JASO Occasional Papers 1982-1993 and 2017

Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford: Occasional Papers 1-10

Readers should note that most of these are Edited Collections, books containing several chapters/ papers by different authors.

OP1, 1982 | OP2, 1983 | OP3, 1984 | OP4, 1985 | OP5, 1986 | OP6, 1987 | OP7, 1988 | OP8, 1991 | OP9, 1993 | OP10, 2017

(OP1, 1982): Genres, Forms and Meaning: Articles on African Oral Literature

Edited by Veronika Görög-Karady with a Foreword by Ruth Finnegan

Veronika Görög-Karady. Preface i-ii PDF | ORA record
Ruth Finnegan. Foreword iv-vi PDF | ORA record
Rey-Hulman, D. Pratiques langagières et formes littéraires 1-13 PDF | ORA record
Derive, J. La reformulation en littérature orale. Typologie des transformations linguistiques dans les différentes performances d’une même oeuvre 14-21 PDF | ORA record
Knappert, J. Swahili oral traditions 22-30 PDF | ORA record
Görög-Karady, V. Retelling Genesis: The children of Eve and the origin of inequality 31-44 PDF | ORA record
Calame-Griaule, G. La jeune fille qui cherche ses frères. Essai d'analyse 45-56 PDF | ORA record
Casajus, D. Autour du rituel de la nomination chez les Touaregs Kel Ferwan 57-67 PDF | ORA record
Andrzejewski, B.W. Alliteration and scansion in Somali oral poetry and its cultural correlates 68-83 PDF | ORA record
Seydou, C. Comment définir le genre épique? Un exemple: L’épopée africaine 84-98 PDF | ORA record
Gunner, E. New wine in old bottles: Imagery in the izibongo of the Zulu Zionist prophet, Isaiah Shembe 99-108 PDF | ORA record
Donnelly, K and Omar, Y. Structure and association in Bajuni fishing songs 109-122 PDF | ORA record

(OP2, 1983): Death in Portugal: Studies in Portuguese Anthropology and Modern History

Edited by Rui Feijó, Herminio Martins and João de Pina-Cabral

Acknowledgements iv
Martins, H. Introduction v-xxii PDF | ORA Record
Goldey, P. The good death: personal salvation and community identity 1-16 PDF | ORA record
de Pina-Cabral, J., and Rui Feijó, R. Conflicting attitudes to death in modern Porgual: The question of cemetaries 17-43 PDF | ORA record
O’Neill, B.J. Dying and inheriting in rural Trás-os-Montes 44-74 PDF | ORA record
Brandão, M.F. Death and the survival of the rural household in a Northwestern principality 75-87 PDF | ORA record
Durães, M. Testamentary practices in Venade (Minho), 1755-1815 88-96 PDF | ORA record
Santos Silva, A. Oliveira Martins: Death in history 97-104 PDF | ORA record
Earle, T.F. Death and the imagination in Alexandre Herculano’s Eurico 105-19 PDF | ORA record
References

(OP3, 1984): The General’s Gift: A Celebration of the Pitt Rivers Museum Centenary, 1884-1984

Edited by B.A.L. Cranstone and Steven Siedenberg

Foreword vi-vii
Cranstone, B.A.L. The Pitt Rivers Museum in 1983 1-5 PDF | ORA record
Chapman, W.R. Pitt Rivers and his collection, 1874-1883: The chronicle of a gift horse 6-25 PDF | ORA record
Edwards, Elizabeth. Collecting with a camera: Pitt Rivers Museum photographic collections 26-35 PDF | ORA record
La Rue, Hélène. ‘The Natural History’ of a musical instrument collection 36-40 PDF | ORA record
Waite, Deborah B. The H.B.T. Somerville collection of artefacts from the Solomon Islands 41-52 PDF | ORA record
Hitchcock, Michael J. Thesis research and collecting: A fieldworker’s view 53-60 PDF | ORA record
Reynolds, Barrie. The relevance of material culture to anthropology 61-68 PDF | ORA record

(OP4, 1985): Contexts and Levels: Anthropological Essays on Hierarchy

Edited by R.H. Barnes, Daniel de Coppet and R.J. Parkin Full issue

Acknowledgements (vii) and Front matter PDF | ORA record
Barnes R.H. and de Coppet, Daniel. Introduction 1-7 PDF | ORA record
Barnes, R.H. Hierarchy without caste 8-20 PDF | ORA record
llen, N.J. AR.H. Hierarchical opposition and some other types of relation 21-32 PDF | ORA record
Hobart, Mark. Texte est un con 33-53 PDF | ORA record
Tcherkézoff, Serge. Black and white dual classification: Hierarchy and ritual logic in Nyamwezi ideology 54-67 PDF | ORA record
Casajus, Dominique. Why do the Tuareg veil their faces? 68-77 PDF | ORA record
Coppet, Daniel. Land owns people 78-90 PDF | ORA record
Iteanu, André. Levels and convertibility 91-102 PDF | ORA record
Forth, Gregory. Right and left as a hierarchical opposition: Reflections on Eastern Sumbanese hairstyles 103-116 PDF | ORA record
Barraud, Cécile. The sailing-boat: Circulation and values in the Kei Islands, Indonesia 117-130 PDF | ORA record
Pauwells, Simonne. Some important implications of marriage alliance: Tanimbar, Indonesia 131-138 PDF | ORA record
Howe, L.E.A. Caste in India and Bali: Levels of comparison 139-152 PDF | ORA record
Duff-Cooper, Andrew. Hierarchy, purity and equality among a community of Balinese on Lombok 153-166 PDF | ORA record
Howell, Signe. Equality and hierarchy in Chewong classification 167-180 PDF | ORA record
McDonaugh,Christian. The Tharu house: Oppositions and hierarchy 181-192 PDF | ORA record
Clarke, G.E. Hierarchy, status and social history in Nepal 193-210 PDF | ORA record
Name and Subject Index 213-19 PDF | ORA record

(OP5, 1986): Interpreting Japanese Society: Anthropological Approaches

Edited by Joy Hendry and Jonathan Webber PDF | ORA record

Hendry, Joy. Introduction: The contribution of social anthropology to Japanese studies 3-13 PDF | ORA record
van Bremen, J.G. The post-1945 anthropology of Japan 14-30 PDF | ORA record
Caillet, Laurence. Time in the Japanese ritual year 31-48 PDF | ORA record
Bachnik, Jane M. Time, space and person in Japanese relationships 48-75 PDF | ORA record
Beillevaire, Patrick. Spatial characterization of human temporality in the Ryūkyūs 76-87 PDF | ORA record
Crump, Thomas. The Pythagorean view of time and space in Japan 88-99 PDF | ORA record
Berque, Augustin. The sense of nature and its relation to space in Japan 100-110 PDF | ORA record
Valentine, James. Dance space, time and organisation: Aspects of Japanese cultural performance 111-130 PDF | ORA record
Yoshida, Teigo. Gods, ancestors and mediators: A cosmology from the Southwestern archipelago of Japan 131-146 PDF | ORA record
Matsunaga, Kazuto. The importance of the left hand in two types of ritual activity in a Japanese village 147-156 PDF | ORA record
Picone, Mary J. Buddhist popular manuals and the contemporary commercialization of religion in Japan 157-165 PDF | ORA record
Lewis, David C. 'Years of calamity’: Yakudoshi 166-184 PDF | ORA record
Kim, Ok-Pyo Moon. Is the ie disappearing in rural Japan? The impact of tourism on a traditional Japanese village 185-197 PDF | ORA record
Linhart, Sepp. Sakariba 198-210 PDF | ORA record
E. Ben-Ari A sports day in suburban Japan: Leisure, artificial communities and the creation of local sentiments 211-225 PDF | ORA record
Moeran, Brian. One over the seven: Sake 226-242 PDF | ORA record
Note on Contributors, Name Index, Subject Index PDF | ORA record

(OP6, 1987): Maritime Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Their Post-War Development and Current Resources

Edited by Peter Carey

Part 1: PDF | ORA record
Part 2: PDF | ORA record

(OP7, 1988): Vernacular Christianity: Essays in the Social Anthropology of Religion Presented to Godfrey Lienhardt

Edited by Wendy James and Douglas H. Johnson

Preface and Acknowledgements vi-x
James, Wendy and Johnson, Douglas H. Introductory Essay: On ‘native’ Christianity 1-14 PDF | ORA record
Just, Roger. Anti-clericism and national identity: Attitudes towards the Orthodox church in Greece 15-30 PDF | ORA record
Al-Shahi, Ahmed. Northern Sudanese perceptions of the Nubian Christian legacy 31-39 PDF | ORA record
Ryle, John. Miracles of the people: Attitudes to Catholicism in an Afro-Brazilian religious centre in Salvador da Bahia 40-50 PDF | ORA record
Lison-Tolosana, Carmelo. The Beatae 51-59 PDF | ORA record
Anderson, Jaynie. The head-hunter and head-huntress in Italian religious portraiture 60-72 PDF | ORA record
Asad, Talal. Towards a genealogy of the concept of ritual 73-87 PDF | ORA record
Street, Brian. Christian representations of the death of Captain Cook 88-104 PDF | ORA record
Gilles, Eva. The coming of Christianity to a Nigerian middle belt community 105-111 PDF | ORA record
Heelas, Paul and Haglund-Heelas, Anna Marie. The inadequacy of ‘deprivation’ as a theory of conversion 112-119 PDF | ORA record
Bourdillon, M.F.C. Gleaning: Shona selections from biblical myth 120-130 PDF | ORA record
James, Wendy. Uduk faith in a five-note scale: Mission music and the spread of the gospel 131-145 PDF | ORA record
Hagan, George P. Divinity and experience: The trance and Christianity in Southern Ghana 146-156 PDF | ORA record
Deng, Francis. Dinka response to Christianity: The pursuit of well-being in a developing society 157-169 PDF | ORA record
Johnson, Douglas H. Divinity abroad: Dinka missionaries in foreign lands 170-182 PDF | ORA record
Select Bibliography, Note of Contributors, Index PDF | ORA record

(OP8, 1991): An Old State in New Settings: Studies in the Social Anthropology of China in Memory of Maurice Freedman

Edited by Hugh D.R. Baker and Stephan Feuchtwang

Memorial Address by Sir Raymond Firth, Professor Maurice Freedman: In Memoriam 1-7 PDF | ORA record
Baker, Hugh D.R. Marriage and mediation: relations between lineages 11-24 PDF | ORA record
Martin, Diana. Chinese ghost marriage 25-43 PDF | ORA record
Inglis, Christine. Women and trade: A Chinese example from Papua New Guinea 44-69 PDF | ORA record
Palmer, Michael. Lineage and urban development in a New Territories market town 70-106 PDF | ORA record
Hayes, James W. Government and village: Reactions to modern development by long-settled communities in the New Territories of Hong Kong 107-138 PDF | ORA record
Feuchtwang, Stephan. A Chinese religion exists 139-161 PDF | ORA record
Watson, James L. Waking the dragon: Visions of the Chinese imperial state in local myth 162-177 PDF | ORA record
Aijmer, Göran. Chong-yang and the ceremonial calendar in central China 178-196 PDF | ORA record
Ming-wo, Soo. Some syncretic aspects of Swatow Baptist religious observance 197-222 PDF | ORA record
Elvin, Mark. Mandarins and millenarians: Reflections on the boxer uprising of 1899-1900 223-250 PDF | ORA record
Skinner, G.W. Maurice Freedman, 1920-1975: Obituary 251-262 PDF | ORA record
Skinner, G.W. Maurice Freedman: Bibliography 263-278 PDF | ORA record
Note on Contributors & Index 280-86 PDF | ORA record

(OP9, 1993): Governing the Nuer: Documents by Percy Coriat on Nuer History and Ethnography ISBN 1870047451

Edited by Douglas H. Johnson

Part 1: Preface and Editor's Introduction v-vi PDF | ORA record
Part 2: Sections 1 to 2.2 1-95 PDF | ORA record
Part 2: Sections 3 to 4.1 96-183 PDF | ORA record
Part 3: Sections 4.2 to 5 and Index 184-208 PDF | ORA record
Plates PDF | ORA record

(OP10, 2017): Language, indexicality and belonging

Edited by Nancy Hawker, Kinga Kozminska and Leonie Schulte PDF | ORA record