Peripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound, No. 6

Arts & Photography

Center for the Study of World Religions

"Final volume of a series on folk literature of lowland South American indigenous peoples. Provides a list of contributors, a synthesis of narrative content, themes, and an extensive motif index. Important contribution to the study of folk narrative. Useful for comparative research"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

In Their Own Words: Introduction, Concordance of New Motifs, and Bibliography (Folk Literature of South American Indians)

Politics & Social Sciences

Johannes Wilbert

Karin Simoneau

Social Sciences

Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)

"Collection includes some of the author's most important essays written during 25 years of research among the Warao of the Orinoco Delta. Focus is on religious life, for which author provides in-depth comparative and historical interpretations of the symbolic values the Warao bestow on environmental, material, and social processes, revealing how Warao experience of life and the material conditions of existence are endowed with religious and mystical significance. This approach, outside of studies of the Guarani, has rarely been explored in South American ethnology"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Wilbert, Johannes

Anthropology

Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Religions of the World)

On 5 March 1985, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Lynch v. Donnelly that the inclusion of a life-sized creche as the focus of an annual civic Christmas display did not constitute an unconstitutional establishment of religion. In Paying the Words Extra, Winnifred Sullivan examines the case to illustrate and illuminate the ways in which religion is interpreted, defined, and talked about in American public life today. Sullivan analyzes and critiques the majority, concurring, and dissenting Supreme Court opinions in Lynch v. Donnelly, setting each opinion within its historical origins in U.S. constitutional history and examining each within a comparative context.Through her analysis of the Supreme Courts opinions, Sullivan reveals distinct and divergent American understandings of the nature of religion, the role of religion in public life, and the relationship and interaction of law and religion. Each of the different discourses about religion represented in the Lynch opinions inadequately represents the nature and diversity of American religions and thus hinders a shared discussion of the First Amendment religion clauses.Sullivan argues that the creation of a new public language and practice about religion is critical, and that, because of constitutional limitations on the executive and legislative branches, the Supreme Court plays a key role in the creation of such a new language. How should the Court talk about religion? Can it do so in such a way that acknowledges the need to take religion seriously and yet does not establish religion? Winnifred Sullivan asks us to give attention to the way we talk about religion - for, she reminds us, "people's lives are given meaning in the spaces created by words" - and then offers some thoughts on creating a new language that will "pay the words extra" by "honor[ing] both the commitment of the First Amendment and the lived experience of American religious history."

History

Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers

World

In 1985 the Supreme Court ruled in Lynch v. Donnelly that the inclusion of a life-sized creche in a civic Christmas display did not constitute an unconstitutional establishment of religion. Through her examination of this difficult case, Sullivan reveals divergent American understandings of the nature of religion, the role of religion in public life, and the relationship and interaction of law and religion.

Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff spent much of his life studying the oral culture of the Tukano Indians in the Northwest Amazon, including twenty years simply learning the four key Tukanoan languages. Through his translations and commentaries of the yuruparí fertility mythologem and ritual complex, Tukano oral art is revealed as an important expression of tribal philosophical and religious thought. 
 The four Tukano "texts" in this volume "speak of emotions, paint images, and construct sceneries." They contain coded cultural history and lead us into the meaning of oral traditions: meaning contained in admonitions, instructions, and explanations which constitute the fundamental precepts of social customs, conflict resolution, gender attitudes, and ecology. Reichel-Dolmatoff places the analytical study of South American oral art on a par with the great exegetic traditions of the Old World.

Yuruparí: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth (Religions of the World)

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo

The Confucian Sacrificial Ceremony, the Choctaw ball game, and the drum history of the Dagbamba, are some of the topics addressed in this collection of essays, which consider the intersection and interconnection of musics and religions in different world cultures.

Enchanting Powers: Music in the World's Religions (Religions of the World)

Music

For the Warao of the Venezuelan Orinoco Delta, survival$ under the extreme ecological conditions of the deltaic marshland requ$ exceptional adaptive agility. Johannes Wilbert presents the Warao's response to the climatological challenge of their homeland, deftly weaving the strands of geographic, atmospheric, biological, and cultu$ lore and learning into a rich tapestry of environmental wisdom. This volume, in the Religions of the World series, is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Center for the Study of Worl$ Religions.

Mindful of Famine: Religious Climatology of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)

The Confucian Sacrificial Ceremony, the Choctaw ball ga$ the "drum history" of the Dagbamba, the chanting of the Qur'an--these$ some of the topics addressed in this collection of essays by eminent musicologists, anthropologists, historians, and religionists as they consider the intersection and interconnection of musics and religions$ different world cultures. 
Contributors: Judith Becker, Philip V. Bohlman, John M. Chernoff, Michael W. Harris, Jonathan Hill, Moshe Idel, Victoria Lindsay Levine$ Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Rulan Chao Pian, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Kay Kaufman Shelemay. 
This volume, in the Religions of the World series, is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Center for the Study of Worl$ Religions.

Enchanting Powers: Music in the World’s Religions (Religions of the World)

Religion & Spirituality

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Peripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound, No. 6

In Their Own Words: Introduction, Concordance of New Motifs, and Bibliography (Folk Literature of South American Indians)

Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)

Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)

Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Religions of the World)

Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Religions of the World)

Yuruparí: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth (Religions of the World)

Enchanting Powers: Music in the World's Religions (Religions of the World)

Mindful of Famine: Religious Climatology of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World)

Enchanting Powers: Music in the World’s Religions (Religions of the World)