The Importance of Being Honest: Verifying Citations, Rereading Historical Sources, and Establishing Authority in the Great Karamoja Debate

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 383-409
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
American Anthropological Association ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Historical Argument ◽  
Citation Practices ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Anthropologists pay considerable attention to the writing style, the construction of a text, and the question of ethnographic authority, particularly since Derek Freeman's critique of Margaret Mead's Samoa writings. Although the issue of representation of the history and culture of far-flung peoples in the form of the written report is a long and distinguished tradition in the field of cultural anthropology, the Freeman/Mead debates have raised a number of questions ranging from the problem of faulty citation practices to the issue of vulnerable ethnographic authority. The debate over Freeman's critique of Mead has developed into a major controversy and was featured at the 1983 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Marshall 1993:604). Since then, numerous articles and books have been written on the debate, and while many people have become tired of the “whole mess”, the case continues to attract scholarly attention.Critiques of Freeman often revolve around the sources Freeman used to support his historical argument against Mead, illuminating how Freeman used rhetorical devices, selectively omitted vital passages in historical documents that he cited, and “heavily” used partial quotations and (sometimes) ellipses, in order to “…undermine Mead's ethnographic authority and enhance his own” (e.g., Marshall 1993:604).

Women Practicing Anthropology: Perspectives Across the Discipline

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Carole Browner
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
American Anthropological Association ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

The articles in this special issue of Practicing Anthropology grew out of a symposium on "Women Anthropologists in the Public and Private Sectors: Opportunities for Non-Academic Career Advancement" sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women (COSWA) at the 1981 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. As organizers of the panel, Donald Lindburg and I sought participants from each subfield of anthropology working in both the public and private sectors. In the first regard we were successful, with presentations by social, linguistic and physical anthropologists and two archeologists. In the second regard we were less successful, with four of the five panelists—Sibley, Wynn, Wildesen, and Brockman—employed by private concerns.

scholarly journals Il matriarcato slavo

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evel Gasparini
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Collective Ownership ◽  
Convenient Form ◽  
The Social

This book on Slavic matriarchy is the result of the studies and researches that Evel Gasparini carried out over the span of his lifetime. Intrigued by the possibility of a close link between the collective ownership of the land and the ancient agricultural-matriarchal substrate of Slav culture, Gasparini launched on the titanic enterprise of analysing the archaeological and historical sources of early Slavic civilisation. Basing himself on a concept of culture elaborated in the ethnological field, he brought to light certain contradictions in the application of the Indo-European paradigm to Slavic culture and identified a series of elements illustrating the matriarchal substrate. Exploiting an uncommon knowledge of cultural anthropology and profound linguistic competencies, in this book Gasparini maps out a complex panorama ranging from the economy to the social structure and from the religious traditions to music and dance. Out of print for some time, the book is now proposed in a new, more convenient form, complete with an appendix on Finns and Slavs – which was originally intended as another chapter in the book but was then left out – a detailed preface by Gasparini's disciple Remo Faccani, and a bibliography of the scholar's oeuvre edited by Donatella Possamai.

scholarly journals Historiografie tussen literatuur en wetenschap

1970 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Lydia Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
New Form

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a new form of historiography developedin Europe under the influence of 'antiquarianism'. lts novel approach to the proper handlingof historical sources and divergent writing style represented a drastic break from traditionalhistoriographical ideals. In this paper, I wish to explore this scholarly developmentfrom a comparative perspective on the basis of a small corpus of early modernnational histories. I will focus attention on two complementary aspects of these workswhich are particularly revelatory of the scholarly views which influenced their composition:the handling of historical sources and the style of the text. These two dimensionspresent the two faces of historiography: the scientific study and the literary work and aretherefore particularly revelatory of the crucial shift from historiography as a literary genreto historical studies as a scientific discipline which took place in this period.

Rhetorical Analysis and Classification of Poem Text

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Jhanvi Arora ◽  
Santosh Kumar Bharti
Keyword(s):  
Recommendation System ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Style Of Writing

Poetry is one of the richest forms of literature, which in itself includes all components of language a human learns; by components here, the context is towards the rhetorical devices. The rhetorical devices constitute the witty use of words used in the reference to things. The work intends to identify the forms of creative references used by the poets to contrast their style of writing and categorize the text on the basis of the same. On the basis of each such prominent device such as rhymes or alliteration, one can derive the boundary or similarity percentage amongst the poems, which can be further extended to compare the writing style of the poets. The method of analysis holds a good value to study different poets of the modern and renaissance era and could be helpful in contrasting their way of putting things into words. Keywords NLP Analysis of Poem, Poem Analysis, Poem Classification, Poem Comparison, Poem Qualifiers, Poet Classification, Poetry Analysis, Poetry Recommendation System

The Kāludāyi-Theragāthā as transmitted in the Pali commentaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-83
Author(s):  
Aruna Gamage
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Detailed Survey ◽  
Literary Quality ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractWhile the Theragāthā contains only ten verses attributed to the Elder Kāludāyi, the Pali commentaries ascribe a further two sets of verses to him. The present article aims to carry out a detailed survey of these verses, which have so far received no scholarly attention, as a contribution to the understanding of the formation of Kāludāyi's verses in the canon and their paracanonical legacy. In this paper, the additional verses of Kāludāyi that appear in the commentaries are critically analysed in light of all other utterances attributed to him, in the canon as well as in the commentaries. The style, syntax, and wordings of specific stanzas of both series will be taken into consideration so as to evaluate their antiquity and their literary quality. When dealing with the rhetorical devices adapted in the stanzas, some Sanskrit poems are also taken into account.

PA Comments

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
American Anthropological Association ◽  
New Strategies

Over 100 practicing and applied anthropologists met at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Chicago and agreed to establish a new unit of the A practicing anthropology. It was decided that the unit will represent and serve all four sub-fields of anthropology. Goals of the unit will include: 1) to represent the needs of practicing anthropologists within the AAA, 2) to provide a network for communication among practicing anthropologists, 3) to disseminate information on employment and related issues in practicing anthropology, 4) to support, to the extent possible, the activities of already existing regional and special interest groups of practicing anthropologists, 5) to educate students of anthropology in the skills necessary for non-academic anthropological work, 6) to develop new strategies to serve the needs of practicing anthropologists.

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