In: Studies in Social Analysis 7
Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy-or the reemergence of old forms-as people try to reconstitute an imagined past of stable moral order. This is evident from the Islamic revival in the Middle East to visions of the 1950s family among conservatives in the United States. Why does this happen and how do we make sense of this phenomenon? Why do some communities see hierarchy as desireable? In this book, leading anthropologists draw on insightful ethnographic case studies from around the world to address these trends. Together, they develop a theory of hierarchy that treats it both as a relational form and a framework for organizing ideas about the social good
In: Studies in Social Analysis Volume 7
Chapter 1. Battle of Cosmologies -- Chapter 2. Vertical Love -- Chapter 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Dead -- Chapter 4. Civilization, Hierarchy, and Political-Economic Inequality -- Chapter 5. Islam and Pious Sociality -- Chapter 6. Demotion as Value -- Afterword -- Index
In: Studies in social analysis
Battle of cosmologies : the Catholic Church, Adat, and "inculturation" among Northern Lio, Indonesia / Signe Howell -- Vertical love : forms of submission and top-down power in Orthodox Ethiopia / Diego Maria Malara and Tom Boylston -- The good, the bad, and the dead : the place of destruction in the organization of social life, which means hierarchy / Frederick H. Damon -- Civilization, hierarchy, and political-economic inequality / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Islam and pious sociality : the ethics of hierarchy in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan / Arsalan Khan -- Demotion as value : rank infraction among the Ngadha in Flores, Indonesia / Olaf H. Smedal
In: Studies in social analysis volume 7
Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy-or the reemergence of old forms-as people try to reconstitute an imagined past of stable moral order. This is evident from the Islamic revival in the Middle East to visions of the 1950s family among conservatives in the United States. Why does this happen and how do we make sense of this phenomenon? Why do some communities see hierarchy as desireable? In this book, leading anthropologists draw on insightful ethnographic case studies from around the world to address these trends. Together, they develop a theory of hierarchy that treats it both as a relational form and a framework for organizing ideas about the social good
In: Studies in social analysis Volume 7
Battle of cosmologies : the Catholic Church, Adat, and "inculturation" among Northern Lio, Indonesia / Signe Howell -- Vertical love : forms of submission and top-down power in Orthodox Ethiopia / Diego Maria Malara and Tom Boylston -- The good, the bad, and the dead : the place of destruction in the organization of social life, which means hierarchy / Frederick H. Damon -- Civilization, hierarchy, and political-economic inequality / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Islam and pious sociality : the ethics of hierarchy in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan / Arsalan Khan -- Demotion as value : rank infraction among the Ngadha in Flores, Indonesia / Olaf H. Smedal
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