For this week of the Oscillations Reading Group - Symmetric Anthropology as a Practice - we will be reading "Kuwé Duwákalumi: The Arawak Sacred Routes of Migration, Trade, and Resistance" by Silvia Vidal.

For this week of The Oscillations Reading Group, Symmetric Anthropology as a Practice, meeting 11am EST 10/2, we will be reading the Introduction and Ch. 1 of Homo Hierarchus : The Caste System and its Implications, by Louis Dumont.

For this week of The Oscillations Reading Group, meeting 11am EST 10/16, we will be reading the following from Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus: Ch 2, "From System to Structure" and Ch 7, "Power and Territory"; and also the "Introduction" and Ch 11, "Religion" from Goldman's The Cubeo.

For this week of The Oscillations Reading Group, meeting 11am EST 10/23, we will be reading the following Flower's Islam and Cultural Change in PNG: Ch 2, "The early history and establishment of Islam in PNG" and Ch 4, "Globalisation and the limits of Kastom and Christianity."

For the next Oscillations Reading Group, meeting 11am EST 11/13, we will be reading the following from Bat Ye'or's Understanding Dhimmitude: "Preface," "Conceded Toleration must Give Way to Equality," and "Aspects of Islamic Religious Tolerance."

For the next Oscillations Reading Group, meeting 11am EST 11/20, we will be reading "X: The Book of Jiihad" (p.454-487) from Ibn Rushd's Bidayat al-Mujtahid: The Distinguished Jurist's Primer. ( archive.org/.../BidayatAl.… )

For the next Oscillations Reading Group, meeting 11am EST 12/18, we will be reading "Ethnographic Experimentation and the Disappearing Field of Ethnography," by Adolfo Estalella.

For the next Oscillations Reading Group, meeting 11am EST 01/15, we will be reading Part I of "Divinity and Experience: the Religion of the Dinka" by Godfrey Lienhardt.

For the next Oscillations Reading Group, meeting 5pm EST 02/20, we will be reading "Anti-Semitism and National Socialism: Notes on the German Reaction to 'Holocaust'" by Moishe Postone.

For the next Oscillations Reading Group, meeting 5pm EST 02/27, we will be reading chapter 1, "Religious Authority and Mysticism," from Gershom Scholem's On the Kabbalah and its symbolism.

For the next Oscillations Reading Group, meeting 5pm EST 3/6, we will be reading chapters 1 and 6 from The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India by Yulia Egorova and Shahid Perwez.

Those who say that revivalist polytheism is mere role-playing show that they themselves have no deeper conception of religion. They dismiss the reality of anything beyond performance, so that if the performance is interrupted, and the script lost, there is nothing left.

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Oscillations: Non-Standard Experiments in Anthropology, the Social Sciences & Cosmology has promoted a space of reason [academic freedom], for thinking-with others, whomever they may be, from the Beginning.

What I learned from living with the Desana people in the Amazon was not what it means to live on the margins of the world—but what it means to inhabit its center. The Desana place themselves at the very heart of the cosmos, as a unique and distinct people. From them, I learned

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