Richard A O'Connor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4531647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard A O'Connor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard A |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Connor |
| SIGNATURE | CONNOR R A O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sermons in the Culture of Buddhism—Discussant's Remarks
Our panel's papers show a Buddhism alert to the moment and attuned to local realities. Culture by culture, our panellists capture Buddhism as a living tradition. Invaluable as these ethnographic insights are, seeing Buddhism's larger, enduring culture requires ethnology. In this wider perspective, set alongside Christianity and Islam, sermons distinguish world religions from indigenous religiosities that need no explanation. Over millennia, by pr…
Breastfeeding as custom not culture
Seeing breastfeeding as culturally constructed highlights its overall meaning only to hide the activity's inner dynamic and structural separateness. To study breastfeeding in its own terms, our paper flips culture as meaning on its head, asking how the whole (culture) fits the part (breastfeeding). Addressing that question to cultural, regional and cross‐cultural bodies of evidence, we find that what's viable bioculturally is nowhere near as mall…
Place, Power and People
De-medicalizing anorexia
Interviews with recovered anorexics in Tennessee, U. S. A., and Toronto, Canada, refute popular stereotypes and question anorexia's medicalization. Instead of adolescent girls literally dying for looks, putting anorexics in their life-world and life-course context shows youthful ascetics-male as well as female-obsessing over not beauty but self-control, a cardinal contemporary virtue. What makes anorexia into a medical mystery as well as a person…
Anorexia and the Person/Society/Cosmos Homology
Is Anorexia a Post-Modern Asceticism
A. Thomas Kirsch 1930-1999
Obituary| November 01 1999 A. Thomas Kirsch 1930–1999 Richard A. O'Connor Richard A. O'Connor University of the South, Sewanee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1210–1211. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800017654 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard A. O'Connor; A. Thomas Kirsch 1930–1999. Journal of Asian Studies…
Indigenous Urbanism
While Southeast Asia revolves around its cities, scholarship spins off into disciplines that ignore this fact. In a region that has known cities for two millennia, where even remote peoples have shaped themselves to or against urban rule, research goes on as if the city were an alien entity, easily factored out and best forgotten. So village studies represent these city-centred nations, and few wonder if the entrepreneurs and middle class who now…
Agricultural Change and Ethnic Succession in Southeast Asian States
In the first millennium A.D. mainland Southeast Asia's first great states arise, but then in the span of a few centuries these Indianized realms collapse and their Pyu, Mon, Khmer, and Cham peoples decline. In their place Burmese, Tai, and Vietnamese states arise and go on to rule the mainland as their peoples come to dominate the second millennium. Case by case these shifts appear to be ethnic and political successions wherein the strong displac…
Interpreting Thai Religious Change
Thai religion is changing. So is Thai society. To most scholars the connection is obvious: social and especially material changes drive religious ones. So a new middle class causes religious ferment while a crisis in legitimacy explains a militant Buddhist movement as well as the fervour for amulets and forest monks. Such explanations are typical in using extra-religious current events to explain religious change. We need not dispute their specif…
Muang Metaphysics. A Study of Northern Thai Myth and Ritual
Law as Indigenous Social Theory
Anthropologists often treat law as a discrete subject classified with politics and power and studied by nomothetic constructs. This treatment presupposes the place of law in society and denies history. To see law as a culturally constituted mode of analysis that projects an indigenous theory of society is to view a society in its own idiographic terms, and thereby demonstrate that it need not fit pre-established classification and constructs. Tra…
Agricultural Change and Ethnic Succession in Southeast Asian States
In the first millennium A.D. mainland Southeast Asia's first great states arise, but then in the span of a few centuries these Indianized realms collapse and their Pyu, Mon, Khmer, and Cham peoples decline. In their place Burmese, Tai, and Vietnamese states arise and go on to rule the mainland as their peoples come to dominate the second millennium. Case by case these shifts appear to be ethnic and political successions wherein the strong displac…
Indigenous Urbanism
While Southeast Asia revolves around its cities, scholarship spins off into disciplines that ignore this fact. In a region that has known cities for two millennia, where even remote peoples have shaped themselves to or against urban rule, research goes on as if the city were an alien entity, easily factored out and best forgotten. So village studies represent these city-centred nations, and few wonder if the entrepreneurs and middle class who now…
Interpreting Thai Religious Change
Thai religion is changing. So is Thai society. To most scholars the connection is obvious: social and especially material changes drive religious ones. So a new middle class causes religious ferment while a crisis in legitimacy explains a militant Buddhist movement as well as the fervour for amulets and forest monks. Such explanations are typical in using extra-religious current events to explain religious change. We need not dispute their specif…
Law as Indigenous Social Theory
Anthropologists often treat law as a discrete subject classified with politics and power and studied by nomothetic constructs. This treatment presupposes the place of law in society and denies history. To see law as a culturally constituted mode of analysis that projects an indigenous theory of society is to view a society in its own idiographic terms, and thereby demonstrate that it need not fit pre-established classification and constructs. Tra…
De-medicalizing anorexia
Interviews with recovered anorexics in Tennessee, U. S. A., and Toronto, Canada, refute popular stereotypes and question anorexia's medicalization. Instead of adolescent girls literally dying for looks, putting anorexics in their life-world and life-course context shows youthful ascetics-male as well as female-obsessing over not beauty but self-control, a cardinal contemporary virtue. What makes anorexia into a medical mystery as well as a person…
Breastfeeding as custom not culture
Seeing breastfeeding as culturally constructed highlights its overall meaning only to hide the activity's inner dynamic and structural separateness. To study breastfeeding in its own terms, our paper flips culture as meaning on its head, asking how the whole (culture) fits the part (breastfeeding). Addressing that question to cultural, regional and cross‐cultural bodies of evidence, we find that what's viable bioculturally is nowhere near as mall…
Muang Metaphysics. A Study of Northern Thai Myth and Ritual
Law as Indigenous Social Theory
Anthropologists often treat law as a discrete subject classified with politics and power and studied by nomothetic constructs. This treatment presupposes the place of law in society and denies history. To see law as a culturally constituted mode of analysis that projects an indigenous theory of society is to view a society in its own idiographic terms, and thereby demonstrate that it need not fit pre-established classification and constructs. Tra…
Muang Metaphysics. A Study of Northern Thai Myth and Ritual
Interpreting Thai Religious Change
Thai religion is changing. So is Thai society. To most scholars the connection is obvious: social and especially material changes drive religious ones. So a new middle class causes religious ferment while a crisis in legitimacy explains a militant Buddhist movement as well as the fervour for amulets and forest monks. Such explanations are typical in using extra-religious current events to explain religious change. We need not dispute their specif…
Indigenous Urbanism
While Southeast Asia revolves around its cities, scholarship spins off into disciplines that ignore this fact. In a region that has known cities for two millennia, where even remote peoples have shaped themselves to or against urban rule, research goes on as if the city were an alien entity, easily factored out and best forgotten. So village studies represent these city-centred nations, and few wonder if the entrepreneurs and middle class who now…
Agricultural Change and Ethnic Succession in Southeast Asian States
In the first millennium A.D. mainland Southeast Asia's first great states arise, but then in the span of a few centuries these Indianized realms collapse and their Pyu, Mon, Khmer, and Cham peoples decline. In their place Burmese, Tai, and Vietnamese states arise and go on to rule the mainland as their peoples come to dominate the second millennium. Case by case these shifts appear to be ethnic and political successions wherein the strong displac…
A. Thomas Kirsch 1930-1999
Obituary| November 01 1999 A. Thomas Kirsch 1930–1999 Richard A. O'Connor Richard A. O'Connor University of the South, Sewanee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1210–1211. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800017654 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard A. O'Connor; A. Thomas Kirsch 1930–1999. Journal of Asian Studies…
Is Anorexia a Post-Modern Asceticism
Anorexia and the Person/Society/Cosmos Homology
De-medicalizing anorexia
Interviews with recovered anorexics in Tennessee, U. S. A., and Toronto, Canada, refute popular stereotypes and question anorexia's medicalization. Instead of adolescent girls literally dying for looks, putting anorexics in their life-world and life-course context shows youthful ascetics-male as well as female-obsessing over not beauty but self-control, a cardinal contemporary virtue. What makes anorexia into a medical mystery as well as a person…
Place, Power and People
Breastfeeding as custom not culture
Seeing breastfeeding as culturally constructed highlights its overall meaning only to hide the activity's inner dynamic and structural separateness. To study breastfeeding in its own terms, our paper flips culture as meaning on its head, asking how the whole (culture) fits the part (breastfeeding). Addressing that question to cultural, regional and cross‐cultural bodies of evidence, we find that what's viable bioculturally is nowhere near as mall…
Sermons in the Culture of Buddhism—Discussant's Remarks
Our panel's papers show a Buddhism alert to the moment and attuned to local realities. Culture by culture, our panellists capture Buddhism as a living tradition. Invaluable as these ethnographic insights are, seeing Buddhism's larger, enduring culture requires ethnology. In this wider perspective, set alongside Christianity and Islam, sermons distinguish world religions from indigenous religiosities that need no explanation. Over millennia, by pr…
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