Roger Joseph
5 Papers
139 Citations
Roger Joseph is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ideology & Status symbol. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications.
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Sororicide/Filiacide: Homicide for Family Honour [and Comments and Reply]
Gideon M. Kressel,Alessandro Bausani,Joseph Ginat,Roger Joseph,Anatoly M. Khazanov,Simha F. Landau,Emanuel Marx,Moshe Shokeid +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the social characteristics of the instances of homicide, attempted homicide, and forced suicide for family honour that occurred in Israel between May 1973 and December 1978 are discussed. But the authors focus on Arab Muslims.
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Bride-Price Reconsidered [and Comments]
Gideon M. Kressel,Qais N. Al-Nouri,Barbara C. Aswad,William Tulio Divale,Fadwa El Guindi,Roger Joseph,Emre Kongar,Khalil Nakhleh,Jonathan Oppenheimer,Julian Pitt-Rivers,Basil Sansom +10 more
TL;DR: A revised consideration of bride-price and dowry is presented in this paper, where they are viewed as status symbols and mechanisms of fluidity relating to stratification systems, and an inability to carry out exchange "in kind" appears in cases of marriage between groups of different status and is shaped by cultural principles of stratification.
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Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Fadwa El Guindi,Dwight W. Read,John Paul Boyd,Michael L. Burton,N. Ross Crumrine,Richard S. Davis,A. de Ruijter,Morris Freilich,Don Handelman,Bruce Holbrook,Roger Joseph,David B. Kronenfeld,Ino Rossi,Steven Webster,William D. Wilder +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico.
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On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
I. C. Jarvie,Myron J. Aronoff,Joseph William Bastien,K. O. L. Burridge,Shlomo Deshen,Lee Drummond,F. Allan Hanson,Carole E. Hill,Roger Joseph,Edmund Leach,Arthur G. Miller,C. Patrick Morris,S. Nagata,Renato Rosaldo,W. G. Studdert-Kennedy,Roy Willis +15 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the symbolic reading involves projection of hidden meanings which have not been intentionally put there, and that even when the intellectual content is false or absurd, it can be meant literally, and perform a social function precisely because of this.
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Cultural Materialism: Food for Thought or Bum Steer? [and Comments and Replies]
Drew Westen,Michael S. Chibnik,Paul Diener,Jeffrey Ehrenreich,Madhav Gadgil,B.G. Halbar,Marvin Harris,Thomas W. Hill,Allen Johnson,Roger Joseph,Paul J. Magnarella,Michael Painter,Andrew P. Vayda +12 more
TL;DR: In its specific theories Harris's cultural materialism has often proven illuminating as mentioned in this paper, however, it is seriously flawed as a model of and method for studying culture, and one of the dilemmas it faces is the conflict between its epistemology and the assumption of infrastructural determinism: if empirical science is a superstructural concomitant of a particular infrastructure, then it can be neither more valid than any other view norcausally or practically significant.