T Gro
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 25237 |
|---|---|
| NOME | T Gro |
| PRENOMES | T |
| SOBRENOME | Gro |
| ASSINATURA | GRO T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1244-6945 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Talking about and coping with pain and suffering in ultrarunning as moral language
Ultrarunning places the athlete’s body in situations of self-inflicted pain and suffering. This study, building on the ethnographic example of recreational ultrarunners in Estonia and drawing upon qualitative data from semi-structured interviews, blog analysis, and participant observation, examines the narrative representations of these situations in two contexts: when runners discuss pain and suffering in ultrarunning generally, and when they en…
Some People Smoke and Drink, I Run”
Recreational long-distance runners’ exercising levels often considerably exceed those necessary for keeping healthy. As their running careers unfold, many runners become inspired not so much by fitness and health but by other corollaries of running, such as capacity to endure high levels of pain and exhaustion or novel bodily experiences. As I show in the ethnographic example of Estonian runners, a “low-resolution” explanation of such a shift in …
Bodies as Arenas of Experimentation
Recreational running has been a widely popular form of leisure for half a century, and many countries have experienced a marathon boom in the past decades. In recent years, however, runners have started to run in new ways, often in unconventional settings, and compete in races with various alternative formats. Through an ethnographic approach that builds on in-depth narrative interviews with recreational runners, analysis of runners’ blogs, and p…
Running for Success
Since the turn of the millennium, the number of Estonians running at least one marathon a year has grown nearly twentyfold. This paper links the marathon boom in Estonia to novel ideas about the “good life” among a subset of the country’s middle class, also situating the phenomenon in the broader context of post-1991 socio-economic changes. Drawing on fifty narrative interviews with recreational runners and a content analysis of various runners’ …
Letting the Air Out
Religion and Respeto
This paper discusses the relationship between religious affiliation and the ways that the notion of ‘respect’ (respeto) is used in common discourse in rural Oaxaca. Drawing on the ethnographic example of indigenous Zapotec villages in the Sierra Juárez, I examine how Protestants and Catholics employ the term to justify their attitudes towards each other and towards the norms of communal life. Both consider ‘respect’ an important value in social r…
Mezcal and Mexicanness
This article discusses the symbolic and social connotations of mezcal and its consumption in the rural communities of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. Mezcal, a traditional drink in this region, is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from a particular type of agave called maguey. Based on the author's intermittent fieldwork in the indigenous Zapotec villages of Oaxaca since the late 1990s, the article will scrutinise the local discourse on mezcal, the …
Shrines and Miraculous Images
Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico
Incompatible Worlds? Protestantism and "costumbre" in the Zapotec villages of Northern Oaxaca
In recent decades, Protestant population has grown rapidly in most Latin American countries, including Mexico. The growth has been particularly fast in rural and indigenous areas, where Protestantism is often claimed to trigger profound socio-cultural changes. This article discusses the impact of Protestant growth on customs, collective practices and local identities using the example of indigenous Zapotec communities of the Sierra Jurez in north…
Changing Faith
This article discusses conversion to Protestantism in the Zapotec communities of the State of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. Conversion to Protestantism in these predominantly Catholic villages has a rupture effect on converts' relationships with their families as well as the Catholic majority. This transformation can be interpreted as a 'social cost', which influences religious choices made by individuals and the sustainability of their new religiou…
Days of Death, Days of Life
Is Protestant Growth Inevitable? Assessing religious change in twenty-first century Mexico
Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in membership of Protestant churches in most Latin American countries, including Mexico. The growth has been considered sustainable and linked to modernisation processes. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in southern Mexico since the late 1990s, most recently in 2008, this article seeks to challenge claims that Protestant growth in rural Latin America is inevitable, continuous and universal. Mapping and anal…
Protestantism and Modernity
Journal Article Protestantism and Modernity: The Implications of Religious Change in Contemporary Rural Oaxaca Get access Toomas Gross Toomas Gross University of Tartu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Winter 2003, Pages 479–498, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712337 Published: 01 December 2003
Anthropology of Collective Memory
Collective memory constitutes a particularly important basis for nationhood and national identity. It establishes a link between generations, which creates an image of temporal continuity and legitimates the existing sociopolitical order. As anthropological studies have often revealed, however, invention and forgetting are integral to the formation of collective memory. This paper studies the politics of collective memory from the anthropological…
After writing culture
After writing culture
Protestantism and Modernity
Journal Article Protestantism and Modernity: The Implications of Religious Change in Contemporary Rural Oaxaca Get access Toomas Gross Toomas Gross University of Tartu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Winter 2003, Pages 479–498, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712337 Published: 01 December 2003
Changing Faith
This article discusses conversion to Protestantism in the Zapotec communities of the State of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. Conversion to Protestantism in these predominantly Catholic villages has a rupture effect on converts' relationships with their families as well as the Catholic majority. This transformation can be interpreted as a 'social cost', which influences religious choices made by individuals and the sustainability of their new religiou…
Incompatible Worlds? Protestantism and "costumbre" in the Zapotec villages of Northern Oaxaca
In recent decades, Protestant population has grown rapidly in most Latin American countries, including Mexico. The growth has been particularly fast in rural and indigenous areas, where Protestantism is often claimed to trigger profound socio-cultural changes. This article discusses the impact of Protestant growth on customs, collective practices and local identities using the example of indigenous Zapotec communities of the Sierra Jurez in north…
Some People Smoke and Drink, I Run”
Recreational long-distance runners’ exercising levels often considerably exceed those necessary for keeping healthy. As their running careers unfold, many runners become inspired not so much by fitness and health but by other corollaries of running, such as capacity to endure high levels of pain and exhaustion or novel bodily experiences. As I show in the ethnographic example of Estonian runners, a “low-resolution” explanation of such a shift in …
Running for Success
Since the turn of the millennium, the number of Estonians running at least one marathon a year has grown nearly twentyfold. This paper links the marathon boom in Estonia to novel ideas about the “good life” among a subset of the country’s middle class, also situating the phenomenon in the broader context of post-1991 socio-economic changes. Drawing on fifty narrative interviews with recreational runners and a content analysis of various runners’ …
Mezcal and Mexicanness
This article discusses the symbolic and social connotations of mezcal and its consumption in the rural communities of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. Mezcal, a traditional drink in this region, is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from a particular type of agave called maguey. Based on the author's intermittent fieldwork in the indigenous Zapotec villages of Oaxaca since the late 1990s, the article will scrutinise the local discourse on mezcal, the …
After writing culture
Anthropology of Collective Memory
Collective memory constitutes a particularly important basis for nationhood and national identity. It establishes a link between generations, which creates an image of temporal continuity and legitimates the existing sociopolitical order. As anthropological studies have often revealed, however, invention and forgetting are integral to the formation of collective memory. This paper studies the politics of collective memory from the anthropological…
Protestantism and Modernity
Journal Article Protestantism and Modernity: The Implications of Religious Change in Contemporary Rural Oaxaca Get access Toomas Gross Toomas Gross University of Tartu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 4, Winter 2003, Pages 479–498, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712337 Published: 01 December 2003
Is Protestant Growth Inevitable? Assessing religious change in twenty-first century Mexico
Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in membership of Protestant churches in most Latin American countries, including Mexico. The growth has been considered sustainable and linked to modernisation processes. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in southern Mexico since the late 1990s, most recently in 2008, this article seeks to challenge claims that Protestant growth in rural Latin America is inevitable, continuous and universal. Mapping and anal…
Days of Death, Days of Life
Incompatible Worlds? Protestantism and "costumbre" in the Zapotec villages of Northern Oaxaca
In recent decades, Protestant population has grown rapidly in most Latin American countries, including Mexico. The growth has been particularly fast in rural and indigenous areas, where Protestantism is often claimed to trigger profound socio-cultural changes. This article discusses the impact of Protestant growth on customs, collective practices and local identities using the example of indigenous Zapotec communities of the Sierra Jurez in north…
Changing Faith
This article discusses conversion to Protestantism in the Zapotec communities of the State of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. Conversion to Protestantism in these predominantly Catholic villages has a rupture effect on converts' relationships with their families as well as the Catholic majority. This transformation can be interpreted as a 'social cost', which influences religious choices made by individuals and the sustainability of their new religiou…
Shrines and Miraculous Images
Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico
Mezcal and Mexicanness
This article discusses the symbolic and social connotations of mezcal and its consumption in the rural communities of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. Mezcal, a traditional drink in this region, is a distilled alcoholic beverage made from a particular type of agave called maguey. Based on the author's intermittent fieldwork in the indigenous Zapotec villages of Oaxaca since the late 1990s, the article will scrutinise the local discourse on mezcal, the …
Religion and Respeto
This paper discusses the relationship between religious affiliation and the ways that the notion of ‘respect’ (respeto) is used in common discourse in rural Oaxaca. Drawing on the ethnographic example of indigenous Zapotec villages in the Sierra Juárez, I examine how Protestants and Catholics employ the term to justify their attitudes towards each other and towards the norms of communal life. Both consider ‘respect’ an important value in social r…
Letting the Air Out
Running for Success
Since the turn of the millennium, the number of Estonians running at least one marathon a year has grown nearly twentyfold. This paper links the marathon boom in Estonia to novel ideas about the “good life” among a subset of the country’s middle class, also situating the phenomenon in the broader context of post-1991 socio-economic changes. Drawing on fifty narrative interviews with recreational runners and a content analysis of various runners’ …
Bodies as Arenas of Experimentation
Recreational running has been a widely popular form of leisure for half a century, and many countries have experienced a marathon boom in the past decades. In recent years, however, runners have started to run in new ways, often in unconventional settings, and compete in races with various alternative formats. Through an ethnographic approach that builds on in-depth narrative interviews with recreational runners, analysis of runners’ blogs, and p…
Some People Smoke and Drink, I Run”
Recreational long-distance runners’ exercising levels often considerably exceed those necessary for keeping healthy. As their running careers unfold, many runners become inspired not so much by fitness and health but by other corollaries of running, such as capacity to endure high levels of pain and exhaustion or novel bodily experiences. As I show in the ethnographic example of Estonian runners, a “low-resolution” explanation of such a shift in …
Talking about and coping with pain and suffering in ultrarunning as moral language
Ultrarunning places the athlete’s body in situations of self-inflicted pain and suffering. This study, building on the ethnographic example of recreational ultrarunners in Estonia and drawing upon qualitative data from semi-structured interviews, blog analysis, and participant observation, examines the narrative representations of these situations in two contexts: when runners discuss pain and suffering in ultrarunning generally, and when they en…
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