Radical egalitarianism : local realities, global relations / edited by Felicity Aulino, Miriam Goheen, and Stanley J. Tambiah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aulino, Felicity.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture and globalization.

Equality--Philosophy.

Equality.

Ethnology--Sociological aspects.

Ethnology.

Social sciences.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contributions from scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies--stemming from research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas collected to represent a form of historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science that seeks to understand social phenomena by dialogically engaging global and local perspectives.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Engaging Radical Egalitarianism; Religion, Trade, and Transnational Networks via Thailand; The Charisma of Saints and the Cult of Relics, Amulets, and Tomb Shrines; Understanding Social Totalities: Stanley Tambiah's Early Contribution to Sociology of Thai Buddhism; Transnational Buddhism and the Transformations of Local Power in Thailand; A Muslim King and His Buddhist Subjects: Religion, Power, and Identity at the Periphery of the Thai State; Cosmologies, Ideologies, and Localities

Economies of Ghosts, Gods, and Goods: The History and Anthropology of Chinese Temple Networks Trade, Religion, and Civic Relations in the Manangi Long-Distance Trade Community; Cosmologies of Welfare: Two Conceptions of Social Assistance in Contemporary South Africa; "A Recurrence of Structures" in Collapsing Nigeria; People and Ideas Travel Together: Tambiah's Approach to Ritual and Cosmology in Brazil; Paradoxes of Order in Thai Community Politics; Violence, Political Conflict, and Humanitarian Intervention; Structural Work: How Microhistories Become Macrohistories and Vice Versa

Perspectives on the Politics of Peace in Aceh, Indonesia A Tale of Two Affects: Humanitarianism and Professionalism in Red Cross Aid Work; At the Base of Local and Transnational Conflicts: The Political Uses of Inferiorization; Afterword. Galactic Polities, Radical Egalitarianism, and the Practice of Anthropology: Tambiah on Logical Paradoxes, Social Contradictions, and Cultural Oscillations; notes; bibliography; contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8232-4193-9

0-8232-4192-0

0-8232-4619-1

OCLC:

867738144