, and Allegory
The nineteenth century was a time of radical change for the little island of Mors in northwestern Denmark. Among the most dramatic was a wave of religious awakening that divided the island's population into two energetic religious movements. Each of these movements proposed a distinctive vision for the island's future. One foresaw a land of industrious free farmers, united by a common faith and a common rural culture, embracing and celebrating th…
Religion and the Supernatural on a Danish Island
Andrew Buckser, Religion and the Supernatural on a Danish Island: Rewards, Compensators, and the Meaning of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 1-16
Religion, Science, and Secularization Theory on a Danish Island
The theoretical and empirical foundations of secularization theory have come under increasing criticism in the past decade. The paradigm remains generally accepted, however, for the nations of Fennoscandia, where modernization seems to have coincided with a deep decline in religious belief. Using a case study of two religious movements in northwestern Denmark, this paper contests the validity of the secularization thesis in the region that still …
Religion and Spans of Ambiguity on a Danish Island
Journal Article Religion and Spans of Ambiguity on a Danish Island Get access Andrew Buckser Andrew Buckser * Purdue University * Direct correspondence to Andrew Buckser, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1365. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 58, Issue 3, Fall 1997, Pages 261–275, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712216 Published: 01…
Anthropology of Religion Section
Group Identities and the Construction of the 1943 Rescue of the Danish Jews
The rescue of the Danish Jews from the Nazi roundups of 1943 has become the defining image of Judaism in Denmark, both within the country and to the world outside. This article examines the way in which this story about the past has been constructed, focusing particularly on its portrayals of the types of groups involved and on the motivations of the rescuers. It argues that the dominance and durability of this story in defining Jewish identity i…
Keeping Kosher
Anthropologists have frequently noted the importance of foodways in demarcating ethnic and other group identities. The destabilization of such identities in late modernity implies deep changes in the meaning of ethnic cuisines. This essay explores the impact of such changes on the meaning of kosher practice among Jews in Copenhagen. A close engagement with Danish culture has made Jewishness increasingly difficult to define since the Second World …
Modern Identities and the Creation of History
Anthropological analysis of the construction of history and tradition has focused on the role of the past in expressing group identities and interests. It has done so primarily in contexts where group identities are relatively clearly marked, as in nationalist movements or colonial situations. In many places, however, including many modern urban settings, group identities are ambiguous and poorly defined. In such contexts, standard approaches to …
"I am the Very Model of a Social Anthropologist (to the tune of "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General)
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Below the Bottom Line
Anthropological Cross Talk
A Visit from St Nicholas, 1995
Jewish identity and the meaning of community in contemporary Denmark
This article examines social, ritual and political structures in the Jewish Community of Copenhagen, Denmark. This community maintains great vitality despite profound fragmentation in its membership, as well as intensive interaction by its members with non-Jewish culture. It does so by providing flexible contexts for participation by its members, so that Jews with profoundly diverse understandings of group and self can engage with Jewish identity…
Anthropology off Religion Section
Anthropology of Religion Section
Class, Networks, and Identity
To Wit
The Larger World
I live in the state of Indiana, in a small city about an hour northwest of Indianapolis. To many people on the coasts of the United States, I might as well live on Mars. Residents of New York and California tend to regard the Midwest as a featureless wasteland, and I have spent a good deal of time at anthropology conferences explaining to other Americans exactly where Indiana is. I was surprised, then, when my first informant among the Danish Jew…
After the Rescue
In October of 1943, the Danish resistance rescued almost all of the Jews in Copenhagen from roundups by the occupying Nazis. In the years since, Jews have become deeply engaged in a Danish culture tha
Religious practice and cultural politics in Jewish Copenhagen
The small Jewish community of Copenhagen is one of the most liberal and assimilated in Europe. In its liturgy, its leadership, and its ritual practice, however, it maintains strictly orthodox forms. In this article, I examine how this orthodox dominance has persisted, despite the often vigorously expressed dissatisfaction of the liberal majority. I argue that the confluence of Jewish religious forms with the cultural setting of contemporary Denma…
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