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Carsten, Janet; Hugh‐Jones, Stephen

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“…Besides its ritual and religious role, the house is an institution that regulates property, work, consumption, belonging, power, etc. he house produces or combines several other dimensions of social organisation (Carsten & Hugh-Jones, 1995;Fox, 1980Fox, , 1996Lévi-Strauss, 1983;Traube, 1987).…”

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Women, gender and power among indigenous peoples of Portuguese Timor

Silva¹

2017

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This essay examines the social position of women and the implications of gender representations among indigenous peoples in post-World War II Portuguese Timor. It is a bibliographic critique based on works of academic anthropology and of certain missionary and colonial administrative ethnographies published between the 1950s and 1980s. I argue that in general women occupied a relatively subaltern position in the collective dynamics of social reproduction. This results from the specificity of local social structures and from the separation of sex and gender. I attempt to elucidate an apparent contradiction: on the one hand, femaleness, as a gender classifying principle, is associated with superiority among many peoples in Timor-Leste and, on the other hand, women are often in subaltern positions regarding collective reproduction. I argue that the ways the female principle and the idea of fertility are ritually handled serve the purpose of producing and reproducing male dominance in the dynamics of collective social reproduction and the co-opting of women’s power of giving life.

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Women, gender and power among indigenous peoples of Portuguese Timor

Silva¹

2017

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“…Schneider concluded that "kinship" as conceived in anthropology could not be meaningfully studied cross-culturally. " (Galvin 2001,110) Schneider's critique is widely acknowledged to have marked a turning point in anthropology's study of social relationships and interactions Carsten 1991Carsten ,1995Carsten ,2000M. Strathem 1992;Holy 1996;Schweitzer 2000).…”

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“…On the other hand the alternative emphasis that Holy ascribes to Carsten (1995) and Bouquet (1993) of `relatedness' is as a concept that `does not presuppose that genealogical relations are necessarily the most important' (Bouquet 1993,157), but which does give a sense of the focus on social bonds and interactions. Of course, in having this emphasis, as Holy points out, and Carsten (2000) concedes, this conversely has the weakness of not delineating which category of `relationships' are considered significant.…”

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“…Nevertheless, Carsten (1995) suggests that social connections may be constituted by a variety of processes in which `biological' and `social' processes may be indistinguishable; "Ideas about relatedness in Langkawi show how culturally specific is the separation of the "social" from the "biological" and the latter to sexual reproduction. In Langkawi relatedness is derived both from acts of procreation and from living and eating together.…”

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Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship: Compatibility between Cultural and Biological Approaches

Holland

2004

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Abstract''`ýýThe current thesis aims to clarify some aspects of the relationship between biology and social bonds. The central task is to demonstrate that, despite clear problems of some past approaches claiming to represent biology, there is non-reductive compatibility between the perspective from cultural approaches documenting processes of social bonding in humans and the perspective from basic biological theory. In demonstrating this compatibility, the thesis also attempts to contribute to delineating the utility and limits of applying insights from biology to understanding aspects of human social behaviour, and to sociological study in general. The areas of social bonding and social relationships under focus are mainly at the level of individuals and primary social groups, rather than a structural-functional approach often employed in classical sociology of the family and comparative sociology.The thesis initially reviews recent cultural approaches to understanding social bonding, and notes the potential academic value of a clarification of the association between social kinship and physical ('related by blood') kinship. In reviewing biological theory on social bonding and social behaviour, it is argued that classic sociobiological interpretations of this biological theory are erroneous in some crucial respects, and a different interpretation is argued for. Evidence on processes mediating social bonding in social mammals and particularly in primates is reviewed. It is demonstrated that circumstantial, social and contextual 'cues' typically mediate the formation of primary social bonds in these species, not genealogical relationship per se, and that these findings are compatible with basic biological theory. In the human case, it is demonstrated that the current interpretation of biological theory is also compatible with established disciplines closely associated with detailing mechanisms of social bonding (such as attachment theory). The consensus here is again that social bonds are mediated by various social and contextual cues rather than genealogical relationship per se. Various useful feedback has been provided by reviewers of earlier drafts of the thesis.My thanks especially to

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“…Carsten and Hugh-Jones discuss this Lévi-Straussian argument of houses, stating: "'Transfixing' an unstable union, transcending the opposition between wife-givers and wife-takers and between descent and alliance, the house as institution is an illusory objectification of the unstable relation of alliance to which it lends solidity (1987: 155)" (Carsten & Hugh Jones 1995: 8, see also Raahauge 2007).…”

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Ghosts, Troubles, Difficulties, and Challenges: Narratives About Unexplainable Phenomena in Contemporary Denmark

Raahauge¹

2016

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Many people experience something that they cannot explain, often they hear something that is not there as a visible fact. The sensation of hearing, for example, someone who is walking through your apartment, when no one is there as far as your eyes can see, poses a problem to the witness, especially if he or she does not think that this kind of occurrence is possible. Based on my fieldwork on haunted houses in Denmark today, this article deals with the narratives of people who have experiences that they cannot explain and that they consider to be on the limits of reason. Many of them do not consider 'ghosts' or 'haunting' as a possible explanation. This causes difficulties when they narrate and contextualise their experience, and typically they present ambiguous narratives and stress their disbelief at and bewilderment with the experiences. Still, as I will try to show in my article, their bewilderment and the way they use the notions 'ghost' and 'haunting' point to possible reinterpretations of these notions, so that the narrative mediation shapes not only the experience but also the ways that 'ghosts' and 'haunting' are reinterpreted in contemporary Denmark.

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Women, gender and power among indigenous peoples of Portuguese Timor

Women, gender and power among indigenous peoples of Portuguese Timor

Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship: Compatibility between Cultural and Biological Approaches

Ghosts, Troubles, Difficulties, and Challenges: Narratives About Unexplainable Phenomena in Contemporary Denmark

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