Critical Reflections on the Konyak Naga Ethnography

2021 ◽  
pp. 0972558X2110365
Author(s):  
G. Kanato Chophy
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Sociocultural Change ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Peace And War

The Konyak Nagas who inhabit the state of Nagaland in Northeast India have generated considerable anthropological interests since the colonial period. This eastern Naga tribe was mentioned in several colonial reports, but they came into prominence in anthropological literature, following Fürer-Haimendorf’s ethnographic monograph The Naked Nagas: Head-hunters of Assam in Peace and War. Fürer-Haimendorf had conducted fieldwork in Wakching village in the present Mon district between 1936 and 1937, setting off a new genre of ethnographic writing on the Naga tribes. Sifting through Fürer-Haimendorf’s writings, this article attempts a critical analysis of Konyak society and culture in light of recent developments in ethnographic studies. As argued, the Konyak Nagas are far removed from the colonial representations, but they still suffer from exotic imageries in the popular imagination that, in turn, has influenced ethnographic works. This article reflexively analyzes the Konyak Naga ethnography against the backdrop of a rapid sociocultural change facing the community.

scholarly journals Culture Unbound Volume 6, Editorial

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Johan Fornäs ◽  
Martin Fredriksson ◽  
Naomi Stead
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Complex Transformation ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
New Perspective

With this volume, Culture Unbound celebrates its five-year anniversary. This makes a good opportunity both to look back at what we have achieved and to gaze ahead to what we have planned for the future. This new volume, which will be more extensive and ambitious than ever, thus marks a readiness and willingness to engage with some of the most acute problems and complex transformation that society faces. We hope and believe that this not only expresses the ambitions of Culture Unbound but also reflects a more general tendency within contemporary cultural research. In order to better accommodate the most recent developments within the field of cultural research, and facilitate intellectual discussion and critical analysis of contemporary issues we also plan to expand our repertoire of published material. In the coming year Culture Unbound will therefore introduce a section of texts we have chosen to call ‘Unbound Ideas’. Here we welcome academic essays and texts of a somewhat shorter format and freer approach to scholarly convention than our usual full-length research articles. These essays will take different – perhaps speculative or conjectural – positions, or give a new perspective on pressing topics or recently emerged concerns within cultural research.

Sacred Capital: Pierre Bourdieu and the Study of Religion

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Urban
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Late Nineteenth

AbstractThis article offers a critical analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's work and its importance for the study of religion. Analysis and criticim of Bourdieu's theories with reference to the example of the Bāuls, a loose, eclectic tradition of wandering minstrels and self-proclaimed spiritual "madmen", which has flourished throughout Bengal (northeast India and Bangladesh) since at least the late nineteenth century, was chosen for two reasons: first, because much like Bourdieu, the Bāuls make frequent use of a "marketplace" metaphor to describe the larger realms of social interaction and religious discourse; second, because the Bāuls offer a powerful challenge to Bourdieu's work, demonstrating that there is perhaps far more room for subversion and critique of the dominant "social marketplace" than his model of society and culture seems to allow.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Thematic Articles: Hegemonic Rivalry: Past and Future

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Modern World ◽  
World War ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Peace And War

The international political economy has experienced a sequence of economic booms and busts, as well as periods of relative peace and world war, for the last 500 years. Capitalist industrialization has expanded productivity and integrated everlarger numbers of people into a single global economy in waves of industrialization and market expansion. These waves have been repeatedly punctuated by world wars. The current level of economic integration, and other factors, cause many students of the global system to argue that the periodic outbreak of world wars is over. This book focuses on both long run trends and recent developments in the modern world-system, and their implications for the future of humankind. Will the cycles of boom bust, peace and war continue? Or have long terms trends (or recent changes) altered the nature of thesystem sufficiently such that these oscillations will cease, or take a less destructive form?

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Duff
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Romantic Movement ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Previous Scholarship

The Romantic movement transformed the literary culture of Britain, and critical analysis of the nature, causes, and effects of that transformation began in the Romantic period itself. This Handbook analyses recent developments in criticism, synthesizing and extending previous scholarship, identifying emergent research trends, and proposing new lines of enquiry. Divided into ten sections, each containing four or five chapters, the Handbook offers a comprehensivesurvey of British and Irishliterature of the Romantic period; its historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts; and its connections with the literature and thought of other countries and periods. The Introduction explainsthe structure of the volume and the rationale that underpins it, summarizing each chapter and section, pinpointing common themes,and discussing the implications of this ambitious conceptual reorganization of Romantic literary scholarship.

“Maybe You Should Try It This Way Instead”: Youth Activism Amid Managerialist Subterfuge

2021 ◽  
pp. 000283122199347
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Clay ◽  
David C. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Youth Participatory Action Research ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Color Experience ◽  
Ethnographic Studies

The authors theorize what we call managerialist subterfuge, drawing on distinct ethnographic studies to examine how adult “partners” leverage the language and strategies of corporate managerialism to undermine youths’ radical visions of change. Critical analysis of patterns in interview and participant observation data across two youth participatory action research projects revealed the ways in which adult interventions functioned to co-opt youths’ activist agendas; following the rationale that youth who are presumed to be in need of adult management are “out of their depth” when it comes to civic matters. The authors assert that managerialist subterfuge functions as a mechanism to further bureaucratize youth activism and absolve state actors of accountability for harm that Black youth and youth of color experience.

Transnational symbols in national spaces

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandy Sadan
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Multiple Events ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Aesthetic

This chapter considers the manau as both a symbol of modern Kachin ethno-nationalism and as a vector for understanding some of its local, regional, and historical complexities. It considers the recent developments of these festivals in India, Burma, Yunnan, and Thailand as a way of understanding how local and regional dynamics affect the relationships between Singpho, Kachin, and Jingpo communities across the region. The chapter begins by explaining the modern emergence of the manau festival from the colonial period onwards, looking in detail at the aesthetic symbolism of the form in different contexts. This enables us to appreciate the constantly evolving and discursive nature of this form by exploring multiple events separated by both distance and time. It suggests that the manau has managed to attain and sustain its relevance because of its transformative capacities.

The Administrative State and the Fundamentals of Public Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 257-272
Author(s):  
ACL Davies
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Care ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Uk National Health Service ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Principle Of Legality

This chapter uses recent developments in the UK National Health Service (NHS) as a case study to illustrate the importance of the courts’ role in upholding the principle of legality. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 was a controversial piece of legislation which sought to ensure that the day-to-day running of the NHS would be underpinned by a competitive market. Since the Act was passed, this policy has fallen out of favour, and ministers have pursued a new policy of ‘integrated care’, in which different NHS organisations are encouraged to work together rather than to compete. In the Hutchinson and Shepherd cases, the courts have held that it is intra vires the 2012 Act to pursue integrated care, even though it is arguably the exact opposite of a competitive market. This chapter offers a critical analysis of these cases and emphasises the importance of the administrative law principle of legality in upholding democratic government.

Critical Analysis of Socio-Intercultural Entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Analytical Instruments ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Specific Implementation ◽  
Different Cultures

This paper aims to elaborate a critical assessment of socio-intercultural entrepreneurship based on the analysis of recent developments. The study is supported on the assumption that culture is a platform for the socio-cultural entrepreneurial. This research questions the advances of socio-intercultural entrepreneurship based on specific practices in different cultures. The research methodology employed is the exploratory and analytical instruments based on the literature review and the transference of findings to a specific implementation. Some of the concluding remarks are centered on the finding that the socio-intercultural dimensions have relationships with the entrepreneurship orientation and its behaviors although the entrepreneurial practices may vary in different cultures, in such a way that the same entrepreneurial practices may be successful in one culture but dysfunctional in another.

scholarly journals Austrian “Gypsies” in the Italian archives

Focaal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (87) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Paola Trevisan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Ethnography ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Police Records ◽  
Anthropological Literature

AbstractThe archival documents I work with concern Sinti (“Gypsy”) families belonging to the Austrian Empire, stopped by the Italian authorities between 1908 and 1912. By following Anna Laura Stoler's proposition, I read the police records through an ethnographic lens, connecting the anti-Gypsy policy of both states with the strategies adopted by the Sinti families to inhabit and/or cross borders. Thus, the border becomes the space where the sovereignty of the state came into play and where the categories of “citizen” and “foreigner” become explicit through the daily controls on those who attempt to cross. Intertwining research in the archives with anthropological literature and fieldwork, this article presents a historical ethnography of those Sinti families who experienced the borders as “Gypsies,” a category that calls for critical analysis because it goes beyond the foreigner/citizen dichotomy.

The local appropriation of democracy: an analysis of the municipal elections in Parakou, Republic of Benin, 2002–03

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bierschenk
Keyword(s):  
Local Politics ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
African Context ◽  
Republic Of Benin ◽  
Considerable Pressure

Ever since the ‘democratic renewal’ of 1989–90, Benin has been regarded as a model democracy in the African context. The holding of local elections in 2002–03 can be seen as the culmination of this turn to democracy. Donors attach high expectations to decentralisation and local democracy. Based on an empirical analysis of municipal elections in Parakou, the country's third-largest city, the paper tries to gauge whether these expectations have been realised. The paper argues that while multi-party democracy has been instituted under considerable pressure from the outside, the particular form it has taken derives instead from rationales of national and local politics which go back to the late colonial period, and from recent developments in Benin's rent-based economy.

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