Mary Hancock
Biographic Data
| ID | 77222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Hancock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Hancock |
| SIGNATURE | HANCOCK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India
Womanhood in the Making is an ethnographic study of Brahman women's ritual practice that focuses on relations between religious practice, class and caste inequalities, and nationalist discourses. Using analyses of both domestic ritual and women's personal narratives, the author investigates the spaces of female agency that ritual practice affords
Thinking Qualitatively Methods of Mind: A Review
The following is a review of the book: Thinking Qualitatively: Methods of Mind written by Johnny Saldaña and published in 2015. The book unfolds from the more traditional qualitative research ways of thinking and moves toward the abstract. Learning objectives begin each chapter and end with a summary of key points and exercises designed to stretch the mind by applying the concepts discussed. Throughout each chapter, reflection exercises titled “F…
Ordinary Cities and Milieus of Innovation
This introduces a roundtable on the articulations of religious practices and imaginaries with the creation and remaking of urban landscapes in Bangalore (India), Vinh City (Vietnam), and Houston and New Orleans (United States). While recognizing that urban expressions of religion are articulated with political and economic forces, this collection shifts the focus to the spatial, material, and sensory media with which the religious and the spiritu…
The Use of WordPress in Online Focus Group Studies
Focus groups have long been used as a qualitative research methodology to gather information on a particular topic in a non-threatening setting. Adapting the traditional face-to-face (FTF) focus group to the online environment is a natural adaptation in the use of advanced technology for local and national research. The anonymity of the online environment is non-threatening allowing for open discussion. WordPress® provides a secure, easy to navig…
Focus Group Data Saturation: A New Approach to Data Analysis
The qualitative research “gold standard” for quality research is data saturation. The limited literature on reporting data saturation and transparency in qualitative research has supported an inconsistent research standard suggesting researchers have not adequately reported data saturation to promote transparency (O’Reilly & Parker, 2012). Confusion regarding how to analyze qualitative data to achieve data saturation, how to write clear qualitati…
Short-term youth mission practice and the visualization of global christianity
This article examines the visual mediation of evangelical short-term mission and the theologically inflected global imaginary that these forms engender. Recent decades have seen the resurgence of long-term mission and the emergence of short-term mission among US Christians. The latter, combining evangelization, service, and tourism, is a staple within evangelical youth culture. I argue that it is used by Christians to constitute themselves as glo…
New mission paradigms and the encounter with Islam: Fusing voluntarism, tourism and evangelism in short-term missions in the USA
This paper concerns U.S. evangelical Christian mission practice in the Muslim world. Interests in and support for mission work among Muslims have increased – shifts that evangelical church leaders and missiologists attribute to the impacts of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that followed – and the short-term segment, which fuses voluntarism, tourism and evangelism, represents the newest paradigm in these undertakings. While the overall …
Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India by Ajantha Subramanian
The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai
Spaces of Modernity: Religion and the Urban in Asia and Africa
This article introduces a symposium on religion and the formation of modern urban space in Asia and Africa. Both the spread of new religious movements and the articulations between religion, globalization and neoliberalism have prompted new analyses of the shifting geographic and social boundaries between 'religious' and 'secular' institutions, practices and discourses, and about the meaning of 'religion' itself. We reinscribe work on urban relig…
Public History: Real, Live, Direct
Other| January 01 2006 Public History: Real, Live, Direct MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2006) 28 (2): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2006.28.2.7 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site C…
The renewal of the priesthood: Modernity and traditionalism in a South Indian temple – C.J. Fuller
Washington's Landscape of Fear: Banal, Sublime, and Dangerous
Architectures of Memory
Editorial| November 01 2005 Architectures of Memory Mary E. Hancock Mary E. Hancock University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2005) 27 (4): 7–9. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.7 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
Getting It and Getting It Right
Making and Breaking Boundaries
History in Public
The crusade is the vision: Branding Charisma in a Global Pentecostal Ministry
This paper explores the rhetorical properties of mass-mediated revival spectacles staged by Reinhard Bonnke, a German-born evangelist who has long worked in Sub-Saharan Africa and claims to have converted millions of Africans to Christianity. The swooping pans of these massive African crusades, which form the establishing shots in proselytic videos, model Bonnke's particular Pentecostal visual ideology. In doing so, these images bear material wit…
Spring in Victoria
Review Article| September 01 2004 Spring in Victoria Mary E. Hancock Mary E. Hancock Departments of History and Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (4): 83–85. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.4.83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitte…
Keeping the Public in Public History
Editorial| September 01 2004 Keeping the Public in Public History Mary E. Hancock Mary E. Hancock University of California Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (4): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.4.7 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
Spring in Victoria
Review Article| September 01 2004 Spring in Victoria Mary E. Hancock Mary E. Hancock Departments of History and Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (4): 83–85. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.4.83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedI…
Houston: Its Museums and Communities
Review Article| November 01 2003 Houston: Its Museums and Communities MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK is review editor for The Public Historian and an associate professor in the Departments of Anthropology and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research deals with public memory in southern India, and she is author of a forthcoming book, entitled Remembered Futures, Everyday Histories: Politics, Poe…
Houston: Its Museums and Communities
Review Article| November 01 2003 Houston: Its Museums and Communities MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK is review editor for The Public Historian and an associate professor in the Departments of Anthropology and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research deals with public memory in southern India, and she is author of a forthcoming book, entitled Remembered Futures, Everyday Histories: Politics, Poe…
Subjects of Heritage in Urban Southern India
In this paper I deal with a recent effort, conducted jointly by corporate and voluntary bodies, to create a themed cultural environment in Chennai (formerly Madras), the capital city of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This project, not yet completed, fuses craft center with architectural reconstruction, and is the work of upper-caste, globally connected elites. The site, Dakshina Chitra, envisions southern Indian culture and history in w…
Modernities Remade: Hindu temples and their publics in southern India
This paper deals with the contending visions of self and community that are imagined, enacted, and critiqued in the social space of religious institutions. It focuses specifically on the ideological claims made on Hindu temples during the 1990s in Chennai, a large south Indian city that has seen capitalist transformation and increased Hindu nationalist sentiment during the past decade. While temples at times have served as stages for nationalist …
Home Science and the Nationalization of Domesticity in Colonial India
This paper investigates the late colonial origins of Home Science in British India. It deals most intensively with the institutionalization of Home Science in Madras Presidency and attends to the roles played by both the colonial state and Indian women's organizations in its establishment. Though the focus is on Madras because the efforts of those based there influenced the later course of Home Science education, the activities of Madras educator…
Spaces of Modernity: Religion and the Urban in Asia and Africa
This article introduces a symposium on religion and the formation of modern urban space in Asia and Africa. Both the spread of new religious movements and the articulations between religion, globalization and neoliberalism have prompted new analyses of the shifting geographic and social boundaries between 'religious' and 'secular' institutions, practices and discourses, and about the meaning of 'religion' itself. We reinscribe work on urban relig…
Hindu culture for an Indian nation: Gender, politics, and elite identity in urban south India
In this article I describe a south Indian social movement, headed by a Hindu preceptor. This movement relied on elite women members and on feminine religious idioms to solicit upper-caste consent to Hindu nationalism; with that ideology, it naturalized caste inequalities and attempted to broker alliances between urban elites and the poor. The movement represented upper-caste contestation for hegemonic power, but failed because of indeterminacies …
The crusade is the vision: Branding Charisma in a Global Pentecostal Ministry
This paper explores the rhetorical properties of mass-mediated revival spectacles staged by Reinhard Bonnke, a German-born evangelist who has long worked in Sub-Saharan Africa and claims to have converted millions of Africans to Christianity. The swooping pans of these massive African crusades, which form the establishing shots in proselytic videos, model Bonnke's particular Pentecostal visual ideology. In doing so, these images bear material wit…
Modernities Remade: Hindu temples and their publics in southern India
This paper deals with the contending visions of self and community that are imagined, enacted, and critiqued in the social space of religious institutions. It focuses specifically on the ideological claims made on Hindu temples during the 1990s in Chennai, a large south Indian city that has seen capitalist transformation and increased Hindu nationalist sentiment during the past decade. While temples at times have served as stages for nationalist …
Short-term youth mission practice and the visualization of global christianity
This article examines the visual mediation of evangelical short-term mission and the theologically inflected global imaginary that these forms engender. Recent decades have seen the resurgence of long-term mission and the emergence of short-term mission among US Christians. The latter, combining evangelization, service, and tourism, is a staple within evangelical youth culture. I argue that it is used by Christians to constitute themselves as glo…
Focus Group Data Saturation: A New Approach to Data Analysis
The qualitative research “gold standard” for quality research is data saturation. The limited literature on reporting data saturation and transparency in qualitative research has supported an inconsistent research standard suggesting researchers have not adequately reported data saturation to promote transparency (O’Reilly & Parker, 2012). Confusion regarding how to analyze qualitative data to achieve data saturation, how to write clear qualitati…
Unmaking the 'great tradition: Ethnography, national culture and area studies
This essay contextualizes and interrogates Milton Singer's When a Great Tradition Modernizes, an influential study of Sanskritic Hinduism and its elite exponents in urban south India. Singer's fieldwork (1954–1964) depended heavily on the assistance of an Indian Sanskritist, V. Raghavan. I focus on their collaboration as it is represented in the published works of both, and consider its implications for South Asia area studies in the US. In their…
New mission paradigms and the encounter with Islam: Fusing voluntarism, tourism and evangelism in short-term missions in the USA
This paper concerns U.S. evangelical Christian mission practice in the Muslim world. Interests in and support for mission work among Muslims have increased – shifts that evangelical church leaders and missiologists attribute to the impacts of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that followed – and the short-term segment, which fuses voluntarism, tourism and evangelism, represents the newest paradigm in these undertakings. While the overall …
Festivity and Popular Memory in Southern India
Ordinary Cities and Milieus of Innovation
This introduces a roundtable on the articulations of religious practices and imaginaries with the creation and remaking of urban landscapes in Bangalore (India), Vinh City (Vietnam), and Houston and New Orleans (United States). While recognizing that urban expressions of religion are articulated with political and economic forces, this collection shifts the focus to the spatial, material, and sensory media with which the religious and the spiritu…
Washington's Landscape of Fear: Banal, Sublime, and Dangerous
Subjects of Heritage in Urban Southern India
In this paper I deal with a recent effort, conducted jointly by corporate and voluntary bodies, to create a themed cultural environment in Chennai (formerly Madras), the capital city of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This project, not yet completed, fuses craft center with architectural reconstruction, and is the work of upper-caste, globally connected elites. The site, Dakshina Chitra, envisions southern Indian culture and history in w…
Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. Peter VAN DER Veer
Saintly Careers Among South India's Urban Middle Classes
Saintly Careers Among South India's Urban Middle Classes
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions . Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom , and Margaret A. Mills. South Asia Seminar Series
Sister R. S. Subbalakshmi: Social Reformer and Educationist . Malathi Ramanathan
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Gender and Tribe: Women, Land and Forests in Jharkhand. Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan
The Dilemmas of Domesticity: Possession and Devotional Experience Among Urban Smarta Women
The introductory essay to this volume suggests that by tracing marriage’s margins or boundaries we are enabled to better discern what is central to marriage and, taking this notion a step further, to see that inversions of and resistance to normative versions of marriage may be read as “diagnostic indicators” of the complex relations of knowledge and power that support claims about the meaning of Hindu marriage.1 In this essay I engage the center…
Hindu culture for an Indian nation: Gender, politics, and elite identity in urban south India
In this article I describe a south Indian social movement, headed by a Hindu preceptor. This movement relied on elite women members and on feminine religious idioms to solicit upper-caste consent to Hindu nationalism; with that ideology, it naturalized caste inequalities and attempted to broker alliances between urban elites and the poor. The movement represented upper-caste contestation for hegemonic power, but failed because of indeterminacies …
Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. Peter VAN DER Veer
Caste and Capitalism In Colonial India- The Nattukottal Chettlars
Caste and Capitalism In Colonial India; The Nattukottal Chettlars. DAVID WEST RUDNER Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of Callfornia Press, 1994. xix + 341 pp., figures, plates, tables, appendixes, glossary, notes, references, index
Unmaking the 'great tradition: Ethnography, national culture and area studies
This essay contextualizes and interrogates Milton Singer's When a Great Tradition Modernizes, an influential study of Sanskritic Hinduism and its elite exponents in urban south India. Singer's fieldwork (1954–1964) depended heavily on the assistance of an Indian Sanskritist, V. Raghavan. I focus on their collaboration as it is represented in the published works of both, and consider its implications for South Asia area studies in the US. In their…
Festivity and Popular Memory in Southern India
Home Science and the Nationalization of Domesticity in Colonial India
This paper investigates the late colonial origins of Home Science in British India. It deals most intensively with the institutionalization of Home Science in Madras Presidency and attends to the roles played by both the colonial state and Indian women's organizations in its establishment. Though the focus is on Madras because the efforts of those based there influenced the later course of Home Science education, the activities of Madras educator…
Subjects of Heritage in Urban Southern India
In this paper I deal with a recent effort, conducted jointly by corporate and voluntary bodies, to create a themed cultural environment in Chennai (formerly Madras), the capital city of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This project, not yet completed, fuses craft center with architectural reconstruction, and is the work of upper-caste, globally connected elites. The site, Dakshina Chitra, envisions southern Indian culture and history in w…
Modernities Remade: Hindu temples and their publics in southern India
This paper deals with the contending visions of self and community that are imagined, enacted, and critiqued in the social space of religious institutions. It focuses specifically on the ideological claims made on Hindu temples during the 1990s in Chennai, a large south Indian city that has seen capitalist transformation and increased Hindu nationalist sentiment during the past decade. While temples at times have served as stages for nationalist …
Houston: Its Museums and Communities
Review Article| November 01 2003 Houston: Its Museums and Communities MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK is review editor for The Public Historian and an associate professor in the Departments of Anthropology and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research deals with public memory in southern India, and she is author of a forthcoming book, entitled Remembered Futures, Everyday Histories: Politics, Poe…
Houston: Its Museums and Communities
Review Article| November 01 2003 Houston: Its Museums and Communities MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK is review editor for The Public Historian and an associate professor in the Departments of Anthropology and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research deals with public memory in southern India, and she is author of a forthcoming book, entitled Remembered Futures, Everyday Histories: Politics, Poe…
Spring in Victoria
Review Article| September 01 2004 Spring in Victoria Mary E. Hancock Mary E. Hancock Departments of History and Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (4): 83–85. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.4.83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitte…
Keeping the Public in Public History
Editorial| September 01 2004 Keeping the Public in Public History Mary E. Hancock Mary E. Hancock University of California Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (4): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.4.7 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
Spring in Victoria
Review Article| September 01 2004 Spring in Victoria Mary E. Hancock Mary E. Hancock Departments of History and Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (4): 83–85. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.4.83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedI…
Architectures of Memory
Editorial| November 01 2005 Architectures of Memory Mary E. Hancock Mary E. Hancock University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2005) 27 (4): 7–9. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.7 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
Getting It and Getting It Right
Making and Breaking Boundaries
History in Public
The crusade is the vision: Branding Charisma in a Global Pentecostal Ministry
This paper explores the rhetorical properties of mass-mediated revival spectacles staged by Reinhard Bonnke, a German-born evangelist who has long worked in Sub-Saharan Africa and claims to have converted millions of Africans to Christianity. The swooping pans of these massive African crusades, which form the establishing shots in proselytic videos, model Bonnke's particular Pentecostal visual ideology. In doing so, these images bear material wit…
Public History: Real, Live, Direct
Other| January 01 2006 Public History: Real, Live, Direct MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2006) 28 (2): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2006.28.2.7 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site C…
The renewal of the priesthood: Modernity and traditionalism in a South Indian temple – C.J. Fuller
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