Christian Kordt Højbjerg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Kordt Højbjerg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian Kordt |
| FAMILY NAME | Højbjerg |
| SIGNATURE | HØJBJERG C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
The editors, Højbjerg, Knörr, and Murphy, summarize and reevaluate key explanatory themes in the broad research program on Upper Guinea Coast ethnography and history in light of contemporary changes, crises, and continuities. Intense sociopolitical transformations in this West African region—for example, civil war, refugees, regional insecurity, postconflict nation-building, and transnational epidemics—challenge the standard research paradigms fo…
Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
Research on the region and re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural dynamics of crises, changes and continuities
Den 'Ontologiske Vendings' Utilstrækkelighed
Debatoplæg imod udsagnet
Hunting the Ethical State. The Benkadi Movement of Côte d'Ivoire
Victims And Heroes
Victimization, autochthony and citizenship, power and nation-building constitute recurrent, interrelated themes in post-war Manding historical memory in the border area between Liberia and Guinea. While the perceived history of the Manding diverges from academic, historical knowledge as well as from neighbouring peoples’ recollection of the past, it informs about the position and role of the marginalized, but at the same time military victorious …
The politics of religious change on the upper Guinea coast. Iconoclasm done and undone by Sarró, Ramon
Gouvernance et ethnographie en temps de crise
Cet article explore les effets de l’intensification agricole sur le pouvoir local dans le village de Koyra (Nord Mali). Suite aux sécheresses des années 1970 et 1980 et à la création de périmètres irrigués dans la vallée du fleuve Niger, la gestion foncière et la production de riz sont devenus des enjeux économiques majeurs. Cette étude analyse l’émergence politique d’entrepreneurs qui, en contrôlant la distribution de la terre et la réalisation …
Le « Master General » et Madame le Maire
On comparera ici l'émergence d'ordres politiques dans deux sites à la frontière Liberia-Guinée, zone en proie à la guerre et aux contestations politiques. Ces deux sites sont des nœuds dans des réseaux complexes de commerce et de gouvernance. S'appuyant sur des enquêtes ethnographiques, l'article examine les performances publiques de deux acteurs dits non étatiques dans le processus de gouvernance locale. En mettant l'accent sur l'ancrage social …
Religious reflexivity. Essays on attitudes to religious ideas and practice
Inner iconoclasm. Forms of reflexivity in Loma rituals of sacrifice
Modstandsdygtighed Over for Statsstyret Ikonoklasme Blandt Loma I Guinea
Denne artikel er det danske resumé af afhandlingen Resisting State Iconoclasm among the Loma of Guinea. Den 6. februar 2006 blev afhandlingen antaget til forsvar for den antropologiske doktorgrad af det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet, Københavns Universitet, og den er udgivet i Carolina Academic Press' Ritual Studies Monograph Series. Resisting State Iconoclasm among the Loma of Guinea er et antropologisk studie af de årsagssammenhænge, der ligg…
Indledning
Antropologien har en rig tradition for at udforske kulturel betydning og naturen af kulturel viden, som den kommer til udtryk såvel på et specifikt lokalt plan som i sin globale og universelle udformning. Studiet af klassifikation og kategorisering er et klassisk eksempel på denne erkendelsesinteresse, som imidlertid er under konstant fornyelse inden for antropologien. Den del af kognitionsforskningen, som studerer forholdet mellem kultur og kogn…
Divergent modes of address and (re)contextualization in Loma ritual prayer
This article explains the ritual symbolism of a sacrificial rite characteristic of the so-called 'secret societies' of the conflict-ridden Upper Guinea forest and coastal region of West Africa. Whereas the political dimension of these secret societies or cults is relatively well known, very little knowledge exists about the ritual communication with imperceptible beings around which the cults are organized. It appears from the study of Loma ritua…
Inner iconoclasm. Forms of reflexivity in Loma rituals of sacrifice
La religion loma, qui implique des mascarades et des cultes secrets, s'est preservee presque entierement, malgre les interdictions successives qui frapperent les pratiques religieuses locales dans la Republique de Guinee durant les decades qui suivirent l'independance. L'A. s'attache a expliquer l'immunite apparente a ces pratiques iconoclastes par une analyse d'un rituel de sacrifice montrant la maniere dont les Loma concoivent les objets religi…
Religious reflexivity. Essays on attitudes to religious ideas and practice
The essays in this issue of Social Anthropology examine how religious ideas and actions become the object of reflection among the people holding religious beliefs and participating in religious activities. Reflexivity has become a popular term within current cultural and social sciences, and the exploration of religious reflexivity may be seen simply to reflect a more general 'reflexive turn'. In anthropology the 'reflexive turn' is related to th…
Loma political culture
Upper Guinea political culture is often described as a system of dual sovereignty expressed in an idiom of bilateral kinship. The article examines whether this model applies to the Loma, a prototypical Upper Guinea culture. The result is largely negative. Empirical data suggest a more complex distribution of political and religious powers, and the analysis of the correlation between ritual and social structure in Loma society indicates a need to …
Orden I Klassifikationen
Christian Kordt Højbjerg: The Order of Classification. On the Representation and Distribution of Religions Knowledge The purpose of the article is to present and discuss the apparent contradiction between differentiated cognition and cultural consensus with regard to the religious category sale among the Loma people in Guinea and Liberia. Opposing traditional classificatory approaches to cultural knowledge in anthropology, it is argued that the c…
Antropologiens Hemmelighed
Christian Kordt Højbjerg: The Secret of Anthropology. Reflections on the Ethnographer's Role in the Study of Secret Rituals. The article gives an account of an apparently hopeless effort to study men's secret association and its masked figure among the Loma in Guinea. The secret mask is purposely withheld during the ethnographer's stay, and he is not allowed to assist in the meetings of the men's society taking place in the sacred grove. However,…
Religious reflexivity. Essays on attitudes to religious ideas and practice
The essays in this issue of Social Anthropology examine how religious ideas and actions become the object of reflection among the people holding religious beliefs and participating in religious activities. Reflexivity has become a popular term within current cultural and social sciences, and the exploration of religious reflexivity may be seen simply to reflect a more general 'reflexive turn'. In anthropology the 'reflexive turn' is related to th…
Loma political culture
Upper Guinea political culture is often described as a system of dual sovereignty expressed in an idiom of bilateral kinship. The article examines whether this model applies to the Loma, a prototypical Upper Guinea culture. The result is largely negative. Empirical data suggest a more complex distribution of political and religious powers, and the analysis of the correlation between ritual and social structure in Loma society indicates a need to …
Gouvernance et ethnographie en temps de crise
Cet article explore les effets de l’intensification agricole sur le pouvoir local dans le village de Koyra (Nord Mali). Suite aux sécheresses des années 1970 et 1980 et à la création de périmètres irrigués dans la vallée du fleuve Niger, la gestion foncière et la production de riz sont devenus des enjeux économiques majeurs. Cette étude analyse l’émergence politique d’entrepreneurs qui, en contrôlant la distribution de la terre et la réalisation …
Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
Research on the region and re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural dynamics of crises, changes and continuities
Le « Master General » et Madame le Maire
On comparera ici l'émergence d'ordres politiques dans deux sites à la frontière Liberia-Guinée, zone en proie à la guerre et aux contestations politiques. Ces deux sites sont des nœuds dans des réseaux complexes de commerce et de gouvernance. S'appuyant sur des enquêtes ethnographiques, l'article examine les performances publiques de deux acteurs dits non étatiques dans le processus de gouvernance locale. En mettant l'accent sur l'ancrage social …
Divergent modes of address and (re)contextualization in Loma ritual prayer
This article explains the ritual symbolism of a sacrificial rite characteristic of the so-called 'secret societies' of the conflict-ridden Upper Guinea forest and coastal region of West Africa. Whereas the political dimension of these secret societies or cults is relatively well known, very little knowledge exists about the ritual communication with imperceptible beings around which the cults are organized. It appears from the study of Loma ritua…
Antropologiens Hemmelighed
Christian Kordt Højbjerg: The Secret of Anthropology. Reflections on the Ethnographer's Role in the Study of Secret Rituals. The article gives an account of an apparently hopeless effort to study men's secret association and its masked figure among the Loma in Guinea. The secret mask is purposely withheld during the ethnographer's stay, and he is not allowed to assist in the meetings of the men's society taking place in the sacred grove. However,…
Orden I Klassifikationen
Christian Kordt Højbjerg: The Order of Classification. On the Representation and Distribution of Religions Knowledge The purpose of the article is to present and discuss the apparent contradiction between differentiated cognition and cultural consensus with regard to the religious category sale among the Loma people in Guinea and Liberia. Opposing traditional classificatory approaches to cultural knowledge in anthropology, it is argued that the c…
Loma political culture
Upper Guinea political culture is often described as a system of dual sovereignty expressed in an idiom of bilateral kinship. The article examines whether this model applies to the Loma, a prototypical Upper Guinea culture. The result is largely negative. Empirical data suggest a more complex distribution of political and religious powers, and the analysis of the correlation between ritual and social structure in Loma society indicates a need to …
Inner iconoclasm. Forms of reflexivity in Loma rituals of sacrifice
La religion loma, qui implique des mascarades et des cultes secrets, s'est preservee presque entierement, malgre les interdictions successives qui frapperent les pratiques religieuses locales dans la Republique de Guinee durant les decades qui suivirent l'independance. L'A. s'attache a expliquer l'immunite apparente a ces pratiques iconoclastes par une analyse d'un rituel de sacrifice montrant la maniere dont les Loma concoivent les objets religi…
Religious reflexivity. Essays on attitudes to religious ideas and practice
The essays in this issue of Social Anthropology examine how religious ideas and actions become the object of reflection among the people holding religious beliefs and participating in religious activities. Reflexivity has become a popular term within current cultural and social sciences, and the exploration of religious reflexivity may be seen simply to reflect a more general 'reflexive turn'. In anthropology the 'reflexive turn' is related to th…
Modstandsdygtighed Over for Statsstyret Ikonoklasme Blandt Loma I Guinea
Denne artikel er det danske resumé af afhandlingen Resisting State Iconoclasm among the Loma of Guinea. Den 6. februar 2006 blev afhandlingen antaget til forsvar for den antropologiske doktorgrad af det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet, Københavns Universitet, og den er udgivet i Carolina Academic Press' Ritual Studies Monograph Series. Resisting State Iconoclasm among the Loma of Guinea er et antropologisk studie af de årsagssammenhænge, der ligg…
Indledning
Antropologien har en rig tradition for at udforske kulturel betydning og naturen af kulturel viden, som den kommer til udtryk såvel på et specifikt lokalt plan som i sin globale og universelle udformning. Studiet af klassifikation og kategorisering er et klassisk eksempel på denne erkendelsesinteresse, som imidlertid er under konstant fornyelse inden for antropologien. Den del af kognitionsforskningen, som studerer forholdet mellem kultur og kogn…
Divergent modes of address and (re)contextualization in Loma ritual prayer
This article explains the ritual symbolism of a sacrificial rite characteristic of the so-called 'secret societies' of the conflict-ridden Upper Guinea forest and coastal region of West Africa. Whereas the political dimension of these secret societies or cults is relatively well known, very little knowledge exists about the ritual communication with imperceptible beings around which the cults are organized. It appears from the study of Loma ritua…
Religious reflexivity. Essays on attitudes to religious ideas and practice
Inner iconoclasm. Forms of reflexivity in Loma rituals of sacrifice
Gouvernance et ethnographie en temps de crise
Cet article explore les effets de l’intensification agricole sur le pouvoir local dans le village de Koyra (Nord Mali). Suite aux sécheresses des années 1970 et 1980 et à la création de périmètres irrigués dans la vallée du fleuve Niger, la gestion foncière et la production de riz sont devenus des enjeux économiques majeurs. Cette étude analyse l’émergence politique d’entrepreneurs qui, en contrôlant la distribution de la terre et la réalisation …
Le « Master General » et Madame le Maire
On comparera ici l'émergence d'ordres politiques dans deux sites à la frontière Liberia-Guinée, zone en proie à la guerre et aux contestations politiques. Ces deux sites sont des nœuds dans des réseaux complexes de commerce et de gouvernance. S'appuyant sur des enquêtes ethnographiques, l'article examine les performances publiques de deux acteurs dits non étatiques dans le processus de gouvernance locale. En mettant l'accent sur l'ancrage social …
The politics of religious change on the upper Guinea coast. Iconoclasm done and undone by Sarró, Ramon
Victims And Heroes
Victimization, autochthony and citizenship, power and nation-building constitute recurrent, interrelated themes in post-war Manding historical memory in the border area between Liberia and Guinea. While the perceived history of the Manding diverges from academic, historical knowledge as well as from neighbouring peoples’ recollection of the past, it informs about the position and role of the marginalized, but at the same time military victorious …
Hunting the Ethical State. The Benkadi Movement of Côte d'Ivoire
Den 'Ontologiske Vendings' Utilstrækkelighed
Debatoplæg imod udsagnet
Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
Research on the region and re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural dynamics of crises, changes and continuities
Introduction
The editors, Højbjerg, Knörr, and Murphy, summarize and reevaluate key explanatory themes in the broad research program on Upper Guinea Coast ethnography and history in light of contemporary changes, crises, and continuities. Intense sociopolitical transformations in this West African region—for example, civil war, refugees, regional insecurity, postconflict nation-building, and transnational epidemics—challenge the standard research paradigms fo…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)