[Anthropgrad] Seminar, November 22nd.

[nelia.hyndman-rizik at anu.edu.au]

Hi all,

 

We have two student seminars next week one on Thursday and our regular
Friday seminar.  On Thursday the 22nd of November in the Milgate Room, AD
HOPE at 3pm, Rikardo Shedden will be presenting his pre-fieldwork seminar
entitled:

 

"Processes of Religious Change in a Highland Kalinga Community" 

 

Abstract:

 

The fieldwork I propose to undertake in a highland Kalinga village in
northern Luzon, Philippines will focus on indigenous religious conceptions,
historically understood by past scholars (Dozier: 1966; De

Raedt: 1989, 1993, 1996) as synchronic and distinct, but which I suggest can
more accurately be conceived of as continually changing and differently
blended, indigenous with Christian. There is also a strong likelihood that
these mixed religious forms integrate with various secular spheres of
activity, contesting notions that religious practices and beliefs are
distinct domains separate from people's daily lives.

 

By looking at a location where so many ritual situations exist, each with a
strong likelihood for syncretic blending, I propose to investigate how
synthesis of this kind informs the religious coherence of this community,
while concomitantly refracting into social, political and economic domains.
With this research I hope to present a contemporary understanding of
integrative religious processes in Kalinga country, while also contributing
to a larger discourse on the anthropology of religious syncretism in the
Philippines, and more broadly across Southeast Asia.

 

I hope to see you all there!

 

 

 

 

Nelia Hyndman-Rizik

PhD Candidate

School of Archaeology and Anthropology

ANU

nelia.n at bigpond.com

nelia.hyndman-rizik at anu.edu.au

 

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