Curving the social, or, why antagonistic rituals in Brazil are variations on a theme

Shapiro, Matan

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“…Only after we understand what these internal processes are, and how they do that which they are supposed to be doing, will we be able to reconnect the ritual to its external social surround and examine it in its wider holistic sense (cf. Shapiro 2015). 4 In "Bureaucratic Logic," Handelman meticulously describes the history of a form of "linear" classifi cation brought into Palestine by the early Zionists, which became the main organizing "logic of forming of form" in the pre-State-of-Israel years.…”

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Handelman

2020

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Don Handelman’s groundbreaking work in anthropology is showcased in this collection of his most powerful essays, edited by Matan Shapiro and Jackie Feldman. The book looks at the intellectual and spiritual roots of Handelman’s initiation into anthropology; his work on ritual and on “bureaucratic logic”; analyses of cosmology; and innovative essays on Anthropology and Deleuzian thinking. Handelman reconsiders his theory of the forming of form and how this relates to a new theory of the dynamics of time. This will be the definitive collection of articles by one of the most important anthropologists of the late 20th Century.

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“…20. Among those who have responded to the idea that it is worthwhile studying ritual in its own right are Clark-Deces (2007: 11-12), Espirito Santo (2016), and Shapiro (2015. 21.…”

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Handelman

2020

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“…At first, people commented that Dona Rosiléi’s actions were shameful and that this reflected her and her husband Zeca’s ‘penny-pinching’ (‘ canhegisse ’ in local slang). Dona Rosliléi and Zeca were also said to have been disrespectful , a serious local accusation that signifies a complete moral breakdown (Shapiro, 2015b; cf. Zigon, 2007).…”

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Dynamics of movement: Intensity, ritualized play and the cosmology of kinship relations in Northeast Brazil

Shapiro

2019

Anthropological Theory

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Relations between play and ritual are notoriously problematic. While play tends to produce doubt, uncertainty and paradox, ritual instead clarifies, authenticates and refines the moral order. Focusing ethnographically on a celebration for the Divine Holy Spirit ( Divino Espírito Santo) in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, in this article I nonetheless move away from this common juxtaposition of ritual and play as mutually exclusive conceptual frameworks. I argue that we can instead imagine play and ritual as dynamic, processual experiences, which frequently merge when they are enacted together in highly symbolic public events. Seen in this light, ritual and play do not necessarily differ as rigid, predefined, conceptual frames, but rather as experiences that unfold in different forms: the experiential dynamic of play-scenarios is felt as horizontal deregulation, while the experiential dynamic of rituals converges towards and linear hierarchization. I consequently suggest more broadly that such dynamic terms as ‘pulsation’, ‘intensity’ and ‘rhythm’ better explicate the enduring social effects of public events in which the unequivocal and the ambiguous incessantly reconstitute each other.

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“…Many studies drew connections between experiences, practices and techniques of the self (Foucault ) to produce emic theories of persons. For example, Benjamin Smith shows how sorcery in the Cape York Peninsula, Australia acts as a theory of persons (Smith ), and Shapiro looks at rites in Brazil as a local means to conceptualise personal diversity (Shapiro ).…”

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“…For example, Benjamin Smith shows how sorcery in the Cape York Peninsula, Australia acts as a theory of persons (Smith 2016), and Shapiro looks at rites in Brazil as a local means to conceptualise personal diversity (Shapiro 2016).…”

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‘Edgy’ politics and European anthropology in 2016

Coates

2017

Social Anthropology

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Focusing on anthropological publications in Europe‐based journals in 2016, this review reflects on the politicisation of anthropology in recent years, tracing the contours of this scholarship through the trope of ‘edges’. From debates about the marginalisation of Euro‐anthropology and analyses of lives ‘on edge’ within Europe, to efforts to push political thinking to its conceptual edges as a form of ‘alter‐politics’, this review explores the ‘edgy’ politics of Euro‐anthropology in 2016. The paper examines how the edges of state and solidarity, self and sociality, human and non‐human futures intersect in the political emphasis of European scholarship in 2016. At the same time, it critically reflects on how and why it is important not to allow this form of political optimism to turn into Eurocentrism, arguing for the continued importance of comparison and encounter outside of epistemic central Anglo‐European worlds.

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Curving the social, or, why antagonistic rituals in Brazil are variations on a theme

Cited by 8 publications

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Dynamics of movement: Intensity, ritualized play and the cosmology of kinship relations in Northeast Brazil

‘Edgy’ politics and European anthropology in 2016

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