In his Ethnographic Atlas of Ifugao, Harold C. Conklin describes the agricultural practices that have shaped a landscape of extensive terraced irrigation. While the book may be read as an anthropocentric story of human ...

That rituals are ambiguous phenomena has been long established in anthropology. However, while this ambiguity is often assumed to be resolved in one way or another through the course of a ritual and taken as contributing ...

For the Ifugao of Northern Luzon, the Philippines, life, health and well-being depend on the containment of the life force called lennawa within the body. The life sustaining lennawa-body relation is, however, inherently ...

This material has been published in Human Nature and Social Life: Perspectives on Extended Sociality, edited by Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme & Kenneth Sillander. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. ...

I will open this chapter with closures and close it with what I hope will become an opening. The closures I think of here are two. One is created by the alleged comparative dead end created by the ontological turn’s focus ...

Based on fieldwork conducted in a village in Ifugao, Northern Luzon, the Philippines, this thesis takes a closer look at how persons are constructed through the relations established and managed in Ifugao sacrificial ...