scholarly journals Shamans, Bureaucrats, and Their Cosmologies: Local Religious Organisations in Buryatia and the Irkutsk Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (51) ◽  
pp. 39-71
Author(s):  
Maria Volkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Group Model ◽  
Grid And Group ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
State Classification ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Interactive Loop ◽  
State Registration

Over the course of the last 18 years, shamans in Buryatia and the Irkutsk Region have started to register “local religious organizations”. This development has transformed shamanism itself whilst also forcing the Ministry of Justice to articulate whether shamanism could be considered a religion. The article describes this process as an interactive loop: the classifiable (shamans) responds to the process of classification (state registration) and then changes that classification. The study hinges on two findings. First, the differences in the structure of shamanic organizations lead them to create fundamentally different ways of describing the world (classification systems). Secondly, some of these classifications align more closely with the language of the state. The author builds on the “grid and group” model by Mary Douglas, which is subsequently augmented with conceptual insights from Bernstein and Collins. The model makes it possible to highlight three types of organizations that respond differently to the language of state classification. The study is based on empirical data (40 interviews and participant observation) collected by the author during an expedition to Buryatia and the Irkutsk Region between December 2019 and January 2020.

scholarly journals Pichação/Graffitti em Santa Maria: Sistemas Classificatórios, Transbordamentos Semânticos e Maneiras de Narrar a Cidade

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (47) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Nathan Romanus Dantas
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Preliminary Phase

Este artigo apresenta alguns itinerários de campo da pesquisa etnográfica que desenvolvi no mestrado, na qual busquei a compreensão de como se dá a construção da inteligibilidade dos acontecimentos acerca da pichação/graffiti em Santa Maria. Trato sobre a fase preliminar da observação participante, a partir de uma loja de street art, experiência que sublinha a importância dos laços de reciprocidade e a lógica dos sistemas classificatórios (as maneiras de colocar o mundo em estrutura, de ordenar intelectivamente o caos sensível) na pichação/graffiti. Dessa experiência indoor, desdobram-se outros cenários de interação com pichadores/grafiteiros, pelas ruas, dentre os quais destaco um domingo na zona norte. A partir do trabalho de campo e de uma leitura pós estruturalista do estrtuturalismo, percebe-se as inversões, as recombinações e os transbordamentos semânticos das categorias binárias (legal/ilegal, limpo/sujo, certo/errado, luz/sombra, belo/feio, visível/invisível...) do ato universal de classificar e, sobretudo, diferentes maneiras de construir os sentidos de viver e de narrar a cidade, a partir da pichação/graffiti. Palavras-chave Pichação/graffiti. Sistemas classificatórios. Transbordamentos semânticos. Reciprocidade. Cidade. PICHAÇÃO/GRAFFITI IN SANTA MARIA:CLASSIFYING SYSTEMS, SEMANTICAL OVERFLOWS AND WAYS TO NARRATE THE CITY.   Abstract This article presents some itineraries of the ethnographic research that I developed in the master degree, in which I sought to understand the construction of the intelligibility of the events about the pichação/graffiti in Santa Maria. I write about the preliminary phase of participant observation, starting in a street art shop, an experience that underlines the importance of reciprocal ties and the logic of classificatory systems (the ways of putting the world in structure, of ordering the sensitive chaos intellectively) around the pichação/graffiti. From this indoor experience to other scenarios of interaction with pichadores/graffiti artists, through the streets, among which I highlight a Sunday in the north zone of the city. Since the fieldwork and a post-structuralist point of view about estrtuturalism, we can see inversions, recombinations and semantic overflows of binary categories (legal / illegal, clean / dirty, right / wrong, light / shadow, beautiful / ugly , visible / invisible ...) of the universal act of classifying and, above all, different ways of constructing the senses of living and narrating the city, around the pichação/graffiti. Keywords Pichação/graffiti. Classification systems. Semantic overflows. Reciprocity. City.

Ethnicity as inclusion and exclusion

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 1262-1269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel F. Baskerville ◽  
Kerry Jacobs ◽  
Vassili Joannides de Lautour ◽  
Jeff Sissons
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Culture Theory ◽  
Grid And Group ◽  
Group Culture ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Accounting research has struggled with how ethnicity is to be understood in relation to concepts such as nation and nationality and how ethnicity may impact on accounting and auditing practices, behaviours, education and professional values. These themes are explored and developed in the papers presented in this special issue. In particular, the purpose of this paper is to explore the contrasting theoretical and methodological approaches reflected by the papers in the issue. Design/methodology/approach This is a reflective and analytical paper which explores how notions of ethnicity are conceived and operationalised in accounting research. The authors identified two distinctive analytic ordering processes evident within this AAAJ Special issue: Mary Douglas’ scheme of Grid and Group and the Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual tools of field, capital and habitus. Findings The “Grid and Group” Culture Theory with Bourdieu’s theoretical tools evident in the papers provide powerful tools to explore the relationship between ethnicity and accounting both conceptually and empirically, suggesting that ethnicity can be deployed to reveal and challenge institutionalised racism. This paper highlights the potential to integrate elements of the “Grid and Group” Culture Theory and Bourdieu’s theoretical tools. The issue of ethnicity and the relationship between ethnicity and accounting should be more fruitfully explored in future. Research limitations/implications The authors acknowledge the challenges and limitations of discussing the issue of ethnicity from any particular cultural perspective and recognise the implicit dominance of White Anglo centric perspectives within accounting research. Originality/value The papers presented in the special issue illustrate that the issue of ethnicity is complex and difficult to operationalise. This paper highlights the potential to move beyond the ad hoc application of theoretical and methodological concepts to operationalise coherent concepts which challenge and extend the authors’ understanding of accounting as a social and contextual practice. But to achieve this it is necessary to more clearly integrate theory, methodology, method and critique.

Lung Tumors With Neuroendocrine Morphology: Essential Radiologic and Pathologic Features

2008 ◽  
Vol 132 (7) ◽  
pp. 1055-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teri J. Franks ◽  
Jeffrey R. Galvin
Keyword(s):  
Neuroendocrine Tumors ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
World Health ◽  
National Library ◽  
Molecular Features ◽  
Distinct Subset ◽  
Pathologic Features ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract Context.—Tumors with neuroendocrine morphology are a distinct subset of lung neoplasms sharing characteristic histologic, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and molecular features. Objective.—To review the current histologic classification and the diagnostic criteria for the major categories of neuroendocrine tumors of the lung. Data Sources.—Published classification systems from the World Health Organization and pertinent peer-reviewed articles indexed in PubMed (National Library of Medicine) form the basis of this review. Conclusions.—Accurate classification of the neuroendocrine tumors of the lung requires knowledge of specific criteria separating the major categories, which is essential for determining prognosis and treatment.

Social-Scientific Readings of the Gospel and Letters of John

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip F. Esler
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Grid And Group ◽  
Mediterranean Culture ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Social Scientific

This chapter surveys the development of social-scientific readings of the Johannine Gospel and Letters in roughly chronological order from the introduction of the sociology of knowledge and sectarianism to Johannine scholarship by Wayne Meeks in 1972, and the application of sectarian perspectives, especially influenced by Bryan Wilson’s typology of sectarianism, in the 1980s and 1990s. Sociolinguistic insights into anti-society and anti-language to understand the Johannine Sondersprache were also introduced in the 1980s together with Mary Douglas’ notions of grid and group and notions of Mediterranean culture. Applications of sectarianism and Mediterranean culture continued into the 2000s, but were accompnaied by new interests in identity, including the tension between Judean ethnic and Christ-movement identities in the Fourth Gospel, and in collective memory studies. All of these approaches continue to have a role in understanding the Johannine corpus.

scholarly journals The “Table of mineral classification” by Oscar Nerval de Gouvêa: mineralogy and medicine in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-508
Author(s):  
Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça Figueirôa
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract Oscar Nerval de Gouvêa was a scientist and teacher in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whose work spanned engineering, medicine, the social sciences, and law. This paper presents and discusses a manuscript entitled “Table of mineral classification,” which he appended to his dissertation Da receptividade mórbida , presented to the Faculty of Medicine in 1889. The foundations and features of the table provide a focus for understanding nineteenth-century mineralogy and its connections in Brazil at that time through this scientist. This text was Gouvêa’s contribution to the various mineral classification systems which have emerged from different parts of the world.

Spastics have minds that work, but bodies that can't

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
Krishna Maitra ◽  
Dipi Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The World ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Brain

Cerebral Palsy is a disability resulting from damage to the brain before or during the birth and is manifested by muscular in-coordination and speech disturbances. They have been victims of public misunderstanding from the time that William John Little, MD, the English physician, recognised and publicised them in the year 1843. As a research project, the present investigators wanted to exp lore the world of spastic children by selecting artistry as the medium of expression of their thoughts, feelings, problems and needs. The study, through natural and participant observation as well as through interviews with counsellors, psychologists and medical professionals drew profiles of spastic children. The analysis of their drawings/paintings reflected their healthy bent of mind, positive attitudes towards life and necessity to be surrounded by happiness and healthy conditions. The study on the basis of their findings has given some concrete suggestions for the teachers and the parents with a proper accent on the following: ‘The disabled are people too. All people are different. What is so special about their difference?’

Necrophilia

2016 ◽  
pp. 124-135
Author(s):  
Sara G. West ◽  
Phillip J. Resnick
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Contact ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Dead

Necrophilia consists of erotic fantasies about and/or sexual contact with the dead. The practice of necrophilia has been documented since ancient times, and there appears to have always been both a recognition and a fear of it. The chapter opens by discussing well-known cases of necrophilia and several etiological theories. The numerous classification systems for necrophilia are summarized, and the authors also present some potential commonalities. .Unfortunately, research into the world of necrophiles is hampered by the secrecy of their desires and difficulties in detecting their activities. Given its clandestine nature, the chapter suggests that clinicians more frequently screen for the presence of necrophilia when evaluating individuals who present with other deviant sexual behaviors.

scholarly journals Impact, theory of change, and the horizons of scientific practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 030631272095083
Author(s):  
Timothy McLellan
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Impact Theory ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Institutional Regimes

Demands for research to generate impact, along with proliferating institutional regimes for evaluating impact, are a ubiquitous aspect of contemporary scientific practice. Based on participant observation at an agro-environmental research institute in southwest China, this article explores three iterations of a tool for planning and evaluating impactful science called ‘theory of change’ (TOC). Despite their ostensible common grounding in TOC, I show how an impact scientist’s framework, a donor’s monitoring and evaluation regime, and a communication consultant’s branding strategy each suggest very different normative structures for scientific practice. These structures entail: particular horizons towards which scientific research is to be practiced, precise points in time at which the future effects of research are to be anticipated, and specific assumptions about how scientists’ agency should play out across time. Taking the peculiar sensibilities of TOC as a comparative framework, I illuminate IFF scientists’ implicit imaginations of how contemporary science does and should generate effects in the world.

scholarly journals World Youth Day 2016 in the Archdiocese of Lodz: An Example of the Eventization of Faith

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 503
Author(s):  
Joanna Bik ◽  
Andrzej Stasiak
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
The World ◽  
Image Building ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
To Come

The organization of numerous religious mass events of international, or even global, reach is a phenomenon of the early 21st century. It is sometimes termed “eventization of faith”. This article presents a multifaceted analysis of the initial stage of the World Youth Day in 2016, which took place in the Archdiocese of Łódź (Poland). While multiple scholarly publications have been written about World Youth Day (WYD) itself, its first part of preparatory nature, the so-called “Days in Dioceses”, has not been studied yet. The authors of this paper used a wide array of research methods, such as participant observation, questionnaire (official statistics concerning 10,000 pilgrims), pilot survey (258 respondents), and analysis of media reports (over 100 films and 30 articles). The analysis of the organizational method of such a major religious event leads to a conclusion that it is a complex logistic undertaking, which requires professional preparation and implementation by a team of specialists in different fields as well as an army of deeply involved volunteers and public services employees. Over 10.2 thousand young pilgrims (mostly at the age of 15–29) participated in the youth meeting in the Archdiocese of Łódź; apart from spiritual motives (strengthening faith, meeting Pope Francis, following in the footsteps of St. John Paul II) they exhibited strong social (willingness to be in the community of believers, making new friends), recreational and tourist (visiting Poland) needs as well. In view of the hermetic and low-budget character of World Youth Day, its impact on the economy of the region was deemed negligible. Above all, the event played a promotional and image-building part, which perhaps in the years to come will result in an increase in visits of foreign tourists to Łódź.

Sport Tourism and the Discourse of Social Cohesion at the World Pond Hockey Championship Event

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
Mark Lowes ◽  
Cory Awde
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Sport Tourism ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Empirical Fact ◽  
The World ◽  
Promotional Materials ◽  
Local Residents

Canada's World Pond Hockey Championship (WPHC) event is examined to show how the concept “social cohesion” functions as a discourse through which athletes, organizers and local residents articulate their experience of the event. No attempt is made to measure levels of social cohesion in the study community as an empirical fact. Instead, the authors' objective is to show how a distinctive community has been created around this sport-based tourism event, one with its own particular discourse of social cohesion. The authors' analysis is based on data collected through non-participant observation and dozens of semi-structured and unstructured interviews at the 2007 World Pond Hockey Championship event and through supplementary interviews and document analysis (press coverage, printed tourism promotional materials) activities conducted over the following four years, until mid-2011. the authors' findings show how a distinctive social community has been created around this sport-based tourism event, one with its own particular discourse of social cohesion.

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