Who put the classical in ‘classical yoga’? The inadequacy of an analytical category

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Category

Sound-Politics in São Paulo

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Crime Control ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Analytical Category

This book is an ethnographic study of controversial sounds and noise control debates in Latin America’s most populous city. It discusses the politics of collective living by following several threads linking sound-making practices to governance issues. Rather than discussing sound within a self-enclosed “cultural” field, I examine it as a point of entry for analyzing the state. At the same time, rather than portraying the state as a self-enclosed “apparatus” with seemingly inexhaustible homogeneous power, I describe it as a collection of unstable (and often contradictory) sectors, personnel, strategies, discourses, documents, and agencies. My goal is to approach sound as an analytical category that allows us to access citizenship issues. As I show, environmental noise in São Paulo has been entangled in a wide range of debates, including public health, religious intolerance, crime control, urban planning, cultural rights, and economic growth. The book’s guiding question can be summarized as follows: how do sounds enter and leave the sphere of state control? I answer this question by examining a multifaceted process I define as “sound-politics.” The term refers to sounds as objects that are susceptible to state intervention through specific regulatory, disciplinary, and punishment mechanisms. Both “sound” and “politics” in “sound-politics” are nouns, with the hyphen serving as a bridge that expresses the instability that each concept inserts into the other.

Identifying stylizations in ethnically salient talk among disc jockeys

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather B. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Reported Speech ◽  
Linguistic Style ◽  
Radio Program ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
Acoustic Analyses ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Interactional Discourse

AbstractBefore accepting claims of the function of linguistic stylization, it is imperative that we are certain of what we are examining. Mikhail Bakhtin's widely cited definition that stylization is an “artistic representation of another's linguistic style” (1986:362) leaves unclear what counts as “artistic,” making identifying stylizations simultaneously intuitively obvious and empirically illusive. Drawing from 270 hours of data from a radio program, the current study uses interactional discourse and acoustic analyses to compare one disc jockey's exaggerations of ethnically salient accents (stylizations) with his mundane use of reported speech. The analyses demonstrate that in both types of talk he uses a similar bundle of interactional and acoustic resources to design his talk as belonging to someone else. The link between reported and stylized speech places stylizations in an analytical category distinct from that of crossing and its issues of language ownership. The pertinent questions are those of speaker responsibility. (Crossing, stylization, reported speech, discourse analysis, acoustic analysis)*

The practice and theory of property in seventeenth-century Bengal

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Wright
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
The Third ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
History Of ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Theoretical Issues

This study reconstructs the connected history of socio-economic and intellectual practices related to property in seventeenth-century Bengal. From the perspective of socio-economic practices, this study is concerned with the legal transfer of immovable property between individuals. From the perspective of intellectual practice, this study is concerned with how property was understood as an analytical category that stood in a particular relation to an individual. Their connected history is examined by analysing socio-economic practices exemplified in a number of documents detailing the sale and donation of land and then situating these practices within the scholarly analysis of property undertaken by authors within the discipline of nyāya—the Sanskrit discipline dealing primarily with ontology and epistemology. In the first section of the essay, I undertake a detailed examination of available land documents in order to highlight particular conceptions of property. In the second section of the essay, I draw out theoretical issues examined in nyāya texts that relate directly to the concepts expressed in the land documents. In the third and final section of the essay, I discuss the shared language and shared concepts between the documents and nyāya texts. This last section also addresses how the nyāya analysis of property facilitates a better understanding of claims in the documents and what nyāya authors may have been doing in writing about property.

Krankenkarriere und Existenzbelastung

1976 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uta Gerhardt
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Financial Cost ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Impact On Family ◽  
Reversible Time ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

AbstractA sociological notion of illness is introduced which focuses on extra-medical aspects of the illness processes. As a central analytical category of the sociological notion of illness, the stress upon the individual’s social- financial status has three aspects, namely financial cost, loss or change of job, and impact on family relations. Illness forms a multidimensional career structuring a process of vague and reversible time perspectives. An exploratory study of patient careers (University of California,San Francisco Medical Centre) is described with two aims: first, to clarify the theoretical notions, and, second, to develop a method of dynamic data analysis which owes much to the „Grounded-Theory“ approach.

scholarly journals Generation-making narratives and responses to diversity in Poland

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092199852
Author(s):  
Aneta Piekut ◽  
Gill Valentine
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Common ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Race And Religion ◽  
Depth Interviews

In this article, the authors move away from approaching generations as static categories and explore how ordinary people, as opposed to scholars, distinguish generations and justify their different responses to cultural diversity in terms of ethnicity, race and religion/belief. The analysis draws on 90 in-depth interviews with 30 residents in the Polish capital, Warsaw (2012–2013). Through approaching generation as an analytical category, the authors identify various differentiating narratives which the study participants employed to draw boundaries between generations, reinforcing the common belief that the youngest Poles are most accepting of diversity. Although generations are seen as the axis of difference, conditioning generation-specific responses to diversity, the accounts emerging from the interviews reveal their relational nature, as well as similarities and points of connection between their experiences.

Colonial Modernity and Diffusion of Power: Identity and Community Formation among Mappilas of Malabar

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
Shameer T.A
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
The Press ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
And Diffusion

Abstract This paper explores colonial modernity and the knowledge system’s role in constituting community formation among the Mappilas of Malabar. Colonial modernity, such as the introduction of printing, made this transformation more advanced and communitarian in structure. It also discusses colonialism as a force to reshape and bring socio-cultural changes in Malabar during the time. It argues that the existence of a clearly defined community is not a predetermined social fact; it looks at how the Mappilas were represented in an analytical category. In Malabar, the press and literature have played an essential role in framing community consciousness among Mappila society. Print media has brought a revolution in the transmission of knowledge. This paper will encompass the coming of the printing press and the moulding of community consciousness among the Mappilas of Malabar. It discusses the discursive and non-discursive practices of the colonial state for constructing various identities in Malabar.

scholarly journals Are we looking for a “guinea pig”? Difficulties in researching the “middle class” in Russia

Inter ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Bernhard Begemann
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Historic Change

Since the dissolution of Soviet Union, Russian society has undergone historic change. Following the upheaval of the 1990s, the beginning of the 21st century was characterised by economic growth and stabilisation. This period of socioeconomic change has frequently been interpreted as the cradle of an emerging “middle class”, triggering the transition from a socialist to capitalist society. However, while some researchers find a fuzzy share of “middle class” in descriptive criteria, others question the applicability of the analytical category of “middle class” to contemporary Russian society on principle. Drawing from ongoing research in Moscow, this article scrutinises this conventional class ontology by pointing out the ambiguities of the socioeconomic dynamics, based mainly on qualitative ethnographic fieldwork. As a productive lens to reveal social dynamics, the article distinguishes between formalist and substantivist uses of the term “middle class”, thus implying that a new language is needed to reflect this distinction. Illustrating these arguments through two ethnographic examples, it aims to contribute to current anthropological debates about class and post-socialism.

scholarly journals “Calling it a Crisis”: Modes of Creative Labour and Magic in an Elite Architect Company

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aina Landsverk Hagen
Keyword(s):  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Internal Dynamic ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Democratic Ideology ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Risk Reducing

In recent years we have seen a resurfacing of magic as an analytical category in anthropological literature, with particular emphasis on modern forms of occultism and witchcraft. Magic has yet to prove itself a useful analytical tool within the anthropology of organizations, and this article aims at understanding everyday work processes through the concepts of myth and magic. The discussion is based on empirical data from an internationally acclaimed architect company based in Norway, with a particular focus on a period of downsizing in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2008. The architects try to uphold an egalitarian, social-democratic ideology of creativity within a capitalist system and make use of a range of magical practices in order to succeed. The article shows how narrative flexibility transforms the brutality of downsizing into a mode of creative labour, and concludes that the internal dynamic between risk taking and risk reducing is inherent in both magical practices and capitalist systems.

scholarly journals CONCEPÇÕES SOBRE O CONCEITO DE PAISAGEM E SUA INSERÇÃO NO ENSINO DE GEOGRAFIA:

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 05-27
Author(s):  
Laressa Bentes da Silva ◽  
Lais Rodrigues Campos
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Natural Dynamics ◽  
Analytical Category

O presente artigo visa apresentar uma discussão de âmbito teórico no que se refere à paisagem na ciência geográfica, a fim de compreendê-la como importante categoria analítica no campo das pesquisas sobre o ensino de geografia. A partir de referenciais teóricos como Santos (1997), Maximiliano (2004), Bertrand (2004), Brito e Ferreira (2011), Moreira (2015) e Gomes (2017)sobre a paisagem, buscamos apresentar uma contextualização sobre as definições desta categoria no construto didático da geografia escolar. Compreendemos a importância dessa categoria no processo da prática docente para o ensino de geografia, pois entendemos que ela aproxima o aluno do objeto estudado, buscando desenvolver nos estudantes a capacidade de compreensão das diferentes paisagens, seus elementos, sua história, suas práticas sociais, culturais e suas dinâmicas naturais. Palavras-chave Paisagem, Práticas docentes, Geografia escolar.   CONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF LANDSCAPE AND ITS INSERT IN TEACHING GEOGRAPHY: elements for an investigation Abstract The present article aims to present a theoretical discussion regarding the landscape in geographic science in order to understand it as an important analytical category in the field of research on the teaching of geography. Based on theoretical references Santos (1997), Maximiliano (2004), Bertrand (2004), Brito e Ferreira (2011), Moreira (2015) e Gomes (2017) about the landscape, we seek to present a contextualization about the definitions of this category in the didactic construct of school geography. We understand the importance of this category in the process of teaching practice for the teaching of geography, as we understand that it brings students closer to the object studied, seeking to develop in students the ability to understand different landscapes, their elements, their history, their social, cultural and cultural practices its natural dynamics. Keywords Landscape, Teaching practices, School geography.

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