Regina Smith Oboler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 97865 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Regina Smith Oboler |
| PRENOMES | Regina Smith |
| SOBRENOME | Oboler |
| ASSINATURA | OBOLER R S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ursinus College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Negotiating Gender Essentialism in Contemporary Paganism
Contemporary Paganism, a rapidly growing religious movement, has the potential to impact the gender ideology of the larger culture. This community is moving away from an initial gender essentialism in which qualities defined by the cultural community as feminine, though highly valued, were viewed as intrinsically distinct from masculine qualities, toward a more complex and less essentialist understanding of gender. This article is based on ethnog…
Nature Religion as a Cultural System?Sources of Environmentalist Action and Rhetoric in a Contemporary Pagan Community
Clifford Geertz defines religion as “a system of symbols which act to produce powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations.” The Geertzian framework is applied here to the use by the contemporary Pagan community of Nature, the Earth, and the Environment as symbols in creating a system of pro-environmentalist moods and motivations that spill over into non-religious aspects of life. If Geertz is correct, Pagan imagery of Earth/ Natur…
Nature Religion as a Cultural System? Sources of Environmentalist Action and Rhetoric in a Contemporary Pagan Community
Law and Persuasion in the Elimination of Female Genital Modification
This article addresses issues involved in creating applied programs designed to eliminate the practice of genital surgeries on women, from the joint standpoints of practical effectiveness and ethical soundness. It takes the position that law and enforcement approaches are insufficient as public policy. Efforts to affect public policy should, rather, focus on gaining adequate funding for research-informed programs of public education and persuasio…
Kuria Cattle Raiders
Whose cows are they, anyway
The house-property complex and African social organisation
A feature of the ethnography of eastern and southern African cattle-keeping peoples is a high level of contradiction in the assessment of the status of women. Better understanding of the house-property complex, the property and inheritance system characteristic of these peoples, can resolve some seeming contradictions. In this system, all property (especially livestock) held by a polygynous family is divided and held separately by the nuclear fam…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Women, Power, and Economic Change
Women, Power, and Economic Change
1. Introduction 2. Nandi society, then and now 3. General ethnography of gender roles 4. Marriage 5. Colonialism, neocolonialism, and economic change 6. Production of the family estate 7. Rights in the family estate 8. Sexual stratification and socioeconomic change Appendix Index
Women, Power and Economic Change
Women, Power, and Economic Change
Women, Power, and Economic Change
Women, Power and Economic Change
Women, Power, and Economic Change
1. Introduction 2. Nandi society, then and now 3. General ethnography of gender roles 4. Marriage 5. Colonialism, neocolonialism, and economic change 6. Production of the family estate 7. Rights in the family estate 8. Sexual stratification and socioeconomic change Appendix Index
The house-property complex and African social organisation
A feature of the ethnography of eastern and southern African cattle-keeping peoples is a high level of contradiction in the assessment of the status of women. Better understanding of the house-property complex, the property and inheritance system characteristic of these peoples, can resolve some seeming contradictions. In this system, all property (especially livestock) held by a polygynous family is divided and held separately by the nuclear fam…
Negotiating Gender Essentialism in Contemporary Paganism
Contemporary Paganism, a rapidly growing religious movement, has the potential to impact the gender ideology of the larger culture. This community is moving away from an initial gender essentialism in which qualities defined by the cultural community as feminine, though highly valued, were viewed as intrinsically distinct from masculine qualities, toward a more complex and less essentialist understanding of gender. This article is based on ethnog…
Women, Power and Economic Change
Nature Religion as a Cultural System? Sources of Environmentalist Action and Rhetoric in a Contemporary Pagan Community
Whose cows are they, anyway
Nature Religion as a Cultural System?Sources of Environmentalist Action and Rhetoric in a Contemporary Pagan Community
Clifford Geertz defines religion as “a system of symbols which act to produce powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations.” The Geertzian framework is applied here to the use by the contemporary Pagan community of Nature, the Earth, and the Environment as symbols in creating a system of pro-environmentalist moods and motivations that spill over into non-religious aspects of life. If Geertz is correct, Pagan imagery of Earth/ Natur…
Women, Power, and Economic Change
Women, Power, and Economic Change
Women, Power and Economic Change
Women, Power, and Economic Change
Women, Power, and Economic Change
1. Introduction 2. Nandi society, then and now 3. General ethnography of gender roles 4. Marriage 5. Colonialism, neocolonialism, and economic change 6. Production of the family estate 7. Rights in the family estate 8. Sexual stratification and socioeconomic change Appendix Index
Women, Power and Economic Change
General/Theoretical Anthropology
The house-property complex and African social organisation
A feature of the ethnography of eastern and southern African cattle-keeping peoples is a high level of contradiction in the assessment of the status of women. Better understanding of the house-property complex, the property and inheritance system characteristic of these peoples, can resolve some seeming contradictions. In this system, all property (especially livestock) held by a polygynous family is divided and held separately by the nuclear fam…
Whose cows are they, anyway
Law and Persuasion in the Elimination of Female Genital Modification
This article addresses issues involved in creating applied programs designed to eliminate the practice of genital surgeries on women, from the joint standpoints of practical effectiveness and ethical soundness. It takes the position that law and enforcement approaches are insufficient as public policy. Efforts to affect public policy should, rather, focus on gaining adequate funding for research-informed programs of public education and persuasio…
Kuria Cattle Raiders
Nature Religion as a Cultural System? Sources of Environmentalist Action and Rhetoric in a Contemporary Pagan Community
Nature Religion as a Cultural System?Sources of Environmentalist Action and Rhetoric in a Contemporary Pagan Community
Clifford Geertz defines religion as “a system of symbols which act to produce powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations.” The Geertzian framework is applied here to the use by the contemporary Pagan community of Nature, the Earth, and the Environment as symbols in creating a system of pro-environmentalist moods and motivations that spill over into non-religious aspects of life. If Geertz is correct, Pagan imagery of Earth/ Natur…
Negotiating Gender Essentialism in Contemporary Paganism
Contemporary Paganism, a rapidly growing religious movement, has the potential to impact the gender ideology of the larger culture. This community is moving away from an initial gender essentialism in which qualities defined by the cultural community as feminine, though highly valued, were viewed as intrinsically distinct from masculine qualities, toward a more complex and less essentialist understanding of gender. This article is based on ethnog…
African history and culture analysis (9 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Power (physics (7 obras) · Socioeconomics (7 obras) · African history and culture studies (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Development economics (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras)