Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations

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Titel: Radical Egalitarianism : Local Realities, Global Relations

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Engaging Radical Egalitarianism
Part I. Religion, trade, and transnational networks via thailand
The Charisma of Saints and the Cult of Relics, Amulets, and Tomb Shrines
Understanding Social Totalities: Stanley Tambiah’s Early Contribution to Sociology of Thai Buddhism
Transnational Buddhism and the Transformation of Local Power in Thailand
A Muslim King and His Buddhist Subjects: Religion, Power, and Identity at the Periphery of the Thai State
Part II. Cosmologies, ideologies, and localities
Economies of Ghosts, Gods, and Goods: The History and Anthropology of Chinese Temple Networks
Trade, Religion, and Civic Relations in the Manangi Long-Distance Trade Community
Cosmologies of Welfare: Two Conceptions of Social Assistance in Contemporary South Africa
“A Recurrence of Structures” in Collapsing Nigeria
People and Ideas Travel Together: Tambiah’s Approach to Ritual and Cosmology in Brazil
Paradoxes of Order in Thai Community Politics
Part III. Violence, political conflict, and humanitarian intervention
Structural Work: How Microhistories Become Macrohistories and Vice Versa
Perspectives on the Politics of Peace in Aceh, Indonesia
A Tale of Two Affects: Humanitarianism and Professionalism in Red Cross Aid Work
At the Base of Local and Transnational Conflicts: The Political Uses of Inferiorization
Afterword. Galactic Polities, Radical Egalitarianism, and the Practice of Anthropology: Tambiah on Logical Paradoxes, Social Contradictions, and Cultural Oscillations
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors

Beteiligte: Aulino, Felicity [MitwirkendeR]; Aulino, Felicity [HerausgeberIn]; Del Vecchio Good, Mary -Jo [MitwirkendeR]; Ferguson, James [MitwirkendeR]; Fischer, Michael M. J. [MitwirkendeR]; Goheen, Miriam [MitwirkendeR]; Goheen, Miriam [HerausgeberIn]; Good, Byron J. [MitwirkendeR]; Herzfeld, Michael [MitwirkendeR]; Johnson, Irving Chan [MitwirkendeR]; Jordt, Ingrid [MitwirkendeR]; Malkki, Liisa [MitwirkendeR]; Manfredi, Victor [MitwirkendeR]; Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko [MitwirkendeR]; Peirano, Mariza [MitwirkendeR]; Puett, Michael [MitwirkendeR]; Ratanapruck, Prista [MitwirkendeR]; Sahlins, Marshall [MitwirkendeR]; Tambiah, Stanley J. [HerausgeberIn]; Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja [MitwirkendeR]; Taylor, James [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: New York, NY: Fordham University Press, [2022]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (336 p.); 5 Illustrations, black and white

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780823292479

ISBN: 9780823292479

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Schlagwörter: RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: In this volume, leading scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies engage global and local perspectives dialectically to develop a historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science. The book’s chapters, drawing on research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are also in conversation with the extensive work of editor and contributor Stanley J. Tambiah: They all investigate some aspect of what Tambiah has called “multiple orientations to the world.” The implicit focus throughout is on human cultural differences and the historically constituted nature of the political potentialities (both positive and negative) that stem from these. As a whole, then, the volume promotes an approach to scholarship that actively avoids privileging any one conceptual framework or cultural form at the expense of recognizing another—a style of inquiry that the editors call “radical egalitarianism.” Together, these scholars encourage a comparative examination of contemporary societies, provide insights into the historical development of social scientific and sociopolitical categories, and raise vital questions about the possibilities for achieving equality and justice in the presence of competing realities in the global world today. Michael M.J. Fischer’s Afterword provides a brilliant exegesis of Tambiah’s multifaceted oeuvre, outlining the primary themes that inform his scholarship and, by extension, all the chapters in this book

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