John C Messenger
Biographic Data
| ID | 83188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John C Messenger |
| GIVEN NAMES | John C |
| FAMILY NAME | Messenger |
| SIGNATURE | MESSENGER J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0501-1000 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Man of aran revisited
While conducting research among the Aran Islanders of Ireland between 1958 and 1968, the author and his wife became aware that their interpretation of Aran culture and personality was at variance with those of filmmakers and writers of fame who had portrayed the Aran milieu in film, books, and plays. This article examines the several reasons why his and his wife's interpretation differs from those, in particular, of Robert Flaherty, John M. Synge…
Peasants, Proverbs, and Projection
Brendan Revisited
Although personal encounters with the supernatural are a reasonably common feature of fieldwork, such encounters seldom figure in the preparation for research, or the understanding of culture proposed in our written texts. The supernatural may, however, be indicative of certain processes to which fieldworkers might profitably be alert. Following is an account which suggests that the supernatural is both evidence and practice of covert culture, in…
Americans
Islanders Who Read
ra Pym, produces a sensationalism that is almost immediately suppressed. From something she said to me in one of the Pym years, I believe that the origin of that perception of disturbing chasms beneath the social surface (which, dreamlike, proceeds unruffled) lay far beyond our time. The anthropologists who knew Barbara Pym were individually quite different and did not necessarily know each other well. I think, however, that proof-reading all tho…
An Anthropologist at Play
After Africa
Sociolinguistic Activism
An Anthropologist at Play
Problems of Irish Ethnography
The Man-of-Words in the West Indies
This is significant volume of essays-significant because they show one man's development and refinement of folkloristic theory, significant because theory is representative of performance-centered school of folkloristics, and significant because through his analysis, Abrahams touches very core of British West Indian cultural and places West Indian creativity within cultural and historical framework. Abrahams brings not only field of folkloristic …
An Anthropologist at Play
The Patriot Game. 1980. A film by Arthur MacCaig
Passing the Time in Ballymenone
Sexuality in Folklore in a Nigerian Society
This article probes the place of sexuality in Anang culture as mirrored through folktales, drama, and observation of real behavior. The authors show that the “fit” between real culture and folklore is almost perfect in the area of sexuality. Important also is the ability of the authors to show the usefulness of folklore analysis to ethnographic research and to share important data from a segment of human social life that is not often made availab…
Socloanthropology
Socioanthropology
"The Irish Comic Tradition" of Inis Beag
African Retentions in Montserrat
The Village. Filmed by Mark McCarty; anthropologist, Paul HOCKINGS. 16mm, black and white, optical sound, 70 minutes
The Africa That Never Was
Other
Ibibio Drama
Opening Paragraph In one of the few essays on drama in non-literate societies, Melville J. Herskovits pointed out that the subject had been little studied, and what we knew must ‘be gleaned from ethnographic accounts of rituals and dances of various sorts, descriptions whose primary intent is to explain other phenomena’ (Herskovits, 1944, p. 685). To Herskovits, as to most other anthropologists, drama among primitives was manifested only in relig…
Inis Beag, Isle of Ireland
Discussion of J. W. Fernandez' Paper
Inis Beag, Isle of Ireland
After Africa
Reinterpretations of Christian and Indigenous Belief in a Nigerian Nativist Church1
The Role of Proverbs in a Nigerian Judicial System
Ibibio Drama
Opening Paragraph In one of the few essays on drama in non-literate societies, Melville J. Herskovits pointed out that the subject had been little studied, and what we knew must ‘be gleaned from ethnographic accounts of rituals and dances of various sorts, descriptions whose primary intent is to explain other phenomena’ (Herskovits, 1944, p. 685). To Herskovits, as to most other anthropologists, drama among primitives was manifested only in relig…
The Influence Of The Irish In Montserrat
Sexuality in Folklore in a Nigerian Society
This article probes the place of sexuality in Anang culture as mirrored through folktales, drama, and observation of real behavior. The authors show that the “fit” between real culture and folklore is almost perfect in the area of sexuality. Important also is the ability of the authors to show the usefulness of folklore analysis to ethnographic research and to share important data from a segment of human social life that is not often made availab…
Anang Art, Drama, and Social Control
Carving, raffia weaving, and appliqueing are the main art forms of the northern Anang of Calabar Province, Nigeria. A great variety of carved and woven objects is produced by numerous Anang artisans, many of whom exhibit a high order of talent, especially when creating artifacts for traditional (rather than tourist) usage. Unfortunately, the appliqueing of funeral cloths for ritualistic purposes is a rapidly disappearing art, while the painting o…
An Anthropologist at Play
Joe O'Donnell, "Seanchai" of Aran
A Critical Reexamination of the Concept of Spirits
Anang Proverb-Riddles
The Christian Concept of Forgiveness and Anang Morality
This paper examines the major causes underlying the spread of what African elders and Westerners alike regard as immoral behavior among Anang youth in Southeastern Nigeria. The Anang have experienced profound cultural change since World War I, at which time they were finally pacified by the British and the first trading post and Christian mission were established among them. When this change is assessed, it is apparent that most of the forces con…
The Role of Proverbs in a Nigerian Judicial System
Anang Proverb-Riddles
Reinterpretations of Christian and Indigenous Belief in a Nigerian Nativist Church1
Anang Proverb-Riddles and Efik Tone Riddles
A Critical Reexamination of the Concept of Spirits
Anang Art, Drama, and Social Control
Carving, raffia weaving, and appliqueing are the main art forms of the northern Anang of Calabar Province, Nigeria. A great variety of carved and woven objects is produced by numerous Anang artisans, many of whom exhibit a high order of talent, especially when creating artifacts for traditional (rather than tourist) usage. Unfortunately, the appliqueing of funeral cloths for ritualistic purposes is a rapidly disappearing art, while the painting o…
Ethnology
Joe O'Donnell, "Seanchai" of Aran
Literary vs. Scientific Interpretations of Cultural Reality in the Aran Islands of Eire
Anthropologist at Play
The Influence Of The Irish In Montserrat
Discussion of J. W. Fernandez' Paper
Inis Beag, Isle of Ireland
Ibibio Drama
Opening Paragraph In one of the few essays on drama in non-literate societies, Melville J. Herskovits pointed out that the subject had been little studied, and what we knew must ‘be gleaned from ethnographic accounts of rituals and dances of various sorts, descriptions whose primary intent is to explain other phenomena’ (Herskovits, 1944, p. 685). To Herskovits, as to most other anthropologists, drama among primitives was manifested only in relig…
The Village. Filmed by Mark McCarty; anthropologist, Paul HOCKINGS. 16mm, black and white, optical sound, 70 minutes
The Africa That Never Was
Other
African Retentions in Montserrat
"The Irish Comic Tradition" of Inis Beag
Sexuality in Folklore in a Nigerian Society
This article probes the place of sexuality in Anang culture as mirrored through folktales, drama, and observation of real behavior. The authors show that the “fit” between real culture and folklore is almost perfect in the area of sexuality. Important also is the ability of the authors to show the usefulness of folklore analysis to ethnographic research and to share important data from a segment of human social life that is not often made availab…
Socloanthropology
Socioanthropology
The Patriot Game. 1980. A film by Arthur MacCaig
Passing the Time in Ballymenone
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