Chris Eipper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Eipper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Eipper |
| SIGNATURE | EIPPER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The spectre of Godlessness: Making sense of secularity
‘What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?’ asks the philosopher Charles Taylor from a Christian (Catholic) perspective. This paper critiques key aspects of the way he seeks to answer the question, doing so from a methodologically agnostic anthropological standpoint. It focuses on three key elements of his argument: his construal of the problem of immanence, his account of secularisation and his treatment of science as an (inadequat…
Double-Binds in the Pursuit of Prosperity: Gulf Oil in Bantry Bay
Double-bind theory is applied to the concept of hegemony in this paper in order to analyse the dependency of a small community (Bantry Bay in Ireland) upon a multinational corporation (Gulf Oil). The implications for state policy of this relationship are then considered. The argument is that the dispensation of development as patronage in the form of industrial projects provided to needy communities puts such communities in an invidious predicame…
Mothering and Fathering the Vietnamese: Religion, Gender, and National Identity
Within the family, filial respect is seen as the highest moral virtue in Vietnam, while venerating national mothers and fathers is regarded as a manifestation of "national cultural identity." In this article, the authors explore key features of the pairing of mythic mothers with mythic fathers. Their specific interest is the development of Mother Goddess Liễu Hạnh's cult and the association it has come to have with that of Trần Hưng Đạo, who is r…
Moving Statues and Moving Images: Religious Artefacts and the Spiritualisation of Materiality
This paper addresses the spiritualisation of materiality integral to the expression of religious experience by devotees. It focuses on the ‘objective correlatives' of emotion‐imbued faith. Although primarily concerned with the aesthetics of contemporary Catholic mysticism, the aim is to suggestively allude to the implications for comparative analysis. Beginning with devotion to the rosary, it addresses the ‘moving statues' phenomenon, which in th…
Reply to Obelia's Mother
Snuggles, Cuddles and Sexuality: An(other) Anthropological Interpretation of May Gibbs's Snugglepot and Cuddlepie 1
This paper offers an interpretation of May Gibbs's classic illustrated children's story, The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Its inspiration was Annette Hamilton's 1975 anthropological analysis, ‘Snugglepot and Cuddlepie: happy families in Australian society’. Rather than effacing that account, my reinterpretation draws on and augments it, even as it turns it ‘inside out’. The paper argues that stories acquire mythic status by ma…
Ethnography and Co‐Existence
Michael Jackson . Minima Ethnographica: Intersubjectivity and the Anthropological Project
The Virgin, the visionary and the atheistic ethnographer: Anthropological inquiry in the light of Irish apparitions
The Magic in the Magic Pudding
This paper offers a narrative interpretation of Norman Lindsay's remarkable children's story, The Magic Pudding. Entering into the spirit of the tale, it seeks to evoke its magic as well as understand it, advocating an approach to the analysis of narrative that is as celebratory as it is critical. Making reference to James Clifford's discussion of ethnographic allegory, it draws on Michael Taussig's analysis of commodity and other forms of fetish…
Anthropology and Cultural Studies: Difference, Ethnography and Theory
This paper critiques the theorisation of culture as difference that dominates Australian cultural studies and cultural anthropology. It argues that a perspective on culture that gets beyond current preoccupations with difference has more to be said for it than practitioners in either discipline have hitherto recognised. Ethnography has long been recognised as crucial to the study of culture—which suggests that we might best appreciate what it is …
Ethnographic Testimony, Trust and Authority
Les temoignages ethnographiques sont indispensables mais leur existence est liee a la confiance de l'enquete ou du lecteur. La transcription de la recherche sur le terrain est souvent un gage d'autorite mais retranscrit-elle fidemlement le point de vue de l'indigene ? L'A. emploie la metaphore de Janus au double visage. L'ethnologue doit s'engager
Imagining Anthropology: Wherein the author journeyed to exotic Ireland, was initiated as an ethnographer, but questioned the discipline's image of itself
Mothering and Fathering the Vietnamese: Religion, Gender, and National Identity
Within the family, filial respect is seen as the highest moral virtue in Vietnam, while venerating national mothers and fathers is regarded as a manifestation of "national cultural identity." In this article, the authors explore key features of the pairing of mythic mothers with mythic fathers. Their specific interest is the development of Mother Goddess Liễu Hạnh's cult and the association it has come to have with that of Trần Hưng Đạo, who is r…
Ethnographic Testimony, Trust and Authority
Les temoignages ethnographiques sont indispensables mais leur existence est liee a la confiance de l'enquete ou du lecteur. La transcription de la recherche sur le terrain est souvent un gage d'autorite mais retranscrit-elle fidemlement le point de vue de l'indigene ? L'A. emploie la metaphore de Janus au double visage. L'ethnologue doit s'engager
Imagining Anthropology: Wherein the author journeyed to exotic Ireland, was initiated as an ethnographer, but questioned the discipline's image of itself
The Virgin, the visionary and the atheistic ethnographer: Anthropological inquiry in the light of Irish apparitions
Imagining Anthropology: Wherein the author journeyed to exotic Ireland, was initiated as an ethnographer, but questioned the discipline's image of itself
Ethnographic Testimony, Trust and Authority
Les temoignages ethnographiques sont indispensables mais leur existence est liee a la confiance de l'enquete ou du lecteur. La transcription de la recherche sur le terrain est souvent un gage d'autorite mais retranscrit-elle fidemlement le point de vue de l'indigene ? L'A. emploie la metaphore de Janus au double visage. L'ethnologue doit s'engager
Anthropology and Cultural Studies: Difference, Ethnography and Theory
This paper critiques the theorisation of culture as difference that dominates Australian cultural studies and cultural anthropology. It argues that a perspective on culture that gets beyond current preoccupations with difference has more to be said for it than practitioners in either discipline have hitherto recognised. Ethnography has long been recognised as crucial to the study of culture—which suggests that we might best appreciate what it is …
The Magic in the Magic Pudding
This paper offers a narrative interpretation of Norman Lindsay's remarkable children's story, The Magic Pudding. Entering into the spirit of the tale, it seeks to evoke its magic as well as understand it, advocating an approach to the analysis of narrative that is as celebratory as it is critical. Making reference to James Clifford's discussion of ethnographic allegory, it draws on Michael Taussig's analysis of commodity and other forms of fetish…
The Virgin, the visionary and the atheistic ethnographer: Anthropological inquiry in the light of Irish apparitions
Ethnography and Co‐Existence
Michael Jackson . Minima Ethnographica: Intersubjectivity and the Anthropological Project
Reply to Obelia's Mother
Snuggles, Cuddles and Sexuality: An(other) Anthropological Interpretation of May Gibbs's Snugglepot and Cuddlepie 1
This paper offers an interpretation of May Gibbs's classic illustrated children's story, The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Its inspiration was Annette Hamilton's 1975 anthropological analysis, ‘Snugglepot and Cuddlepie: happy families in Australian society’. Rather than effacing that account, my reinterpretation draws on and augments it, even as it turns it ‘inside out’. The paper argues that stories acquire mythic status by ma…
Moving Statues and Moving Images: Religious Artefacts and the Spiritualisation of Materiality
This paper addresses the spiritualisation of materiality integral to the expression of religious experience by devotees. It focuses on the ‘objective correlatives' of emotion‐imbued faith. Although primarily concerned with the aesthetics of contemporary Catholic mysticism, the aim is to suggestively allude to the implications for comparative analysis. Beginning with devotion to the rosary, it addresses the ‘moving statues' phenomenon, which in th…
Mothering and Fathering the Vietnamese: Religion, Gender, and National Identity
Within the family, filial respect is seen as the highest moral virtue in Vietnam, while venerating national mothers and fathers is regarded as a manifestation of "national cultural identity." In this article, the authors explore key features of the pairing of mythic mothers with mythic fathers. Their specific interest is the development of Mother Goddess Liễu Hạnh's cult and the association it has come to have with that of Trần Hưng Đạo, who is r…
Double-Binds in the Pursuit of Prosperity: Gulf Oil in Bantry Bay
Double-bind theory is applied to the concept of hegemony in this paper in order to analyse the dependency of a small community (Bantry Bay in Ireland) upon a multinational corporation (Gulf Oil). The implications for state policy of this relationship are then considered. The argument is that the dispensation of development as patronage in the form of industrial projects provided to needy communities puts such communities in an invidious predicame…
The spectre of Godlessness: Making sense of secularity
‘What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?’ asks the philosopher Charles Taylor from a Christian (Catholic) perspective. This paper critiques key aspects of the way he seeks to answer the question, doing so from a methodologically agnostic anthropological standpoint. It focuses on three key elements of his argument: his construal of the problem of immanence, his account of secularisation and his treatment of science as an (inadequat…
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · History (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Law (3 works)