Julian Pitt-Rivers
Biographic Data
| ID | 94740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Pitt-Rivers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitt-Rivers |
| SIGNATURE | PITT-RIVERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 266 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Excerpt from “The Place of Grace in Anthropology”
Excerpt from “The Place of Grace in Anthropology”
Julian Pitt-Rivers’s masterful essay was originally published in 1992 as the culminating piece in Honor and Grace in Anthropology , a volume that this renowned ethnographer of the Spanish Mediterranean and student of E. E. Evans-Pritchard at Oxford edited with his colleague J. G. Peristiany, almost a decade before his death in 2001. The essay reveals the erudition and breadth of his ethnographic vision. Why, asks Pitt-Rivers, despite its implied …
From Hospitality to Grace: A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus
The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes and topics that he engaged throughout his life—including hospitality, grace, the symbolic economy of reciprocity, kinship, the paradoxes of friendship, ritual logics, the anthropology of dress, and mor…
The paradox of friendship
This paper argues that the opposition between kin and friend is analytically misleading. Analogously, the notion of "fictive kinship" is unsuitable to describe forms of relatedness such as blood brotherhood, god parenthood, or "friendship" itself. Each of these social forms generates contradictions that ideas of kinship cannot fully resolve, and these problems would seem to be part of friendship's subject matter. The paradox of friendship, with i…
The law of hospitality
Fustel de Coulanges explains that in the city of antiquity a stranger possessed no status in law nor in religion and that it was necessary for him to have a patron in order to gain the protection of the local laws and Gods. To offend the newcomer was to offend his patron since by the code of hospitality the two were allied in this way. 'L'étranger se rattachait par cet intermédiaire à la cité'.4 The provisions of Arab hospitality are not dissimil…
The place of grace in anthropology
Previous articleNext article FreeThe place of grace in anthropologyJulian PITT-RIVERSJulian PITT-RIVERSFull TextPDFEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMorePrologueIn the introduction to this book we observed that the word "honor" had entered anthropology only in the 1960s and we gave some considerations to account for this, to my mind curious, lacu…
A personal memoir
Como un añadido personal al libro Los Baroja, el autor escribe aquí sus propios recuerdos cuando en los primeros años 50 veía a Julio Caro Baroja, a su tío Pío y a su otro tío, Ricardo, el pintor. El autor aprendió mucho de estos encuentros. Le llamaba la atención la fortaleza ética de don Julio y lo mucho que sabía de España, teniendo cosas el país que no le gustaban, como las corridas de toros. De don Pío recuerda el espíritu antropológico que …
Sainte Véronique, patronne des arènes
Pitt-Rivers Julian. Sainte Véronique, patronne des arènes. In: Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, n°16, 1994. Dossier : Ethnologie et tauromachie. pp. 85-92
The Spanish Bull-Fight: And Kindred Activities
En Espagne, le culte du taureau dans la culture populaire espagnole (fete locale celebrant le Saint de la ville) ou dans les combats de taureaux, (sacrifice rituel pour stabiliser la societe et longtemps associe a la religion), n'a pas disparu
La Culture métisse: Dynamique Du Statut Ethnique
Pitt-Rivers Julian. La Culture métisse : dynamique du statut ethnique. In: L'Homme, 1992, tome 32 n°122-124. La Redécouverte de l'Amérique. pp. 133-148
La revanche du rituel dans l'Europe contemporaine
L'existence du rituel classe par les anthropologues d'autrefois comme un produit de la pensee magique a ete niee par l'Europe moderne| en effet l'âge moderne est cense ne pas pratiquer de rituel en dehors des offices religieux. La demonstration du contraire est apportee par l'analyse du voyage aerien international comme un rite de passage et par l'analyse de la fete du Toro de la Vega de Tordesillas dans la vieille Castille comme un sacrifice
Towards a Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean [and Comments and Reply]
Davis's People of the Mediterranean provides a detailed survey of the writings of anthropologists who have worked in Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Its author focuses on economic organization, stratification, patronage, family and kinship, and the way anthropologists have dealt with history. He concludes that they have failed to compare, to work in cities, to relate part to whole, and to make use of history. These failures, h…
Women: Roles and Status in Eight Countries
The Fate of Shechem or the Politics of Sex: Essays in the Anthropology of the Mediterranean
Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currenc…
The Fate of Shechem, or the Politics of Sex: Essays in the Anthropology of the Mediterranean
The Kith and the Kin
When Meyer Fortes felt the need to find a term to express the peculiar quality of relationships between kin, that which distinguishes them from other sorts of relationship, it appears to me significant that he should have chosen ‘amity’. He suggests this word as the succinct rendering of the ‘set of normative premises...focused upon a general and fundamental axiom which I call the axiom of prescriptive altruism’. He ‘ascribes it to the realm of m…
Ethnology and History
Race in Latin America: The Concept of 'Raza
It is well known that the attitudes of the Latin Americans towardsraceare not the same as those of the inhabitants of Europe and the United States. This observation led scholars as distinguished as Gilberto Freire and Arnold Toynbee to put forward the view that there is no 'race prejudice' in Latin America, a view that has been criticised by more recent writers. In Latin America distinctions of 'race' are indeed made, but not on the basis of the …
Thomas Gage parmi les Naguales
The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru
Mestizo or Ladino
Race and Racism: A Comparative Perspective
Contextual Analysis and the Locus of the Model
Radcliffe-Brown used to define social anthropology as 'comparative sociology', yet the school of thought that he engendered has not been much prone to comparison. Indeed, in their revulsion from the 'comparative method' of their evolutionist predecessors anthropologists of that tendency have largely avoided formal comparison and left to the "non-comparative" sociologists the duty of comparing. The definition nevertheless still has a certain valid…
Tonala; Conservatism, Responsibility, and Authority in a Mexican Town
The law of hospitality
Fustel de Coulanges explains that in the city of antiquity a stranger possessed no status in law nor in religion and that it was necessary for him to have a patron in order to gain the protection of the local laws and Gods. To offend the newcomer was to offend his patron since by the code of hospitality the two were allied in this way. 'L'étranger se rattachait par cet intermédiaire à la cité'.4 The provisions of Arab hospitality are not dissimil…
The place of grace in anthropology
Previous articleNext article FreeThe place of grace in anthropologyJulian PITT-RIVERSJulian PITT-RIVERSFull TextPDFEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMorePrologueIn the introduction to this book we observed that the word "honor" had entered anthropology only in the 1960s and we gave some considerations to account for this, to my mind curious, lacu…
The Fate of Shechem or the Politics of Sex: Essays in the Anthropology of the Mediterranean
Towards a Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean [and Comments and Reply]
Davis's People of the Mediterranean provides a detailed survey of the writings of anthropologists who have worked in Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Its author focuses on economic organization, stratification, patronage, family and kinship, and the way anthropologists have dealt with history. He concludes that they have failed to compare, to work in cities, to relate part to whole, and to make use of history. These failures, h…
Belmonte de los Caballeros: A Sociological Study of a Spanish Town
Race in Latin America: The Concept of 'Raza
It is well known that the attitudes of the Latin Americans towardsraceare not the same as those of the inhabitants of Europe and the United States. This observation led scholars as distinguished as Gilberto Freire and Arnold Toynbee to put forward the view that there is no 'race prejudice' in Latin America, a view that has been criticised by more recent writers. In Latin America distinctions of 'race' are indeed made, but not on the basis of the …
The paradox of friendship
This paper argues that the opposition between kin and friend is analytically misleading. Analogously, the notion of "fictive kinship" is unsuitable to describe forms of relatedness such as blood brotherhood, god parenthood, or "friendship" itself. Each of these social forms generates contradictions that ideas of kinship cannot fully resolve, and these problems would seem to be part of friendship's subject matter. The paradox of friendship, with i…
Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currenc…
The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru
Tonala; Conservatism, Responsibility, and Authority in a Mexican Town
Social Class in a French Village
The concept of social class is central to the discussion of the structure of any modern European community, for it concerns the differentiation of its members in terms of superiority and inferiority, the ties of reciprocity between them and the bond of solidarity based upon equality. Yet there is little agreement as to the status or proper usage of the term among social scientists and where there is it tends to lie in the acceptance of a set of s…
Words and Deeds: The Ladinos of Chiapas
Mediterranean Countrymen. Essays in the Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean
La Culture métisse: Dynamique Du Statut Ethnique
Pitt-Rivers Julian. La Culture métisse : dynamique du statut ethnique. In: L'Homme, 1992, tome 32 n°122-124. La Redécouverte de l'Amérique. pp. 133-148
The Spanish Bull-Fight: And Kindred Activities
En Espagne, le culte du taureau dans la culture populaire espagnole (fete locale celebrant le Saint de la ville) ou dans les combats de taureaux, (sacrifice rituel pour stabiliser la societe et longtemps associe a la religion), n'a pas disparu
Thomas Gage parmi les Naguales
Contextual Analysis and the Locus of the Model
Radcliffe-Brown used to define social anthropology as 'comparative sociology', yet the school of thought that he engendered has not been much prone to comparison. Indeed, in their revulsion from the 'comparative method' of their evolutionist predecessors anthropologists of that tendency have largely avoided formal comparison and left to the "non-comparative" sociologists the duty of comparing. The definition nevertheless still has a certain valid…
La revanche du rituel dans l'Europe contemporaine
L'existence du rituel classe par les anthropologues d'autrefois comme un produit de la pensee magique a ete niee par l'Europe moderne| en effet l'âge moderne est cense ne pas pratiquer de rituel en dehors des offices religieux. La demonstration du contraire est apportee par l'analyse du voyage aerien international comme un rite de passage et par l'analyse de la fete du Toro de la Vega de Tordesillas dans la vieille Castille comme un sacrifice
Women: Roles and Status in Eight Countries
Mestizo or Ladino
Ethnology and History
General and Ethnology: Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries. E. J. Hobsbawm
Social Class in a French Village
The concept of social class is central to the discussion of the structure of any modern European community, for it concerns the differentiation of its members in terms of superiority and inferiority, the ties of reciprocity between them and the bond of solidarity based upon equality. Yet there is little agreement as to the status or proper usage of the term among social scientists and where there is it tends to lie in the acceptance of a set of s…
General and Ethnology: Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries. E. J. Hobsbawm
A Spanish Tapestry, Town and Country in Castile
History and Anthropology
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Mediterranean Countrymen. Essays in the Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean
Ethnology and General: Honour, Family and Patronage: A Study of Institutions and Moral Values in a Greek Mountain Community. J. K. Campbell
Mediterranean Countrymen: Essays in the Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean
Mediterranean Countrymen. Essays in the Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean
Contextual Analysis and the Locus of the Model
Radcliffe-Brown used to define social anthropology as 'comparative sociology', yet the school of thought that he engendered has not been much prone to comparison. Indeed, in their revulsion from the 'comparative method' of their evolutionist predecessors anthropologists of that tendency have largely avoided formal comparison and left to the "non-comparative" sociologists the duty of comparing. The definition nevertheless still has a certain valid…
Tonala; Conservatism, Responsibility, and Authority in a Mexican Town
Belmonte de los Caballeros: A Sociological Study of a Spanish Town
Economics and Prestige in a Maya Community: The Religious Cargo System in Zinacantan
Words and Deeds: The Ladinos of Chiapas
Race and Racism: A Comparative Perspective
The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru
Mestizo or Ladino
Thomas Gage parmi les Naguales
Race in Latin America: The Concept of 'Raza
It is well known that the attitudes of the Latin Americans towardsraceare not the same as those of the inhabitants of Europe and the United States. This observation led scholars as distinguished as Gilberto Freire and Arnold Toynbee to put forward the view that there is no 'race prejudice' in Latin America, a view that has been criticised by more recent writers. In Latin America distinctions of 'race' are indeed made, but not on the basis of the …
The Kith and the Kin
When Meyer Fortes felt the need to find a term to express the peculiar quality of relationships between kin, that which distinguishes them from other sorts of relationship, it appears to me significant that he should have chosen ‘amity’. He suggests this word as the succinct rendering of the ‘set of normative premises...focused upon a general and fundamental axiom which I call the axiom of prescriptive altruism’. He ‘ascribes it to the realm of m…
Ethnology and History
Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented. Marriage payments are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems. An inability to carry out exchange "in kind" (i.e., bride for bride) appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification. The phenomena of hypergamy, hypogamy, and isogamy, along with different exchange currenc…
The Fate of Shechem, or the Politics of Sex: Essays in the Anthropology of the Mediterranean
The Fate of Shechem or the Politics of Sex: Essays in the Anthropology of the Mediterranean
Towards a Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean [and Comments and Reply]
Davis's People of the Mediterranean provides a detailed survey of the writings of anthropologists who have worked in Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Its author focuses on economic organization, stratification, patronage, family and kinship, and the way anthropologists have dealt with history. He concludes that they have failed to compare, to work in cities, to relate part to whole, and to make use of history. These failures, h…
Women: Roles and Status in Eight Countries
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