Over the past three decades, scholars have paid greater attention to the intensification and complex interconnectivity of local and global processes. Anthropological studies of cross-border marriages, migrant domestic workers, and sex workers have burgeoned, demonstrating growing scholarly interest in how social relations have become evermore geographically dispersed, impersonal, mediated by and implicated in broader political-economic or capitalist processes. At the same time, intimate and personal relations—especially those linked to households and domestic units, the primary units associated with reproductive labor—have become more explicitly commodified, linked to commodities and to commodified global processes (i.e., bought or sold; packaged and advertised; fetishized, commercialized, or objectified; consumed; assigned values and prices) and linked in many cases to transnational mobility and migration, presenting new ethnographic challenges and opportunities. This review highlights contemporary anthr...

The Commodification of Intimacy: Marriage, Sex, and Reproductive Labor

The current article provides a review of adoption research since its inception as a field of study. Three historical trends in adoption research are identified: the first focusing on risk in adopti...

Review: Adoption research: Trends, topics, outcomes

Despite the widespread use of strategy workshops in organizations, few empirical studie examine this phenomenon. The limited research that exists also lacks a theoretical basi for explaining why some workshops achieve their espoused purpose while others do not We offer a theoretical model of strategy workshop dynamics and outcomes by drawin on theories of ritual and ritualization. Our central argument is that variations in charac teristics of ritualization such as the degree of removal, the use of liturgy and the role o specialists influence behavioural dynamics within workshops and thereby the extent t which their purpose is achieved. This perspective extends research on the episodic natur of strategy development and contributes to a theoretically informed view of strategy practices

The Ritualization of Strategy Workshops

Social Identity Theory (SIT) is a promising tool in New Testament studies for helping readers understand the dynamics and formation of group identity in the First Century. The specific contention of this dissertation is that the author of Luke-Acts seeks to create and shape identity among God-fearers in the New Christian Movement by means of “cultural memory” and prescribed group behavior. Luke has an inclusive agenda that involves decentralization of the Jewish establishment, while redefining a number of core symbols of Judaism (notably the Temple and the land) around Jesus. Luke’s robust sense of gospel - rooted in Israel’s history, while extending to all people – forms a crucial backdrop for investigating his ethnically universalist tendencies and his narrative methods of communication. Specifically, social identity is formed through the use of prototypes and exemplars, characters that resemble a quality that the group either desires to promote or eliminate. Luke communicates many of these facets through speeches, utilizing elements of firstcentury Greco-Roman rhetoric. My eclectic, yet integrated approach aims to do justice to under-recognized features of social identity formation in Luke’s two volume work, with a particular focus on volume two (Acts).

The hermeneutics of social identity in Luke-Acts

List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: The Making of a World Religion: Christian Mission through the Ages: . 1. From Christ to Christendom. From Jerusalem into "All the World". The Creation of Catholic Europe, 400-1400. 2. Vernaculars and Volunteers, 1450-. Bible Translation and the Roots of Modern Missions. The Revitalization of Catholic Missions. The Beginnings of Protestant Missions. Voluntarism and Mission. Protestant Missionary Activities in the Nineteenth Century. 3. Global Networking for the Nations, 1910-. The Growth of Global Networks. International Awakenings. Awakening Internationalism. Post-Colonial Rejection of Christian Mission. Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans in Mission. Part II: Themes in Mission History: . 4. The Politics of Missions: Empire, Human Rights, and Land. Critiques of Missions. Missionaries and Human Rights. Missionaries and the Land. Missions and Ecology. 5. Women in World Mission: Purity, Motherhood, and Women's Well-Being. Women as Missionaries. Purity and Gender Neutrality. The Mission of Motherhood. Women's Well-Being and Social Change. 6. Conversion and Christian Community: The Missionary from St. Patrick to Bernard Mizeki. Who Was St. Patrick?. Bernard Mizeki, "Apostle to the Shona". Missionaries and the Formation of Communal Christian Identities. 7. Postscript: Multicultural Missions in Global Context. Bibliography. Index

Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion

Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgments. 1 Theories and Controversies. Introduction. Issues in the Study of Religion. The Origins of Religion. Defining Religion. Conclusion. Notes. References and Further Reading. 2 The Body as Symbol. Introduction. Symbolic Classification and the Body. Training the Body and Social Control. Personal and Cultural Symbols. Conclusion. Notes. References and Further Reading. 3 Maintaining and Transforming Boundaries: the Politics of Religious Identity. Introduction. Ritual Purity and Social Boundaries. Negotiating Identities. Contesting Boundaries. Conclusion. Notes. References and Further Reading. 4 Sex, Gender, and the Sacred. Introduction. Looking at Women. Reflexivity and Gender. Gendered Studies. Conclusion. Notes. References and Further Reading. 5 Religion, Culture, and Environment. Introduction. Cosmology. Mythology, Gender, and the Environment. Totemism and the Dreamtime. Conclusion. Notes. References and Further Reading. 6 Ritual Theory, Rites of Passage, and Ritual Violence. Introduction. What is Ritual?. Rites of Passage. Ritual Violence. Conclusion. Notes. References and Further Reading. 7 Shamanism. Introduction. Different Approaches to the Study of Shamanism. Arctic Shamanism. Shamanism in the Industrialized West. Conclusion. Notes. References and Further Reading. 8 Witchcraft and the Evil Eye. Introduction. Witchcraft in Africa. Witchcraft in Rural France. The Evil Eye. The Mentalities Debate. Notes. References and Further Reading. 9 Pilgrimage. Introduction. Approaches to the Study of Pilgrimage. The Politics of Religious Synthesis. Conclusion. Notes. References and Further Reading. 10 Myth. Introduction. Myth and Ritual. Malinowski and the Function of Myth. The Power of Myth. The Structural Study of Myth. Joseph Campbell and the Monomyth. History, Myth, and Memory. Conclusion. Notes. References and Further Reading. Appendix: Film and Video Resources. Index

The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction

An anthropological approach to religion is characterised by engagement with the people studied through participant observation in the field. Although the ethnographer might be changed by this experience, the majority of anthropologists are constrained by academic and cultural conventions that prevent them from fully engaging with it. The challenge for anthropologists is to find a language that moves beyond the security of phenomenological or scientific approaches to religion, without becoming apologists for any one theological perspective.

Anthropology of Religion

Dedication Preface List of Contributors Glossary of Anthropological Terms Introduction 1. Adoption and the Circulation of Children: A Comparative Perspective Fiona Bowie 2. Adopting a Native Child: An Anthropologist's Personal Involvement in the Field Godula Kosack Part 1: Africa 3. 'The Real Parents are the Foster Parents': Social Parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin Erdmute Alber 4. Fosterage and the Politics of Marriage and Kinship in East Cameroon Catrien Notermans 5. Adoption Practices among the Pastoral Maasai of East Africa: Enacting Fertility Aud Talle Part 2: Asia and Oceania 6. Korean Institutionalised Adoption Inge Roesch-Rhomberg 7. Transactions in Rights, Transactions in Children: A view of Adoption from Papua New Guinea Melissa Demian 8. Adoption and Belonging in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea Astrid Anderson 9. Adoptions in Micronesia - Past and Present Dietrich Treide Part 3: Central and South America 10. 'The One who Feeds has the Rights': Adoption and Fostering of Kin, Affines and Enemies among the Yukpa and other Carib-speaking Indians of Lowland South America Ernst Halbmayer 11. The Circulation of Children in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighbourhood: A Local Practice in a Globalized World Claudia Fonseca 12. Person, Relation and Value: The Economy of Circulating Ecuadorian Children in International Adoptions Esben Leifsen 13. Choosing Parents: Adoption into a Global Network Huon Wardle Part 4: Intercountry and Domestic Adoptions in 'the West' 14. National Bodies and the Body of the Child: 'Completing' Families through International Adoption Barbara Yngvesson 15. The Backpackers that Come to Stay: New Challenges to Norwegian Transnational Adoptive Families Signe Howell 16. Partial to Completeness: Gender, Peril and Agency in Australian Adoption Jon Telfer 17. Adoption: A Cure for (too) Many Ills Peter Selman

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

F. Bowie, Introduction: Reclaiming Women's Presence - Part I: Women Missionaries - D. Kirkwood, Protestant Missionary Women: Wives and Spinsters - P. Williams, The 'Missing Link': The Recruitment of Women Missionaries in Some English Evangelical Missionary Societies in the Nineteenth Century - C. Swaisland, Wanted: Earnest, Self-Sacrificing Women for Service in South Africa: Nineteenth-Century Recruitment of Single Women to Protestant Missions - V. Cunningham, 'God and Nature Intended You for a Missionary's Wife': Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and Other Missionary Women in the 1840s - Part II: Mission Impact on Women - A. Hastings, Were Women a Special Case? - M. Lapodi, From Heathen Kraal to Christian Home: Anglican Mission Education and African Christian Girls, 1850-1900 - F. Bowie, The Elusive Christian Family: Missionary Attempts to Define Women's Roles: Case Studies from Cameroon - T. Kanogo, Mission Impact on Women in Colonial Kenya - A. Basu, Mary Ann Cooke to Mother Teresa: Christian Missionary Women and Indian Response - E. Isichei, Does Christianity Empower Women? The Case of the Anaguta of Central Nigeria - S. Lund Skar, Catholic Missionaries and Andean Women: Mismatching Views on Gender and Creation - J. Burke, These Catholic Sisters Are All Mamas! Celibacy and the Metaphor of Maternity

Women and missions : past and present : anthropological and historical perceptions

The manner in which a religious culture is transmitted and internalised defies conventional ethnographic description. Exterior forms of behaviour, articulated expressions of motivation, observable rules and appearances can be described, but the interior, ascetic dimensions of the experience are less amenable to observation and analysis. In this study the author uses Mauss's notion of habitus, the learned bodily techniques that often appear natural, to discuss some of the ways in which the culture of the Focolare Movement is transmitted to its members. As a member of the Focolare, the author has internalised many aspects of Focolare religious culture, and uses reflexive experience to discuss the methodological issues surrounding spiritual relationships with informants. The article also discusses the importance of a gender-specific analysis and the consequences of doing 'anthropology at home' in a supposedly alien fieldwork setting, that of the Focolare permanent Mariapolis at Fontem in South West Cameroon.

Fiona Bowie

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The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction

Anthropology of Religion

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

Women and missions : past and present : anthropological and historical perceptions

An anthropology of religious experience: spirituality, gender and cultural transmission in the Focolare movement