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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- ceremonies --- social anthropology --- rites --- Mexico

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Transcontinentales souhaite contribuer à une meilleure compréhension des sociétés contemporaines, en éclairant leurs héritages, leurs mutations et leur mode de participation au grand mouvement des idées et aux lignes de forces qui structurent le monde d’aujourd’hui. Appuyée sur les 27 instituts français de recherche répartis sur quatre continents, bénéficiant de leurs réseaux dans la communauté internationale des chercheurs, disposant d’un conseil scientifique international et d’un comité de rédaction pluridisciplinaire, Transcontinentales s’ouvre aux travaux significatifs conduits au plus près du terrain, comme aux synthèses cherchant à décrypter de grandes questions régionales ou mondiales. Elle est sensible aux dialectiques unissant passé et présent, le local et le global, dans une démarche irriguée par les sciences sociales au sens large.

Ethnology --- Ethnology. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Social Sciences --- Gender Studies

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In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly "cannibal talk," a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders that results in sometimes funny and sometimes deadly cultural misunderstandings. Turning his keen intelligence to Polynesian societies in the early periods of European contact and colonization, Obeyesekere deconstructs Western eyewitness accounts, carefully examining their origins and treating them as a species of fiction writing and seamen's yarns. Cannibalism is less a social or cultural fact than a mythic representation of European writing that reflects much more the realities of European societies and their fascination with the practice of cannibalism, he argues. And while very limited forms of cannibalism might have occurred in Polynesian societies, they were largely in connection with human sacrifice and carried out by a select community in well-defined sacramental rituals. Cannibal Talk considers how the colonial intrusion produced a complex self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the fantasy of cannibalism became a reality as natives on occasion began to eat both Europeans and their own enemies in acts of "conspicuous anthropophagy."

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Archaeological theory has gone through a great upheaval in the last 50 years – from the processual theory, which wanted to make archaeology more "scientific" to post-processual theory, which understands that interpreting human behavior (even of past cultures) is a subjective study. This subjective approach incorporates a plurality of readings, thereby implying that different interpretations are always possible, allowing us to modify and change our ideas under the light of new information and/or interpretive frameworks. In this way, interpretations form a continuous flow of transformation and change, and thus archaeologists do not uncover a real past but rather construct a historical past or a narrative of the past. Post-processual theory also incorporates a conscious and explicit political interest on the past of the scholar and the subject. This includes fields and topics such as gender issues, ethnicity, class, landscapes, and consumption. This reflects a conscious attempt to also decentralize the discipline, from an imperialist point of view to an empowering one. Method and theory also means being politically aware and engaged to incorporate diverse critical approaches to improve understanding of the past and the present. This book focuses on the fundamental theoretical issues found in the discipline and thus both engages and represents the very rich plurality of the post-processual approach to archaeology. The book is divided into four sections: Issues in Archaeological Theory, Archaeological Theory and Method in Action, Space and Power in Material Culture, and Images as Material Discourse.

Archaeology. --- Material culture. --- Ethnology. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Anthropology. --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences