Edward L Schieffelin
Biographic Data
| ID | 87644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward L Schieffelin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward L |
| FAMILY NAME | Schieffelin |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIEFFELIN E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Issues Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Problematizando Performance
Esta é uma breve revisão crítica de Edward Schieffelin - autor da etnografia The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers (1976) - acerca das conexões entre a perspectiva da performance e as teorias das ciências sociais. O argumento do o autor se concentra nos problemas da pressuposição de uma só relação performer/plateia à moda ocidental, algo que dilui a diversidade de formas interacionais que, por sua vez, constroem igualmente diver…
Problematizing Performance
Edward Schieffelin is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University College London. His research interests could be described as being about both outer and inner dimensions of ritual and belief. He has researched and published not only on "ritual and performance" but also on ethnopyschology and emotions. In the last ten or fifteen years anthropologists interested in cultural performances have moved increasingly away from studying them as syste…
The Bau A Ceremonial Hunting Lodge
This chapter concerns the bau a, a bachelor men's ceremonial hunting lodge that was held periodically before European contact by the Kaluli, Onabasulu, and Etoro peoples of the Papuan Plateau in Papua New Guinea. The bau a itself was an oval building constructed on the ground, in which the membership performed hunting magic and slept for part of the period of their ritual seclusion. Men used an elaborate vocabulary of esoteric code words when tal…
The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers
This classic ethnography, now in its second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea. The book takes as its focus the nostalgic and vi
In the Shadow of the Mountain
G isaro dancers sing about streams and garden sites and places in the forest. Kaluli relationship to their land—the way they perceive it and feel about it—is fundamentally important to understanding their experience. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
The sorrow of the lonely and the burning of the dancers
This classic ethnography, now in second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea. The book takes as its focus the nostalgic and violent Gisaro ceremony, one of the most remarkable performances in the anthropological literature. Tracking the major symbolic and emotional themes of the ceremony to their sources in everyday Kaluli life, Schieffelin shows how the central values and pass…
Ceremonies and Reciprocity
The first Europeans to visit the region of the Great Papuan Plateau, Jack Hides and Jim O'Malley, led a patrol from the Strickland River to the Purari River in 1934 and 1935. Traveling northward up the Strickland, they turned east and approached the Bosavi region along the Rentoul (Isawa) River. At the confluence of the northern and eastern branches of the Rentoul, they burned their canoes and continued eastward on foot through the forest just so…
History and the fate of the forest on the Papuan plateau
Evil spirit sickness, the christian disease
Early Contact as Drama and Manipulation in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Accounts of first contact in Papua New Guinea have aroused considerable interest over the years (Hides 1936; Leahy and Crain 1937; Nelson 1982; Connelly and Anderson 1987; Schieffelin and Crittenden 1991). No doubt, this has been in part because these accounts have an intrinsic drama and popular romantic appeal (intrepid explorers enter remote mountain valleys and discover vast populations of previously unknown tribes who had never seen white men…
By Means of Performance
Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts
Like people you see in a dream
The phantom patrol
Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality
Recent discussions of the efficacy of ritual performances emphasize that the transformation of the self and the social state of the participants is closely bound to changes in symbolic meaning within the ritual. I examine the limitations of this meaning‐centered approach by showing that in the Kaluli curing séances, the force of the transformation comes across on the nondiscursive dramaturgical and rhetorical levels of performance. The spirit med…
Anger and Shame in the Tropical Forest
Day of Shining Red
Evangelical Rhetoric and the Transformation of Traditional Culture in Papua New Guinea
One night five years after completing my first field work I had a disturbing dream. In it I returned to my original field site in the Bosavi region of Papua New Guinea to discover that the vast tropical forest with its patches of gardens and isolated longhouses had disappeared. In its place was a sprawling development with rows of tract houses, paved roads, and motels. The whole was dominated by an impressive mission complex with airstrip, school…
Reciprocity and the Construction of Reality
This article explores the concept of reciprocity as a fundamental principle in the construction of social reality. Schieffelin argues that reciprocal exchange is not merely a mechanism for distributing goods and services, but a constitutive process that shapes social relations, cultural meanings, and individual identities. Drawing on ethnographic data from the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea, he examines how reciprocal acts, particularly those …
The Unseen Influence
Cet essai montre comment les médiums kaluli des Southern Highlands, par la médiation d'événements pendant les séances, contribuent implicitement à l'interprétation et à l'innovation des circonstances historiques. Les médiums kaluli tiennent traditionnellement des séances pour guérir les malades et permettre des conversations avec les esprits. Les séances interprètent les événements en les transposant dans une vision du monde où la réalité est per…
Felling the Trees on Top of the Crop
Like people you see in a dream
Reciprocity and the Construction of Reality
This article explores the concept of reciprocity as a fundamental principle in the construction of social reality. Schieffelin argues that reciprocal exchange is not merely a mechanism for distributing goods and services, but a constitutive process that shapes social relations, cultural meanings, and individual identities. Drawing on ethnographic data from the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea, he examines how reciprocal acts, particularly those …
Anger and Shame in the Tropical Forest
Evangelical Rhetoric and the Transformation of Traditional Culture in Papua New Guinea
One night five years after completing my first field work I had a disturbing dream. In it I returned to my original field site in the Bosavi region of Papua New Guinea to discover that the vast tropical forest with its patches of gardens and isolated longhouses had disappeared. In its place was a sprawling development with rows of tract houses, paved roads, and motels. The whole was dominated by an impressive mission complex with airstrip, school…
The Unseen Influence
Cet essai montre comment les médiums kaluli des Southern Highlands, par la médiation d'événements pendant les séances, contribuent implicitement à l'interprétation et à l'innovation des circonstances historiques. Les médiums kaluli tiennent traditionnellement des séances pour guérir les malades et permettre des conversations avec les esprits. Les séances interprètent les événements en les transposant dans une vision du monde où la réalité est per…
Felling the Trees on Top of the Crop
Early Contact as Drama and Manipulation in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Accounts of first contact in Papua New Guinea have aroused considerable interest over the years (Hides 1936; Leahy and Crain 1937; Nelson 1982; Connelly and Anderson 1987; Schieffelin and Crittenden 1991). No doubt, this has been in part because these accounts have an intrinsic drama and popular romantic appeal (intrepid explorers enter remote mountain valleys and discover vast populations of previously unknown tribes who had never seen white men…
Problematizando Performance
Esta é uma breve revisão crítica de Edward Schieffelin - autor da etnografia The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers (1976) - acerca das conexões entre a perspectiva da performance e as teorias das ciências sociais. O argumento do o autor se concentra nos problemas da pressuposição de uma só relação performer/plateia à moda ocidental, algo que dilui a diversidade de formas interacionais que, por sua vez, constroem igualmente diver…
The phantom patrol
Felling the Trees on Top of the Crop
The Unseen Influence
Cet essai montre comment les médiums kaluli des Southern Highlands, par la médiation d'événements pendant les séances, contribuent implicitement à l'interprétation et à l'innovation des circonstances historiques. Les médiums kaluli tiennent traditionnellement des séances pour guérir les malades et permettre des conversations avec les esprits. Les séances interprètent les événements en les transposant dans une vision du monde où la réalité est per…
Reciprocity and the Construction of Reality
This article explores the concept of reciprocity as a fundamental principle in the construction of social reality. Schieffelin argues that reciprocal exchange is not merely a mechanism for distributing goods and services, but a constitutive process that shapes social relations, cultural meanings, and individual identities. Drawing on ethnographic data from the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea, he examines how reciprocal acts, particularly those …
Day of Shining Red
Evangelical Rhetoric and the Transformation of Traditional Culture in Papua New Guinea
One night five years after completing my first field work I had a disturbing dream. In it I returned to my original field site in the Bosavi region of Papua New Guinea to discover that the vast tropical forest with its patches of gardens and isolated longhouses had disappeared. In its place was a sprawling development with rows of tract houses, paved roads, and motels. The whole was dominated by an impressive mission complex with airstrip, school…
Anger and Shame in the Tropical Forest
Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality
Recent discussions of the efficacy of ritual performances emphasize that the transformation of the self and the social state of the participants is closely bound to changes in symbolic meaning within the ritual. I examine the limitations of this meaning‐centered approach by showing that in the Kaluli curing séances, the force of the transformation comes across on the nondiscursive dramaturgical and rhetorical levels of performance. The spirit med…
The phantom patrol
Like people you see in a dream
By Means of Performance
Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts
Early Contact as Drama and Manipulation in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Accounts of first contact in Papua New Guinea have aroused considerable interest over the years (Hides 1936; Leahy and Crain 1937; Nelson 1982; Connelly and Anderson 1987; Schieffelin and Crittenden 1991). No doubt, this has been in part because these accounts have an intrinsic drama and popular romantic appeal (intrepid explorers enter remote mountain valleys and discover vast populations of previously unknown tribes who had never seen white men…
Evil spirit sickness, the christian disease
History and the fate of the forest on the Papuan plateau
The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers
This classic ethnography, now in its second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea. The book takes as its focus the nostalgic and vi
In the Shadow of the Mountain
G isaro dancers sing about streams and garden sites and places in the forest. Kaluli relationship to their land—the way they perceive it and feel about it—is fundamentally important to understanding their experience. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
The sorrow of the lonely and the burning of the dancers
This classic ethnography, now in second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea. The book takes as its focus the nostalgic and violent Gisaro ceremony, one of the most remarkable performances in the anthropological literature. Tracking the major symbolic and emotional themes of the ceremony to their sources in everyday Kaluli life, Schieffelin shows how the central values and pass…
Ceremonies and Reciprocity
The first Europeans to visit the region of the Great Papuan Plateau, Jack Hides and Jim O'Malley, led a patrol from the Strickland River to the Purari River in 1934 and 1935. Traveling northward up the Strickland, they turned east and approached the Bosavi region along the Rentoul (Isawa) River. At the confluence of the northern and eastern branches of the Rentoul, they burned their canoes and continued eastward on foot through the forest just so…
Problematizing Performance
Edward Schieffelin is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University College London. His research interests could be described as being about both outer and inner dimensions of ritual and belief. He has researched and published not only on "ritual and performance" but also on ethnopyschology and emotions. In the last ten or fifteen years anthropologists interested in cultural performances have moved increasingly away from studying them as syste…
The Bau A Ceremonial Hunting Lodge
This chapter concerns the bau a, a bachelor men's ceremonial hunting lodge that was held periodically before European contact by the Kaluli, Onabasulu, and Etoro peoples of the Papuan Plateau in Papua New Guinea. The bau a itself was an oval building constructed on the ground, in which the membership performed hunting magic and slept for part of the period of their ritual seclusion. Men used an elaborate vocabulary of esoteric code words when tal…
Problematizando Performance
Esta é uma breve revisão crítica de Edward Schieffelin - autor da etnografia The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers (1976) - acerca das conexões entre a perspectiva da performance e as teorias das ciências sociais. O argumento do o autor se concentra nos problemas da pressuposição de uma só relação performer/plateia à moda ocidental, algo que dilui a diversidade de formas interacionais que, por sua vez, constroem igualmente diver…
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