The Bow and the Blanket: Religion, Identity and Resistance in Rarámuri Material Culture

Levi, Jerome M.

doi:10.1086/jar.54.3.3630650

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“…Subsequent research has located a great deal of resistance in these "everyday" acts. For example, Levi's (1998) research on the Raramuri, an indigenous ethnic group in Northern Mexico, shows how their use of "articles of everyday life" such as traditional weapons and textiles was a means of resistance against the dominant political economy because it allowed them to be self-sufficient. Many additional examples of everyday resistance come from research on work and organizations.…”

Section: Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing Resistance

2004

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Recently, there has been a rapid proliferation of scholarship on resistance but little consensus on its definition. In this paper, we review and synthesize the diverse literatures that invoke the concept of resistance. This review illuminates both core elements common to most uses of the concept and two central dimensions on which these uses vary: the questions of whether resistance must be recognized by others and whether it must be intentional. We use these two dimensions to develop a typology of resistance, thereby clarifying both the meaning and sociological utility of this concept.Resistance is a fashionable topic. In sociology, as in many other disciplines, attention has recently expanded from issues of social control and social structure to issues of agency. As a result, we are now experiencing a flood of research and theory which purports to speak to the issue of resistance. This new attention spans many subdisciplines in sociology. At the 2001 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, for example, papers on resistance were presented in sessions on social movements, gender, sport, technology, and political sociology, among others. This is true across disciplines as well; resistance has received increasing attention in disciplines such as anthropology, cultural studies, geography, political science, and women's studies.Although this rapid proliferation of scholarship on resistance is both exciting and productive, different authors who use the language of resistance 1 A version of this paper was presented at the 2002 annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association.

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Section: Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing Resistance

2004

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“…They powerfully and visually represent and narrate the personal lives of family members. They can normalize human experience (Layne 2000, 337;Pugh 2005, 730), or they can create oppositional discourses (Layne 2000, 339;Levi 1998).…”

Section: Scrapbooks As Materials and Visual Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Scrapbooking: Family Capital and the Construction of Family Discourse

Goodsell

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2011

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Through everyday activities, often performed by women, a version of family becomes reified for its members. Family discourse, linked to cultural capital via family capital, creates credentials and competence (family capital) in a particular family type and also a set of dispositions (family habitus) that inclines family members to act in ways consistent with normative standards of family. This article presents a holistic-content narrative analysis of one family’s eleven-volume scrapbook collection that revealed the process and content of their construction of reality. The scrapbooking mother seems to be equipping her children with family-based cultural resources and personal dispositions to situate them in future social interactions.

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“…Today it is recognized that textiles have a potential to reveal aspects of prehistoric textile technology and production (Andersson, 2003;Chase et al, 2008;Gleba, 2008;Hurcombe, 2008). The study of textiles can also provide important information about socioeconomic aspects (Balakina et al, 2006;Brumfiel, 2006;Chase et al, 2008;Ferreira et al, 2004;Good, 2001;Jakes and Eriksen, 1997) and even religious features (Ferreira et al, 2004;Levi, 1998). Textile manufactory is probably older than pottery and agriculture (Barber, 1991).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%