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{"title":"Making our own destiny: Single women, opportunity, and family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo by Y Lynne, Nakano Honolulu: University of Hawai'i press. 2022. pp. xiii+238, ISBN: 9780824889968 (hardback)","authors":"Huan Yu","doi":"10.1111/taja.12460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12460","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"49-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50153696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making our own destiny: Single women, opportunity, and family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo by LynneY, Nakano Honolulu: University of Hawai'i press. 2022. pp. xiii+238,\u0000 ISBN\u0000 : 9780824889968 (hardback)","authors":"Huan Yu","doi":"10.1111/taja.12460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12460","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44315523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The consumption of ritual and the changing values of filial piety in ancestor worship","authors":"Meng Cao","doi":"10.1111/taja.12459","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12459","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ancestor worship is regarded as the key element of the Han people's belief system across most of China. However, the rituals pertaining to death, such as in funerals and annual ancestor worship, vary from place to place. For decades, the state has made tremendous efforts to reform and standardise funerals consistent with its path to modernization by insisting on more socialist practices rather than those that are perceived as ‘superstitious’ and ‘irrational’, such as burning paper and incense or performing rituals. I argue that despite regulating the use of funeral materials or memorial types, the state has failed to reform the essence of death rituals, that is, the duty of filial piety and people's conception of the afterlife. In addition, funerals and other rituals related to death contribute to individual's social reputation.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"15-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42665842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of Evadne Kelly, Dancing spirit, love, and war: Performing the translocal realities of contemporary Fiji, studies in dance history. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019","authors":"Paul Geraghty","doi":"10.1111/taja.12458","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12458","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"45-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42955350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: From rupture to repair","authors":"Naomi Richman,&nbsp;J. Derrick Lemons","doi":"10.1111/taja.12456","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12456","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;This special issue develops and expands the discussion about religious change within the anthropology of Christianity by introducing the analytic of ‘repair’ to complement ‘rupture’. Rupture has emerged in the last two decades as a framework for theorising ethnographic accounts of Christian conversion described in radical or absolute terms (e.g., Carroll, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;; Daswani, &lt;span&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;; Engelke, &lt;span&gt;2004&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;; Handman, &lt;span&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;; Haynes, &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;; Holbraad et al., &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;; Marshall, &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;; Meyer, &lt;span&gt;1998&lt;/span&gt;; Robbins, &lt;span&gt;2007&lt;/span&gt;). It has been highly productive in destabilising the anthropological propensity towards what Joel Robbins has called ‘continuity-thinking’—the tendency in the subject to undertheorise social and cultural change and overemphasise similarities between past and present (Robbins, &lt;span&gt;2007&lt;/span&gt;). The intention of this special issue contribution is not to challenge or undermine the importance of rupture as a tool for understanding religious conversion, Christian or otherwise, nor is it to question the heuristic value of it for the subject of anthropology more broadly. Instead, we propose the use of ‘repair’ here as a complementary and counterbalancing framework for understanding how Christians frame conversion and change, as well as an ethnographic instrument that encourages us to think beyond the continuity/discontinuity dynamic and towards other kinds of framings of change that humans appeal to in general.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In more concrete terms, repair facilitates anthropological thinking about the ways that people seek to restore a sense of wholeness—within themselves, their communities, with God(s) or the cosmos at large. This might be achieved by attempting to revisit and recreate a part of their history, or by imagining and effectuating a morally vindicated or spiritually complete future. These are not either/or categories, and cultural models of repair vary in the extent to which they are oriented towards visions of the past or of the future. A disposition towards repair can take place following efforts at discontinuity, although it can also operate independently of it and be pursued on its own terms, for its own sake (such as in the Jewish model of &lt;i&gt;tikkun&lt;/i&gt;, or healing, for example). As with rupture, it is a category that has emerged primarily out of specific ethnographic contexts (represented in our own fieldwork sites and those of the other contributors), but takes on a life of its own as it generates new analytical models for understanding the way cultural discourses and practices are shaped by the religious framing of change as a kind of ‘repair’. In this way, the repair framework does not seek to supplant rupture, nor advocate a revival of attention towards continuity (e.g., Chua, &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;; Hann, &lt;span&gt;2007&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;). It rather points at an orientation towards change that simultan","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"33 3","pages":"337-348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12456","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48184320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England","authors":"Jonathan Miles-Watson","doi":"10.1111/taja.12455","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12455","url":null,"abstract":"<p>County Durham in the UK has witnessed dramatic social and environmental shifts over the past 50 years, yet Durham Cathedral has stood at the heart of the region, seemingly solid, unchanging and eternal. It is frequently narrated as a prestigious jewel (a national treasure) that is surrounded by a countryside (and people) that clearly bear the time-marked scars of the processes of industrialisation and deindustrialisation. In this paper, I explore a recent moment in time when a partnership between the Cathedral and the local secular authorities aimed to rapidly transform our understanding of this space by connecting Cathedral and county through the newly laid Northern Saints' Trails. These Trails were designed as both a response to rapid changes in the local ecology and a catalyst for further transformation. The processes of this formation were ultimately delayed by the outbreak of COVID-19, yet this external force allowed the Pilgrimage project to find new life as a powerful healing practice for those who dwell in Durham. Attention to this process of purposeful, regular pilgrimage directs our attention towards the entangled nature of the home anthropologist and their role in the co-construction of space, leading to a call for a new articulation of both core methods in the anthropology of religion and a return to a form of prophetic anthropology (Miles-Watson, 2020).</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"33 3","pages":"412-427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12455","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46457465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Come back anytime. Director: John Dashbach, JD Media Ltd, 2021. 120 minutes. Japanese with English subtitles. Good docs.","authors":"David Lipset","doi":"10.1111/taja.12457","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12457","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"33 3","pages":"454-455"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49125035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The transnational village in Timor-Leste","authors":"Michael Rose","doi":"10.1111/taja.12454","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12454","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Migrants in 2020 stay connected with their homes in ways unimaginable just 10 years ago. In the case of the Australian Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) which facilitates the short term, repeat travel of Timorese to Australia to engage in harvest labour, this connectivity particularly pronounced and important. In this article, drawing on original ethnographic fieldwork in the household of a returned SWP worker in Oecussi, I argue that this connectivity is intense enough that it calls us to reassess what we mean by migration how we think about its impact on development. Rather than thinking of SWP participants as migrants, I argue, it may be more useful to think of them as ‘trans-national villagers’ whose international labour encodes understandings of work and wealth that are essentially an extension of those prevailing in Timor and definitive in its impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12454","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47431724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On resisting plus ça change in the anthropology of religion","authors":"Simon Coleman","doi":"10.1111/taja.12453","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12453","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"33 3","pages":"442-453"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45282414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Personal beginnings and institutional endings in spiritualism","authors":"Matt Tomlinson","doi":"10.1111/taja.12452","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12452","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the religious movement known as Spiritualism, a medium's task is to provide evidence that there is no such thing as death. Human existence is defined by Spiritualists in terms of continual spiritual progress rather than stark beginnings and endings, although converts do tell vivid stories of the moment they realised Spiritualism's truth. The movement changed over decades as mediums turned their attention from physical to mental manifestations of spiritual presence. Mediumship has remained popular in public culture, but as an institution Spiritualism has declined in prominence to the point where many members of the movement now join it as converts and worry about the closure of churches. In this article, I juxtapose personal and institutional beginnings and endings to show their interrelation, with people's senses of radical newness and progress cultivated in the context of perceived institutional decline.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"33 3","pages":"396-411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12452","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48703473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}