Konstantinos Retsikas

Becoming - An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The volume is an ethnographic monograph centring on the island of Java that also makes a singular contribution to the anthropological theorising of the person.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781783083107
• ISBN-10: 1783083107
• Artikelnr.: 41370946

Autorenporträt

Konstantinos Retsikas is a lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His work focuses on Javanese ideas of the person, and he has written extensively on issues of embodiment, place making, violence and religion. He is currently working on a new research project on Islamic economics, charity and development practices.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prolegomenon
Chapter 1: The Becoming of Place: Moving, Clearing, Inhabiting
Chapter 2: The Perception of Difference: Embodying, Reversing, Encompassing
Chapter 3: The Blood of Affinity: Marrying, Procreating, Housing
Chapter 4: Matters of Scale: Feeding, Praying, Sharing
Chapter 5: A Pulsating Universe: Annihilating, Enhancing, Magnifying
Chapter 6: The Marital and the Martial: Gendering, Killing, Oscillating
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index