Pub Date : 1991-10-01DOI: 10.1080/03149099109508466
J. Fox
L'A. compare les prieres contemporaines (produits de la conversion chretienne) aux specimens de l'invocation traditionnelle chez les Rotinais (Indonesie) afin d'examiner les relations linguistiques entre ces formes orales et le contexte de leur performance. Les chretiens ont adapte le style des « songo » (adresse aux esprits ou aux divinites pendant laquelle un sacrifice etait fait, alors qu'une simple offrande etait donnee lors d'une invocation), leur structure semantique et la forme syntaxique d'un langage rituel commun.
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Pub Date : 1991-10-01DOI: 10.1080/03149099109508467
Andrew McWiiliam
Avant leur conversion au protestantisme, les Meto de l'Ouest de Timor (Indonesie) prononcaient des invocations religieuses, des discours rituels pour etre en relation avec les esprits. Parmi ces « prieres » se trouvaient celle pour la pluie (« onen ulan ») dediee au dieu supreme (« Uis Neno/Uis Pah») et dirigee par le « a na'amnes » et celle pour le miel a l'intention du dieu « oni in tuan ». Les prieres sont citees et les rituels respectifs sont decrits.
在皈依新教之前,西帝汶(印度尼西亚)的Meto人进行宗教祈祷和仪式演讲,以与灵魂保持联系。在这些“祈祷”中,有一个是为雨祈祷(“onen ulan”),献给至高无上的神(“Uis Neno/Uis Pah”),由“a na'amnes”指导,还有一个是为“oni in tuan”神祈祷的蜂蜜祈祷。祈祷被引用,各自的仪式被描述。
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Pub Date : 1991-10-01DOI: 10.1080/03149099109508468
R. Keesing
L'A. s'interesse aux rituels en tant que mode de communication humaine et se demande comment on reconnait un rituel en tant que tel : il ne s'agit pas d'une simple repetition, il est gouverne, comme le jeu, par les premisses de l'imagination (« fictionality ») et dirige, a l'inverse du jeu, par un scenario (Bateson). L'A. s'interroge sur le sens des rituels et sur leurs « pouvoirs » en privilegiant une approche philosophico-linguistique. Une comparaison entre le rituel et la vie quotidienne est faite.
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Pub Date : 1991-10-01DOI: 10.1080/03149099109508465
G. Forth
Apres avoir repris la definition du shamanisme de Wilken, l'A. compare les praticiens mystiques (« toa mali ») et les personnes qui entrent en transe (« ata ta'a hitu ») chez les Nage des Flores centrales afin de comprendre leurs pratiques spirituelles. Si les deux s'engagent dans des voyages de l'esprit, ils s'opposent dans les methodes (reve/transe, nuit/jour, relation avec les esprits libres/avec les âmes des morts, identification avec les sorciers/absence de comparaison, etc). En aucun cas, ils ne sont consideres comme des shamans. Une breve comparaison est faite avec les pratiques des Endenese et des Ngadha.
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Pub Date : 1991-04-01DOI: 10.1080/03149099109508473
Lyn Parker
Presentation d'un groupe de Balinais d'un village de Klungkung (Bali), mangeurs de chien, et vivant d'equarissage, de mendicite et de detroussement de cadavres (lors des exhumations precedant les cremations). Ces activites hautement impures selon la societe balinaise sont cependant tolerees par le reste du village
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Pub Date : 1991-04-01DOI: 10.1080/03149099109508474
C. Dureau
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Pub Date : 1991-04-01DOI: 10.1080/03149099109508475
Margaret Jolly
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Pub Date : 1991-04-01DOI: 10.1080/03149099109508477
G. Kutukdjian
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Pub Date : 1991-04-01DOI: 10.1080/03149099109508476
B. Baldwin
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Pub Date : 1990-10-01DOI: 10.1080/03149099009508482
R. Keesing
If radical alterity did not exist, it would be anthropology's project to invent it. I believe that the radical alterity we have sought has not existed for many millenia. The tribal world in which we have situated that alterity the world of UviStrauss's 'cold societies' was our anthropological invention. We continue to invoke it; and some of us journey even deeper into darkest New Guinea to find it, existing still. The invention and evocation of radical alterity, which has been our project, required a conceptual universe, a mode of discourse. Especially as the idea of 'a culture' was developed in the Boasian tradition, as a bounded universe of shared ideas and customs, and as the idea of 'a society' was developed in functionalist social anthropology, as a bounded universe of self-reproducing structures; these concepts provided a framework for our creation and evocation of radical diversity. 'A culture' had a history, but it was the kind of history that coral reefs have: the cumulated accretion of minute deposits, essentially unknowable, and irrelevant to the shapes they form. The world of timeless, endlessly self-reproducing structures, social and ideational, each representing a unique experiment in cultural possibility, has we now know been fashioned in terms of European philosophical quests and assumptions, superimposed on the peoples encountered and subjugated along colonial frontiers. The diversity and the uniqueness are, of course, partial 'truths': the Tupinamba, the Aranda, the Baganda, the Vedda, the Dayak challenged comprehension, and still do. But I believe we continue to overstate Difference, in the search for the exotic and for the radical Otherness that Western philosophy, and Western cravings for alternatives, demand. I will touch again on this question of radical alterity, as it has been interpreted and created in anthropological discourse. My main concern here is to re-examine the concept of 'culture', particularly our ways of talking and writing about 'a culture'. Hence I return to issues I addressed in a paper on 'Theories of culture' fifteen years ago (Keesing 1974). I will begin by setting out a series of ironies and contradictions. A first irony is that the presently fashionable in some quarters, at least, ascendant symbolisViterpretive modes of anthropology require radical alterity more than ever, in a world where such boundaries as there ever were are dissolving by the day. To show that conceptions of personhood, of emotions, of agency, of gender, of the body are culturally constructed, demands that Difference
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