Holding worlds together : ethnographies of knowing and belonging / ed. by Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Marit Melhuus

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth *1960-* [Hrsg.] ; Melhuus, Marit [Hrsg.]

Englisch

New York [u.a.] : Berghahn Books, 2007

XXIII, 215 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm

2007012579

Includes bibliographical references and index

1-84545-250-X hardcover : alk. paper

978-1-84545-250-6 : hardcover : alk. paper

Introduction / Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Marit Melhuus -- Trust and reciprocity in transnational flows / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Imagined kin, place and community : some paradoxes in the transnational movement of children in adoption / Signe Howell -- Procreative imaginations : when experts disagree on the meanings of kinship / Marit Melhuus -- Family tracings : global gazes of Norwegian-American genealogies / Sarah Lund -- The understanding of migration and the discourse of nationalism : Dominicans in New York City / Christian Krohn-Hansen -- Weeding Tasmanian bush : biomigration and landscape imagery / Marianne Elisabeth Lien -- Epochs of scale-making in Papua / Eric Hirsch -- Standardised uniqueness : rearticulating identity in a Norwegian town / Erik Henningsen -- Arresting mobility or locating expertise : 'globalisation' and the 'knowledge society' / Penny Harvey -- Afterword / Bruce Kapferer

*Ethnologie

*Ethnology -- Philosophy ; Ethnology -- Methodology ; Cross-cultural orientation ; Social structure ; Social mobility ; Social change ; Culture and globalization ; Ethnology -- Philosophy ; Ethnology -- Methodology ; Cross-cultural orientation ; Social structure ; Social mobility ; Social change ; Culture and globalization

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: GN345

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 305.8001;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation:

Introduction / Marianne E. Lien and Marit Melhuus -- Trust and reciprocity in transnational flows / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Imagined kin, place, and community : some paradoxes in the transnational movement of children in adoption / Signe Howell -- Procreative imaginations : when experts disagree on the meanings of kinship / Marit Melhuus -- Family tracings : global gazes of Norwegian-American genealogies / Sarah Lund -- The understanding of migration and the discourse of nationalism : Dominicans in New York City / Christian Krohn-Hansen -- Weeding Tasmanian bush : biomigration and landscape imagery / Marianne E. Lien -- Epochs of scale-making in Papua / Eric Hirsch -- Standardised uniqueness : rearticulating identity in a Norwegian town / Erik Henningsen -- Arresting mobility or locating expertise : "globalisation" and the "knowledge society" / Penny Harvey

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Derzeitiger Standort: Ethnologisches Museum

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