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Titel:: Sociologus

Untertitel:: journal for social anthropology

ISSN:: 0038-0377

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Verlag:: Duncker & Humblot

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1932

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Allgemeines

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Titel:: Sociologus, N.F. 35/37.1985/87

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1987

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: 35. Jahrgang, 1985, Heft 2

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Titel:: Emotion and Reason in American Indian Studies

Sonstige Person:: Washburn, Wilcomb E.

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Rezensionen 261 Monika Ludescher is a jurist and in her paper she makes a meticulous review and analysis of the Peruvian legislation referring to land rights of the indigenous peoples in the Amazon in general and particularly in regard to all those areas that are classified as of use to forestry {tierras de uso forestal). The paper of Michael Kraus is not so much about the Amazon as it is about Theodor Koch-Griinberg’s opin ion of Amazon peoples and how his perspective or mode of presentation differs in relation to whom he addresses. Kraus examines two text genres, academic dissertations and public talks, and notes that Koch-Griinberg was Presenting a positive and uncritical image of the Amazon Peoples in the latter kind of texts while he in the former kind of texts adhered to evolutionist notions. Kraus describes these two modes of presentation as strategies to convince the different readers or audiences to whom l he texts are addressed. To understand the strategies, Kraus argues, it is not sufficient to just examine the texts hut one must also take into consideration the period of time and the ideas that then were dominant. In her contribution, Maria Susana Cipolletti discusses two religious phenomena: ecstasy, or the possibility to Se nd one’s soul on cosmic voyages, and possession, the temporary occupation of one’s body by an external Power. These phenomena she examines on a general South American lowland level from what she describes as a doubly emic perspective, that is, she examines w hat the individual protagonists actually say which is implemented with the expressions of shamanic cos- tttograms. Cipolletti seems to imply that the condition l hat possession is rare in the lowland areas follows from ^oierindians’ ethos of independence according to which s harnans should be able to maintain some control over ae beings that they deal with otherwise they would be c °nsidered failures as religious specialists. Iris Gareis discusses in her contribution the social , tensions of love magic in urban Peru and Mexico 111 colonial times that was inspired by Spanish magic Influenced by the novel “Celestina,” written by Fernando e Rojas and published the first time in 1499. Gareis nf tes that although the clients came from all circles .^society it was principally poor single women or of Md 0 ° Ws who performed the magic which meant an q 10n for them to gain both sustenance and respect. 0 are ' s COnclud es that the love magic reflected the social th er '.^ ased on power and dependency relations, on to 6 £ nVate s P dere °f life- of tl / ar k Us Reindel examines the political organization U t e Nazca society. He notes that in the archaeological arg atUre there are proponents of two positions: some ot j le e that Nazca was organized as a chiefdom while hln/ 8 ^ at ^ was a primitive state (in the sense of g r ,^ an Service). Departing from excavations of various a Ud CS10 ^ a *P a the author discusses the two standpoints c 0n leac hes the conclusion that it is hard to find o ther UsiVe evidence for the one as well as for the ^azc 8tance - hfe h nds h, however, fairly obvious that hvn 4 Soc iety was in a transitional state between the Vh] 'Organizational forms. r °P°s 101.2006 The final chapter of the book belongs to Alain Mon- nier who takes us from the South American continent to the Gulf of New Guinea and to the Aird Hill area inhabited by peoples such as the Porome and Kiwai. The general question that Monnier’s paper addresses is the degree to which the appreciation of what is beauti ful is universal. In examining how beauty is perceived by these peoples, he turns his inquiry towards the in digenous oral tradition. In myth he finds a number of references that links a prominent nose with conceptions of beauty. This association seems to be common in the wider region which becomes clear as Monnier revises the literature concerning peoples to the west of the Aird Hill region, notably the Asmat and Kamoro. Referring to Alfred Cell’s suggestion that beauty and functionality is closely linked, Monnier argues that the association between beauty and a prominent nose is based on the place of the nose in the middle of the face. The facial position makes the nose into a potent metaphor for balance and harmony that in the oral tradition come out as epitomizing beauty. Regarding the rather special genre of Festschrifts, there are apparently two forms according to which they can be organized editorially: either friends and colleagues are invited to reflect around a particular theme or research interest of the object for celebration or, alternatively, friends and colleagues are invited to contribute to a volume that will be presented in his or her honour. This latter editorial form allows for the largest number of contributors as there are few if any restrictions as to what can be dealt with. The present volume is obviously of the second kind which also is revealed by the title of the book that leaves little, if anything, outside of what can be included. Should I ever be the object of a Festschrift I think it would be nice with a volume in which a large number of people contributed. From the perspective of the general reader I fear, however, that the volume would be less attractive as they could not be expected to feel the same enthusiasm for the sheer number of people wanting to contribute something in my honour. Dan Rosengren Das, Veena, and Deborah Poole (eds.); Anthro- pology in the Margins of the State. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2004. 330 pp. ISBN 1-930618-41-7; ISBN 0-85255- 948-8. Price: £ 16.95 Seit die Verfechter einer neoliberalen Wirtschaftsord nung mit dem Begriff von der Globalisierung ihrem Anspruch nach einer neuen Weltordnung Nachdruck verleihen, ist eine Debatte darüber entbrannt, welche Aufgaben der Staat hierbei zu übernehmen hätte. Sei tens der großen internationalen Organisationen wie etwa dem IWF und der Weltbank wird ihm nur mehr ein kümmerliches Dasein als Mediator zivilgesellschaftli cher, ökonomischer und militärischer Interessen zuge wiesen. Mit Strukturanpassungsprogrammen, die eine Verschlankung staatlicher Aufgaben und eine Reduzie-

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