Ruth E Toulson
Biographic Data
| ID | 630711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth E Toulson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth E |
| FAMILY NAME | Toulson |
| SIGNATURE | TOULSON R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wyoming |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore
When “the state” is the absence of a sour red date: Memory, materiality, and agency
Materiality of Mourning
The Materiality of Mourning: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Tangible remains play an important role in our relationships with the dead; they are pivotal to how we remember, mourn and grieve. The chapters in this volume analyse a diverse range of objects and their role in the processes of grief and mourning, with contributions by scholars in anthropology, history, fashion, thanatology, religious studies, archaeology, classics, sociology, and political science. The book brings together consideration of emot…
Theorizing the City: Recent Research in Urban Anthropology
Half of the world's population now lives in cities. This number is expected to grow to two-thirds in the next fifty years. And yet, it is only recently that anthropologists have begun to take urban contexts seriously as fieldwork sites. In this article, I analyze three recent volumes on urban anthropology which each propose a distinctive theoretical and methodological approach to the study of the city. I suggest that there is a fine line to be dr…
Eating the Food of the Gods: Interpretive Dilemmas in Anthropological Analysis
In critical opposition to the pathologizing processes of psychiatric diagnosis, anthropologists have interpreted the actions of individuals in psychological pain as forms of resistance. However, I suggest that such analyses often presume rather than trace the connection between the unsettled psyche and social life, in a manner that mirrors the dehumanization of biomedical categorization. In this article I examine events at a temple inSingapore wh…
The meanings of red envelopes: Promises and lies at a Singaporean Chinese funeral
This article begins with a puzzle. Why do red envelopes appear at Singaporean Chinese funerals? Specifically, why are payments to corpse-handlers, coffin-carriers and gravediggers wrapped in red, when the work they do is described as being 'white through and through'? Conventionally, red is the colour of auspicious occasions, hence it is the colour of a traditional wedding dress, while white is the colour of death, of the shroud and of mourning w…
Ritual Vicissitudes: The Uncertainties of Singaporean Suicide Rites
Ghetto at the center of the world: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong - By Gordon Mathews
Returning Souls
Theorizing the City: Recent Research in Urban Anthropology
Half of the world's population now lives in cities. This number is expected to grow to two-thirds in the next fifty years. And yet, it is only recently that anthropologists have begun to take urban contexts seriously as fieldwork sites. In this article, I analyze three recent volumes on urban anthropology which each propose a distinctive theoretical and methodological approach to the study of the city. I suggest that there is a fine line to be dr…
The meanings of red envelopes: Promises and lies at a Singaporean Chinese funeral
This article begins with a puzzle. Why do red envelopes appear at Singaporean Chinese funerals? Specifically, why are payments to corpse-handlers, coffin-carriers and gravediggers wrapped in red, when the work they do is described as being 'white through and through'? Conventionally, red is the colour of auspicious occasions, hence it is the colour of a traditional wedding dress, while white is the colour of death, of the shroud and of mourning w…
Eating the Food of the Gods: Interpretive Dilemmas in Anthropological Analysis
In critical opposition to the pathologizing processes of psychiatric diagnosis, anthropologists have interpreted the actions of individuals in psychological pain as forms of resistance. However, I suggest that such analyses often presume rather than trace the connection between the unsettled psyche and social life, in a manner that mirrors the dehumanization of biomedical categorization. In this article I examine events at a temple inSingapore wh…
Returning Souls
Ritual Vicissitudes: The Uncertainties of Singaporean Suicide Rites
Ghetto at the center of the world: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong - By Gordon Mathews
Returning Souls
The meanings of red envelopes: Promises and lies at a Singaporean Chinese funeral
This article begins with a puzzle. Why do red envelopes appear at Singaporean Chinese funerals? Specifically, why are payments to corpse-handlers, coffin-carriers and gravediggers wrapped in red, when the work they do is described as being 'white through and through'? Conventionally, red is the colour of auspicious occasions, hence it is the colour of a traditional wedding dress, while white is the colour of death, of the shroud and of mourning w…
Eating the Food of the Gods: Interpretive Dilemmas in Anthropological Analysis
In critical opposition to the pathologizing processes of psychiatric diagnosis, anthropologists have interpreted the actions of individuals in psychological pain as forms of resistance. However, I suggest that such analyses often presume rather than trace the connection between the unsettled psyche and social life, in a manner that mirrors the dehumanization of biomedical categorization. In this article I examine events at a temple inSingapore wh…
Theorizing the City: Recent Research in Urban Anthropology
Half of the world's population now lives in cities. This number is expected to grow to two-thirds in the next fifty years. And yet, it is only recently that anthropologists have begun to take urban contexts seriously as fieldwork sites. In this article, I analyze three recent volumes on urban anthropology which each propose a distinctive theoretical and methodological approach to the study of the city. I suggest that there is a fine line to be dr…
The Materiality of Mourning: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Tangible remains play an important role in our relationships with the dead; they are pivotal to how we remember, mourn and grieve. The chapters in this volume analyse a diverse range of objects and their role in the processes of grief and mourning, with contributions by scholars in anthropology, history, fashion, thanatology, religious studies, archaeology, classics, sociology, and political science. The book brings together consideration of emot…
Materiality of Mourning
When “the state” is the absence of a sour red date: Memory, materiality, and agency
Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore
Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)