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Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1990
AAS working papers in social anthropology, 2014
nicht nebeneinander, sondern miteinander leben auf dem gemeinsamen Fundament der Werteordnung uns... more nicht nebeneinander, sondern miteinander leben auf dem gemeinsamen Fundament der Werteordnung unseres Grundgesetzes und unserer deutschen Leitkultur, die von den christlichjüdischen Wurzeln und von Christentum, Humanismus und Aufklärung geprägt ist" (Horst Seehofer, ibid.); cf. note 4. 3 Compare the answer, once given by a Dutch Cabinet Minister to the question why the Netherlands is the only State in Europe to uphold the categorical distinction between 'autochthonous' and 'nonindigenous' (allochthoon) citizens to classify the descendants of immigrants: "How does one get rid of this [distinction between] autochthoon and allochthoon? At one point one is Dutch [...] when one has obtained a place in Dutch society, when one participates in it, subscribes to our values and norms [...] what one does behind one's front door is one's own business" (Anil Ramdas, www.nrc.nl/ramdas/ artikel/1103538384826.html; my translation and italics).. 4 As such are identi࠱ ed the "universal values of the inviolable and inalienable rights of the human person, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law" (Preamble of the Treaty on European Union, Oࠫ cial Journal C 115 , 09/05/2008).
Taylor & Francis eBooks, Feb 16, 2010
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2015
Prognostication-the culturally specific praxis of foretelling future events-requires the presence... more Prognostication-the culturally specific praxis of foretelling future events-requires the presence of two types of representations in the cultural repertoire of the society in question. 1 One type of representation concerns the distinction, held to be self-evident by the society's members, between ›the past‹, ›the present‹ and ›the future‹. Models of chronological processes upheld in the society in question therefore reflect such distinctions in the syntactic categories of its language in-1 The research reported here is part of the French-German research project »Local Traditions and World Religions: The Appropriation of ›Religion‹ in Southeast Asia and Beyond«, funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. I gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the latter, and thank Prof. Jarich Oosten, Prof. Christian Postert and Dr. Roy Jordaan for their perceptive comments.
Minpaku anthropology newsletter, Dec 1, 1997
L'Homme, 2005
This article presents a comparative analysis of three myths about the incomplete person, recorded... more This article presents a comparative analysis of three myths about the incomplete person, recorded in insular Southeast Asian societies. Rejecting assumptions that this mythical theme represent a universal psychological archetype the analysis focuses on the question, which prototypical social and cosmological relationships need to be established in order for a person to acquire his or her completeness. It is demonstrated how to that end social relations are connected to cosmological relations, a process in which the conversion of component parts of persons into valuable objects plays a key role. By setting the standards for such conversion processes the myths articulate cosmological authorisations of the ritual exchanges leading to the reproduction of complete human and vegetable life forms.
L'Homme, Jun 1, 2005
Une première version abrégée en anglais de cet article a fait l'objet d'une publication dans Zeit... more Une première version abrégée en anglais de cet article a fait l'objet d'une publication dans Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 2004, n°129 : 1-28. L'auteur et la rédaction de L'Homme remercient Françoise Héritier pour sa traduction en français de ce texte, et Cécile Barraud pour sa révision. 1. Cette analyse a comme point de départ des discussions sur le sujet entre les professeurs James J. Fox, Clifford Sather et l'auteur dans le cadre du Comparative Austronesian Project of the Research …/… 157 Personnes incomplètes et sociétés accomplies MOITIÉS D'HOMMES 8. Des représentations remarquablement semblables sont présentes parmi les Tobelo du Nord d'Halmahera (Platenkamp 1988a).
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1990
the participants' views are made clearer by contrast, and the ideals are more sharply defined by ... more the participants' views are made clearer by contrast, and the ideals are more sharply defined by conflicts'. (P.E. de Josselin de Jong 1977: 247) 'Presque toujours il s'agit, non simplement d'evacuer, mais de reconduire vers son foyer d'origine la substance mystique que le transgresseur s'est indument appropriee'.
Tobelo representations of illness and health, including those of Tobelo illness and Western illne... more Tobelo representations of illness and health, including those of Tobelo illness and Western illness, are part of a system of ideas and values regarding the socio-cosmological conditions of human existence. Human life is conceived as originating in cosmological domains where life exists in a non-social modality. The incorporation of life in human beings requires its socialisation through the subordination of life to the ancestral order of society as such. Illness is conceived as a premature return of life into the cosmological domains, hence as the de-socialisation of the patient. Healing therefore entails the reconstitution of the proper hierarchical relationship between life and the ancestral order.
Horizons of Anthropology. An Anthology of Theoretical …, 1996
Reflecting Visual Ethnography—Using the camera in …, 2006
Aus der Ferne in die Nähe: neue Wege der …, 2004
Über die gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Ethnologie Jos DM Platenkamp 1. Die Frage Was könnte die ... more Über die gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Ethnologie Jos DM Platenkamp 1. Die Frage Was könnte die Wissenschaft der Ethnologie zu ... als isolierte und nach innen gekehrte soziale Gemeinschaften abgewertet werden, haben wir es mit Gesellschaften zu tun, die grundsätzlich ...
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1990
AAS working papers in social anthropology, 2014
nicht nebeneinander, sondern miteinander leben auf dem gemeinsamen Fundament der Werteordnung uns... more nicht nebeneinander, sondern miteinander leben auf dem gemeinsamen Fundament der Werteordnung unseres Grundgesetzes und unserer deutschen Leitkultur, die von den christlichjüdischen Wurzeln und von Christentum, Humanismus und Aufklärung geprägt ist" (Horst Seehofer, ibid.); cf. note 4. 3 Compare the answer, once given by a Dutch Cabinet Minister to the question why the Netherlands is the only State in Europe to uphold the categorical distinction between 'autochthonous' and 'nonindigenous' (allochthoon) citizens to classify the descendants of immigrants: "How does one get rid of this [distinction between] autochthoon and allochthoon? At one point one is Dutch [...] when one has obtained a place in Dutch society, when one participates in it, subscribes to our values and norms [...] what one does behind one's front door is one's own business" (Anil Ramdas, www.nrc.nl/ramdas/ artikel/1103538384826.html; my translation and italics).. 4 As such are identi࠱ ed the "universal values of the inviolable and inalienable rights of the human person, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law" (Preamble of the Treaty on European Union, Oࠫ cial Journal C 115 , 09/05/2008).
Taylor & Francis eBooks, Feb 16, 2010
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2015
Prognostication-the culturally specific praxis of foretelling future events-requires the presence... more Prognostication-the culturally specific praxis of foretelling future events-requires the presence of two types of representations in the cultural repertoire of the society in question. 1 One type of representation concerns the distinction, held to be self-evident by the society's members, between ›the past‹, ›the present‹ and ›the future‹. Models of chronological processes upheld in the society in question therefore reflect such distinctions in the syntactic categories of its language in-1 The research reported here is part of the French-German research project »Local Traditions and World Religions: The Appropriation of ›Religion‹ in Southeast Asia and Beyond«, funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. I gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the latter, and thank Prof. Jarich Oosten, Prof. Christian Postert and Dr. Roy Jordaan for their perceptive comments.
Minpaku anthropology newsletter, Dec 1, 1997
L'Homme, 2005
This article presents a comparative analysis of three myths about the incomplete person, recorded... more This article presents a comparative analysis of three myths about the incomplete person, recorded in insular Southeast Asian societies. Rejecting assumptions that this mythical theme represent a universal psychological archetype the analysis focuses on the question, which prototypical social and cosmological relationships need to be established in order for a person to acquire his or her completeness. It is demonstrated how to that end social relations are connected to cosmological relations, a process in which the conversion of component parts of persons into valuable objects plays a key role. By setting the standards for such conversion processes the myths articulate cosmological authorisations of the ritual exchanges leading to the reproduction of complete human and vegetable life forms.
L'Homme, Jun 1, 2005
Une première version abrégée en anglais de cet article a fait l'objet d'une publication dans Zeit... more Une première version abrégée en anglais de cet article a fait l'objet d'une publication dans Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 2004, n°129 : 1-28. L'auteur et la rédaction de L'Homme remercient Françoise Héritier pour sa traduction en français de ce texte, et Cécile Barraud pour sa révision. 1. Cette analyse a comme point de départ des discussions sur le sujet entre les professeurs James J. Fox, Clifford Sather et l'auteur dans le cadre du Comparative Austronesian Project of the Research …/… 157 Personnes incomplètes et sociétés accomplies MOITIÉS D'HOMMES 8. Des représentations remarquablement semblables sont présentes parmi les Tobelo du Nord d'Halmahera (Platenkamp 1988a).
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1990
the participants' views are made clearer by contrast, and the ideals are more sharply defined by ... more the participants' views are made clearer by contrast, and the ideals are more sharply defined by conflicts'. (P.E. de Josselin de Jong 1977: 247) 'Presque toujours il s'agit, non simplement d'evacuer, mais de reconduire vers son foyer d'origine la substance mystique que le transgresseur s'est indument appropriee'.
Tobelo representations of illness and health, including those of Tobelo illness and Western illne... more Tobelo representations of illness and health, including those of Tobelo illness and Western illness, are part of a system of ideas and values regarding the socio-cosmological conditions of human existence. Human life is conceived as originating in cosmological domains where life exists in a non-social modality. The incorporation of life in human beings requires its socialisation through the subordination of life to the ancestral order of society as such. Illness is conceived as a premature return of life into the cosmological domains, hence as the de-socialisation of the patient. Healing therefore entails the reconstitution of the proper hierarchical relationship between life and the ancestral order.
Horizons of Anthropology. An Anthology of Theoretical …, 1996
Reflecting Visual Ethnography—Using the camera in …, 2006
Aus der Ferne in die Nähe: neue Wege der …, 2004
Über die gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Ethnologie Jos DM Platenkamp 1. Die Frage Was könnte die ... more Über die gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Ethnologie Jos DM Platenkamp 1. Die Frage Was könnte die Wissenschaft der Ethnologie zu ... als isolierte und nach innen gekehrte soziale Gemeinschaften abgewertet werden, haben wir es mit Gesellschaften zu tun, die grundsätzlich ...
Integrating Strangers in Society. Perspectives from Elsewhere, 2019
The book presents the experiences of twelve social anthroplogists, 'strangers by vocation' , in t... more The book presents the experiences of twelve social anthroplogists, 'strangers by vocation' , in the course of their field research in various non-European societies. A comparative analysis reveals the similarities in the ways in which these different societies perceived amd valued their presence among them and thereby adss a new dimension to the debates about the integration of strangers in western societies.
The Jonglei Canal. Its impact on an integrated system in the Southern Sudan, 1978
Lebendes und Totes Geld, 2021
Einführung Es ist in der archäologischen Forschung nicht unüblich, aus Grabfunden bestimmte Schlu... more Einführung Es ist in der archäologischen Forschung nicht unüblich, aus Grabfunden bestimmte Schlussfolgerungen über den Status der Bestatteten und die Sozialstruktur der damaligen Gemeinschaft zu ziehen. Wenn also neben dem Leichnam eines Verstorbenen wertvolle Gegenstände-sagen wir, Schmuck oder Münzen-deponiert wurden, dann muss es sich doch sicherlich um eine Person hohen Ranges und somit um eine Gesellschaft mit ausgeprägten Standesunterschieden gehandelt haben. Aus ethnologischer Sicht könnten solche Schlussfolgerungen auf eine zu geringe epistemologische Distanz zum Forschungsobjekt deuten. Anders ausgedrückt: sie zeugen von der ‚ethnozentrischen' Annahme, dass die Mitglieder der damaligen Gesellschaft über den Wert von Schmuck und Geld dachten ‚wie wir'. Wie auch ‚bei uns' signalisierte ihr Besitz Stand und Wohlstand, und mittels ihrer Bestattung wurde das persönliche Eigentumsverhältnis zwischen den Wertgegenständen und ihren verstorbenen Besitzern in Ehre gehalten. Ethnologische Forschungen zu europäischen und nicht-europäischen Gesellschaften in Gegenwart und Vergangenheit werfen jedoch ein anderes Licht auf dieses Phänomen. Statt auf die Bedeutung zu fokussieren, welche man aus der Bestattung von Geld über den Stand eines Verstorbenen ableiten könnte, lässt sich eine ganz andere Frage stellen, und zwar diese: was konnte Menschen dazu bewegen, Geld oder andere Wertgegenstände durch Bestattung ihrer sozial-ökonomischen Zirkulation zu entziehen, und zwar so, dass sie für immer für die Gesellschaft verloren sind? 1 Dies ist eine überarbeitete Fassung von: Jos D. M. Platenkamp, 2016, ‚Money alive and money dead'. In: Colin Haselgrove & Stefan Krmnicek (eds), The Archaeology of Money. Leicester: University of Leicester Archaeology Monographs, pp. 161-181.