Hospitality, women, and the efficacy of beer

March, Kathryn S.

doi:10.1080/07409710.1987.9961897

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“…The shaman ‘hosts’ the gods within himself, while offerings to gods are framed as a party where the community act as collective host and substances such as ‘beer’ act as carriers for crossing cosmological divides (cf. March 1987). Manipulative transactions similar to yangdzi are employed in exorcism or ransoming rituals, where a patient is cured by using spirits and other tricks to ‘deceive’ spirits , gods, and demons, cajoling them into believing that an effigy made of butter is the ‘real’ patient, before destroying it.…”

Section: A Cosmopolitics Of Hospitality? Non‐human Guests and Hostsmentioning

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The return to hospitality

Candea

Col

2012

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Anthropology has been largely absent from the recent explosion of interdisciplinary enthusiasm with hospitality across philosophy, political science, and cultural studies. Yet anthropology's living engagement with hospitality has been far deeper than that of any other discipline. This essay, which introduces the volume, aims to revitalize hospitality as a frontier area of theoretical development in anthropology by highlighting the topic's connections to some of our discipline's most vibrant themes and concerns: ethical reasoning, materiality, temporality and affect, alterity and cosmopolitics, sovereignty and scale. Résumé L'anthropologie a été la grande absente du récent engouement interdisciplinaire pour l'hospitalité qui a fédéré philosophie, politologie et études culturelles. Son engagement concret sur cette question est pourtant beaucoup plus profond que celui de toute autre discipline. Le présent essai, qui préface le volume, vise à raviver l'hospitalité en tant que zone frontière du développement théorique en anthropologie, en mettant en lumière ses liens avec certains des thèmes les plus vivants de notre discipline : raisonnement éthique, matérialité, temporalité et affect, altérité et cosmopolitique, souveraineté et échelle.

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Section: A Cosmopolitics Of Hospitality? Non‐human Guests and Hostsmentioning

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The return to hospitality

Candea

Col

2012

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…While focusing on this type of hospitality, March (1987) describes, in spite of these stylistic diff erences of hospitality between the Tamangs and Sherpas, commensal hospitality is extremely common and highly valued in both Sherpa and Tamang communities. All transactions begin with a hospitable off ering -of cigarettes, tea, milk, food, and other gift s, but above all of "beer" and "whiskey" -that must be accepted and most be reciprocated.…”

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“…Commensal hospitality: Th is type of hospitality has been mentioned by March (1987) in the study of hospitality of the Tamang and Sherpa communities of Nepal. While focusing on this type of hospitality, March (1987) describes, in spite of these stylistic diff erences of hospitality between the Tamangs and Sherpas, commensal hospitality is extremely common and highly valued in both Sherpa and Tamang communities.…”

Section: Typology Of Hospitalitymentioning

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What is Hospitality?

Kunwar

2017

The Gaze: J Tourism & Hosp.

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“…Notwithstanding that in almost all cases I encountered poisoners were thought to be female ( dukma ), it shall become clear how Dechenwas' poisoning fears entail a distinct terror, and one related not primarily to the gender of the poisoner but to the substance transacted in hospitality settings and the agency of women as mediators of the relationships between humans and non‐humans in the household domain. Following Ortner's seminal work on Sherpas (1975; 1978), among the nearby Tamang, March (1987) has highlighted the cosmological agency exercised by women in establishing relationships of hospitality with household and hearth gods: their role as agents of prosperity, keepers of the household's fortune, holders of the storeroom's key, and makers of the – ambiguous – substances of commensality. Lichter and Epstein reflect that poisoning sets itself aside from witchcraft since poisoners would murder anyone without distinctions between consanguines or affines in order to acquire their Buddhist merit ( sonam ) (1983: 251).…”

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The poisoner and the parasite: cosmoeconomics, fear, and hospitality among Dechen Tibetans

Col

2012

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Since the early twentieth century, travellers and explorers of the Tibetan‐speaking world have reported a host of beliefs concerning the existence of households of mysterious poisoners allegedly killing their guests and visitors. Hitherto, no one has explained the phenomenon. This paper examines the role of poisons in Tibetans' social life and imagination by exploring the interface between cosmology, the economies of fortune, and hospitality in Northwest Yunnan, a Sino‐Tibetan border region where fears of poisoning proliferate against a background of tourist development following its nomination as China's official ‘Shangri‐la’. By unfolding the figure of the parasite, this paper argues that poisoning fears disclose the profound anxieties underlying the cosmography of the flows of fortune and vitality mobilized in the constitution of ritual kinship and relatedness in hospitality settings. Poisoning fears draw on the traumatic events in which the flows of one's reproductive energies are imagined to be parasitized or ultimately severed. Résumé Depuis le début du vingtième siècle, les voyageurs et les explorateurs des régions de langue tibétaine rapportent d'innombrables croyances sur l'existence de maisons où de mystérieux empoisonneurs assassineraient invités et visiteurs. Personne n'a encore pu expliquer ce phénomène. L'auteur étudie ici le rôle des poisons dans la vie sociale et l'imagination des Tibétains, en explorant l'interface entre cosmologie, économie de la chance et hospitalité dans le nord‐ouest du Yunnan, une région frontalière sino‐tibétaine où la crainte de l'empoisonnement prolifère dans un contexte de développement touristique faisant suite à la désignation de la région comme « Shangri‐la » officiel de la Chine. En dévoilant la figure du parasite, l'article avance que les craintes d'empoisonnement révèlent les angoisses profondes qui sous‐tendent la cosmographie des flux de la fortune et de la vitalité, mobilisés dans la constitution de la parenté rituelle et de l'apparentement dans le cadre de l'hospitalité. La crainte de l'empoisonnement s'appuie sur les événements traumatisants par lesquels on imagine que le flux des énergies reproductives de l'individu peut être parasité, voire interrompu.

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Hospitality, women, and the efficacy of beer

Cited by 18 publications

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The return to hospitality

The return to hospitality

What is Hospitality?

The poisoner and the parasite: cosmoeconomics, fear, and hospitality among Dechen Tibetans

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