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This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists in Roman law from some thirty European and North American universities. The eighth volume focuses on the impact of the Roman Empire on religious behaviour, with a special focus on the dynamics of ritual. The volume is divided into three sections: ritualising the empire, performing civic community in the empire and performing religion in the empire.

Ritual --- Rome --- Religion --- Religious life and customs --- Cult --- Cultus --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy)

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We live in a “metric culture” where data, algorithms, and numbers play an unmistakably powerful role in defining, shaping and ruling the world we inhabit. Increasingly, governments across the globe are turning towards metric technologies to find solutions for managing various social domains such as healthcare and education. While private corporations are becoming more and more interested in the collection and analysis of data and metrics for profit generation and service optimisation. What is striking about this metric culture is that not only are governments and private companies the only actors interested in using metrics and data to control and manage individuals and populations, but individuals themselves are now choosing to voluntarily quantify themselves and their lives more than ever before, happily sharing the resulting data with others and actively turning themselves into projects of (self-) governance and surveillance.'Metric Culture' is also not only about data and numbers alone but links to issues of power and control, to questions of value and agency, and to expressions of self and identity. This book provides a critical investigation into these issues examining what is driving the agenda of metric culture and how it is manifested in the different spheres of everyday life through self-tracking practices. Authors engage with a broad range of topics, examples, geographical contexts, and sites of analysis in order to account for the diversity and hybridity of metric culture and explore its various social, political and ethical implications.

Technology --- Social aspects. --- Metrology. --- Self-worship. --- Technologie. --- Mesure --- Aspect social --- Metric projections. --- Social Science --- Medical sociology. --- Disease & Health Issues. --- Projections, Metric --- Approximation theory --- Science --- Measurement --- Weights and measures

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Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore not accessible to economists working on synthetic theories of human choice. This book addresses the problem by bringing together anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in the study of religion and economy to forge an analytical vocabulary that constitutes the building blocks of a theory of ritual economythe process of provisioning and consuming that materializes and substantiates worldview for managing meanings and shaping interpretations.The chapters in Part I explore how values and beliefs structure the dual processes of provisioning and consuming. Contributions to Part II consider how ritual and economic processes interlink to materialize and substantiate worldview. Chapters in Part III examine how people and institutions craft and assert worldview through ritual and economic action to manage meaning and shape interpretation. In Part IV, Jeremy Sabloff outlines the road ahead for developing the theory of ritual economy. By focusing on the intersection of cosmology and material transfers, the contributors push economic theory towards a more socially informed perspective.

Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Economic anthropology. --- Ritual. --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Commerce, Primitive --- Economics, Primitive --- Economics --- Ethnology --- Economic anthropology --- Ritual --- Commerce --- Economic aspects --- Cross-cultural studies --- Social aspects --- E-books --- Anthropologie économique --- Rituel --- Trade --- Business --- Transportation --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants --- Business & Economics --- Social Science --- Economic theory & philosophy. --- Anthropology. --- General. --- Anthropology --- Economic aspects. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Social aspects.

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The first complete English translation of Dirck Coornhert's 1630 Synod on the Freedom of Conscience, one of the most elaborate and powerful pleas for religious tolerance published in early modern Europe

Asylum, Right of --Religious aspects. --- Freedom of religion. --- Religious pluralism. --- Religious tolerance. --- Freedom of religion --- Religious tolerance --- Christianity --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- History --- Netherlands --- History. --- Freedom of worship --- Intolerance --- Liberty of religion --- Religious freedom --- Religious liberty --- Separation of church and state --- Law and legislation --- Freedom of expression --- Liberty --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- religion --- philosophy --- geschiedenis --- history, geography, and auxiliary disciplines --- religie --- filosofie

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This study, based on a lifelong involvement with New Guinea, compares the culture of the Kamoro (18,000 people) with that of their eastern neighbours, the Asmat (40,000), both living on the south coast of West Papua, Indonesia. The comparison, showing substantial differences as well as striking similarities, contributes to a deeper understanding of both cultures. Part I looks at Kamoro society and culture through the window of its ritual cycle, framed by gender. Part II widens the view, offering in a comparative fashion a more detailed analysis of the socio-political and cosmo-mythological setting of the Kamoro and the Asmat rituals. Next is a systematic comparison of the rituals. The comparison includes a cross-cultural, structural analysis of relevant myths. This publication is of interest to scholars and students in Oceanic studies and those drawn to the comparative study of cultures. Jan Pouwer (1924) started his career as a government anthropologist in West New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s, with periods of intensive fieldwork, in particular among the Kamoro. A distinguished anthropologist, he held professorships at universities around the world.

Mimika (Indonesian people) --- Asmat (Indonesian people) --- Sex role --- Ritual --- Ethnology --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania --- Papua Barat (Indonesia) --- Social conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Cult --- Cultus --- Gender role --- Asmat --- Kamoro (Indonesian people) --- West Papua (Indonesia) --- Propinsi Papua Barat (Indonesia) --- Provinsi Papua Barat (Indonesia) --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Papuans --- Irian Jaya Barat (Indonesia) --- Ethnology. --- Manners and customs. --- Ritual. --- Sex role. --- Indonesia --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Social life and customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Etiquette --- Pemerintah Provinsi Papua Barat (Indonesia) --- indonesia --- papua culture --- oceanic studies --- anthropology --- gender studies --- Asmat people --- Canoe --- Headhunting --- Kamoro --- Kamoro language --- Sago --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles