Gerda Roelvink
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816676170
- eISBN:
- 9781452954240
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676170.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
Throughout this book I highlight the role of relational geographies in the constitution of our world. This argument has important implications for researchers, who can no longer assume that they are ...
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Throughout this book I highlight the role of relational geographies in the constitution of our world. This argument has important implications for researchers, who can no longer assume that they are isolated from the boarder networks they study or the realities they help bring into being. In the concluding chapter of this book I discuss the responsibility researchers have to those within the networks in which their research participates. This includes a responsibility to that which is made visible through research practices and also to that which is invisible. An awareness of the intertwining of research and social movement struggle is vital to ethical performances of new economiesLess
Throughout this book I highlight the role of relational geographies in the constitution of our world. This argument has important implications for researchers, who can no longer assume that they are isolated from the boarder networks they study or the realities they help bring into being. In the concluding chapter of this book I discuss the responsibility researchers have to those within the networks in which their research participates. This includes a responsibility to that which is made visible through research practices and also to that which is invisible. An awareness of the intertwining of research and social movement struggle is vital to ethical performances of new economies
Ulrich Demmer
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199466818
- eISBN:
- 9780199087303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199466818.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Chapter three describes and analyses the ethical discourses and performances conducted at illness and in times of severe suffering when the ancestor-deities are consulted. The first set of rituals ...
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Chapter three describes and analyses the ethical discourses and performances conducted at illness and in times of severe suffering when the ancestor-deities are consulted. The first set of rituals being examined are the healing rituals. Like the death rituals they are dialogic discourses, this time carried out between the ancestors (embodied in the shaman or healer) and the relatives of the sick person. The third ritual context that we analyse is the worship of ancestors and this performance is also a dialogue combining verbal and symbolic articulations. The chapter examines the poiesis and the rhetoric of both ritual settings, the ethical imagination the construction of concepts of a good life. Moreover, the performance of symbolic actions and their semantic and pragmatic meanings are analysed in detail.Less
Chapter three describes and analyses the ethical discourses and performances conducted at illness and in times of severe suffering when the ancestor-deities are consulted. The first set of rituals being examined are the healing rituals. Like the death rituals they are dialogic discourses, this time carried out between the ancestors (embodied in the shaman or healer) and the relatives of the sick person. The third ritual context that we analyse is the worship of ancestors and this performance is also a dialogue combining verbal and symbolic articulations. The chapter examines the poiesis and the rhetoric of both ritual settings, the ethical imagination the construction of concepts of a good life. Moreover, the performance of symbolic actions and their semantic and pragmatic meanings are analysed in detail.
Ulrich Demmer
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199466818
- eISBN:
- 9780199087303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199466818.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Chapter four explores the second set of ethical performances and debates among the Jēnu Kuṟumba, the death rituals. These rituals constitute arenas of elaborate ethical argumentation and they are a ...
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Chapter four explores the second set of ethical performances and debates among the Jēnu Kuṟumba, the death rituals. These rituals constitute arenas of elaborate ethical argumentation and they are a vital part of the ritual performances conducted by the Jēnu Kuṟumba people. The death rituals include extensive verbal dialogues between a shaman and the relatives of the dead person. The chapter examines the poiesis and the rhetoric of the ethical imagination performed in these rituals and shows how concepts of a good life are articulated. It also gives a detailed discourse analysis of the indigenous debates and it represents these voices in detail. In addition a set of symbolic actions is performed which also serve as arguments in the moral debate.Less
Chapter four explores the second set of ethical performances and debates among the Jēnu Kuṟumba, the death rituals. These rituals constitute arenas of elaborate ethical argumentation and they are a vital part of the ritual performances conducted by the Jēnu Kuṟumba people. The death rituals include extensive verbal dialogues between a shaman and the relatives of the dead person. The chapter examines the poiesis and the rhetoric of the ethical imagination performed in these rituals and shows how concepts of a good life are articulated. It also gives a detailed discourse analysis of the indigenous debates and it represents these voices in detail. In addition a set of symbolic actions is performed which also serve as arguments in the moral debate.
