James Dow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 88376 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Dow |
| NOMBRES | James |
| APELLIDO | Dow |
| FIRMA | DOW J |
| AFILIACIONES | Oakland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6094-2409 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 263 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1964 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Evolution of Religion
This article examines three anthropological theories explaining how religion has evolved and continues to evolve. They are: commitment theory, which postulates that religion is a system of costly signaling that reduces deception and creates cooperation within groups; cognitive theory, which postulates that religion is the manifestation of mental modules that have evolved for other purposes; and ecological regulation theory, which postulates that …
The Expansion of Protestantism in Mexico
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, many people in Mexico and Central America turned to Protestantism as a new religion. The greatest increase has been in rural and Indians areas. This article shows that Protestantism in these areas is not a reaction against the Catholic Church as much as it is a reaction against traditional Indian cargo systems generating political and economic power. These people are farmers who live in tight-kn…
CHAPTER 4 Central and North Mexican Shamans
Holy saints and fiery preachers
AUT2 and AUT7, two novel genes essential for autophagocytosis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were isolated. AUT7 was identified as a low copy suppressor of autophagic defects in aut2-1 cells. Aut7p is a homologue of the rat microtubule-associated protein (MAP) light chain 3 (LC3). Aut2p and Aut7p interact physically. Aut7p is attached to microtubules via Aut2p, which interacts with tubulins Tub1p and Tub2p. aut2- and aut7-deleted cells are…
Conferences
Noise Trading, Delegated Portfolio Management, and Economic Welfare
The authors consider a model of the stock market with delegated portfolio management. Portfolio managers try, but sometimes fail, to discover profitable trading opportunities. Although it is best not to trade in this case, their clients cannot distinguish 'actively doing nothing,' in this sense, from 'simply doing nothing.' The authors show that some portfolio managers trade even though they have no reason to prefer one asset to another (noise tr…
The Cultural Context of Scientific Anthropology
Ritual Prestation, Intermediate-Level Social Organization, and Sierra Otomi Oratory Groups
James Dow, Ritual Prestation, Intermediate-Level Social Organization, and Sierra Otomí Oratory Groups, Ethnology, Vol. 35, No. 3, Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units: Part II (Summer, 1996), pp. 195-202
Anthropology
Geographical information illuminates many features of culture that cannot be seen otherwise. Higher-resolution mapping of cultural traits, now possible with computerized techniques, can open a new window on human cultural adaptation. It can look at where people live on a scale that is small enough to reveal the features of the environment to which their cultures respond. This article discusses the mapping of language in a rural area of Mexico. Mu…
Cultural Anthropology's Future Agenda
Trading, Communication and the Response of Asset Prices to News
Journal Article Trading, Communication and the Response of Asset Prices to News Get access James Dow, James Dow London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gary Gorton Gary Gorton Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 418, 1 May 1993, Pages 639–646, https://doi.org/10.2307/223453…
Class, Politics, and Popular Religion in Mexico and Central America
Native Issues in the News
Rarámuri Souls
Rarámuri Souls: Knowledge and Social Process in Northern Mexico. William L. Merrill. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1988. xi+237 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN 0‐8747‐684‐1
Raramuri Souls
The Shaman's Touch
Candidates for Treasurer
Osmarino Amancio, Another Rubber Tapper's Leader, In Danger of Being Murdered
Fruitful Journeys
Reply to Finkler's Review of The Shaman's Touch
Traditional Papermaking and Paper Cult Figures of Mexico . Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom
New Electronic Bulletin Board for Anthropologists
On the Evolution of the Capacity for Culture
Tonal and Nagual In Otomi Thought
The terms “tonal” and “nagual” refer to the supernatural companion animals in which Mesoamerican Indians believe. The meaning of the companion animals for one group of Indians, the Otomi of the Sierra Norte de Puebla. is analyzed. Most of the data for analysis comes from the teachings of a practicing Otomi shaman. The conclusion is that there is only one superhuman animal belief, which is described at different times with the two Nahuatl‐Spanish …
Universal Aspects of Symbolic Healing
In this article I propose that symbolic healing has a universal structure in which the healer helps the patient particularize a general cultural mythic world and manipulate healing symbols in it. Problems currently existing in the explanation of symbolic healing are examined. The relationship between Western psychotherapy and magical healing is explained, the Junction qfshamanic ecstasy is discussed, and symbolic healing is explained in terms of …
Universal Aspects of Symbolic Healing
In this article I propose that symbolic healing has a universal structure in which the healer helps the patient particularize a general cultural mythic world and manipulate healing symbols in it. Problems currently existing in the explanation of symbolic healing are examined. The relationship between Western psychotherapy and magical healing is explained, the Junction qfshamanic ecstasy is discussed, and symbolic healing is explained in terms of …
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
The Shaman's Touch
The Expansion of Protestantism in Mexico
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, many people in Mexico and Central America turned to Protestantism as a new religion. The greatest increase has been in rural and Indians areas. This article shows that Protestantism in these areas is not a reaction against the Catholic Church as much as it is a reaction against traditional Indian cargo systems generating political and economic power. These people are farmers who live in tight-kn…
On the Muddled Concept of Corporation in Anthropology
Astronomical Orientations at Teotihuacán, A Case Study in Astro-Archaeology
The streets of this Classic period city were laid out in a grid pattern. The axes of this grid were almost, but not exactly, perpendicular. There were a number of celestial bodies that in the period from A.D. 150 to A.D. 750 rose or set so as to markthe orientations of the streets. The Pleiades, Sirius, and the sun were the most probable orientation points. Two techniques which have been developed to test the more certain past existence of celest…
Agreeing to Disagree
The Mursi are cultivators and cattle herders who live in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia and whose methods of measuring duration have so far been unaffected by contact with literate cultures. In this article it is shown how the Mursi solve the problem of relating a cycle of seasonal events to a nonintegral series of lunar months, while remaining unaware that this cycle is related, in fact, to the solar year. This analysis leads to t…
Corporations and Social Classification [and Comments and Reply]
Maine argued that perpetuity is the essential characteristic of corporateness. Thus corporations may be defined as presumptively perpetual social units. Presumptive perpetuity is achieved by regular procedures of recruitment. Since corporations figure prominently in social structural studies from Aristotle's time until now, the classification of corporations is an important theoretical task. A recent classification by M. G. Smith is critically re…
Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy So Far [and Comments and Reply]
The Image of Limited Production
Noise Trading, Delegated Portfolio Management, and Economic Welfare
The authors consider a model of the stock market with delegated portfolio management. Portfolio managers try, but sometimes fail, to discover profitable trading opportunities. Although it is best not to trade in this case, their clients cannot distinguish 'actively doing nothing,' in this sense, from 'simply doing nothing.' The authors show that some portfolio managers trade even though they have no reason to prefer one asset to another (noise tr…
Models of Middlemen
This article develops an economic model of the exploitation of peasants by a class of middlemen in a latifundia-free, small-holding peasant area of central Mexico. It proposes that the exploiting class in contemporary peasant societies is not necessarily the one that controls the land, but is usually the one that controls the transfer of goods between the local peasant economy and the industrialized national economy.Exploitation is by economic mi…
On the Evolution of the Capacity for Culture
The Genetic Basis for Affinal Cooperation
Systems Theory in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
When the first Anthropology Today panel met in the early 1950s, modern systems theory barely glimmered on the horizon. Since then, an entire generation of scholars has matured in an intellectual atmosphere which focuses on systemic relationships in social life. In the fall of 1977 a new World Anthropology conference was convened. One panel was devoted to identifying major research foci and continuing problems in systems theory in anthropology. Fi…
Systems models of cultural ecology
The Evolution of Religion
This article examines three anthropological theories explaining how religion has evolved and continues to evolve. They are: commitment theory, which postulates that religion is a system of costly signaling that reduces deception and creates cooperation within groups; cognitive theory, which postulates that religion is the manifestation of mental modules that have evolved for other purposes; and ecological regulation theory, which postulates that …
The Cultural Context of Scientific Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology's Future Agenda
Trading, Communication and the Response of Asset Prices to News
Journal Article Trading, Communication and the Response of Asset Prices to News Get access James Dow, James Dow London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gary Gorton Gary Gorton Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 418, 1 May 1993, Pages 639–646, https://doi.org/10.2307/223453…
Tonal and Nagual In Otomi Thought
The terms “tonal” and “nagual” refer to the supernatural companion animals in which Mesoamerican Indians believe. The meaning of the companion animals for one group of Indians, the Otomi of the Sierra Norte de Puebla. is analyzed. Most of the data for analysis comes from the teachings of a practicing Otomi shaman. The conclusion is that there is only one superhuman animal belief, which is described at different times with the two Nahuatl‐Spanish …
Religion
A comparative note on the Sound Toll Registers, Stockholm customs accounts, and Dundee shipping lists, 1589, 1613-1622
Since publication of the Sound Toll Registers (STR) began over fifty years ago, their accuracy has been tested by comparison with several other sets of trading records. The results have varied, but some fairly clear conclusions have emerged: (1) few ships escaped registration at the Sound except some Hanseatic ones, especially of Lübeck and Rostock, which legitimately passed through the Great Belt; (2) the accuracy of cargo registration varied ac…
Scottish Trade on the Eve of Union, 1660-1707
Astronomical Orientations at Teotihuacán, A Case Study in Astro-Archaeology
The streets of this Classic period city were laid out in a grid pattern. The axes of this grid were almost, but not exactly, perpendicular. There were a number of celestial bodies that in the period from A.D. 150 to A.D. 750 rose or set so as to markthe orientations of the streets. The Pleiades, Sirius, and the sun were the most probable orientation points. Two techniques which have been developed to test the more certain past existence of celest…
Religion
Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy So Far [and Comments and Reply]
Models of Middlemen
This article develops an economic model of the exploitation of peasants by a class of middlemen in a latifundia-free, small-holding peasant area of central Mexico. It proposes that the exploiting class in contemporary peasant societies is not necessarily the one that controls the land, but is usually the one that controls the transfer of goods between the local peasant economy and the industrialized national economy.Exploitation is by economic mi…
On the Muddled Concept of Corporation in Anthropology
Corporations and Social Classification [and Comments and Reply]
Maine argued that perpetuity is the essential characteristic of corporateness. Thus corporations may be defined as presumptively perpetual social units. Presumptive perpetuity is achieved by regular procedures of recruitment. Since corporations figure prominently in social structural studies from Aristotle's time until now, the classification of corporations is an important theoretical task. A recent classification by M. G. Smith is critically re…
General, Applied and Theoretical
A mathematical model of lineage evolution
Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America
Systems models of cultural ecology
On Environmental Orientations
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Nanacatlan
Agreeing to Disagree
The Mursi are cultivators and cattle herders who live in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia and whose methods of measuring duration have so far been unaffected by contact with literate cultures. In this article it is shown how the Mursi solve the problem of relating a cycle of seasonal events to a nonintegral series of lunar months, while remaining unaware that this cycle is related, in fact, to the solar year. This analysis leads to t…
Systems Theory in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
When the first Anthropology Today panel met in the early 1950s, modern systems theory barely glimmered on the horizon. Since then, an entire generation of scholars has matured in an intellectual atmosphere which focuses on systemic relationships in social life. In the fall of 1977 a new World Anthropology conference was convened. One panel was devoted to identifying major research foci and continuing problems in systems theory in anthropology. Fi…
The Arrow
More on the Anthropology of Symbolic Healing
The Image of Limited Production
The Genetic Basis for Affinal Cooperation
Tonal and Nagual In Otomi Thought
The terms “tonal” and “nagual” refer to the supernatural companion animals in which Mesoamerican Indians believe. The meaning of the companion animals for one group of Indians, the Otomi of the Sierra Norte de Puebla. is analyzed. Most of the data for analysis comes from the teachings of a practicing Otomi shaman. The conclusion is that there is only one superhuman animal belief, which is described at different times with the two Nahuatl‐Spanish …
Universal Aspects of Symbolic Healing
In this article I propose that symbolic healing has a universal structure in which the healer helps the patient particularize a general cultural mythic world and manipulate healing symbols in it. Problems currently existing in the explanation of symbolic healing are examined. The relationship between Western psychotherapy and magical healing is explained, the Junction qfshamanic ecstasy is discussed, and symbolic healing is explained in terms of …
Traditional Papermaking and Paper Cult Figures of Mexico . Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom
New Electronic Bulletin Board for Anthropologists
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