Laura S Grillo
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 242219 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laura S Grillo |
| PRENOMES | Laura S |
| SOBRENOME | Grillo |
| ASSINATURA | GRILLO L S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pacifica Graduate Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0665-2299 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Mbembe's Matrix and the Matri-Archive
Achille Mbembe shows how the West's denigrating projections on Africa as a chaotic void perpetrated a founding epistemic violence. The matrix of Black Reason, Blackness, and The Black worked systematically to justify colonialism and undermine African subjectivity. By maintaining its grip over the psyche, the postcolonial commandement effortlessly and indefinitely sustained subjugation. This is its 'little secret'. Mbembe suggests that liberation …
The Boiling Cauldron (an extract from Ask for the Road)
The very nature of fieldwork constructs the conditions for "exceptional experience." Learning to inhabit an unfamiliar world and operate outside one's normal frame of reference makes one vulnerable. The "participant observer" is inevitably changed. This may be especially true when the effort to bridge perspectives involves experimentation of a kind that not only engages the researcher in intense and intimate inquiry but also entangles her as an i…
Religion and development in Africa
What is development? Who defines that one community/ country is “developed”, while another community/ country is “under-developed”? What is the relationship between religion and development? Does religion contribute to development or underdevelopment in Africa? These and related questions elicit quite charged reactions in African studies, development studies, political science and related fields. Africa’s own history, including the memory of marg…
Religions in Contemporary Africa
Excavating the Matri-archive
This response by the author of An Intimate Rebuke relays how the book's subject, female genital power (FGP) and the principle of “matrifocal morality,” emerged from fieldwork. Taking up key questions by four commentators, it emphasizes the need to make Africa the source and subject of novel critique
The Fetish Revisited
J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited is a masterful work, stunning in its erudition, ambitious argument, and prodigious ethnographic detail. That Marx and Freud made use of the idea of the “fetish” to develop their theories – of a “secret” value in socio-economics, and as an uncanny “affective ambivalence” at play in the psyche – is not a new insight. Nor is the consideration of the history of fetishism as theory in the discourse of multiple d…
An Intimate Rebuke
introductionO, cock, stop this ostentation, for we all came out of the egg-shell.-asante proverb, in
Religion and Indigenous Hermeneutics
Jacob Olupona's City of 201 Gods critically engages the question of interpretation and understanding in the analysis of specific African lifeworlds (re)defined by religious culture. Olupona's interpretation invites further interpretation of how emergent symbolic forms in a context of plural religious practices provoke both consensus and dissensus with respect to secularist practices
Ironic Reversals
Olupona's “indigenous hermeneutic” offers a privileged guided journey into the dense ritual space of a vital city. I underscore a subtle leitmotif—gender and female agency—running throughout this interpretive account to show women's power to be both a sustaining force and source of ironic reversals in the fate of Ilé-Ifẹ̀
Catachresis in Côte d’Ivoire
Ivoirian women vehemently protest the violence and calamity of civil war by deploying an embodied rhetoric of ritual, appealing to the traditional religious concept of “Female Genital Power.” I propose that their imagistic resistance to the postcolonial state represents a catachresis , with a few interesting twists. Most salient is that what women reinscribe onto the political scene is not as a feature of the imperial culture but the concept-meta…
Catachresis in Côte d’Ivoire
Ivoirian women vehemently protest the violence and calamity of civil war by deploying an embodied rhetoric of ritual, appealing to the traditional religious concept of “Female Genital Power”. I propose that their imagistic resistance to the postcolonial state represents a catachresis, with a few interesting twists. Most salient is that what women reinscribe onto the political scene is not as a feature of the imperial culture but the concept-metap…
City of 201 Gods
Book Review| August 01 2013 City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination. By Jacob K. Olúpònà. University of California Press, 2011. 356 pages. $65.00 cloth; $29.95 paper. Laura S. Grillo Laura S. Grillo Pacifica Graduate Institute Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2013) 17 (1): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2…
The Urgency of Widening the Discourse of Philosophy of Religion
Journal Article The Urgency of Widening the Discourse of Philosophy of Religion: A Discussion of A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion by Arvind Sharma Get access Laura S. Grillo Laura S. Grillo * *Laura S. Grillo, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 249 Lambert Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, …
Divination
Based on fieldwork in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, undertaken in 1997 and 2009, as well as residence in the country in periods that spanned two decades, this study of contemporary urban divination in West Africa shows that it thrives even in the ethnically heterogeneous and religiously plural city. In stark contrast to the stereotypical view that African traditions are unable to offer a viable challenge to the influx of 'world' religions and their att…
Seven Theories of Religion . Daniel L. Pals
Ritual Masks
Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama
Religion in Calabar
Ritual Masks
Divination
Based on fieldwork in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, undertaken in 1997 and 2009, as well as residence in the country in periods that spanned two decades, this study of contemporary urban divination in West Africa shows that it thrives even in the ethnically heterogeneous and religiously plural city. In stark contrast to the stereotypical view that African traditions are unable to offer a viable challenge to the influx of 'world' religions and their att…
Catachresis in Côte d’Ivoire
Ivoirian women vehemently protest the violence and calamity of civil war by deploying an embodied rhetoric of ritual, appealing to the traditional religious concept of “Female Genital Power”. I propose that their imagistic resistance to the postcolonial state represents a catachresis, with a few interesting twists. Most salient is that what women reinscribe onto the political scene is not as a feature of the imperial culture but the concept-metap…
The Urgency of Widening the Discourse of Philosophy of Religion
Journal Article The Urgency of Widening the Discourse of Philosophy of Religion: A Discussion of A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion by Arvind Sharma Get access Laura S. Grillo Laura S. Grillo * *Laura S. Grillo, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 249 Lambert Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, …
Religion in Calabar
Ritual Masks
Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama
Seven Theories of Religion . Daniel L. Pals
Divination
Based on fieldwork in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, undertaken in 1997 and 2009, as well as residence in the country in periods that spanned two decades, this study of contemporary urban divination in West Africa shows that it thrives even in the ethnically heterogeneous and religiously plural city. In stark contrast to the stereotypical view that African traditions are unable to offer a viable challenge to the influx of 'world' religions and their att…
The Urgency of Widening the Discourse of Philosophy of Religion
Journal Article The Urgency of Widening the Discourse of Philosophy of Religion: A Discussion of A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion by Arvind Sharma Get access Laura S. Grillo Laura S. Grillo * *Laura S. Grillo, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 249 Lambert Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, …
Catachresis in Côte d’Ivoire
Ivoirian women vehemently protest the violence and calamity of civil war by deploying an embodied rhetoric of ritual, appealing to the traditional religious concept of “Female Genital Power.” I propose that their imagistic resistance to the postcolonial state represents a catachresis , with a few interesting twists. Most salient is that what women reinscribe onto the political scene is not as a feature of the imperial culture but the concept-meta…
Catachresis in Côte d’Ivoire
Ivoirian women vehemently protest the violence and calamity of civil war by deploying an embodied rhetoric of ritual, appealing to the traditional religious concept of “Female Genital Power”. I propose that their imagistic resistance to the postcolonial state represents a catachresis, with a few interesting twists. Most salient is that what women reinscribe onto the political scene is not as a feature of the imperial culture but the concept-metap…
City of 201 Gods
Book Review| August 01 2013 City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination. By Jacob K. Olúpònà. University of California Press, 2011. 356 pages. $65.00 cloth; $29.95 paper. Laura S. Grillo Laura S. Grillo Pacifica Graduate Institute Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2013) 17 (1): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2…
Religion and Indigenous Hermeneutics
Jacob Olupona's City of 201 Gods critically engages the question of interpretation and understanding in the analysis of specific African lifeworlds (re)defined by religious culture. Olupona's interpretation invites further interpretation of how emergent symbolic forms in a context of plural religious practices provoke both consensus and dissensus with respect to secularist practices
Ironic Reversals
Olupona's “indigenous hermeneutic” offers a privileged guided journey into the dense ritual space of a vital city. I underscore a subtle leitmotif—gender and female agency—running throughout this interpretive account to show women's power to be both a sustaining force and source of ironic reversals in the fate of Ilé-Ifẹ̀
An Intimate Rebuke
introductionO, cock, stop this ostentation, for we all came out of the egg-shell.-asante proverb, in
Religion and development in Africa
What is development? Who defines that one community/ country is “developed”, while another community/ country is “under-developed”? What is the relationship between religion and development? Does religion contribute to development or underdevelopment in Africa? These and related questions elicit quite charged reactions in African studies, development studies, political science and related fields. Africa’s own history, including the memory of marg…
Religions in Contemporary Africa
Excavating the Matri-archive
This response by the author of An Intimate Rebuke relays how the book's subject, female genital power (FGP) and the principle of “matrifocal morality,” emerged from fieldwork. Taking up key questions by four commentators, it emphasizes the need to make Africa the source and subject of novel critique
The Fetish Revisited
J. Lorand Matory’s The Fetish Revisited is a masterful work, stunning in its erudition, ambitious argument, and prodigious ethnographic detail. That Marx and Freud made use of the idea of the “fetish” to develop their theories – of a “secret” value in socio-economics, and as an uncanny “affective ambivalence” at play in the psyche – is not a new insight. Nor is the consideration of the history of fetishism as theory in the discourse of multiple d…
The Boiling Cauldron (an extract from Ask for the Road)
The very nature of fieldwork constructs the conditions for "exceptional experience." Learning to inhabit an unfamiliar world and operate outside one's normal frame of reference makes one vulnerable. The "participant observer" is inevitably changed. This may be especially true when the effort to bridge perspectives involves experimentation of a kind that not only engages the researcher in intense and intimate inquiry but also entangles her as an i…
Mbembe's Matrix and the Matri-Archive
Achille Mbembe shows how the West's denigrating projections on Africa as a chaotic void perpetrated a founding epistemic violence. The matrix of Black Reason, Blackness, and The Black worked systematically to justify colonialism and undermine African subjectivity. By maintaining its grip over the psyche, the postcolonial commandement effortlessly and indefinitely sustained subjugation. This is its 'little secret'. Mbembe suggests that liberation …
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