an ethical model that embeds the agon (contest, rivalry) and takes altruism off its pedestal. This agon is an inherent characteristic not only of human relations but also of relations between humans and nonhumans, like animals and Gods (chapter 7
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Frauke Mennes, John P. Hayes, David Kloos, Martha Lagace, Morten Koch Andersen, Somdeep Sen, Matthew Porges, and Sa’ed Atshan
Navigating the Politics of Anxiety
Moral Outrage, Responsiveness, and State Accountability in Denmark
Mette-Louise Johansen
outbreaks of moral outrage emerging in relation to some of the terror attacks in Northern Europe: the inadequacy of the Norwegian police’s reaction to the terrorist attacks on Utøya, the counterproductive effects of the UK Prevent model, and the lack of
Introduction
Doing Ritual While Thinking about It?
Emma Gobin
‘infelicitous performances’ ( Grimes 1988a ), from either the actor’s point of view or a formal perspective, nor can they always be reduced to deviations from a ‘model’ or a ‘script’ due to micro-political or purely sociological dynamics. They can also be
Pentecostalism and Egalitarianism in Melanesia
A Reconsideration of the Pentecostal Gender Paradox
Annelin Eriksen
model based on a social ideology with a strong European heritage has, on the one hand, set Melanesian societies in comparative dialogue with social systems elsewhere. On the other hand, however, it has perhaps prevented explorations of possible
The Chaco Skies
A Socio-cultural History of Power Relations
Alejandro Martín López and Agustina Altman
’s (1936) developments concerning ‘topological psychology’. Bourdieu’s (2005) idea of ‘social field’ is also fundamental to our conception of topologies of power as a qualitative characterization of the geometry of place, modeled by the power of its
The Ethics of Collective Sponsorship
Virtuous Action and Obligation in Contemporary Tibet
Jane Caple
this project therefore do not conform to the ‘economy of merit’ model of the Buddhist gift as reinforcing and reproducing the hierarchical distinction between laity and monastics, even if more general economic relations between the villagers and monks
Belarusian Professional Protesters in the Structure of Democracy Promotion
Enacting Politics, Reinforcing Divisions
Alena Minchenia
global structure of democracy promotion. Sean Chabot and Stellan Vinthagen point out the dominance of one, “Western,” model of resistance functioning as a blueprint in the research and practice of social movements irrespective of their context, and
Eluding the Esculacho
A Masculinities Perspective on the Enduring Warrior Ethos of Rio de Janeiro's Police
Celina Myrann Sørbøe
under the armed forces. During this period, a new brand of military masculinity was cultivated in militaries across the Americas. The anti-communist “New Man” was modeled on the guerilla warrior it sought to combat and promoted a masculinity without
First as Tragedy, Then as Teleology
The Politics/People Dichotomy in the Ethnography of Post-Yugoslav Nationalization
Stef Jansen
national idiom). The vertical functioning of the dichotomy model is unidirectional, from top to bottom. The subjects of nationalization are active political elites, who act upon passive people (its objects-targets), full stop. No two-way traffic. Bringa
Jens Kreinath and Refika Sariönder
Alevis to acquire the competence to exercise formerly esoteric practices as a marker of their public identity. Following Handelman (1998) , we conceive of the cem not only as a ‘model’ of a ritual practice that ‘mirrors’ the conditions of the Alevis in