Suchergebnisse

1. Ritual Studies: Whence and Where to? (Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart) -- 2. Ritual Dream Sharing and Charismatic Church Routinization (Roger Ivar Lohmann) -- 3. Sacrifices in the Ancient World: Research on Complex Rituals (Günther Schörner) -- 4. Economic Thought, Ritual and Religion (Thomas Widlok) -- 5. Thanks For Your Visit, But You Can Go Now: Cortesia, hospitality and rites of distinction in Angola (Ruy Llera Blanes) -- 6. Formulas of Home: On the religious performance of personal rituals (Nigel Rapport) -- 7. Contesting Masculinity and Ritual Embodiment in Youth Baseball (John W. Traphagan) -- 8. Ritual, Performance and Cognition (Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart) -- 9. Grave-visiting rituals in Northwestern Europe (Anne Kjærsgaard and Eric Venbrux) -- 10. The Device of the Spirit Medium for connecting Humans to the Supernatural: A Case Study of Shamanic Healing in the Qorčin Region of Inner Mongolia, China (Saijirahu Buyanchugla) -- 11. Empathy and Ritual Practices (Anne Sigfrid Grønseth) -- 12. Ritual, Place, and Experience in Hindu Home-temple Visitation (Sanjoy Mazumdar and Shampa Mazumdar) -- 13. Designing Enchanted Rituals for Modern Man (Anne-Christine Hornborg) -- 14. Mo(nu)ments of Vulnerability: The Centrality of Ritual Creativity in Pilgrimages to Catholic Shrines in France and Portugal (Anna Fedele) -- 15. Rituals Surrounding Sorcery and Witchcraft in Traditional Societies: Issues for Researchers (G.W. Trompf) -- 16. On the Partiality of Pentecostal Ritual (Simon Coleman) -- 17. Infrastructures of Interrituality and the Aesthetics of Saint Veneration Rituals among Orthodox Christians and Arab Alawites in Hatay (Jens Kreinath) -- 18. Moka (ceremonial exchange) with Death (Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern). .

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Conceptual orientations -- Chapter 2 Perceptions and practices in Papua New Guinea: the Duna case -- Chapter 3 Arguments about the commons -- Chapter 4 Traditional conservation and cash-cropping in Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 5 Mining and its effects in Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 6 Energy -- Chapter 7 Farming, sustainability, and kinship -- Chapter 8 The ends of sustainability -- References -- Index.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Lists of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I RELIGION, EXPERIENCE AND CHANGE -- 1 Healing -- 2 Embodiment, Performance and Healing -- 3 Mortuary Rituals -- PART II RITUAL, MYTH AND CREATIVITY -- 4 Anthropology, Dreams and Creativity -- 5 Sacrifice -- 6 Charisma and Myth -- PART III WORK, PLAY AND GENDER -- 7 Secular Rituals -- 8 Anthropology of Sport -- 9 Gender -- 10 Gender and Space -- PART IV STUDIES OF WORLD RELIGIONS -- 11 Christianity: An (In-)Constant Companion? -- 12 On Muslims and the Navigation of Religiosity: Notes on the Anthropology of Islam -- PART V PERSPECTIVES ON VIOLENCE AND GLOBALIZATION -- 13 Ethnographies of Political Violence -- 14 Warfare and Ritual in Anthropology -- 15 Globalization and Its Contradictions -- PART VI EMERGENT THEMES -- 16 Languages in Change -- 17 Indigenous Knowledge -- 18 Philosophy in Anthropology -- 19 Anthropology and the Iliad -- 20 Disaster Anthropology

Melpa‐speaking children do very poorly on cognitive tasks, in general, and as compared to children from another traditional society in Papua New Guinea. Causes for this difference are sought in an analysis of the tasks which shows them to require a taxonomic strategy for successful performance and in an analysis of the folk taxonomies of the respective societies which shows them to vary in complexity. Further study of Melpa representation reveals that this can better be represented as a pairing rather than a taxonomizing tendency This finding allows a reinterpretation of the cognitive task results. [Cognition, child development, ethnosemantics, world view, Melpa, Papua New Guinea]