Search Results - "Abramson, Allen"

The Growth of Species and the Making of Timeless Forms: Divine Objects and Extraordinary Bodies in Fijian Ritual Polities by Abramson, Allen

“…Oceanic polities and social organizations are often characterized as life‐giving systems that reproduce specific modes of humanity in ritual cycles of…”
Get full text

Distilling Hope The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge . By Hirokazu  Miyazaki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004 by Abramson, Allen

Get full text

Land, Law and Environment: Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries by Abramson, Allen, Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios

“…Land as a resource, rather than a cultural construct…”
Get full text

Relations in multicultural Fiji: The dynamics of articulations, transformations and positionings : Drinking to Mana and ethnicity : Trajectories of Yaqona practice and symbolism in eastern Fiji by ABRAMSON, Allen

Get full text

Drinking to Mana and Ethnicity: Trajectories of Yaqona Practice and Symbolism in Eastern Fiji by Abramson, Allen

“…This paper sets out a transformational history of yaqona use in Fiji from first contact with Europeans to present times. Trying to transcend the familiar…”
Get full text

Recreating the vertical by ABRAMSON, ALLEN, FLETCHER, ROBERT

“…Rock-climbing is discussed from an anthropological viewpoint. Rock-climbing has been developing from the late 19th century onwards as an instance of epic…”
Get full text

Uncertainty, Decision Science, and Policy Making: A Manifesto for a Research Agenda by Tuckett, David, Mandel, Antoine, Mangalagiu, Diana, Abramson, Allen, Hinkel, Jochen, Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos, Kirman, Alan, Malleret, Thierry, Mozetic, Igor, Ormerod, Paul, Smith, Robert Elliot, Venturini, Tommaso, Wilkinson, Angela

“…The financial crisis of 2008 was unforeseen partly because the academic theories that underpin policy making do not sufficiently account for uncertainty and…”
Get full text

Recreating the Vertical: Rock-Climbing as Epic and Deep Eco-Play by Abramson, Allen, Fletcher, Robert

Get full text

Dialectics of localization: The political articulation of land rites and land rights in the interior of eastern Fiji (1874-c.1990) by Abramson, Allen

Get full text

National Network for Teaching and Learning in Anthropology by Abramson, Allen

Get full text

Under the Palm Tree in Stockton? by Abramson, Allen

Get full text

Worlds of Knowledge, Cosmologies of Skills: Ethnography Outdoors in a Neo-Liberal University by Abramson, Allen

“…This article investigates the signs that modernizing agendas in contemporary UK universities have not only reduced autonomy and marketized practices but have…”
Get more information

Beyond "The Original Affluent Society": A Culturalist Reformulation [and Comments and Reply] by Bird-David, Nurit, Abramson, Allen, Altman, Jon, Bicchieri, M. G., Burch, Ernest S., Ember, Carol R., Endicott, Kirk M., Grinker, Roy Richard, Gudeman, Steve, Ichikawa, Mitsuo, Ingold, Tim, Wenzel, George W.

“…Recent developments in hunter-gatherer research are drawn on to reexamine Marshall Sahlin's notion of the original affluent society ("Notes on the Original…”
Get full text

Relations in multicultural Fiji: transformations, positionings and articulations by Abramson, Allen, Dickhardt, Michael, Trnka, Susanna, Kempf, Wolfgang, Hermann, Elfriede, Emde, Sina, Cretton, Viviane, Jolly, Margaret

Get full text

Sacred Cows of 'Development': the Ritual Incorporation of a Dairy Project in the Eastern Interior of Fiji (c.1980-1997) by Abramson, Allen

“…In the same way that store-goods once became the symbolic cornerstone of certain millenarian movements, features of development projects in rural areas of…”
Get full text

Beyond "The Original Affluent Society": A Culturalist Reformulation--Comment/Reply by Bird-David, Nurit, Abramson, Allen

“…Case studies of the Nayaka of South India, the Batek of Malaysia and the Mbuti of Zaire are used to reformulate Marshall Sahlins' "original affluent society"…”
Get full text

Distilling Hope by Abramson, Allen

“…Abramson reviews The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge by Hirokazu Miyazaki…”
Get full text

The discipline of leisure: embodying cultures of 'recreation'- Edited by Simon Coleman & Tamara Kohn by Abramson, Allen

Get full text

The Force of Ethnology: Origins and Significance of the Melanesia/Polynesia Division [and Comments and Replies] by Thomas, Nicholas, Abramson, Allen, Brady, Ivan, Green, R. C., Sahlins, Marshall, Stephenson, Rebecca A., Valjavec, Friedrich, White, Ralph Gardner

Get full text

Culture, contradiction and counterculture in the life-world of a Fijian chiefdom by Abramson, Allen Leslie

“…This study examines the field of clanship in Serea, a chiefdom of the interior region of 'Big Fiji'. It looks in detail at both the social organization and the…”
Get full text