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The Anthropology of Values

The Anthropology of Values

Author(s):
  • Peter Berger
  • Roland Hardenberg
  • Ellen Kattner
  • Michael Prager
    • Author: Peter Berger
    • ISBN:9788131728208
    • Price: Rs. 895.00
    • Offer Price:Rs. 797.00
    • Pages:560
    • Imprint:Longman
    • Binding:Paperback
    • Status:Available


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    This collection of essays addresses the notion of ‘value’ from a comparative and multi-disciplinary perspective, and aims at further stimulating contemporary theoretical and methodological discussions on the study of ‘values’. The contributors analyse systems of symbolic and social classification, ritual performances, gift exchanges, local conceptualizations of the person, gender identity, indigenous political systems, and the interplay between local rituals and modern politics. In each paper, the question is raised as to whether specific cultural value configurations can be discerned from the cases discussed. The regional areas covered range from classical Greek society to the modern South Korean, from Afro-American communities in New York to North American Indians, from South Asia and the Indian Ocean to Mainland and Island Southeast Asia.

    The book is dedicated to Georg Pfeffer, former head of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin, whose lifelong work on Indian value systems was a source of inspiration to all authors of this joint volume. It was further inspired by the intellectual legacy of the French anthropologist Louis Dumont, who introduced a series of key concepts to modern anthropology, such as ‘idea-value’, ‘hierarchy as the encompassment of the contrary’, ‘contexts’ and ‘levels’, and ‘holistic’ versus ‘individualistic’ ideologies. This joint volume demonstrates that these key concepts became influential not only in France but also among scholars from India, England, the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands. It moreover shows that theoretical debates about the notion of ‘value’ and ‘hierarchy’ are no longer focussed on India alone, but have been applied and further refined with reference to other world regions as well.

    Table of Content

    List of Figures and Tables System of Kinship Notations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Anthropology of Values P. Berger, R. Hardenberg, E. Kattner, and M. Prager Select Works of Georg Pfeffer: A Comprehensive Bibliography Compiled by B. Schiller and G. Beckmann A Conversation on ‘Values’ with Georg Pfeffer P. Berger and R. Hardenberg
    Part I: Kinship, Gender, and Classifi cation
    1. Siblingship as a Value in Middle India Christopher A. Gregory
    2. Gifts at Marriage in the Muslim Punjab Anjum Alvi
    3. Parents and Children in the Pakistani Punjabi Family: A Case of Marriage and Inheritance Azam Chaudhary
    4. The Continuity of Life: Food, Gender, and Kinship in Azerbaijan Ingrid Pfluger-Schindlbeck
    5. The Distinction of Sex and Generation in Gawigl Relationship Terminology: An Exercise Almut Schneider
    6. Symbolic Classification in Northwest Coast Art Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel
    Part II: Debating Caste and Tribe
    1. A Reconsideration of Hinduization and the Caste–Tribe Continuum Model Roland Hardenberg
    2. The Priest and the Village Headman: Dual Sovereignty in the Nilgiri Hills Frank Heidemann
    3. Conviviality and Periphery: The Social Life of Industrial Workers in South Orissa Christian Strümpell
    Part III: Holism, Individualism, and the Making of the Person
    1. The Concept of BibÁ Among the RonÁ of Highland Orissa: Wedding Rituals to Ensure Health Tina Otten
    2. Seven Men, Six Women: Names and the Socio-cosmic Order of Maliku (Minicoy Island) Ellen Kattner
    3. Becoming a Lao Person: Rituals of Birth and Socialization in Luang Prabang, Laos Jos. D. M. Platenkamp
    4. Society Encompassing the Moral Man, or the Moral Man Encompassing Society?: Some Reflections on Korea Inge Roesch-Rhomberg
    5. Erotics and Politics in the Agenda of an Interracial (Black and White) Gay Men’s Association in New York Moshe Shokeid
    6. Reading Tracks Jeanne Berrenberg
    Part IV: Ritual, Sacrifi ce, and Pilgrimage
    1. From the BrÁhmaÆas to Nuer Religion: One Strand in Studies of Sacrifice Nicholas J. Allen
    2. ‘Who Are You, Brother and Sister?’: The Theme of ‘Own’ and ‘Other’ in the Go’ter Ritual of the Gadaba Peter Berger
    3. The Go’ter Ritual of the Gadabas According to Duaru from Tikrapada (1965): A Gutob Text Translated Arlo Griffiths
    4. Death and the Death Rites: The Practice of Double Burial Among the Kunhu-speaking People of Northwest Orissa Deepak Kumar Behera
    5. Rituals of First Menstruation in South India: A Comparison Gabriele Alex
    6. The Pilgrimage to Shatrunjaya: Refining Shvetambara Identity Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg
    7. Navratri Celebrations in Kacchch in the 1990s Helene Basu
    Part V: Myth and History
    1. Northerners in South India and Ceylon Harry Falk
    2. Yayati Kesari Revisited: Ramachandra of Khurda and the Yayati Kesari Legend of Puri Hermann Kulke
    3. The Thighs of Lord Jagannath: Notes on the Jangha Bardeo Cult of the Gond of Western Orissa Uwe Skoda
    4. Tales of a Tank: The Siddh Sagar in Mandi Elisabeth Conzelmann
    5. The Appropriation of the ‘Stranger King’: Polarity and Mediation in the Dynastic Myth of Bima Michael Prager
    6. Clytemnestra and Penelope in the Odyssey Hartmut Zinser
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