Brande
Biographic Data
| ID | 54398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brande |
| FAMILY NAME | Brande |
| SIGNATURE | BRANDE |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2573-9421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 77 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 77 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A pamphlet as key to ritual interpretation
Brochure listing the 1976 Cazorla annual festival schedule, including the procession of Giants and Big-Heads Source: Photo by Stanley Brandes A search for information regarding a festival, ritual, or other significant event is likely to yield a highly detailed, mainly chronological description of the event. What we miss in many of these accounts is an interpretation of the proceedings, some guiding theoretical framework by which to deepen underst…
Batallas de custodia trans-especie y la reformulación de lazos de familia
Este artículo es una contribución a la creciente literatura antropológica sobre las relaciones hombre-animales y las familias trans-especie. Cada vez más, las mascotas domésticas en los Estados Unidos se consideran miembros de la familia. De hecho, estos animales a menudo son tratados como parientes reales o sustitutos, ya sea cónyuge, hijo o hermano. Una consecuencia de esta tendencia es la aparición de batallas legales entre parejas que se sepa…
Excerpt from “The Priest as Agent of Secularization in Rural Spain”
An anthropological approach to taboo words and language
The anthropological approach to taboo words and language begins with an understanding and acceptance of cultural relativity. Anthropologists are keenly aware that everyday speech that might be perfectly decorous in one society is often laughable or, in extreme cases, scandalous in another. Anthropologists also identify taboo words and language by popular responses to their utterance. According to anthropological definitions, tabooed behavior-be i…
Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico - by Toner, Deborah
Excerpt from “The Priest as Agent of Secularization in Rural Spain”
Stanley Brandes is an American sociocultural anthropologist whose work spans both European and Latin American peasantries. In this article Brandes describes a kind of Catholicism characteristic of peasant villages of the Iberian peninsula: locally inflected by rites and practices particular to specific regions, and organizationally overlapping with kinship and territorial corporate groups. At the broadest level, the essay offers a set of reflecti…
Les autobiografies etnogràfiques en l'Antropologia americana
La biografia etnogràfica ha estat sempre molt utilitzada per l'antropologia americana. Tanmateix ha estat emprada amb una gran diversitat de propòsits i s'ha servit de tècniques vàries per a la seva aplicació. En aquest article tractem d'aquestes aplicacions i, també, del lloc de la biografia etnogràfica dins l'antropologia. També s'hi tracten els problemes i perspectives d'aquesta important eina
Fascism and Social Anthropology: The Case of Spain Under Franco
This social thought piece constitutes a contribution to the history of anthropology in southern Europe. Using Spain under Francisco Franco as a case study, it demonstrates the close connection between anthropology as an academic discipline, on the one hand, and fascist rule, on the other. While anthropologists neither whole-heartedly accepted the Franco regime (1939-1975) nor worked directly on that regime's behalf, anthropological topics, theori…
Monsanto, orgullo de Portugal
El artículo investiga el concurso que tuvo lugar en 1938 durante el régimen fascista de António de Salazar con el fin de seleccionar «el pueblo más portugués de Portugal». En torno a este evento tuvo lugar una cercana colaboración entre etnólogos profesionales y el gobierno de derechas del momento. Este artículo ofrece una interpretación del mencionado concurso en el contexto de unas relaciones internacionales turbulentas, particularmente como re…
Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint
In Devoted to Death, R. Andrew Chesnut, the Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, addresses an inherently intriguing topic: the burgeoning devotion t
Dear Rin Tin Tin: An Analysis of William Safire’s Dog-Naming Survey from 1985
This paper contributes to the study of how and why we bestow particular types of names upon companion animals, specifically dogs. The research is based on a cache of letters written in 1985 in response to a request from New York Times columnist, William Safire. Although the survey is in no sense scientific, it nonetheless taps trends in dog naming that have become steadily more prominent to the present day. Dog names as well as the criteria by wh…
The art of evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and visual culture
Ratatouille: An Animated Account of Cooking, Taste, and Human Evolution
This paper analyzes the immensely popular animated film Ratatouille as a social and cultural document. It begins with a recapitulation of the movie's story line - a saga of an astute, ambitious and talented rat, who becomes transformed into an accomplished haute cuisine chef. The film illustrates recent anthropological writings on the central role of cooking in human evolution. It also shows how varieties of cooking and table manners provide key …
Torophiles and Torophobes: The Politics of Bulls and Bullfights in Contemporary Spain
Although the bullfight as a public spectacle extends throughout southwestern Europe and much of Latin America, it attains greatest political, cultural, and symbolic salience in Spain. Yet within Spain today, the bullfight has come under serious attack, from at least three sources: (1) Catalan nationalists, (2) Spaniards who identify with the new Europe, and (3) increasingly vocal animal rights advocates. This article explores the current debate-c…
Graciela Iturbide as Anthropological Photographer
This article is a reflection on the images of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. Focusing on her portraits of indigenous peoples of Mexico (particularly the Seri, Isthmus Zapotec, and Mixtec), the author addresses the anthropological value of a body of visual material that is artistic, rather than documentary, in conception and execution. The article inquires into whether and to what extent the images of a professional photographer such as I…
The Things We Carry
This article takes as its starting point Tim O'Brien's famous essay, 'The Things They Carried,' a fictional evocation of tangible and intangible items that Vietnam War soldiers hauled around with them in the field. 'The Things We Carry,' by contrast, analyzes the theoretical ideas and various components of social identity that anthropologists bring with them to the communities in which they carry out research. This article focuses especially on t…
George McClelland Foster Jr. (1913–2006)
Fire in the Placa: Catalan Festival Politics after Franco (review)
Reviewed by: Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics after Franco Stanley Brandes Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics after Franco. By Dorothy Noyes. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. At once folklore and anthropology, this fascinating volume reaches far beyond description, history, and symbolic meaning. It situates its main subject—the Patum of Berga—within the context of key economic, social, and political…
Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics after Franco
Book Review| April 01 2006 Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics after Franco Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics after Franco, Dorothy Noyes. Stanley Brandes Stanley Brandes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2006) 119 (472): 239–240. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137927 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stanley Brande…
Alan Dundes (1934-2005)
Drinking: Anthropological Approaches:Drinking: Anthropological Approaches
Drinking: Anthropological Approaches
Drinking: Anthropological Approaches. Igor de Garine and Valeria de Garine. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 248 pp
Staying Sober in Mexico City
Is There a Mexican View of Death
Reviewing social science literature over the past half century, this article identifies a widely held image of what we might call the morbid Mexican. In contrast to people from other cultural traditions, Mexicans are said to scorn and laugh at death and to be comfortable in the presence of death. They are also portrayed as relatively impervious to the emotional impact of death. Through a systematic survey of ethnographic data, particularly concer…
Mary LeCron Foster (1914-2001)
Towards a Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean [and Comments and Reply]
Davis's People of the Mediterranean provides a detailed survey of the writings of anthropologists who have worked in Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Its author focuses on economic organization, stratification, patronage, family and kinship, and the way anthropologists have dealt with history. He concludes that they have failed to compare, to work in cities, to relate part to whole, and to make use of history. These failures, h…
The structural and demographic implications of nicknames in Navanogal, Spain1
This paper examines the distribution and function of nicknames in a Castilian mountain village. It seeks to show that nicknames can only be understood through analyzing the different ways they are employed among discrete segments of the community. Comparative data are used to determine why nicknames seem to flourish only in communities of a limited population range
Peaceful Protest: Spanish Political Humor in a Time of Crisis
Iconography in Mexico's Day of the Dead: Origins and Meaning
This article analyzes the origin and meaning of artistic representations of death-principally skulls and skeletons-in Mexico's Day of the Dead.It chal lenges stereotypes of the death-obsessed Mexican by tracing mortuary imagery in the Day of the Dead to two separate artistic developments, the first deriving from religious and demographic imperatives of colonial times, the second from nineteenth-century politics and journalism.Now generally percei…
Malinowski in Mexico: The Economics of a Mexican Market System
Sugar, Colonialism, and Death: On the Origins of Mexico's Day of the Dead
Mexico's most famous holiday is, without doubt, the Day of the Dead. At the end of October, large numbers of foreign visitors descend upon Mexico to witness colorful-some would say carnivalesque-ritual performances and artistic displays. Decorated breads, paper cutouts, and plastic toys, most of them humorously playing on the theme of death, are evident everywhere. Sculpted sugar candies in the form of skulls, skeletons, and caskets suggest an al…
Is There a Mexican View of Death
Reviewing social science literature over the past half century, this article identifies a widely held image of what we might call the morbid Mexican. In contrast to people from other cultural traditions, Mexicans are said to scorn and laugh at death and to be comfortable in the presence of death. They are also portrayed as relatively impervious to the emotional impact of death. Through a systematic survey of ethnographic data, particularly concer…
The Sardana: Catalan Dance and Catalan National Identity
The sardana, a circle dance from northeast Spain, emerged in the mid-19th century as a key symbol of Catalonia. A prototypical invented tradition, the sardana represents qualities that Catalans hold dear, such as harmony, democracy, brotherhood, and national identity as an achieved rather than ascribed status. Threats against the sardana are perceived as threats against Catalonia. Hence, Catalan folklorists rewrite history in an attempt to defend…
Sex roles and anthropological research in rural Andalusia
Social Structure and Interpersonal Relations in Navanogal (Spain)1
This paper explores the ambivalent quality of interpersonal relations in a small Castilian community. For purposes of economic and psychological security, villagers establish a wide network of social ties outside the nuclear family. Yet they distrust and resent those with whom they must affiliate. In order to maintain successful social and economic ties, then, they resort to a series of standardized devices which operate as a lubricant to social …
Torophiles and Torophobes: The Politics of Bulls and Bullfights in Contemporary Spain
Although the bullfight as a public spectacle extends throughout southwestern Europe and much of Latin America, it attains greatest political, cultural, and symbolic salience in Spain. Yet within Spain today, the bullfight has come under serious attack, from at least three sources: (1) Catalan nationalists, (2) Spaniards who identify with the new Europe, and (3) increasingly vocal animal rights advocates. This article explores the current debate-c…
On Basque Migration
The Things We Carry
This article takes as its starting point Tim O'Brien's famous essay, 'The Things They Carried,' a fictional evocation of tangible and intangible items that Vietnam War soldiers hauled around with them in the field. 'The Things We Carry,' by contrast, analyzes the theoretical ideas and various components of social identity that anthropologists bring with them to the communities in which they carry out research. This article focuses especially on t…
"La Soltería," or Why People Remain Single in Rural Spain
This paper explores the reasons why a high proportion of Castilian men and women remain permanently unmarried. Previously advanced explanations for bachelorhood and spinsterhood in Spain and Europe generally are reviewed and shown to be inadequate. In their place, the author proposes a multicausal model based on an intimate examination of family and individual life histories in the small Castilian community of Becedas. The study illustrates how a…
Basque Migration Again
An anthropological approach to taboo words and language
The anthropological approach to taboo words and language begins with an understanding and acceptance of cultural relativity. Anthropologists are keenly aware that everyday speech that might be perfectly decorous in one society is often laughable or, in extreme cases, scandalous in another. Anthropologists also identify taboo words and language by popular responses to their utterance. According to anthropological definitions, tabooed behavior-be i…
The Cremated Catholic: The Ends of a Deceased Guatemalan
After a Guatemalan migrant worker living in northern California was killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a highway one night, his family requested that his body be sent back to his native village in southwestern Guatemala to be mourned and buried according to traditional Catholic custom. But the County morgue confused this deceased individual with another Latino and cremated his body before it could be shipped. This article analyzes the …
Maize as a Culinary Mystery
Power and Persuasion: Fiestas and Social Control in Rural Mexico
Animal Metaphors and Social Control in Tzintzuntzan
Ever since Leach (1964) published his groundbreaking paper on animal categories and verbal abuse, scholars have demonstrated considerable interest in the subject of animal metaphors. Like Leach's study, most of this work (e.g., Basso 1976; Crocker 1977; Tambiah 1969) has grown out of the literature on binary oppositions, mediation, and anomalous categories; it has focused, in other words, on cognitive issues. Recently, the topic has been explored…
Ethnographic Autobiographies in American Anthropology
The ethnographic biography has always had an important use in American anthropology. It has, however, been used for a variety of purposes and has employed various techniques in its application. These various uses and applications are explored in this review analysis of the "place" of the ethnographic biography in anthropology. The problems as well as the prospects of this important tool are also discussed
Fascism and Social Anthropology: The Case of Spain Under Franco
This social thought piece constitutes a contribution to the history of anthropology in southern Europe. Using Spain under Francisco Franco as a case study, it demonstrates the close connection between anthropology as an academic discipline, on the one hand, and fascist rule, on the other. While anthropologists neither whole-heartedly accepted the Franco regime (1939-1975) nor worked directly on that regime's behalf, anthropological topics, theori…
Dear Rin Tin Tin: An Analysis of William Safire’s Dog-Naming Survey from 1985
This paper contributes to the study of how and why we bestow particular types of names upon companion animals, specifically dogs. The research is based on a cache of letters written in 1985 in response to a request from New York Times columnist, William Safire. Although the survey is in no sense scientific, it nonetheless taps trends in dog naming that have become steadily more prominent to the present day. Dog names as well as the criteria by wh…
Graciela Iturbide as Anthropological Photographer
This article is a reflection on the images of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. Focusing on her portraits of indigenous peoples of Mexico (particularly the Seri, Isthmus Zapotec, and Mixtec), the author addresses the anthropological value of a body of visual material that is artistic, rather than documentary, in conception and execution. The article inquires into whether and to what extent the images of a professional photographer such as I…
Mary LeCron Foster (1914-2001)
Wedding Ritual and Social Structure in a Castilian Peasant Village
In weddings of the Sierra de Bdjar, Spain, an elaborate formal presentation of money (ofrecijo) to bride and groom by guests assures the new couple a large capital reserve. This paper concerns the ways in which this custom influences, as well as reflects, the economy, social structure, and values of a peasant village community. The analysis reveals how and why the ofrecijo has been strengthened, rather than obliterated, by the rural exodus and in…
Social Structure and Interpersonal Relations in Navanogal (Spain)1
This paper explores the ambivalent quality of interpersonal relations in a small Castilian community. For purposes of economic and psychological security, villagers establish a wide network of social ties outside the nuclear family. Yet they distrust and resent those with whom they must affiliate. In order to maintain successful social and economic ties, then, they resort to a series of standardized devices which operate as a lubricant to social …
Basque Migration Again
On Basque Migration
The Creation of a Mexican Memorate
Ritual and Social Structure: The Life Cycle Rites
Family Misfortune Stories in American Folklore
The structural and demographic implications of nicknames in Navanogal, Spain1
This paper examines the distribution and function of nicknames in a Castilian mountain village. It seeks to show that nicknames can only be understood through analyzing the different ways they are employed among discrete segments of the community. Comparative data are used to determine why nicknames seem to flourish only in communities of a limited population range
"La Soltería," or Why People Remain Single in Rural Spain
This paper explores the reasons why a high proportion of Castilian men and women remain permanently unmarried. Previously advanced explanations for bachelorhood and spinsterhood in Spain and Europe generally are reviewed and shown to be inadequate. In their place, the author proposes a multicausal model based on an intimate examination of family and individual life histories in the small Castilian community of Becedas. The study illustrates how a…
Peaceful Protest: Spanish Political Humor in a Time of Crisis
The Mayo Indians of Sonora: A People Who Refuse to Die. N. Ross CRUMRINE. Edward H. Spicer
Towards a Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean [and Comments and Reply]
Davis's People of the Mediterranean provides a detailed survey of the writings of anthropologists who have worked in Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Its author focuses on economic organization, stratification, patronage, family and kinship, and the way anthropologists have dealt with history. He concludes that they have failed to compare, to work in cities, to relate part to whole, and to make use of history. These failures, h…
Ethnographic Autobiographies in American Anthropology
The ethnographic biography has always had an important use in American anthropology. It has, however, been used for a variety of purposes and has employed various techniques in its application. These various uses and applications are explored in this review analysis of the "place" of the ethnographic biography in anthropology. The problems as well as the prospects of this important tool are also discussed
Skits and Society: An Interpretation of Andalusian Folk Drama
Metaphors of Masculinity: Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore
In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in the social hierarchy, and the maintenance of their masculinity in the context of their culture. In this study of projective behavior as found in the folklore of an Andalusian town, Stanley Brandes is careful to support psychological interpretations with ethnographic evi…
General and Theoretical: Fantasy and Symbol: Studies in Anthropological Interpretation . R. H. Hook , ed
The Yaquis: A Cultural History. Edward H. SPICER
Cargos versus Cost Sharing in Mesoamerican Fiestas, with Special Reference to Tzintzuntzan
Focusing on the Mexican village of Tzintzuntzan, this paper demonstrates the decline of individual sponsorships and financial responsibility in community fiestas, and the corresponding rise of cost-sharing schemes. The varieties of cost-sharing arrangements are discussed, and explanations are advanced for why they have flourished. Supporting comparative evidence from throughout Mesoamerica is also presented
Gender Distinctions in Monteros Mortuary Ritual
The recent literature on religious ritual, however varied and complex, seems to fall into two major camps: one emphasizing a state of liminality or reversal, a temporary suspension of the behavioral norms and expectations that guide daily existence; and the other illustrating a consonance betsveen ritual representations and the cultural symbols that dominate everyday life. In this paper I present a situation in which the second type of interpreta…
The City as Context: Urbanism and Behavioral Constraints In Seville. Irwin PRESS
Symbol as Sense: New Approaches to the Analysis of Meaning
Metaphors of Masculinity, Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore
In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in the social hierarchy, and the maintenance of their masculinity in the context of their culture. In this study of projective behavior as found in the folklore of an Andalusian town, Stanley Brandes is careful to support psychological interpretations with ethnographic evi…
The Posadas in Tzintzuntzan Structure and Sentiment in a Mexican Christmas Festival
FESTIVALS LIKE CHRISTMAS, which are celebrated in countless countries and associated with an immense variety of folkloristic tradition, inevitably trace their significance to some common source. Christmas derives its widespread distribution and meaning, of course, from a critically important religious event, the birth of Jesus Christ. Even if we discover, as some scholars have (Count 1948; Miles 1912), that versions of the Christmas holiday were …
Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan
The People of the Plain: Class and Community in Lower Andalusia
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