The Meaning of Death in Northern Cheyenne Culture
In: Plains anthropologist, Band 23, Heft 79, S. 1-12
ISSN: 2052-546X
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In: Plains anthropologist, Band 23, Heft 79, S. 1-12
ISSN: 2052-546X
In: South African journal of sociology: Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir sosiologie, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 89-95
In: Quarterly journal of ideology: QJI ; a critique of the conventional wisdom, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 32-38
ISSN: 0738-9752
In: Public Culture, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 47-65
ISSN: 1527-8018
In: Sociological inquiry: the quarterly journal of the International Sociology Honor Society, Band 63, Heft 2, S. 202-223
ISSN: 1475-682X
Issues associated with the phrase "sustainable development" are clarified by careful analysis of the meaning of carrying capacity. In their impressions of carrying capacity's effects, two explanations for the death of a memorable culture (Easter Island) differed fundamentally. One explanation was captive to a premature notion of a carrying capacity ceiling no population growth could ever penetrate. For the other, population was seen as having grown until it did exceed the maximum sustainable load, thus having inflicted environmental damage that reduced carrying capacity. The former view had to imagine a geological catastrophe to account for the culture's death. In the latter view, it was a case of excessive success proving fatal. A proponent of the latter view regarded Easter Island as a "preview in microcosm" of what may be happening globally. As such, the Easter Island experience would have important implications for industrial societies. Comparison of the two autopsies has implications for the social sciences.
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 84, Heft 4, S. 1031-1032
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 467-497
ISSN: 1475-2999
This essay is about torture and the culture of terror, which for most of us, including myself, are known only through the words of others. Thus my concern is with the mediation of the culture of terror through narration—and with the problems of writing effectively against terror.
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 83, Heft 1, S. 178-180
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 701-704
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Journal of European Studies, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 193-194
ISSN: 1740-2379
In: Etudes rurales: anthropologie, économie, géographie, histoire, sociologie ; ER, Band 105, Heft 1, S. 9-34
ISSN: 1777-537X
The Return of the Dead
Just as anthropologists recognized, with Tylor in 1871, that the concepts of death and culture were closely related, they set aside the treatment of the dead in Western Europe so that they could ignore the raging debate on the soul and afterlife. This paper examines the situations in which the occidental dead "come back". This renewed recognition is fully effective only when Christian afterlife is taken under consideration, as with, for instance, the difficult birth of Purgatory. Historical and contemporary anthropology can then reflect upon the rich modalities of an exchange which, in recently studied rural societies of Southern Europe restores all its ordered complexity to the social use of the dead.
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 469-475
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Coexistence: a review of East-West and development issues, Band 23, Heft 1-2, S. 5
ISSN: 0587-5994
In: Partisan review: PR, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 415-430
ISSN: 0031-2525
In: French cultural studies, Band 8, S. 333-340
ISSN: 0957-1558