Bruce Grindal
Biographic Data
| ID | 650771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Grindal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Grindal |
| SIGNATURE | GRINDAL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Confrontation, Understanding, and Friendship in a Redneck Culture
This article presents an anthropologist's narrative of three experiences over 30 years of informal research among the boys at Down Home Auto Repair in Tallahassee, Florida
Can Anthropology Show the Path to Peace? ( Beyond War)
Celebrations for Edie
Borat as Trickster
Beggars, the Ancestors and Jesus
Do You Really Need It
New Age Neanderthal Tour
Hillbilly Heaven
Poetry and Fiction Competition Announced
Lindisfarne Wins 1997 Fiction Competition
Bridges to Humanity
Is There a Light in My Eyes
The ethnographer in the field frequently becomes entangled in the lives of others in ways that are unpredictable and often emotionally shattering. In this montage of scenes, involving a British expatriate family, I present an account of a child, solitary and emotionally disturbed, raised in an environment of ethnic and sexual confusion, cast adrift in an African world. The story is a metaphor, a microcosm of a decaying colonialism, and in the wak…
T he S pirit of H umanistic A nthropology
This commentary outlines some thoughts on underlying themes and issues by a former editor of Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly
Immortality Denied
To the Sisala people of West Africa, immortality resides in the worship of the ancestors and in the mysterious spiritual powers adhering to the dual processes of death and rebirth. In this article, I present a piece of literary ethnography about the circumstances and life of one Sisala man who, by failing to attend his father's funeral and to go into the grave in order to hear his father's last words, dishonored his family and thereby sealed his …
General/Theoretical Anthropology
A Poet Looks at Anthropology
Introduction
Celebrating the Human Spirit
Black American Street Life Reconsidered
Is There Room in Anthropology for Poets
Places and Reflections
Journalism and Anthropology Share Several Similarities
The Spirit of Anthropological Poetry
Strange Laughter
Cultural/Ethnology
Into the Heart of Sisala Experience
Islamic Affiliations and Urban Adaptation
Opening ParagraphThis study sets out to explain the relatively high incidence of Islamic affiliation among traditionally non-Islamic Sisala migrants living in the migrant community of Mamobi in Accra, Ghana. In the course of the presentation, I intend to demonstrate that the migrants' relationship to Islam and the urban Islamic community is directly related to insecurities resulting from leaving one's native area and confronting an alien and ofte…
The Idea of Synergy and It's Bearing on An Anthropological Humanism
An Ethnographic Classification of the Sisala of Northern Ghana
Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly
Borat as Trickster
Beggars, the Ancestors and Jesus
Hillbilly Heaven
Bridges to Humanity
Immortality Denied
To the Sisala people of West Africa, immortality resides in the worship of the ancestors and in the mysterious spiritual powers adhering to the dual processes of death and rebirth. In this article, I present a piece of literary ethnography about the circumstances and life of one Sisala man who, by failing to attend his father's funeral and to go into the grave in order to hear his father's last words, dishonored his family and thereby sealed his …
Is There Room in Anthropology for Poets
Journalism and Anthropology Share Several Similarities
The Peril of Progress and the Need for Synergetic Consciousness
Anthropology and Humsnism Quarterly
The Sisala Trickster Tale
An Ethnographic Classification of the Sisala of Northern Ghana
Folklore
The Sisala Trickster Tale
Islamic Affiliations and Urban Adaptation
Opening ParagraphThis study sets out to explain the relatively high incidence of Islamic affiliation among traditionally non-Islamic Sisala migrants living in the migrant community of Mamobi in Accra, Ghana. In the course of the presentation, I intend to demonstrate that the migrants' relationship to Islam and the urban Islamic community is directly related to insecurities resulting from leaving one's native area and confronting an alien and ofte…
Ethnology
Ethnology
Anthropology and Humsnism Quarterly
The Idea of Synergy and It's Bearing on An Anthropological Humanism
Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly
The Human Story in Anthropology
Luncheon In Honor of David Bidney; Peace
Experience in Search of a Culture
Forward
The Peril of Progress and the Need for Synergetic Consciousness
Mind in the Heart of Darkness
Into the Heart of Sisala Experience
The Higher Thoughts of Sri Lanka
Michael Carrithers. The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: An Anthropological and Historical Study . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983‐ xii. 306 pp. $32.50 (cloth). Dan Rose. The Masks . New York: Printed Matter, Inc. n.d. unpaged
Strange Laughter
Cultural/Ethnology
Journalism and Anthropology Share Several Similarities
The Spirit of Anthropological Poetry
Places and Reflections
Is There Room in Anthropology for Poets
Celebrating the Human Spirit
Black American Street Life Reconsidered
Sociology (29 works) · Computer Science (28 works) · Citation (26 works) · History (23 works) · Library science (23 works) · Anthropology (18 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · State (computer science (17 works) · History (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works)