Paula G. Rubel’s research while affiliated with Columbia University and other places

... On this, it seems there exists a tremendous amount of research (e.g. Connor 1994;Conversi 2002;Rosman and Rubel 2006). 27. ...

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The socio-theoretical relevance of Erich Fromm’s psychoanalytic conception of narcissism: Towards a Frommian critical social theory of narcissism

... When translation is considered as a "field", then it can not only take place between different languages, but also includes the behavior of crossing the boundary at any level. "In its broadest sense, translation means cross-cultural understanding" (Rubel & Rosman, 2003). This becomes more obvious in the context of diaspora literature. ...

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Translation of Human Existence in Timothy Mo’s Sour Sweet

... Knowing the structure of kinship relationships is valuable when translating kinship terms (Rosman & Rubel, 2003). English, Siswati and Sesotho like other languages have names used to describe family relations. ...

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The Challenges Experienced by Students of the University of Eswatini and National University of Lesotho When Translating Kinship Terms between English, Siswati and Sesotho

... Anteriormente, vivían como sus vecinos, los bell coolas y los nootkas en bandas pequeñas y carecían de criterios de descendencia (descendencia ambilateral), de jefes y de nobleza hereditaria. Pero cuando se trasladaron a la costa para aprovechar la mayor abundancia de recursos que allí había, crearon grupos unidos por el parentesco con demandas grupales fijas en relación con los recursos, jerarquías sociales de rango, jefes hereditarios y en donde las líneas principales y las subalternas tenían privilegios distintos (Rubel y Rosman, 1983;Rosman y Rubel, 1986). Los jefes (numayma), que pertenecían al estrato de los nobles, controlaron y representaron los mitos y los rituales, pero al mismo tiempo administraron los recursos; ellos suministraban y monopolizaban los alimentos en las ceremonias y distribuían los regalos a los invitados en el potlatch (ceremonia de intercambio de regalos). ...

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CASINOS Y PODER, EL CASO DEL KICKAPOO LUCKY EAGLE CASINO

... Ethnographic and archaeological contrasts of Yukon and Mackenzie basin hunter-gatherers (e.g., MacNeish, 1960;Millar, 1981;Osgood, 1936b) generally share an inferred connection of resource surplus to the need to coordinate labor, which some argue fostered social complexity. Ideas about regional origins of complexity developed from studies of social hierarchy, rank, and salmon surplus among neighboring coastal nations in Alaska and British Columbia (Ames, 1981;Bishop, 1987;Coupland, 1988Coupland, , 1998de Laguna, 1972;Dumond, 1980;Goldman, 1940;Maschner and Patton, 1996;McKennan, 1959;Rubel and Rosman, 1983;Steward, 1960;Townsend, 1980). Coastal complexity is thought by some to have spread east to interior North America where kinship has been depicted as a complicated intersection of in situ development, prototypical kin patterns, local ecologies, and historical patterns of contact across linguistic divides. ...

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Power, security, and exchange: Impacts of a Late Holocene volcanic eruption in Subarctic North America

... Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, she collaborated with Rosman on such topics as ritual and capitalist exchange in New Ireland, subsistence in Papua New Guinea, and the historical transformation of social structure and ranking systems in Northwest Coast and Athapaskan societies. In addition, they wrote a succinct, thoughtful, and powerful critique of postmodernism and its threat to the integrity of the discipline (Rubel and Rosman 1994). Throughout this period Rubel also wrote on her own about the anthropological study of race and ethnicity. ...

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Paula G. Rubel (1933–2018)

... Rubel's scholarship was profoundly influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss (e.g., Rosman and Rubel 2009), and, indeed, his visit in 1972 to deliver the Gildersleeve Lecture at Barnard was a highlight of her career. Nevertheless, Rubel is best thought of as an intellectual polyglot, well versed in and open to a range of theoretical approaches. ...

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Paula G. Rubel (1933–2018)

... In the words of the Ibaloy, eating this meat would amount to the father 'devouring his own flesh or that of his offspring' . This detail evokes Rubel and Rosman's (1978) famous text, Your own pigs you may not eat. It suggests an equivalence between a pig and a human: in this situation, the Ibaloy refuse to eat pig flesh to avoid any semblance of cannibalism. ...

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Exchanges with the Dead Exhuming Human Remains among the Ibaloy of Upper Loacan (Philippines)

... It is a recurring gesture to track similarities between the Maori and cultures from the Northwest Coast (e.g., Rubel & Rosman, 1971). Among other corresponding features, both areas tend to display stratified tribes with a tripartite distribution between slaves, commoners, and aristocrats, the latter being themselves hierarchically organized according to their lineage; even their houses show structural and functional similarities, notably in their role of displaying their owners' wealth and the presence of ancestors (Descola, 2021, p. 650). ...

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Lullabies and Universality: An Ethnographic Review

... Ainsi, la 27 Selon certains auteurs, les danses passeraient même exclusivement de beau-père en beau-fils et ne pourraient être transmis aux enfants (Rosman et Rubel 1971 ;cf. par contre Olson 1954et Rosman et Rubel 1990. En revanche, les « sièges » ne se transmettent pratiquement jamais aux affins; comme l'a souligné Goldman (1975), le seul cas reporté (Boas 1897 : 336 sq.) concerne un titre secondaire. ...

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La maison en perspective: Un modèle spatial de l’alliance