Monica Janowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 639626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Janowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Janowski |
| SIGNATURE | JANOWSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7957-2153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Liquid Bread: Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
“This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”— Choice A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011 Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK Award Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisc…
Becoming Local: Datuk Kong beliefs in Sarawak, East Malaysia
Datuk Kong (拿督公) are shen (神) – a Chinese term that can be glossed in English as ‘deity’ or ‘spirit’ depending on context. They have long been known to be venerated by Chinese in West Malaysia but have not been investigated until now in Sarawak, where they are of increasing importance, or in Kalimantan, where they appear to have been worshipped for much longer. In both West Malaysia and in Borneo Datuk Kong are closely associated with (a) the eth…
Introdução: Consumindo Memórias De Casa Na Construçao Do Presente E Imaginando O Futuro
Agora é amplamente reconhecido na Antropologia de que os estudos das 'práticas alimentares' são importante para o entendimento de como as pessoas constroem a noção de quem são (1). As maneiras pelas quais os alimentos desempenham papel no contexto da migração não receberam tanta atenção até agora (embora veja Kershen, 2002). No entanto, existem bons motivos para sugerir que a compreensão dos processos de migração em si pode se beneficiar se exami…
Prey into kin: The cosmological role of the pig in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak
In this article I explore the role of both the wild pig (baka) and the domesticated pig (berak) among the Kelabit of Sarawak, focusing in particular on their pre-Christian cosmological role. The wild pig (mainly Sus barbatus Müller, 1838 but also Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758), the main source of wild meat in the area, used to be associated with the spirit world, particularly with the Great Spirit. The domesticated pig (Sus scrofa) was, in pre-Christ…
Borderland Narratives
Stones Alive: An Exploration of the Relationship between Humans and Stone in Southeast Asia
This article explores the significance of stone in Southeast Asia, arguing that within the animistic ontologies of the region stone is a central cosmological concept. Stone, for the people of this region, is a locus of sentience, expressed through the presence of spirits. Cosmic power, which is equivalent to vital force, is believed to flow through the cosmos, flowing fastest in water and coalescing in stone. Stone is a source of power and life a…
Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future
Tuked Rini, Cosmic Traveller: Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo
Before the Story: Personally Speaking Voices around the Fire Landscape and Cosmos in the Legend of Tuked Rini The Legend of Tuked Rini: Prologue The Beginning of the Legend: a Rice Meal The Decision to go to War Getting Ready to Depart for War Travelling to the Highest Sky The Struggle with the Spirit Tiger Rock Into the Spirit Tiger Rock Doing Battle with the People of the Spirit Tiger Rock The Old Couple in the Highest Sky Intervene in the Batt…
Pigs and people in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak
For the people of the Kelabit Highlands, pigs – both wild and domesticated – are of central importance. Their flesh provides the main and the ideal source of protein – wild for everyday meals and domesticated for feasts. But pigs are not only good to eat. They play a central role in structuring the social world and in pre-Christian times in structuring relationships with the spirit world. Hunted by men but, when domesticated, fed rice by women, t…
Puntumid: Great spirit of the heart of Borneo
Puntumid is said by the people of the Kelabit Highlands to be a manifestation of the Ada’ Rayeh, or ‘Great Spirit’. It seems likely that a belief in a spirit described in local languages as ‘Great
Reading Human Activity in the Landscape: Stone and thunderstones in the Kelabit Highlands
For the Kelabit and Penan peoples of interior Borneo, cosmic power is believed to coalesce in the form of stone. This occurs through both natural processes and human manipulation. What is believed to be 'natural' includes what is seen as the petrification of human dwellings, to produce what archaeologists would regard as natural formations; and also the formation of 'thunderstones' - cylindrical stones on which archaeologists have found traces of…
Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future
The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are 'imagined' in a sense more fundamental than their symbolic representation in words, images and other media. Less a means of conjuring up images of what is 'out there' than a way of living creatively in th…
Food in Traumatic Times: Women, Foodways and 'Polishness' During a Wartime 'Odyssey
In this article I explore the pivotal role of food in holding together, projecting and re-imagining a lost world and identity in the context of extreme trauma and dislocation. I do this through the story of seven women deported by the Soviet Union from the eastern borderlands of Poland in 1940, who experienced an ‘odyssey’ through Russia, the Middle East, and Africa which ended in London in the late 1940s. I explore how for them, their success in…
Introduction: Consuming Memories of Home in Constructing the Present and Imagining the Future
Kinship and Food in Southeast Asia
Food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. For this reason, there is growing interest within anthropology in understanding how the production, processing and consumption of food is one important basis for the construction of ties of relatedness, so-called ‘kin’ ties. These are often based at least partly on ‘shared substance’. In this respect, a book on Southeast Asia is espec…
The Airmen and the Headhunters
The Kelabit attitude to the Penan: Forever children
Monica Janowski, The Kelabit attitude to the Penan: Forever children, La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 34, La vita sociale delle perle. Produzione materiale, usi simbolici e ruoli sessuali: da Murano all'Africa e al Borneo (Oct., 1996), pp. 55-58
Perle, prestigio e vita tra i Kelabit di Sarawak
Monica Janowski, Chiara Ingrao, Perle, prestigio e vita tra i Kelabit di Sarawak, La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 34, La vita sociale delle perle. Produzione materiale, usi simbolici e ruoli sessuali: da Murano all'Africa e al Borneo (Oct., 1996), pp. 43-53
The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
Introduction: Consuming Memories of Home in Constructing the Present and Imagining the Future
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
Kinship and Food in Southeast Asia
Food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. For this reason, there is growing interest within anthropology in understanding how the production, processing and consumption of food is one important basis for the construction of ties of relatedness, so-called ‘kin’ ties. These are often based at least partly on ‘shared substance’. In this respect, a book on Southeast Asia is espec…
The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
Tuked Rini, Cosmic Traveller: Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo
Before the Story: Personally Speaking Voices around the Fire Landscape and Cosmos in the Legend of Tuked Rini The Legend of Tuked Rini: Prologue The Beginning of the Legend: a Rice Meal The Decision to go to War Getting Ready to Depart for War Travelling to the Highest Sky The Struggle with the Spirit Tiger Rock Into the Spirit Tiger Rock Doing Battle with the People of the Spirit Tiger Rock The Old Couple in the Highest Sky Intervene in the Batt…
Stones Alive: An Exploration of the Relationship between Humans and Stone in Southeast Asia
This article explores the significance of stone in Southeast Asia, arguing that within the animistic ontologies of the region stone is a central cosmological concept. Stone, for the people of this region, is a locus of sentience, expressed through the presence of spirits. Cosmic power, which is equivalent to vital force, is believed to flow through the cosmos, flowing fastest in water and coalescing in stone. Stone is a source of power and life a…
Food in Traumatic Times: Women, Foodways and 'Polishness' During a Wartime 'Odyssey
In this article I explore the pivotal role of food in holding together, projecting and re-imagining a lost world and identity in the context of extreme trauma and dislocation. I do this through the story of seven women deported by the Soviet Union from the eastern borderlands of Poland in 1940, who experienced an ‘odyssey’ through Russia, the Middle East, and Africa which ended in London in the late 1940s. I explore how for them, their success in…
Prey into kin: The cosmological role of the pig in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak
In this article I explore the role of both the wild pig (baka) and the domesticated pig (berak) among the Kelabit of Sarawak, focusing in particular on their pre-Christian cosmological role. The wild pig (mainly Sus barbatus Müller, 1838 but also Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758), the main source of wild meat in the area, used to be associated with the spirit world, particularly with the Great Spirit. The domesticated pig (Sus scrofa) was, in pre-Christ…
The Airmen and the Headhunters
The Kelabit attitude to the Penan: Forever children
Monica Janowski, The Kelabit attitude to the Penan: Forever children, La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 34, La vita sociale delle perle. Produzione materiale, usi simbolici e ruoli sessuali: da Murano all'Africa e al Borneo (Oct., 1996), pp. 55-58
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
The Kelabit attitude to the Penan: Forever children
Monica Janowski, The Kelabit attitude to the Penan: Forever children, La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 34, La vita sociale delle perle. Produzione materiale, usi simbolici e ruoli sessuali: da Murano all'Africa e al Borneo (Oct., 1996), pp. 55-58
Perle, prestigio e vita tra i Kelabit di Sarawak
Monica Janowski, Chiara Ingrao, Perle, prestigio e vita tra i Kelabit di Sarawak, La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 34, La vita sociale delle perle. Produzione materiale, usi simbolici e ruoli sessuali: da Murano all'Africa e al Borneo (Oct., 1996), pp. 43-53
The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
The Airmen and the Headhunters
Kinship and Food in Southeast Asia
Food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. For this reason, there is growing interest within anthropology in understanding how the production, processing and consumption of food is one important basis for the construction of ties of relatedness, so-called ‘kin’ ties. These are often based at least partly on ‘shared substance’. In this respect, a book on Southeast Asia is espec…
Reading Human Activity in the Landscape: Stone and thunderstones in the Kelabit Highlands
For the Kelabit and Penan peoples of interior Borneo, cosmic power is believed to coalesce in the form of stone. This occurs through both natural processes and human manipulation. What is believed to be 'natural' includes what is seen as the petrification of human dwellings, to produce what archaeologists would regard as natural formations; and also the formation of 'thunderstones' - cylindrical stones on which archaeologists have found traces of…
Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future
The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are 'imagined' in a sense more fundamental than their symbolic representation in words, images and other media. Less a means of conjuring up images of what is 'out there' than a way of living creatively in th…
Food in Traumatic Times: Women, Foodways and 'Polishness' During a Wartime 'Odyssey
In this article I explore the pivotal role of food in holding together, projecting and re-imagining a lost world and identity in the context of extreme trauma and dislocation. I do this through the story of seven women deported by the Soviet Union from the eastern borderlands of Poland in 1940, who experienced an ‘odyssey’ through Russia, the Middle East, and Africa which ended in London in the late 1940s. I explore how for them, their success in…
Introduction: Consuming Memories of Home in Constructing the Present and Imagining the Future
Pigs and people in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak
For the people of the Kelabit Highlands, pigs – both wild and domesticated – are of central importance. Their flesh provides the main and the ideal source of protein – wild for everyday meals and domesticated for feasts. But pigs are not only good to eat. They play a central role in structuring the social world and in pre-Christian times in structuring relationships with the spirit world. Hunted by men but, when domesticated, fed rice by women, t…
Puntumid: Great spirit of the heart of Borneo
Puntumid is said by the people of the Kelabit Highlands to be a manifestation of the Ada’ Rayeh, or ‘Great Spirit’. It seems likely that a belief in a spirit described in local languages as ‘Great
Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future
Tuked Rini, Cosmic Traveller: Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo
Before the Story: Personally Speaking Voices around the Fire Landscape and Cosmos in the Legend of Tuked Rini The Legend of Tuked Rini: Prologue The Beginning of the Legend: a Rice Meal The Decision to go to War Getting Ready to Depart for War Travelling to the Highest Sky The Struggle with the Spirit Tiger Rock Into the Spirit Tiger Rock Doing Battle with the People of the Spirit Tiger Rock The Old Couple in the Highest Sky Intervene in the Batt…
Borderland Narratives
Stones Alive: An Exploration of the Relationship between Humans and Stone in Southeast Asia
This article explores the significance of stone in Southeast Asia, arguing that within the animistic ontologies of the region stone is a central cosmological concept. Stone, for the people of this region, is a locus of sentience, expressed through the presence of spirits. Cosmic power, which is equivalent to vital force, is believed to flow through the cosmos, flowing fastest in water and coalescing in stone. Stone is a source of power and life a…
Introdução: Consumindo Memórias De Casa Na Construçao Do Presente E Imaginando O Futuro
Agora é amplamente reconhecido na Antropologia de que os estudos das 'práticas alimentares' são importante para o entendimento de como as pessoas constroem a noção de quem são (1). As maneiras pelas quais os alimentos desempenham papel no contexto da migração não receberam tanta atenção até agora (embora veja Kershen, 2002). No entanto, existem bons motivos para sugerir que a compreensão dos processos de migração em si pode se beneficiar se exami…
Prey into kin: The cosmological role of the pig in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak
In this article I explore the role of both the wild pig (baka) and the domesticated pig (berak) among the Kelabit of Sarawak, focusing in particular on their pre-Christian cosmological role. The wild pig (mainly Sus barbatus Müller, 1838 but also Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758), the main source of wild meat in the area, used to be associated with the spirit world, particularly with the Great Spirit. The domesticated pig (Sus scrofa) was, in pre-Christ…
Liquid Bread: Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
“This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”— Choice A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011 Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK Award Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisc…
Becoming Local: Datuk Kong beliefs in Sarawak, East Malaysia
Datuk Kong (拿督公) are shen (神) – a Chinese term that can be glossed in English as ‘deity’ or ‘spirit’ depending on context. They have long been known to be venerated by Chinese in West Malaysia but have not been investigated until now in Sarawak, where they are of increasing importance, or in Kalimantan, where they appear to have been worshipped for much longer. In both West Malaysia and in Borneo Datuk Kong are closely associated with (a) the eth…
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