2008, ISBN: 9780292771260

New. The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves i… Plus…

New. The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they have been largely neglected by anthropologists and historians and are the least well known of all the Sioux groups. This study by a long-time student of Sioux and other Indian cultures fills that gap in the literature. Based on fieldwork done in the 1970s supplemented by written sources, The Canadian Sioux presents a descriptive reconstruction of their traditional culture, many aspects of which are still practiced or remembered by Canadian Sioux today although long forgotten by their relatives in the United States. It is rich in detail and presents an abundance of new information on topics such as tribal divisions, documented history and traditional history, warfare, their economy, social life, philosophy and religion, and ceremonialism. Nearly half the book is devoted to Canadian Sioux religion and describes such ceremonies as the vision quest, medicine feast, medicine dance, sun dance, warrior society dances, and the Ghost Dance. A welcome addition to American Indian ethnography, James H. Howard's study provides a valuable overview of Canadian Sioux culture and a fine introduction to these little-known groups., 6, New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Reprint. Soft cover, xxx, [2], 280 p.p. B&W illustrations in-text plus [8] p.p. plates of B&W photos. Some creasing to joints and front cover, and bumping to spine head, on page has large crease, else fine. The war between Greece and Turkey ended in 1922 in what Greeks call the 'Asia Minor Catastrophe,' a disaster greater than the fall of Constantinople in 1453, for it marked the end of Hellenism in Asia Minor. In the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, the first ever compulsory exchange of populations was endorsed - 'ethnic cleansing' by another name - 350,000 Muslims were expelled and over one million Orthodox Christians entered Greece, increasing its population by nearly a quarter in two years. Based on Renee Hirschon's extensive fieldwork, this ethnography of Kokkinia - an urban quarter in Piraeus - reveals that its inhabitants, fifty years after settlement, had a marked sense of identity separate from that of the 'local Greeks' with whom, however, they shared a common religion, language and culture. The book deals with the cultural continuity and adaptation, the role of memory, patterns of social and economic organization, neighbourhood and gender roles, and the influence of cultural values on the symbolism and use of physical space., Berghahn Books, 2008, 4, New. The story of how the Lisu of southwest China were evangelized one hundred years ago by the China Inland Mission is a familiar one in mission circles. The subsequent history of the Lisu church, however, is much less well known. Songs of the Lisu Hills brings this history up to date, recounting the unlikely story of how the Lisu maintained their faith through twenty-two years of government persecution and illuminating how Lisu Christians transformed the text-based religion brought by the missionaries into a faith centered around an embodied set of Christian practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, this volume documents the development of Lisu Christianity, both through larger social forces and through the stories of individual believers. It explores how the Lisu, most of whom remain subsistence farmers, have oriented their faith less around cognitive notions of belief and more around participation in a rhythm of shared Christian practices, such as line dancing, attending church and festivals, evangelizing, working in each other's fields, and singing translated Western hymns. These embodied practices demonstrate how Christianity developed in the mountainous margins of the world's largest atheist state. A much-needed expansion of the Lisu story into a complex study of the evolution of a world Christian community, this book will appeal to scholars working at the intersections of World Christianity, anthropology of religion, ethnography, Chinese Christianity, and mission studies., 6, New. Persecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual entrepreneurs who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities. Combining trance, dance, magic, and healing practices with expertise in the workings of the modern welfare state, they help lawyers win custody suits, sick employees resolve labor disability claims, single mothers apply for government housing, or corporation managers maximize their commercial skills. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among practicing brujos, this book presents a masterful history and ethnography of Puerto Rican brujeria (witch-healing). Raquel Romberg explores how brujeria emerged from a blending of popular Catholicism, Afro-Latin religions, French Spiritism, and folk Protestantism and also looks at how it has adapted to changes in state policies and responded to global flows of ideas and commodities. She demonstrates that, far from being an exotic or marginal practice in the modern world, brujeria has become an invisible yet active partner of consumerism and welfare capitalism., 6<

ISBN: 9780292771260

Witchcraft and WelfareSpiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto RicoAuthor(s): Raquel RombergFormat: PaperbackPublisher: University of Texas Press, United StatesImprint… Plus…

Witchcraft and WelfareSpiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto RicoAuthor(s): Raquel RombergFormat: PaperbackPublisher: University of Texas Press, United StatesImprint: University of Texas PressISBN-13: 9780292771260, 978-0292771260SynopsisPersecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual entrepreneurs who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities. Combining trance, dance, magic, and healing practices with expertise in the workings of the modern welfare state, they help lawyers win custody suits, sick employees resolve labor disability claims, single mothers apply for government housing, or corporation managers maximize their commercial skills.Drawing on extensive fieldwork among practicing brujos, this book presents a masterful history and ethnography of Puerto Rican brujeria (witch-healing). Raquel Romberg explores how brujeria emerged from a blending of popular Catholicism, Afro-Latin religions, French Spiritism, and folk Protestantism and also looks at how it has adapted to changes in state policies and responded to global flows of ideas and commodities. She demonstrates that, far from being an exotic or marginal practice in the modern world, brujeria has become an invisible yet active partner of consumerism and welfare capitalism., Nieuw, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Book Title: Witchcraft and Welfare, Publication Year: 2003, Type: Textbook, Language: English, Publication Name: Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico, Item Height: 229mm, Item Width: 152mm, Subject: Anthropology, Item Weight: 765g, Number of Pages: 335 Pages, University of Texas Press<

2003, ISBN: 9780292771260

Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico, Buch, Softcover, [PU: University of Texas Press], University of Texas Press, 2003