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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131635303321

Autore

Kraus Wolfgang <1958->

Titolo

Islamische Stammesgesellschaften : tribale Identitäten im Vorderen Orient in sozialanthropologischer Perspektive / / Wolfgang Kraus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vienna, Austria ; ; Cologne, Germany ; ; Weimar, Germany : , : Böhlau Verlag, , 2004

ISBN

9783205771869 (paperback)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Soggetti

Tribes - Middle East

Tribes - Morocco

Islamic sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first comprehensive study in German on tribal identity in the Middle East. It includes a comparative and theoretical survey of Muslim tribal societies and a detailed empirical case-study. A separate identity within wider political and cultural communities is one of the most characteristic aspects of Middle Eastern tribes. It is typically expressed in tribal striving for political autonomy - an autonomy practically realized in varying degrees according to historical conditions. The book examines cultural dimensions and practical manifestations of tribal identity in this tension between local particularism and wider belonging. A critical discussion of the anthropological notion of tribe serves as an introduction to the theoretical part of the book. The insight that the most important common traits of Muslim tribes are located in the cultural and ideological sphere leads on to an examination of the general characteristics of Middle Eastern tribal societies. Then specific cultural models of tribal identity, such as the ideological and practical role of kinship and marriage relations, are examined, and the highly variable practical manifestations of tribal organization are outlined. The first part of the book is concluded by a critical appraisal of competing theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of tribal identity, which



forms the basis for the empirical case study. In the second part, the theoretical approach elaborated in the first part is applied to a case study of a specific tribal society, a central Moroccan Berber tribe. First, the historical and geographical conditions are analyzed. Then the history of the tribe and the various kinds of sources for its understanding are discussed. Further chapters are devoted to the traditional political and legal institutions and their transformations in the course of the 20th century. The hierarchically ordered local status categories and the segmentary structure of the tribe are analyzed in detail. Finally, an investigation of orally transmitted historical knowledge shows that the local discourse about the past is a privileged domain for the study of the ideologies and cultural conceptions that constitute local tribal identity but also contribute to limiting and transcending it. An important methodological principle followed throughout is that ruptures and contradictions should not be ignored or explained away. The oral historical discourse not only provides an insight into the meaning of tribal identity. It also shows how covertly the dominant ideological models are called into question time and again. Even on the cultural and ideological level, tribal identity can only be understood in its interrelations with the wider identity relating to the Muslim state - interrelations that must be explained as historically conditioned and variable.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973947203321

Autore

Guimón J

Titolo

Art and madness / / Jose Guimon ; translated by Eoin McGirr and Mervyn Henderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aurora, Colo., : Davies Group, c2006

ISBN

1-935790-27-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Contemporary European cultural studies

Disciplina

616.89/1656

Soggetti

Psychology, Pathological

Art and mental illness

Artists - Psychology

Creative ability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Is there a hereditary disposition to creativity? -- The disinhibition of cortical control -- Psychological characteristics -- Creativity and drugs -- Anxiety and depersonalisation -- Psychotic experiences -- Affective disorders -- The emergence of the unconscious -- Perversion and artistic creativity -- The uncanny -- Narcissistic traumas -- Alterations of the image of the body -- Grief -- Non-conformism, dandyism and decadentism -- Avant-garde -- Postmodernism -- Obscenity and pornography -- Art as therapy.