Patricia Spyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 94801 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Patricia Spyer |
| PRENOMES | Patricia |
| SOBRENOME | Spyer |
| ASSINATURA | SPYER P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0654-6886 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 337 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Politics of Appearances
Recent work in the anthropology of images shares an attunement to the unsettled and unsettling nature of images. Following Spyer's conceptualization of the relationship between images and broader “work on and of appearances”, we argue that this body of scholarship foregrounds the worldmaking and unmaking capacities of images, offering purchase on how images sustain the taken-for-granted contours of a political terrain and provide vital means by w…
Eco-Justice Incongruous with other Social ills
The objective of the article is to uphold a methodological orientation that seeks a genuine appropriation amongst indigenous and other systems of knowledge with reference to ecology. Based on the ecological catastrophe, the global world cannot dwell on one stream of knowledge production for eternity. Indigenous epistemology ought not to be side-lined but systematically instituted in the pool of knowledge production instead of a miscalculated bias…
African Pentecostalism and Ecological Spirituality
The article substantiates to highlight the importance of Pentecostal hermeneutic reference to liturgy, pneumatology, and ecclesiology. African Pentecostals worship in a manner that embodies the Holy Spirit in all aspect of worship, bearing in mind interactive acts which connects the worshipping community together with the living God and not a faraway saviour of humanity, but God all of creation. All of creation responds to the creator in worship …
Orphaned Landscapes
The Appearance of Crisis, 15 • Matters of Perception, 18 • Orphaning the Nation, 20 • Orphaned Landscapes, 23 • A Symptomatology of Crisis, 28 1 Fire without Smoke 33 War's Fog, 36 • Fire without Smoke, 40 • The Thick of Things, 45 • Soundtracks of War, 52 • Amplifications, 54 • Anticipatory Practices, 58 • Official Peace, 63 2 Christ at Large 67 Christ at Large, 76 • The Canon in the Street, 79 • Guardians of the Neighborhood, 88 • Streetwise Ma…
Orphaned Landscapes
Escalation
In the uncertain early 2000s when violence between Muslims and Christians racked the Malukan islands on Indonesia's eastern edge, a handful of Protestant ministers waged an iconoclastic attack on a museum collection dedicated to Seram Island's ancestral headhunting culture and centred upon statues and portraits of mythical war captains. I track the heterogeneous sites and incidents that came together in the attack, including the animation of the …
The Empty Seashell
"The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island, by Nils Bubandt." Anthropological Forum, 27(2), pp. 188–189
Reel Accidents
In this paper I focus on the Muslim video compact discs (VCDs) that circulated in wartime Maluku during the religiously inflected conflict that wracked these eastern Indonesian islands in the early 2000s. Characterized by an aesthetics of seriality and repetition, scenes of urban warfare and rampant destruction serve as backdrop for close-ups of the vulnerable Muslim body rent asunder by Christian aggression. Unfolding as repeated rupture across …
Streetwise Masculinity and Other Urban Performances of Postwar Ambon
The Spirit of Things in Southeast Asia
Producing Indonesia
Treacherous matters, or some notes towards a symptomatology of crisis
A stone surrendered by a Muslim to a Christian on an urban battlefield in Ambon (Indonesia), circulated with stunning effect in a Christian prayer group. Within no time it infected this core scene of Christian worship and community, triggering illness and possession, turning the group’s prayers into a Qur’anic reading session and inserting the spectral presence of a North Moluccan sultan’s daughter into its midst. This scene is only the most dram…
Border Fetishisms
Growing up in Indonesia
Growing up in Indonesia: Experience and Diversity in Youth Transitions." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 13(1), pp. 1–2 Notes 1. In addition to these two TAPJA issues, another volume in preparation will include contributions by both established and younger-generation scholars. 2. The second cluster will focus on questions of youth life styles, religiosity and cultural production
Blind Faith
The paper explores the billboards and murals of Jesus Christ that sprang up and proliferated across Ambon during the religiously inflected conflict that engulfed the Indonesian provincial capital in rampant violence from 1999 until 2002. During the war and since, popular Christian painters have been plastering the city's main thoroughfares and Christian neighborhood gateways with portraits of Jesus and Christian symbols. Monumental and assertive …
Handbook of Material Culture
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES In the Matter of Marxism - Bill Maurer Structuralism and Semiotics - Robert Layton Phenomenology and Material Culture - Julian Thomas Objectification - Christopher Tilley Agency, Biography and Objects - Janet Hoskins Scenes from a Troubled Engagement - Bjornar Olsen Post-structuralism and Material Culture Studies Colonial Matters - Peter van Dommelen Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations THE BODY…
Fire without Smoke and Other Phantoms of Ambon's Violence
The topic I explore here is especially elusive and tangential. It concerns the role of the anticipated, the barely sensed, the possible, and the conditional in the structuring of ordinary peoples' perceptions and actions in extraordinary times of acute duress, crisis, and chronic violence.1 I aim to trace in the workings of the conflict in Ambon, with occasional forays into neighboring Moluccan Islands, the influence and effects of what is most o…
Photography's Framings and Unframings
As we enter the twenty-first century, the photographed, digitally produced, and globally disseminated printed image impinges upon us with growing insistence from all directions, inflecting and normalizing certain views and desires while foreclosing and obscuring others. Never before has it been so cheap or easy to purchase, use, and then toss away a camera, so commonsensical to expect the everyday images that crowd one's day to “cover the globe,”…
Zaman Belanda
A r u , Eastern In d o n e s ia
The Memory of Trade
The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyer's study is the fraught identification of Aruese people with two imaginary elsewheres-the 'Aru' and the 'Malay'-and the fissured construction of community that has ensued from centuries of active international trade and more recent encroachments of modernity.Drawing on more than two years of archival and ethnographic re…
Border Fetishisms
The Play of Time
The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange. Janet Hoskins Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xx. 414 pp., photographs, tables, references, index
The Eroticism of Debt
Seductive and dangerous undersea female spirits provide male divers with pearl oysters and in return demand store-bought goods, thereby revealing their complicity with the Sino-lndonesians who own the stores and motorboats and to whom the divers are indebted. Rather than simply making trade meaningful or mirroring assumed social realities, the fetishized sea wives are crucial to the workings of trade and debt and to the negotiation and refashioni…
Diversity with a Difference
Handbook of Material Culture
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES In the Matter of Marxism - Bill Maurer Structuralism and Semiotics - Robert Layton Phenomenology and Material Culture - Julian Thomas Objectification - Christopher Tilley Agency, Biography and Objects - Janet Hoskins Scenes from a Troubled Engagement - Bjornar Olsen Post-structuralism and Material Culture Studies Colonial Matters - Peter van Dommelen Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations THE BODY…
Fire without Smoke and Other Phantoms of Ambon's Violence
The topic I explore here is especially elusive and tangential. It concerns the role of the anticipated, the barely sensed, the possible, and the conditional in the structuring of ordinary peoples' perceptions and actions in extraordinary times of acute duress, crisis, and chronic violence.1 I aim to trace in the workings of the conflict in Ambon, with occasional forays into neighboring Moluccan Islands, the influence and effects of what is most o…
Border Fetishisms
The Eroticism of Debt
Seductive and dangerous undersea female spirits provide male divers with pearl oysters and in return demand store-bought goods, thereby revealing their complicity with the Sino-lndonesians who own the stores and motorboats and to whom the divers are indebted. Rather than simply making trade meaningful or mirroring assumed social realities, the fetishized sea wives are crucial to the workings of trade and debt and to the negotiation and refashioni…
Diversity with a Difference
Blind Faith
The paper explores the billboards and murals of Jesus Christ that sprang up and proliferated across Ambon during the religiously inflected conflict that engulfed the Indonesian provincial capital in rampant violence from 1999 until 2002. During the war and since, popular Christian painters have been plastering the city's main thoroughfares and Christian neighborhood gateways with portraits of Jesus and Christian symbols. Monumental and assertive …
The Play of Time
The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange. Janet Hoskins Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xx. 414 pp., photographs, tables, references, index
Reel Accidents
In this paper I focus on the Muslim video compact discs (VCDs) that circulated in wartime Maluku during the religiously inflected conflict that wracked these eastern Indonesian islands in the early 2000s. Characterized by an aesthetics of seriality and repetition, scenes of urban warfare and rampant destruction serve as backdrop for close-ups of the vulnerable Muslim body rent asunder by Christian aggression. Unfolding as repeated rupture across …
Treacherous matters, or some notes towards a symptomatology of crisis
A stone surrendered by a Muslim to a Christian on an urban battlefield in Ambon (Indonesia), circulated with stunning effect in a Christian prayer group. Within no time it infected this core scene of Christian worship and community, triggering illness and possession, turning the group’s prayers into a Qur’anic reading session and inserting the spectral presence of a North Moluccan sultan’s daughter into its midst. This scene is only the most dram…
Growing up in Indonesia
Growing up in Indonesia: Experience and Diversity in Youth Transitions." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 13(1), pp. 1–2 Notes 1. In addition to these two TAPJA issues, another volume in preparation will include contributions by both established and younger-generation scholars. 2. The second cluster will focus on questions of youth life styles, religiosity and cultural production
Zaman Belanda
A r u , Eastern In d o n e s ia
The Memory of Trade
The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyer's study is the fraught identification of Aruese people with two imaginary elsewheres-the 'Aru' and the 'Malay'-and the fissured construction of community that has ensued from centuries of active international trade and more recent encroachments of modernity.Drawing on more than two years of archival and ethnographic re…
Diversity with a Difference
The Eroticism of Debt
Seductive and dangerous undersea female spirits provide male divers with pearl oysters and in return demand store-bought goods, thereby revealing their complicity with the Sino-lndonesians who own the stores and motorboats and to whom the divers are indebted. Rather than simply making trade meaningful or mirroring assumed social realities, the fetishized sea wives are crucial to the workings of trade and debt and to the negotiation and refashioni…
The Play of Time
The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange. Janet Hoskins Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xx. 414 pp., photographs, tables, references, index
Border Fetishisms
Zaman Belanda
A r u , Eastern In d o n e s ia
The Memory of Trade
The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyer's study is the fraught identification of Aruese people with two imaginary elsewheres-the 'Aru' and the 'Malay'-and the fissured construction of community that has ensued from centuries of active international trade and more recent encroachments of modernity.Drawing on more than two years of archival and ethnographic re…
Photography's Framings and Unframings
As we enter the twenty-first century, the photographed, digitally produced, and globally disseminated printed image impinges upon us with growing insistence from all directions, inflecting and normalizing certain views and desires while foreclosing and obscuring others. Never before has it been so cheap or easy to purchase, use, and then toss away a camera, so commonsensical to expect the everyday images that crowd one's day to “cover the globe,”…
Fire without Smoke and Other Phantoms of Ambon's Violence
The topic I explore here is especially elusive and tangential. It concerns the role of the anticipated, the barely sensed, the possible, and the conditional in the structuring of ordinary peoples' perceptions and actions in extraordinary times of acute duress, crisis, and chronic violence.1 I aim to trace in the workings of the conflict in Ambon, with occasional forays into neighboring Moluccan Islands, the influence and effects of what is most o…
Handbook of Material Culture
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES In the Matter of Marxism - Bill Maurer Structuralism and Semiotics - Robert Layton Phenomenology and Material Culture - Julian Thomas Objectification - Christopher Tilley Agency, Biography and Objects - Janet Hoskins Scenes from a Troubled Engagement - Bjornar Olsen Post-structuralism and Material Culture Studies Colonial Matters - Peter van Dommelen Material Culture and Postcolonial Theory in Colonial Situations THE BODY…
Blind Faith
The paper explores the billboards and murals of Jesus Christ that sprang up and proliferated across Ambon during the religiously inflected conflict that engulfed the Indonesian provincial capital in rampant violence from 1999 until 2002. During the war and since, popular Christian painters have been plastering the city's main thoroughfares and Christian neighborhood gateways with portraits of Jesus and Christian symbols. Monumental and assertive …
Growing up in Indonesia
Growing up in Indonesia: Experience and Diversity in Youth Transitions." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 13(1), pp. 1–2 Notes 1. In addition to these two TAPJA issues, another volume in preparation will include contributions by both established and younger-generation scholars. 2. The second cluster will focus on questions of youth life styles, religiosity and cultural production
Border Fetishisms
Producing Indonesia
Treacherous matters, or some notes towards a symptomatology of crisis
A stone surrendered by a Muslim to a Christian on an urban battlefield in Ambon (Indonesia), circulated with stunning effect in a Christian prayer group. Within no time it infected this core scene of Christian worship and community, triggering illness and possession, turning the group’s prayers into a Qur’anic reading session and inserting the spectral presence of a North Moluccan sultan’s daughter into its midst. This scene is only the most dram…
Streetwise Masculinity and Other Urban Performances of Postwar Ambon
The Spirit of Things in Southeast Asia
The Empty Seashell
"The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island, by Nils Bubandt." Anthropological Forum, 27(2), pp. 188–189
Reel Accidents
In this paper I focus on the Muslim video compact discs (VCDs) that circulated in wartime Maluku during the religiously inflected conflict that wracked these eastern Indonesian islands in the early 2000s. Characterized by an aesthetics of seriality and repetition, scenes of urban warfare and rampant destruction serve as backdrop for close-ups of the vulnerable Muslim body rent asunder by Christian aggression. Unfolding as repeated rupture across …
Orphaned Landscapes
The Appearance of Crisis, 15 • Matters of Perception, 18 • Orphaning the Nation, 20 • Orphaned Landscapes, 23 • A Symptomatology of Crisis, 28 1 Fire without Smoke 33 War's Fog, 36 • Fire without Smoke, 40 • The Thick of Things, 45 • Soundtracks of War, 52 • Amplifications, 54 • Anticipatory Practices, 58 • Official Peace, 63 2 Christ at Large 67 Christ at Large, 76 • The Canon in the Street, 79 • Guardians of the Neighborhood, 88 • Streetwise Ma…
Orphaned Landscapes
Escalation
In the uncertain early 2000s when violence between Muslims and Christians racked the Malukan islands on Indonesia's eastern edge, a handful of Protestant ministers waged an iconoclastic attack on a museum collection dedicated to Seram Island's ancestral headhunting culture and centred upon statues and portraits of mythical war captains. I track the heterogeneous sites and incidents that came together in the attack, including the animation of the …
Eco-Justice Incongruous with other Social ills
The objective of the article is to uphold a methodological orientation that seeks a genuine appropriation amongst indigenous and other systems of knowledge with reference to ecology. Based on the ecological catastrophe, the global world cannot dwell on one stream of knowledge production for eternity. Indigenous epistemology ought not to be side-lined but systematically instituted in the pool of knowledge production instead of a miscalculated bias…
African Pentecostalism and Ecological Spirituality
The article substantiates to highlight the importance of Pentecostal hermeneutic reference to liturgy, pneumatology, and ecclesiology. African Pentecostals worship in a manner that embodies the Holy Spirit in all aspect of worship, bearing in mind interactive acts which connects the worshipping community together with the living God and not a faraway saviour of humanity, but God all of creation. All of creation responds to the creator in worship …
The Politics of Appearances
Recent work in the anthropology of images shares an attunement to the unsettled and unsettling nature of images. Following Spyer's conceptualization of the relationship between images and broader “work on and of appearances”, we argue that this body of scholarship foregrounds the worldmaking and unmaking capacities of images, offering purchase on how images sustain the taken-for-granted contours of a political terrain and provide vital means by w…
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