Trajectories : excursions with the anthropology of E. Douglas Lewis / edited by Julian C.H. Lee, John M. Prior, Thomas A. Reuter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Julian C. H., editor.

Prior, John Mansford, editor.

Reuter, Thomas Anton, editor.

Series:

Asian thought and culture ; v. 74.

Asian thought and culture ; vol. 74

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lewis, E. Douglas, 1947-.

Lewis, E. Douglas.

Ethnology--Southeast Asia.

Ethnology.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 360 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2016]

Summary:

This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia, ethnography, culture, and religion, as well as a neurobiologically informed anthropology. Lewis' work on the Ata Tana 'Ai (People of the Forest) of Flores has long been regarded as a seminal work on culture and society in Eastern Indonesia. His 'precedence theory' became highly influential among anthropologists in their interpretations of other social groups in the region. In this volume, however, a. group of scholars influenced by his work undertake diverse and thought-provoking excursions from Lewis' work, shedding light on his insights on subjects ranging from Eastern Indonesian ethnography, to theorizing culture change, to development, and to the nascent field of 'neuroanthropology'. Of particular note, this book also features an extended contribution by Lewis that is, as Professor James J. Fox notes in this book's foreword, 'the kind of serious contemplation of an intellectual trajectory that every senior anthropologist should be urged to write'. Book jacket.

Contents:

Prologue: The adroit hunter / by Oscar Mandalangi

The place of non-place in Bugis ritual: ethnographically interrogating the distinction of modernity and supermodernity / by Greg Acciaioli

The ambivalence of the ancestors: interpreting the rite and Tu Dheu in Paule based on the scapegot theory of René Girard / by Paulus Budi

A look at early Austronesian society in the light of the Koa social order / by Michael P. Vischer

Ngadha house society origins: the miniature evidence / by Olaf Smedal

I hear those voices that will not be drowned: themes, patterns: teasing out a possible macro-structure in Hikayat Kerajaan Sikka / by John M. Prior

The disappearing of a world religion: reflections on ancestor religion, dualism, and the deeper significance of the Austronesian approach to life / by Thomas A. Reuter

Identity and precedence in transformations of Sikkanese societies: the case of the Ata Krowé / by David Butterworth

Myths of the origins of rice in Flores, Eastern Indonesia / by Justin Wejak

Aspiration, opportunity, sufficiency: applying anthropology to aid and development in Sikka / by Edgar Myer

From ethnography to rhetoric culture theory / by Ivo Strecker

On the origins of culture and change: stochastic processes in Malaysia and South Africa / by Sylvia Seldon and Julian C.H. Lee

The great confabulation: bearing the brain in mind when considering the formation of narratives / by Julian C.H. Lee

Cultural reason and diversity: considerations in view of the burgeoning field of neuroanthropology / by Juan F. Dominguez

An ecology of steps to a mind / by E. Douglas Lewis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781433133572

1433133571

OCLC:

933386114