Kari Telle
Biographic Data
| ID | 5186917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kari Telle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kari |
| FAMILY NAME | Telle |
| SIGNATURE | TELLE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chr. Michelsen Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Chapter 3 the Smell of Death Theft, Disgust and Ritual Practice in Central Lombok, Indonesia
Covid-19, 'dugnad' and social control in Bergen and beyond
Does Anthropology Matter to Law
At a time of ‘interdisciplinary’ scholarly debate and ‘transdisciplinary’ pedagogy, some disciplines appear more siloed and tone deaf to each other than ever before. This article will consider why law and anthropology as disciplines offer almost no impact upon each other’s educational or research agendas
Faith on Trial
This article develops the argument that blasphemy trials occupy a pivotal role in 'religion-making' in post-1998 Indonesia. Examining a blasphemy trial on the island of Lombok in 2010, I argue that the process of democratisation has given civilian actors more opportunity to engage Indonesia's blasphemy law, a process analysed in terms of 'lawfare'. Examining the interplay of legal regulation and the campaign against 'deviant' religion launched by…
Kort oppsummering
Ritual Power
This article shows how rituals occupy a key role in the negotiation of inter-religious relations on the island of Lombok. Building on the argument set out in Howe’s 2000 article on ‘Risk, Ritual and Performance’ in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute that the anthropology of ritual has much to gain by focusing on risk, this article takes the rhetorical evocation of risk as a focus of inquiry, thereby refining understandings of how …
Religion, politics & globalization. Anthropological approaches , edited by Lindquist, Galina and Don Handelman
Vigilante Citizenship
This article examines the informal authority wielded by civilian security groups (pamswakarsa) on the island of Lombok. Taking as its point of departure the Balinese minority's plan to build a large Hindu temple in northern Lombok, the article shows how the project was thwarted by a combination of rumours, pamphlets, violence as well as legal obstacles from district and provincial authorities. Outlining how the campaign against the temple gained …
Redaksjonelt
Contemporary Religiosities
The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization, it is necessary to rethink the relationship between the religious and the secular; the contributors - all leading scholars in anthropology - do just t…
Contemporary religiosities
Introduction: Religiosities toward a Future-in Pursuit of the New Millennium Bruce Kapferer, Annelin Eriksen, and Kari Telle Chapter 1. The Politics of Conviction: Faith on the Neo-liberal Frontier Jean Comaroff Chapter 2. Strategic Secularism: Bible Advocacy in England Matthew Engelke Chapter 3. Pentecostal Networks and the Spirit of Globalization: On the Social Productivity of Ritual Forms Joel Robbins Chapter 4. Healing the Nation: In Search o…
Religiosities toward a Future
An approach is outlined toward imaginary projections upon presents and futures at the turn of the current millennium. The religiosity or the passionate intensity of commitment to imaginary projections is stressed, particularly the way that these may give rise to innovative social and political directions especially in current globalizing circumstances. While new religions of a millenarian character are referred to, the general concern is with the…
Dharma Power
Security concerns are creeping into new aspects of everyday life in Indonesia, resulting in new organizational forms and ways of perceiving self and society. Stressing the cultural shaping of all security discourses, this article examines how members of the Balinese minority on the island Lombok have formed a Hindu-inspired civilian security force known as Dharma Wisesa. I argue that the appeal of this movement is located in its attempts to fuse …
Spirited Places and Ritual Dynamics among Sasak Muslims on Lombok
This article concerns the ‘living’ landscape inhabited by Sasak Muslims on the Indonesian island of Lombok, viewed in the context of reformist efforts to ‘purify’ local Islamic ritual practice. Drawing on the author's fieldwork in Central Lombok, the article centres on a dramatic episode that occurred in 1997 when a lightning strike caused a large tree to collapse over the graves in the village cemetery. I argue that the ways in which people ‘rea…
Entangled Biographies
The concept of 'compatibility' has a particular saliencein many Indonesian societies. This article examines 'compatibility' with reference to person-house relationships on the island of Lombok. Examining a case where the house and its inhabitants had become incompatible, the article follows one Sasak woman's efforts to rebuild her house and to achieve compatibility. Stressing the unpredictable and recalcitrant quality of material things, the arti…
Ritual in its own right - Editors by Don Handelman & Galina Lindquist
The Smell of Death
In this essay I examine a form of stealing that people in rural Sasak communities on the island of Lombok find deeply problematic because of its intimate nature: theft of which they suspect that someone in their own hamlet or village is culpable. In the large village in central Lombok where I have carried out fieldwork, theft that is attributed to a so-called ‘neighbourhood thief’ is said to produce a foul smell (bais) that begins to ooze out fro…
Feeding the dead; Reformulating Sasak mortuary practices
Vigilante Citizenship
This article examines the informal authority wielded by civilian security groups (pamswakarsa) on the island of Lombok. Taking as its point of departure the Balinese minority's plan to build a large Hindu temple in northern Lombok, the article shows how the project was thwarted by a combination of rumours, pamphlets, violence as well as legal obstacles from district and provincial authorities. Outlining how the campaign against the temple gained …
Feeding the dead; Reformulating Sasak mortuary practices
Entangled Biographies
The concept of 'compatibility' has a particular saliencein many Indonesian societies. This article examines 'compatibility' with reference to person-house relationships on the island of Lombok. Examining a case where the house and its inhabitants had become incompatible, the article follows one Sasak woman's efforts to rebuild her house and to achieve compatibility. Stressing the unpredictable and recalcitrant quality of material things, the arti…
Faith on Trial
This article develops the argument that blasphemy trials occupy a pivotal role in 'religion-making' in post-1998 Indonesia. Examining a blasphemy trial on the island of Lombok in 2010, I argue that the process of democratisation has given civilian actors more opportunity to engage Indonesia's blasphemy law, a process analysed in terms of 'lawfare'. Examining the interplay of legal regulation and the campaign against 'deviant' religion launched by…
Spirited Places and Ritual Dynamics among Sasak Muslims on Lombok
This article concerns the ‘living’ landscape inhabited by Sasak Muslims on the Indonesian island of Lombok, viewed in the context of reformist efforts to ‘purify’ local Islamic ritual practice. Drawing on the author's fieldwork in Central Lombok, the article centres on a dramatic episode that occurred in 1997 when a lightning strike caused a large tree to collapse over the graves in the village cemetery. I argue that the ways in which people ‘rea…
Ritual Power
This article shows how rituals occupy a key role in the negotiation of inter-religious relations on the island of Lombok. Building on the argument set out in Howe’s 2000 article on ‘Risk, Ritual and Performance’ in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute that the anthropology of ritual has much to gain by focusing on risk, this article takes the rhetorical evocation of risk as a focus of inquiry, thereby refining understandings of how …
Covid-19, 'dugnad' and social control in Bergen and beyond
Dharma Power
Security concerns are creeping into new aspects of everyday life in Indonesia, resulting in new organizational forms and ways of perceiving self and society. Stressing the cultural shaping of all security discourses, this article examines how members of the Balinese minority on the island Lombok have formed a Hindu-inspired civilian security force known as Dharma Wisesa. I argue that the appeal of this movement is located in its attempts to fuse …
Ritual in its own right - Editors by Don Handelman & Galina Lindquist
Feeding the dead; Reformulating Sasak mortuary practices
The Smell of Death
In this essay I examine a form of stealing that people in rural Sasak communities on the island of Lombok find deeply problematic because of its intimate nature: theft of which they suspect that someone in their own hamlet or village is culpable. In the large village in central Lombok where I have carried out fieldwork, theft that is attributed to a so-called ‘neighbourhood thief’ is said to produce a foul smell (bais) that begins to ooze out fro…
Ritual in its own right - Editors by Don Handelman & Galina Lindquist
Entangled Biographies
The concept of 'compatibility' has a particular saliencein many Indonesian societies. This article examines 'compatibility' with reference to person-house relationships on the island of Lombok. Examining a case where the house and its inhabitants had become incompatible, the article follows one Sasak woman's efforts to rebuild her house and to achieve compatibility. Stressing the unpredictable and recalcitrant quality of material things, the arti…
Religiosities toward a Future
An approach is outlined toward imaginary projections upon presents and futures at the turn of the current millennium. The religiosity or the passionate intensity of commitment to imaginary projections is stressed, particularly the way that these may give rise to innovative social and political directions especially in current globalizing circumstances. While new religions of a millenarian character are referred to, the general concern is with the…
Dharma Power
Security concerns are creeping into new aspects of everyday life in Indonesia, resulting in new organizational forms and ways of perceiving self and society. Stressing the cultural shaping of all security discourses, this article examines how members of the Balinese minority on the island Lombok have formed a Hindu-inspired civilian security force known as Dharma Wisesa. I argue that the appeal of this movement is located in its attempts to fuse …
Spirited Places and Ritual Dynamics among Sasak Muslims on Lombok
This article concerns the ‘living’ landscape inhabited by Sasak Muslims on the Indonesian island of Lombok, viewed in the context of reformist efforts to ‘purify’ local Islamic ritual practice. Drawing on the author's fieldwork in Central Lombok, the article centres on a dramatic episode that occurred in 1997 when a lightning strike caused a large tree to collapse over the graves in the village cemetery. I argue that the ways in which people ‘rea…
Contemporary Religiosities
The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization, it is necessary to rethink the relationship between the religious and the secular; the contributors - all leading scholars in anthropology - do just t…
Contemporary religiosities
Introduction: Religiosities toward a Future-in Pursuit of the New Millennium Bruce Kapferer, Annelin Eriksen, and Kari Telle Chapter 1. The Politics of Conviction: Faith on the Neo-liberal Frontier Jean Comaroff Chapter 2. Strategic Secularism: Bible Advocacy in England Matthew Engelke Chapter 3. Pentecostal Networks and the Spirit of Globalization: On the Social Productivity of Ritual Forms Joel Robbins Chapter 4. Healing the Nation: In Search o…
Redaksjonelt
Religion, politics & globalization. Anthropological approaches , edited by Lindquist, Galina and Don Handelman
Vigilante Citizenship
This article examines the informal authority wielded by civilian security groups (pamswakarsa) on the island of Lombok. Taking as its point of departure the Balinese minority's plan to build a large Hindu temple in northern Lombok, the article shows how the project was thwarted by a combination of rumours, pamphlets, violence as well as legal obstacles from district and provincial authorities. Outlining how the campaign against the temple gained …
Kort oppsummering
Ritual Power
This article shows how rituals occupy a key role in the negotiation of inter-religious relations on the island of Lombok. Building on the argument set out in Howe’s 2000 article on ‘Risk, Ritual and Performance’ in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute that the anthropology of ritual has much to gain by focusing on risk, this article takes the rhetorical evocation of risk as a focus of inquiry, thereby refining understandings of how …
Does Anthropology Matter to Law
At a time of ‘interdisciplinary’ scholarly debate and ‘transdisciplinary’ pedagogy, some disciplines appear more siloed and tone deaf to each other than ever before. This article will consider why law and anthropology as disciplines offer almost no impact upon each other’s educational or research agendas
Faith on Trial
This article develops the argument that blasphemy trials occupy a pivotal role in 'religion-making' in post-1998 Indonesia. Examining a blasphemy trial on the island of Lombok in 2010, I argue that the process of democratisation has given civilian actors more opportunity to engage Indonesia's blasphemy law, a process analysed in terms of 'lawfare'. Examining the interplay of legal regulation and the campaign against 'deviant' religion launched by…
Covid-19, 'dugnad' and social control in Bergen and beyond
Chapter 3 the Smell of Death Theft, Disgust and Ritual Practice in Central Lombok, Indonesia
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