Anthony Good
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 94209 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anthony Good |
| PRENOMES | Anthony |
| SOBRENOME | Good |
| ASSINATURA | GOOD A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9711-3623 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 307 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Interpretation, Translation, and Confusion in Refugee Status Determination Procedures
This article examines the impact on legal processes of the need to use interpreters, drawing examples from refugee status determination procedures in the United Kingdom. It describes the roles played by interpreters in facilitating intercultural communication between asylum applicants and the administrative and legal actors responsible for assessing or defending their claims at the various stages of those procedures. The UK authorities’ somewhat …
Wildcats or wind farms
The Scottish wildcat is an ecologically and culturally significant animal. Though a protected species it is under severe threat, not least from hybridisation with domestic cats, and many experts believe it to be ‘functionally extinct’. This article1 explores the disagreements between those advocating in situ conservation by creating protected natural habitats, and those who favour ex situ conservation through the government-supported breeding-and…
Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia
Expert Witnesses, Anthropologists as
It has become increasingly common for anthropologists to act as expert witnesses, especially in cases involving indigenous land rights, asylum, and the “cultural defense.” Such involvement raises difficult ethical and professional issues for anthropologists, such as the tendencies of legal processes to require simple yes/no answers or to adopt overessentialized notions of “culture.” In cases involving juries, anthropological evidence may be deeme…
Asylum Determination in Europe
In Denmark, as elsewhere, narratives are central to the asylum determination procedure. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this chapter investigates the ways in which asylum seekers and asylum lawyers present and re-present asylum narratives across two contrasting narrative contexts: Danish asylum centers (“camp” to asylum seekers) and the Danish Refugee Appeals Board (“court” to asylum seekers). Distinguishing between “asylum motive” and “asylum…
Of Doubt and Proof
Judging Destiny
This chapter examines two seemingly very different contexts, refugee status determination procedures in the UK and the Decision Review System (DRS) in international cricket. It shows that although the benefit of the doubt should be applied quite differently in these two settings, in practice it is used in very similar ways, to the detriment of many asylum applicants. The 'benefit of the doubt' is a core principle in all common-law systems. When d…
Folk models and the law
This article considers the relationships between the disciplines of law and anthropology, as portrayed in the work and embodied in the life of Franz von Benda-Beckmann. Starting with an assessment of the Bohannan–Gluckman debate over the relevance of Western legal categories for understanding non-Western (‘folk’) legal systems, it shows how the work of von Benda-Beckmann transcends this dispute by concerning itself with the relations between such…
Interpretation, translation and intercultural communication in refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France
This article explores the interplay between language and intercultural communication within refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France, using material taken from ethnographic research that involved a combination of participant observation, semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis in both countries over a two-year period (2007–2009). It is concerned, in particular, to examine the role played by interpreters in facilita…
Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Country of Origin Information in French and British Refugee Status Determination Procedures
This article examines the place of Country of Origin Information (COI) in the British and French refugee status determination processes. It demonstrates that COI is crucial throughout those processes in both countries, and that there are important differences as well as similarities in the way it is treated. Following an overview of the refugee status determination process in each country, the article discusses different sources of COI and compar…
Public justice and the anthropology of law - By Ronald Niezen
Divine Marriage in a South Indian Temple
Whitaker, Marc P
Anthropos , Seite 298 - 300
Cultural evidence in courts of law
This paper examines the problems arising when culture is teleologized in courts of law, by being treated as 'objective evidence' or as the direct cause of persecution or delinquency. It starts by explaining the role of expert witnesses, and the kinds of evidence they can and cannot provide. It then addresses the widespread use, especially in the United States, of the 'cultural defense' in cases involving immigrant or minority defendants. It summa…
Anthropology and Expertise in the Asylum Courts
Although asylum has generated unparalleled levels of public and political concern over the past decade, there has been astonishingly little field research on the topic. This is a study of the legal process of claiming asylum from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the role of expert evidence from 'country experts' such as anthropologists. It describes how such evidence is used in assessments of asylum claims by the Home Office and by adj…
Expert Evidence in Asylum and Human Rights Appeals
Journal Article Expert Evidence in Asylum and Human Rights Appeals: an Expert's View Get access Anthony Good Anthony Good Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Refugee Law, Volume 16, Issue 3, July 2004, Pages 358–380, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/16.3.358 Published: 01 July 2004
Undoubtedly an expert'? Anthropologists in British asylum courts
Many British social anthropologists have been asked in recent years to provide expert evidence for use in legal appeals by asylum seekers. This article describes the administrative and legal decision-making procedures to which asylum claims are subject. It considers how the courts respond to 'objective evidence' from 'country experts' such as anthropologists, comparing this to legal approaches to evidence from medical experts. The problems which …
Religion against the Self
Religion against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals. Isabelle Nabokov. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 230 pp
Anthropologists as experts Asylum appeals in British courts
Multiple meanings in South Indian temple worship
The survival of the cosmos is said to depend upon proper performance of the complex daily liturgy in large Hindu temples. This paper describes such daily worship in the Murukan temple at Kalugumalai, South India. After considering the significance of the principal stages—unction, decoration, food‐offering, and lamp‐showing—in the pūja rite which forms the basis of worship in Saivite temples, it seeks to understand this liturgy with reference to H…
Māmul' and Modernity in a South Indian Temple
In the first week of January 1951, the Raja of Ettaiyapuram was combating the forces of modernity on three fronts. In Madras High Court, he was filing a writ petition questioning the legality of the Madras Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act of 1948, which came into force on 3 January and authorized the government to take over his zamindari estate.Zamindar of Ettayapuram v. The State of Madras, Civil Miscellaneous Petition no. 13…
Cogealing divinity
Daily worship in Hindu temples is characterized by regular repetition. This article juxtaposes iconography and mythology; field data on worship in a Murukan temple in Kalugumalai, South India; and analytic concepts from western and Indian metaphysics, to examine what Gell termed the 'ritual manipulation of time'. In Hindu cosmology, the materialization of divinity - a prerequisite for worship - is inseparably linked not only to the emergence of t…
The Car and the Palanquin
The 1895 riot at Kalugumalai in the Tirunelveli District of Madras Presidency, South India, pitted the local Nadar community, then newly-converted to Roman Catholicism, against the main Hindu castes of Kalugumalai, particularly those associated with its Hindu temple and the Ettaiyapuram zamindari estate within which the town lay. It was the violent climax to a long-running dispute over the Nadars' right to take processions through the main street…
Riches and Renunciation
Au confluent de deux rivieres
Undoubtedly an expert'? Anthropologists in British asylum courts
Many British social anthropologists have been asked in recent years to provide expert evidence for use in legal appeals by asylum seekers. This article describes the administrative and legal decision-making procedures to which asylum claims are subject. It considers how the courts respond to 'objective evidence' from 'country experts' such as anthropologists, comparing this to legal approaches to evidence from medical experts. The problems which …
Cultural evidence in courts of law
This paper examines the problems arising when culture is teleologized in courts of law, by being treated as 'objective evidence' or as the direct cause of persecution or delinquency. It starts by explaining the role of expert witnesses, and the kinds of evidence they can and cannot provide. It then addresses the widespread use, especially in the United States, of the 'cultural defense' in cases involving immigrant or minority defendants. It summa…
Interpretation, translation and intercultural communication in refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France
This article explores the interplay between language and intercultural communication within refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France, using material taken from ethnographic research that involved a combination of participant observation, semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis in both countries over a two-year period (2007–2009). It is concerned, in particular, to examine the role played by interpreters in facilita…
Caste and Kinship in Kangra
The Female Bridegroom
Life-crisis cycles in South India and Sri Lanka three villages caste, agriculture, and the local economy inter-caste presentations relationship terminologies marriage rules and behaviour puberty rites in the three villages the local wedding ceremony rituals of birth and infancy death ritual other ethnographic examples modes of interpretation an analysis of the ritual cycle in Terku Vandanam the social identities of ritual participants the overall…
Prescription, Preference and Practice
This article examines marriage patterns among the Kondaiyankottai Maravar of South India, focusing on the interplay between prescription, preference, and practice. While formal rules dictate village exogamy and isogamy, individual preferences often lead to deviations, particularly regarding cross-cousin marriage. Good argues that focusing solely on prescriptive rules obscures the dynamic nature of marriage practices and the strategic choices made…
The Actor and the Act
Etude des conceptions des prestations intercastes dans trois villages Tamil (Kovilpatti Taluk, District de Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, Inde). Ces conceptions, qui s'appliquent egalement aux relations intracaste et a tous les contextes interpersonnels, remettent en question les notions etablies sur les systemes jajmani
Asylum Determination in Europe
In Denmark, as elsewhere, narratives are central to the asylum determination procedure. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this chapter investigates the ways in which asylum seekers and asylum lawyers present and re-present asylum narratives across two contrasting narrative contexts: Danish asylum centers (“camp” to asylum seekers) and the Danish Refugee Appeals Board (“court” to asylum seekers). Distinguishing between “asylum motive” and “asylum…
Demons and Development
In contemporary Sri Lanka, long-established modes of rural life are being disrupted in the name of progress. As this occurs, instances of demonic have been known to take place incidents that may both express the conflicts that result and attempt to resolve them. When residents of the village of Kukulewa were promised sixty new houses, a factional rift arose between those who benefited from the project and those who did not. The breach between wha…
Elder Sister's Daughter Marriage in South Asia
This article examines the cross-cultural variation in the incidence of marriage with the elder sister's daughter (ESD) in South Asia. Good argues that existing explanations, focusing on kinship terminology and the formal properties of kinship systems, are inadequate. Instead, he proposes a model based on the interaction of three factors: the relative value of women's labor within the household, the degree of social stratification, and the nature …
A Symbolic Type and Its Transformations
L'A. analyse le symbolisme et la signification des rituels Ponkal du Tamilnadu (Inde), au cours desquels le riz est cuit de facon speciale. Le recipient contenant ce riz symbolise le ventre de la deesse a laquelle est consacre ce rite, mais le processus de cuisson se refere a une transformation agricole et cosmologique
The Politics of Truth
Rivalry and Tribute
The Car and the Palanquin
The 1895 riot at Kalugumalai in the Tirunelveli District of Madras Presidency, South India, pitted the local Nadar community, then newly-converted to Roman Catholicism, against the main Hindu castes of Kalugumalai, particularly those associated with its Hindu temple and the Ettaiyapuram zamindari estate within which the town lay. It was the violent climax to a long-running dispute over the Nadars' right to take processions through the main street…
Les meilleurs dieux sont hindous
Coloured Rice
Anthropologists as experts Asylum appeals in British courts
Les Paraiyars du Tamil Nadu
Law, Legitimacy, and the Hereditary Rights of Tamil Temple Priests
This paper examines the arguments whereby the Brahman priests of a Hindu temple in the town of Kalugumalai, South India, claim exclusive rights to perform worship in that shrine. For comparison, it also deals briefly with the priests of a much larger temple in the nearby city of Madurai, whose arguments partly contradict those used in Kalugumalai. This discrepancy will be explained by treating both sets of arguments as strategic statements, which…
Riches and Renunciation
Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy, and Society among the Jains. James Laidlaw. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. vi. 436 pp., figures, plates, notes, glossary, references, index
Sacrifier et donner a voir en pays Malabar
Rites of Passage in Shanti Nagar
The Three Twins
Divine Marriage in a South Indian Temple
Māmul' and Modernity in a South Indian Temple
In the first week of January 1951, the Raja of Ettaiyapuram was combating the forces of modernity on three fronts. In Madras High Court, he was filing a writ petition questioning the legality of the Madras Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act of 1948, which came into force on 3 January and authorized the government to take over his zamindari estate.Zamindar of Ettayapuram v. The State of Madras, Civil Miscellaneous Petition no. 13…
Elder Sister's Daughter Marriage in South Asia
This article examines the cross-cultural variation in the incidence of marriage with the elder sister's daughter (ESD) in South Asia. Good argues that existing explanations, focusing on kinship terminology and the formal properties of kinship systems, are inadequate. Instead, he proposes a model based on the interaction of three factors: the relative value of women's labor within the household, the degree of social stratification, and the nature …
An Untouchable Community in South India
Caste and Kinship in Kangra
Religiousness in Sri Lanka
The Family in Asia
Prescription, Preference and Practice
This article examines marriage patterns among the Kondaiyankottai Maravar of South India, focusing on the interplay between prescription, preference, and practice. While formal rules dictate village exogamy and isogamy, individual preferences often lead to deviations, particularly regarding cross-cousin marriage. Good argues that focusing solely on prescriptive rules obscures the dynamic nature of marriage practices and the strategic choices made…
Rites of Passage in Shanti Nagar
Ancient Hindu Refugees
Short review and book note
David Dean Shulman, Tamil temple myths: Sacrifice and divine marriage in the South Indian Saiva tradition, Princeton University Press 1980. 472 pp. £16.70 Hubert Bucher, Spirits and power, an analysis of shona cosmology, Cape Town, Oxford University Press 1981. 231pp. £8.75 H. Heissig, The religions of Mongolia, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1980. £7.50 Roy C. Amore and Larry D. Shinn, Lustful maidens and ascetic kings: Buddhist and Hindu stor…
The Politics of Truth
The Actor and the Act
Etude des conceptions des prestations intercastes dans trois villages Tamil (Kovilpatti Taluk, District de Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, Inde). Ces conceptions, qui s'appliquent egalement aux relations intracaste et a tous les contextes interpersonnels, remettent en question les notions etablies sur les systemes jajmani
Dravidian Kinship
A Symbolic Type and Its Transformations
L'A. analyse le symbolisme et la signification des rituels Ponkal du Tamilnadu (Inde), au cours desquels le riz est cuit de facon speciale. Le recipient contenant ce riz symbolise le ventre de la deesse a laquelle est consacre ce rite, mais le processus de cuisson se refere a une transformation agricole et cosmologique
The Three Twins
Research Practices in the Study of Kinship
Religion and Society Among the Lingayats of South India
The Cult of the Goddess Pattini
A Critique of the Study of Kinship
Research Practices in the Study of Kinship
This article introduces a collection of essays that examine the research practices employed in the study of kinship. It argues for a critical approach to the assumptions and methods used in kinship studies, emphasizing the need to move beyond traditional structuralist approaches. The authors advocate for a more nuanced understanding of kinship systems, taking into account the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which they are embedded. T…
Research Practices in the Study of Kinship
Sacrifier et donner a voir en pays Malabar
Contexts and Levels
Kinship Research Practices
Folktales of India
L'espace du temple
Sociology (37 obras) · Political science (28 obras) · Philosophy (26 obras) · History (24 obras) · Philosophy (22 obras) · Anthropology (19 obras) · History (19 obras) · Geography (17 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (15 obras)