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  • 1
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    A _history of Mali's national drink : following the tea ritual from China to West Africa (2023)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-52466-8 / (hardback) , 978-90-04-52467-5 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 267 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African History 11
    Keywords: Mali Westafrika ; Tee ; Trinken ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Eßgewohnheit ; Handel ; China ; Kulturgeschichte ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: "Green tea, imported from China, occupies an important place in the daily lives of Malians. They spend so much time preparing and consuming the sugared beverage that it became the country's national drink. To find out how Malians came to practice the tea ritual, this study follows the beverage from China to Mali on its historical trade routes halfway around the globe. It examines the circumstances of its introduction, the course of the tea ritual, the equipment to prepare and consume it, and the meanings that it assumed in the various places on its travel across geographical regions, political economies, cultural contexts, and religious affiliations"
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction: Following the Drink -- 1 Tea as a Subject of Study -- 2 Central Issues of This Study -- 2.1 The Choice of the Beverage and Its Social Meanings -- 2.2 Mobility and Unity -- 2.3 The Teascape and the Diffusion of Tea in the Context of Trade -- 3 Research Methodology -- 4 Organisation of the Book -- 1. The History of Tea in Mali -- 1 The History of Bamako's Tea Market -- 2 Tea in Timbuktu in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 3 The Availability of Tea during French Colonial Time (1883-1960) -- 4 The Post-colonial Period (1960-1991) and Mali's Tea Plantation -- 4.1 The Creation of the State-owned Tea Plantation in Farako -- 4.2 The SOMIEX (1962-1991) and the Government's Attempts to Control Imports -- 4.3 Mali's Tea Plantation Created an Awareness of Tea -- 5 The Tea Market after the 1991 Reforms -- 5.1 The Distribution Network of Tea Importers -- 5.2 Types of Green Tea on the Malian Market -- 6 Conclusion: Mali, a Centre of Tea Distribution -- 2. The Journey of Tea from China via Britain and Morocco to the Western Sahel -- 1 China's Tea Production for Export -- 2 When Tea Met Coffee: Historical Coincidences -- 2.1 The Coffee Frontier -- 2.2 First Reports about Tea, the Portuguese Traders in Macau and Competition with Dutch and British Merchants -- 2.3 The Introduction of Green Tea to the English Court by Catherine of Braganza -- 3 The Rise of Tea in Morocco -- 3.1 The Arrival of Tea in the Sultan's Palace -- 3.2 The Creation of Essaouira and the Sultan's Traders -- 3.3 The Afriat Family: Tujar as-Sultan and Leading Tea Traders -- 4 The Caravan Trade from Wad Noun to Timbuktu -- 4.1 The Trade Route across the Sahara from Wad Noun to Timbuktu -- 4.2 Trade Networks across the Sahara and the Financing of Caravans.
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  • 2
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    In the shadow of the palms : more-than-human becomings in West Papua (2022)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4780-1824-7/(paperback) , 978-1-4780-1561-1/(hardcover) , 978-1-4780-2285-5/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 336 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Indonesien Irian Jaya ; Marind-Anim ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Ölpalme ; Industrie ; Nutzpflanze ; Landwirtschaft ; Wald ; Natur ; Umweltbelastung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Gewalt ; Kapitalismus
    Abstract: "Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and prior human rights advocacy in the Indonesian-controlled region of West Papua, In the Shadow of the Palms explores how deforestation and monocrop oil palm expansion reconfigure the multispecies lifeworld of Indigenous Marind communities through its effects on the landscape, time, personhood, and dreams. Working with and across species categories and hierarchies, the book highlights how the proliferation of industrial monocrops subverts the futures and relations of some lifeforms while opening new horizons of possibility for others. Sophie Chao situates these dynamics within West Papua's violent and volatile history of political colonization, ethnic domination, and capitalist incursion. By approaching cash crops as both drivers of destruction and subjects of human exploitation, the book makes a compelling argument for rethinking capitalist violence as a multispecies act. Taking oil palm as its central protagonist, it makes a timely contribution to our understanding of human-environment relations in an age of radical ecological change."Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant.
    Description / Table of Contents: Pressure Points -- Living Maps -- Lost in the Plantation: The Dream of Yustinus Mahuze -- Skin and Wetness -- Chapter Four. The Plastic Cassowary -- Metamorphosis: The Dream of Yosefus Samkakai -- Sago Encounters -- Oil Palm Counterpoint -- The Empty Sago Grove: The Dream of Agustinus Gebze -- Time Has Come to Stop -- Eaten by Oil Palm -- Black Waters of the Bian: The Dream of Elena Samkakai.
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  • 3
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    Performing power in Nigeria (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-83107-9 (hardback) , 978-1-108-92319-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 286 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Identities
    Keywords: Nigeria Pentecost ; Christentum ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Macht ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. The Pentecostal modes of constructing the world by using their performative agencies to embed their rites in social processes have imbued them with immense cultural power to contour the character of their societies. Performing Power in Nigeria explores how Nigerian Pentecostals mark their self-distinction as a people of power within a social milieu that affirmed and contested their desires for being. Their faith, and the various performances that inform it, imbue the social matrix with saliences that also facilitate their identity of power. Using extensive archival material, interviews, and fieldwork, Abimbola A. Adelakun questions the histories, desires, knowledge, tools, and innate divergences of this form of identity, and its interactions with the other ideological elements that make up the society. Analysing the important developments in contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism, she demonstrates how the social environment is being transformed by the Pentecostal performance of their identity as the people of power. (Verlagsangaben)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 246-279
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  • 4
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    National museums in Africa : identity, history and politics (2022)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-0-367-82140-1 (hbk.) , 978-1-032-05853-5 , 9781000428728 (ePub ebook) , 9781000428643 (PDF ebook) , 978-1-003-01369-3 (ebook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 265 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Museum ; Politik ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Geschichte
    Abstract: National Museums in Africa brings the voices of African museum professionals into dialogue with scholars and, by so doing, is able to consider the state of African national museums from fresh perspectives.Covering all regions of the continent, the volume`s thirteen chapters allow for a deep and nuanced understanding of the intricate interplay between past and present in contemporary Africa. Taking stock of the shifting museum landscape in Africa, with new players like China and South Korea challenging the conditions of cultural exchange, the book demonstrates that national museums are being rediscovered as important sites of political engagement and cultural negotiation. This is the first book to critically examine the roles national museums in Africa have played in the societies in which they are situated, but it is also the first to consider the roles that national museums might play in current debates concerning the restitution and repatriation of cultural patrimony taken from Africa during the colonial era.Informed by a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, this ground-breaking book will appeal to anyone interested in museums in Africa. It will be particularly useful to scholars and students working in the areas of museum and heritage studies, African studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, art history and cultural studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction Chapter 1 Visibility, Democracy, and the National Museum Network in Morocco Samir Kafas and Ashley V. Miller Chapter 2 The Sudan National Museum and National Heritage in Sudan Abdelrahman Ali Mohamed and Geoff Emberling Chapter 3 National Identities and the National Museum of Ethiopia Merkeb Mekuria and Raymond Silverman Chapter 4 National Museums of Kenya: From Inception to the Post-Devolution Era Rosalie Hans and David Mbuthia Chapter 5 Collecting Obsolete Things at the Uganda Museum Derek R.Peterson and Nelson Abiti Chapter 6 Korea and the New National Museum in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Building a Museum, Building Relations? Augustin Bikale Mukundayi and Sarah Van Beurden Chapter 7 Le Muse´e des Civilisations Noires: A Continuous Creation of Humanity Hamady Bocoum and El Hadji Malick Ndiaye Chapter 8 The National Museum of Mali, 1960 - Present: Protecting and Promoting the National Cultural Heritage Mary Jo Arnoldi,Daouda Ke´ita and Samuel Sidibe´ Chapter 9 Le Muse´e National Boubou Hama du Niger: A Return to Research Maki Garba and Amanda Gilvin Chapter 10 Giving the National Museum of Ghana a New Life Kodzo Gavua and Dominic Dekumwine Kuntaa Chapter 11 The Nigerian National Museums and the Challenges of National Unity and Development: The Black Benz and the Return of Lost Treasures Okechukwu Nwafor and Edith Ekunke Chapter 12 Towards a Critical History of the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe: Rethinking Pastness and Materiality Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya and Joost Fontein Chapter 13 Rethinking the National and the Museum at Iziko Museums of South Africa Bongani Ndhlovu and Ciraj Rassool Coda National Museums in Africa: A Conversation Peter Probst and George Abungu Index
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  • 5
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    Unsettled borders : the militarized science of surveillance on sacred indigenous land (2022)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4780-1532-1 , 1-4780-1532-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 203 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Dissident Acts
    Keywords: Mexiko USA ; Grenze ; Grenzstreit ; Migration ; Migration, illegale ; Flucht ; Flüchtling ; Militär ; Wissenschaft ; Maya ; Apache ; Papago ; Chiricahua ; Sakraler Ort ; Weltanschauung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sicherheit ; Indigenität ; Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße
    Abstract: "The story of how the U.S.-Mexico border has become more dangerous for migrant crossing has preoccupied scholars across a range of fields. As necessary as this has been, the overwhelming focus on border crossers has eclipsed the consequences of military occupation on Native tribes whose land and bodies spill across the border, including mounting numbers of Maya refugees. Unsettled Borders follows the science and technological development of border surveillance back to military innovations tasked with seeing the invisible movements of Apache and Chiricahua warriors across the rugged terrain of the western frontier. Felicity Amaya Schaeffer follows a range of militarized surveillance innovations across time and space, recalling the Spanish lookout points erected to monitor Maya in the Yucatan, the superior eyes of Indian scouts, automated border avatars, and swarming bee drones. From the perspective of Native border inhabitants, a broader story emerges about how mechanized seeing attempts to eradicate Native sacred and animate relation with land. With an eye on the more-than-human world, Apache, O'odham and Maya teach us about the impossibility of borders in their sacred scientific worldviews that see relation where westerners impose segregated seeing and knowing. Unsettled Borders returns to ancestral practices-from beekeepers caring for the Melipona bees who bring back their forests to O'odham relations with saguaro peoplehood amputated by border walls. The border comes alive with a resurgent force of Native land defenders who refuse extraction, occupation, and surveillance by the futile attempts to build virtual and iron-cast walls that will ultimately fail to contain life and erect borders around the world"
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 185-200
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    Material culture and (forced) migration : materializing the transient (2022)
    London : UCL Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-80008-160-4 (PDF) , 978-1-80008-163-5 (epub) , 978-1-80008-164-2 (mobi) , 978-1-80008-162-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-1-80008-161-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online Resource (xvii, 352 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Migration Vertreibung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Materielle Kultur
    Abstract: Material Culture and (Forced) Migration argues that materiality is a fundamental dimension of migration. During journeys of migration, people take things with them, or they lose, find and engage things along the way. Movements themselves are framed by objects such as borders, passports, tents, camp infrastructures, boats and mobile phones. This volume brings together chapters that are based on research into a broad range of movements - from the study of forced migration and displacement to the analysis of retirement migration. What ties the chapters together is the perspective of material culture and an understanding of materiality that does not reduce objects to mere symbols.Centring on four interconnected themes - temporality and materiality, methods of object-based migration research, the affective capacities of objects, and the engagement of things in place-making practices - the volume provides a material culture perspective for migration scholars around the globe, representing disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, contemporary archaeology, curatorial studies, history and human geography. The ethnographic nature of the chapters and the focus on everyday objects and practices will appeal to all those interested in the broader conditions and tangible experiences of migration. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Transient foundations: on temporality and materiality -- Introduction / Antonie Fuhse -- Part II Materialising methods: applying things in (forced) migration research -- Introduction / Friedemann Yi-Neumann -- Part III Moving things: objects, emotions and relatedness in (forced) migration -- Introduction / Peter J. Bräunlein -- Part IV Taking and making place: engaging things -- Introduction / Andrea Lauser -- Index
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    COVID-19 assemblages : queer and feminist ethnographies from South Asia (2022)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-0-367-68820-2/(hardback) , 978-1-03-220110-8/(paperback) , 978-1-00-326225-1/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe) , 978-1-00-326225-1/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 192 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Ethnographic Innovations, South Asian Perspectives
    Keywords: Süd-Asien Indien ; COVID-19 ; Epidemie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Minorität ; Frau ; Queer ; Transsexualität ; Homosexualität ; Feminismus ; Migration ; Behinderung ; Sexualität ; Ethnographie
    Abstract: "This book documents and analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic through queer and feminist perspectives. A testament of dispossessions as well as a celebration of various forms of resilience, community building and critical responses, it chronicles the social history of queer and trans persons and women in South Asia and the diasporas. Through a creative and collaborative form of ethnographic writing, the book enters in conversation with the worlds of domestic helps, caregivers, cultural workers, students, sex workers and other precariously employed people. It examines the confining effects of the pandemic on the lived realities of many queer and trans individuals, the caste-oppressed and women across socio-economic backgrounds. The chapters in the volume piece together narratives of prejudice, hardship, self-expression and resistance from interviews, personal accounts, as well as poems and stories from activists, artists and other collaborators. The book pays particular attention to issues of power and asymmetrical relationships amidst COVID-19 and offers critiques to deepen the understanding of the uneven fault lines within which historically oppressed persons reside in South Asia. Exploring themes of migration, disability and sexual politics, this book is an essential reading for scholars and researchers of gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, South Asian studies, sociology and social anthropology"
    Description / Table of Contents: List of contributors -- Foreword by Jasbir K. Puar -- Acknowledgements -- I: Introduction -- II: Testaments, Memories, Epistemic Terrains -- III: Un-belonging, Survival, Resistance -- Index
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    Epidemiological change and chronic disease in sub-Saharan Africa : social and historical perspectives (2021)
    London : UCL Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-78735-704-4 (PDF) , 978-1-78735-707-5 (epub) , 978-1-78735-708-2 (mobi) , 978-1-78735-706-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-1-78735-705-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 364 Seiten)
    Edition: First published
    Edition: Epidemiological-Change-and-Chronic-Disease-in-Sub-Saharan-Af
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Epidemie ; Gesundheit ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Gesundheitswesen ; Stillen ; Krankheit ; HIV ; Sterblichkeit ; Anthropologie, medizinische ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Temporalities: Beyond transition -- Numbers and categories -- Local biologies and knowledge systems: `New diseases` in context -- Index
    Note: "The volume emerges from a conference held at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, in September 2018" (Acknowledgements)
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    Viral loads : anthropologies of urgency in the time of Covid-19 (2021)
    London : UCL Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-80008-023-2 (PDF) , 978-1-80008-026-3 (epub) , 978-1-80008-027-0 (mobi) , 978-1-80008-025-6 (print) , 978-1-80008-024-9 (print)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 466 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Embodying Inequalities
    Keywords: Krankheit Epidemie ; Medizin ; Ungleichheit ; Gesundheit ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Regierung ; Anthropologie, medizinische
    Abstract: Drawing upon the empirical scholarship and research expertise of contributors from all settled continents and from diverse life settings and economies, Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto people`s lived realities in countries around the world.A crosscutting theme pertains to how social unevenness and gross economic disparities are shaping global and local responses to the pandemic, and illustrate the effects of both the virus and efforts to contain it in ways that amplify these inequalities. At the same time, the contributions highlight the nature of contemporary social life, including virtual communication, the nature of communities, neoliberalism and contemporary political economies, and the shifting nature of nation states and the role of government. Over half of the world`s population has been affected by restrictions of movement, with physical distancing requirements and self-isolation recommendations impacting profoundly on everyday life but also on the economy, resulting also, in turn, with dramatic shifts in the economy and in mass unemployment.By reflecting on how the pandemic has interrupted daily lives, state infrastructures and healthcare systems, the contributing authors in this volume mobilise anthropological theories and concepts to locate the pandemic in a highly connected and exceedingly unequal world. The book is ambitious in its scope - spanning the entire globe - and daring in its insistence that medical anthropology must be a part of the growing calls to build a new world.
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    The _global smartphone : beyond a youth technology (2021)
    London : UCL Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-78735-961-1 (PDF) , 978-1-78735-964-2 (epub) , 978-1-78735-965-9 (mobi) , 978-1-78735-963-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-1-78735-962-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 295 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: The-Global-Smartphone.pdf
    Series Statement: Ageing with Smartphones
    Keywords: Technologie, moderne Alter ; Computer ; Telekommunikation ; Massenmedien ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Kulturvergleich ; Kommunikationstechnologie ; Brasilien ; Italien ; Japan ; Irland ; Kamerun ; Israel ; Chile ; China ; Soziologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from this global and comparative research project. Smartphones have become as much a place within which we live as a device we use to provide `perpetual opportunism`, as they are always with us. The authors show how the smartphone is more than an `app device` and explore differences between what people say about smartphones and how they use them.The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which we can transform it. As a result, it quickly assimilates personal values. In order to comprehend it, we must take into consideration a range of national and cultural nuances, such as visual communication in China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, and access to health information in Chile and Ireland - all alongside diverse trajectories of ageing in Al Quds, Brazil and Italy. Only then can we know what a smartphone is and understand its consequences for people`s lives around the world. (Verlgsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter summaries -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What people say about smartphones -- 3. The smartphone in context -- 4. From apps to everyday life -- 5. Perpetual opportunism -- 6. Crafting -- 7. Ageing and smartphones -- 8. The heart of the smartphone - LINE, WeChat and WhatsApp -- 9. General and theoretical reflections -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Erschien auch in französischer, italienischer, portugiesischer und spanischer Parallelausgabe
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    Imaging culture : photography in Mali, West Africa (2021)
    Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-253-02557-9 (paperback) , 978-0-253-05720-4 (ebook)
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 453 Seiten, 16 Bildtafeln , Illustrationen (teils farbig)
    Series Statement: African Expressive Cultures
    Keywords: Mali Photographie ; Geschichte ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Anthropologie, visuelle ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s to the present. Spanning the dynamic periods of colonialism, national independence, socialism, and democracy, its analysis focuses on the studio and documentary work of professional urban photographers, particularly in the capital city of Bamako and in smaller cities such as Mopti and Ségu.Featuring the work of more over twenty-five photographers, it concentrates on those who have been particularly influential for the local development and practice of the medium as well as its international popularization and active participation in the contemporary art market. Imaging Culture looks at how local aesthetic ideas are visually communicated in the photographers' art and argues that though these aesthetic arrangements have specific relevance for local consumers, they transcend geographical and cultural boundaries to have value for contemporary global audiences as well. Imaging Culture is an important and visually interesting book which will become a standard source for those who study African photography and its global impact. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Development of Photography in Mali -- Photography and Urbanization (1890-1940s) -- Heyday of Black and White (1950s-1980s) -- Imaging Culture -- Photography as Social Agency -- Visual Griots: Photographic Artistry and Invention -- Portraiture and Mande Aesthetics -- Ja and the Metaphysical Dimensions of Photography -- Contemporary Practice and International Market (1990s-Present) -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 393-427
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    After lockdown : a metamorphosis (2021)
    Cambridge, UK : Polity
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    ISBN: 978-1-5095-5002-9 (Paperback) , 1-5095-5002-X , 1-5095-5001-1 , 978-1-5095-5001-2
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 148 Seiten
    Edition: English edition, reprinted
    Uniform Title: Où suis-je?
    Keywords: Krise Krisenbewältigung ; Gesundheit ; Epidemie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Klima ; Klimawandel ; Verhalten, menschliches ; Umwelt ; Gesellschaft ; Ökologie
    Abstract: After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to the world as it was before the pandemic. But there is another way to learn the lessons of this ordeal: as inhabitants of the earth, we may not be able to exit lockdown so easily after all, since the global health crisis is embedded in another larger and more serious crisis, that brought about by the New Climate Regime. Learning to live in lockdown might be an opportunity to be seized: a dress-rehearsal for the climate mutation, an opportunity to understand at last where we, inhabitants of the earth, live, what kind of place earth is and how we will be able to orient ourselves and exist in this world in the years to come.  We might finally be able to explore the land in which we live, together with all other living beings, begin to understand the true nature of the climate mutation we are living through and discover what kind of freedom is possible; a freedom differently situated and differently understood. In this sequel to his bestselling book "Down to Earth", Bruno Latour provides a compass for this necessary re-orientation of our lives, outlining the metaphysics of confinement and deconfinement with which we will all be obliged to come to terms by the strange times in which we are living.
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    Ecological nostalgias : memory, affect and creativity in times of ecological upheavals (2021)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-893-1 (hardback) , 978-1-78920-894-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 197 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology volume 26
    Keywords: Humanökologie Ethnologie ; Ökologie ; Klimawandel ; Nostalgie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Thule ; Arktis ; Island ; Amazonas-Gebiet ; Peru ; Mexiko ; Mixe ; Mongolei
    Abstract: Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future. (Umschlagtext)
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    Police visibility : privacy, surveillance, and the false promise of body-worn cameras (2021)
    Oakland, California : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-520-38290-9 (paperback) , 978-0-520-38291-6 (hardback) , 978-0-520-38292-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 248 Seiten
    Keywords: Pazifischer Raum Polizei ; Video ; Soziale Kontrolle ; Recht ; Rechtsethnologie ; Sozialer Aspekt
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    One virus, two countries : what covid-19 tells us about South Africa (2021)
    Johannesburg : Wits University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-77614-743-4 (paperback) , 978-1-77614-744-1 (hardback) , 978-1-77614-745-8 (Web PDF) , 978-1-77614-746-5 epub)
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 186 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Südafrika Epidemie ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Anthropologie, medizinische ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Has South Africa `done well` at limiting illness and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic? Academic and political commentator, Steven Friedman, thinks not. While the country`s mainstream media believes it has, in his view the evidence tells another story. South Africa has experienced by far the most cases and deaths in Africa - at one point as many as the rest of the continent combined.One Virus, Two Countries: What Covid-19 tells us about South Africa offers a searing analysis of government and expert scientists` responses to the pandemic. Friedman argues that South Africa is two societies in one - a `First World` which resembles Western Europe and North America, and a `Third World` which looks much like the rest of Africa or South Asia. The South African state, the media and the scientific community have largely tried to deal with the virus through a `First World` lens in which much of the country was either invisible or a problem - not a partner. Friedman argues this approach prevented the country from responding in a way which would have protected most citizens. This is why case numbers and deaths are so high: South Africa has done worse than the rest of Africa not despite the fact that it has a `more developed` health system, but because it does.One Virus, Two Countries is a controversial book that will rouse much needed debate about South Africa`s health and economic system in a context of serious inequality. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- List of acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 One Country, Two Realities -- Chapter 2 Following the Science -- Chapter 3 The Science Unravels -- Chapter 4 The Blank Cheque -- Chapter 5 The Path Not Taken -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [155]-173
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    The _Masjid in contemporary Islamic Africa (2021)
    Cambridge : University of Cambridge
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-47334-7 , 1-108-47334-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 288 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Afrika Nordafrika ; Moschee ; Islam ; Muslime ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Kulturwandel ; Gemeinschaft ; Identität
    Abstract: This volume examines the emergence of alternative spaces and architectural landscapes of Islamic practice in contemporary Africa through the lens of the masjid, whose definition as a "place of prostration" has enabled Muslim populations across the continent to navigate the murky waters of the contemporary condition through a purposeful renovation of spiritual space. Drawing from multiple disciplines and utilizing a series of diverse case studies, Michelle Apotsos reflects on the shifting realities of Islamic communities as they engage in processes of socio-political and cultural transformation. Illustrated through the growth of forward-thinking and in flexible environments that highlight how Muslim communities have developed unique solutions to the problem of performing identity within diverse contexts across the continent, she re-imagines the major themes surrounding definitions of Islamic architectural space in the contemporary period in Africa and the nature of the "modernity" as it has unfolded across diverse contexts on the continent.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: 'A Place of Prostration': The Concept of Masjid in Contemporary Africa -- 1. Spaces Both Radical and Revolutionary: The Intersectional Masjid -- 2. Monument, Memory, and Remembrance: Rethinking the Masjid Through Contemporary Heritage Regimes -- 3. "All the Earth is a Mosque": The Masjid as Environmental Advocate -- 4. Masjids on the Move: Mobility and the Growth of "Portable" Islamic Space -- Conclusion: Looking to the Future: The Masjid as a Space on the Edge -- Bibliography.
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    Sport, migration, and gender in the neoliberal age (2021)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-39065-2 (pbk) , 1-138-39065-8 , 978-1-138-39064-5 (hbk) , 978-0-429-42327-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 261 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Sport Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Industrie ; Neoliberalismus ; Mobilität ; Migration ; Geschlechterforschung ; Jugend ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Globalisierung ; Entwicklungsländer ; Äthiopien ; Türkei ; Karibik ; Kenia ; China ; Fidschi-Insel ; New Zealand ; Ghana ; Senegal ; Kamerun ; Finnland ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: This ethnographic collection explores how neoliberalism has permeated the bodies, subjectivities, and gender of youth around the world as global sport industries have expanded their reach into marginal areas, luring young athletes with the dream of pursuing athletic careers in professional leagues of the Global North.Neoliberalism has reconfigured sport since the 1980s, as sport clubs and federations have become for-profit businesses, in conjunction with television and corporate sponsors. Neoliberal sport has had other important effects, which are rarely the object of attention: as the national economies of the Global South and local economies of marginal areas of the Global North have collapsed under pressure from global capital, many young people dream of pursuing a sport career as an escape from poverty. But this elusive future is often located elsewhere, initially in regional centres, though ultimately in the wealthy centres of the Global North that can support a sport infrastructure. The pursuit of this future has transformed kinship relations, gender relations, and the subjectivities of people. This collection of rich ethnographies from diverse regions of the world, from Ghana to Finland and from China to Fiji, pulls the reader into the lives of men and women in the global sport industries, including aspiring athletes, their families, and the agents, coaches, and academy directors shaping athletes? dreams. It demonstrates that the ideals of neoliberalism spread in surprising ways, intermingling with categories like gender, religion, indigeneity, and kinship. Athletes? migrations provide a novel angle on the global workings of neoliberalism.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Neoliberal sport and social relations -- Part II. Reconstituting subjectivities -- Epilogue -- Index
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    NGOs and lifeworlds in Africa : transdisciplinary perspectives (2021)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-80073-110-3 , 978-1-80073-111-0 (ebook)
    Language: English
    Pages: 350 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Afrika Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become ubiquitous in the development sector in Africa and attracting more academic attention. However, the fact that NGOs are an integral part of the everyday lives of men and women on the continent has been overlooked thus far. In Africa, NGOs are not remote, but familiar players, situated in the midst of cities and communities. By taking a radical empirical stance, this book studies NGOs as a vital part of the lifeworlds of Africans. Its contributions are immersed in the pasts, presents and futures of personal encounters, memories, decision-making and politics. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1. Part I: Engagements and Encounters -- On Opportunities -- Part II: Politics and Donors -- On Reciprocity (beyond Africa) -- Part III: Memories and History -- On Institutions -- Afterword -- Index
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    The _modern sovereign : the body of power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon) (2021)
    London : Seagull Books
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    ISBN: 978-0-85742-688-8 , 0-85742-688-5 , 978-0-85742-730-4
    Language: English
    Pages: 370 Seiten
    Series Statement: The_Africa List
    Uniform Title: Le _souverain moderne
    Keywords: Afrika Zentralafrika ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Gabun ; Macht ; Körper ; Gewalt ; Vorstellung ; Religion ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Staat ; Markt ; Kirche ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziale Beziehung ; Fetischismus ; Christentum ; Besessenheit ; Aberglaube ; Magie ; Kolonialismus ; Dekolonisation ; Postkolonialismus
    Abstract: The 'Modern Sovereign,' a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post-colonial era. It is an internalized power, responsible for the multiform violence exerted on bodies and imaginations. Joseph Tonda contends that in Central Africa--and particularly in Gabon and the Congo--the body is at the heart of political, religious, sexual, economic, and ritual power. This, he argues, is confirmed by the strong link between corporeal and political matters, and by the ostentatious display of bodies in African life. The body of power asserts itself as both matter and spirit, and it incorporates the seductive force of money, commodities, sex, and knowledge. Tonda's incisive analysis reveals how this sovereign power is a social relation, historically constituted by the violence of the African cultural Imaginary and the realities of State, Market, and Church. It is to be understood, he asserts, through a generalized theory economic, political, and religious fetishism. By introducing this crucial critical voice from contemporary Africa into the English language, The Modern Sovereign makes a significant contribution to field of anthropology, political science, and African studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Violence of the imaginary, violence of fetishism: the principle of the modern sovereign -- Part one: Epistemologies of the body and things of the modern sovereign -- Torments, charms and troubles of the modern sovereign -- Kalaka, Otangani, Bula Matari: the scriptuary order, spaces and agents of the modern sovereign -- Misunderstanding over the value of the body of God -- Part two: consumption / Consumption: The political principle of the modern sovereign -- Ghosts and political machines -- consumption / Consumption of the sex-body and the hegemony of the modern sovereign -- Tormented ethnic bodies -- Conclusion.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 346-370
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    An _ethnography of global environmentalism : becoming Friends of the Earth (2020)
    New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-0-415-71762-5
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 254 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first issued in paperback
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Anthropology 45
    Keywords: Umweltschutz Institution ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Umweltbelastung ; Ökologie ; Globalisierung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Friends of the Earth International
    Abstract: Based on nine years of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation and of activists themselves. The book presents an account of the daily life and the ethical strivings of environmental activist members of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), exploring how a transnational federation is constituted and maintained, and how different people strive to work together in their hope of contributing to the creation of "a better future for the globe." In the context of FoEI, a great diversity of environmentalisms from around the world are negotiated, discussed and evolve in relation to the experiences of the different cultures, ecosystems and human situations that the activists bring with them to the federation. Key to the global scope of this project is the analysis of FoEI experiments in models for intercultural and inclusive decision-making. The provisional results of FoEI?s ongoing experiments in this area offer a glimpse of how different notions of the environment, and being an environmentalist, can come to work together without subsuming alterity.
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    Comedy and social science : towards a methodology of funny (2020)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-0-367-59895-2
    Language: English
    Pages: [XI], 185 Seiten
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology 153
    Keywords: Humor Ironie ; Satire ; Komödie ; Lachen ; Comic ; Literatur ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialwissenschaft
    Abstract: While there have been many sociological and psychological studies of humor, few can claim to be funny. Humor may be regarded as a legitimate topic for social scientists, but in general, they present their research rather seriously. In academia, humor tends to be trivialized and dismissed. This is more than just a missed opportunity for otherwise fun-loving academics. In literature, it is readily accepted that comedy is integral to the human condition. To ignore humor is to reject a potentially insightful methodological approach, as the humorous worldview presents unique opportunities for investigating the social. This book constitutes a unique resource, presenting chapters on irony, satire and parody as tools for analysis and means of representation, as well as considering humor in the conduct of research, and offering guidance on getting published. Through presenting examples from across the social sciences, the book seeks to persuade and inspire rather than to prescribe an approach - A closure which would (ironically) be inimical to the multiplicity and ambiguity which characterizes humorous research and lends it its distinctive edge.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction : if it's not funny, it's not true. -- 2. Origins and theories of humour and laughter -- 3. Irony and the ironic imagination -- 4. Satire -- 5. Parody : an onerous confusion? -- 6. Humour and laughter in the research process -- 7. Writing for publication : the importance of the paratext -- 8. Comedy and social science : a very brief (unscientific) conclusion.
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    Safari nation : a social history of the Kruger National Park (2020)
    Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8214-2409-4/(paperback) , 978-0-8214-2408-7/(hardcover) , 978-0-8214-4088-9/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 330 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: New African Histories
    Keywords: Südafrika Nationalpark ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Naturschutz ; Schwarze ; Sozialgeschichte ; Geschichte ; Historiographie ; Demokratie ; Landnutzung ; Nationalität ; Kruger Nationalpark 〈Südafrika〉
    Abstract: Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world. The Kruger National Park is South Africa's most iconic nature reserve, renowned for its rich flora and fauna. According to author Jacob Dlamini, there is another side to the park, a social history neglected by scholars and popular writers alike in which blacks (meaning Africans, Coloureds, and Indians) occupy center stage. Safari Nation details the ways in which black people devoted energies to conservation and to the park over the course of the twentieth century - engagement that transcends the stock (black) figure of the laborer and the poacher.By exploring the complex and dynamic ways in which blacks of varying class, racial, religious, and social backgrounds related to the Kruger National Park, and with the help of previously unseen archival photographs, Dlamini's narrative also sheds new light on how and why Africa's national parks often derided by scholars as colonial impositions survived the end of white rule on the continent. Relying on oral histories, photographs, and archival research, Safari Nation engages both with African historiography and with ongoing debates about the land question, democracy, and citizenship in South Africa.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Natural Enemies -- Stray Boys -- New Africans -- From Roots to Routes -- Civilized Natives -- Black Mobility -- Beggar Thy Neighbor -- The Road to the Kruger -- Conclusion: What's in a Name?
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    Covid-19 & migration : understanding the pandemic and human mobility (2020)
    London : Transnational Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-912997-59-6 , 978-1-912997-71-8 , 978-1-912997-60-2 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: iii, 203 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Migration Series 23
    Keywords: Krankheit Epidemie ; Migration ; Mobilität ; Tourismus ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Politik und Gesellschaft
    Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every domain of life. Migration and human mobility in general are not exceptions. Since March 2020, researchers, policy makers and many others have channelled their efforts to understand this new coronavirus, its impact and prospects. Many scholars were thinking and writing on the pandemic from its onset and many blog essays quickly appeared. One of the earliest peer-reviewed research articles Sirkeci and Yucesahin (2020) is reproduced here. This article and its focus on mobility and travel data showed that it was possible to predict the spatial spread and concentration of COVID-19 cases. Not only was this finding crucial to developing appropriate policies and strategies to counter the spread of the virus, it reminded us that the pandemic is a social disease and not simply a biological threat. The contributions in this book should be considered in this regard tackling the social and policy aspects as we leave the biological and medical side to the experts.
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    Food and power : expressions of food-politics in South Asia (2020)
    Los Angeles : SAGE
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    ISBN: 978-93-5388-376-8 (hardback) , 978-93-5388-377-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-93-5388-378-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 424 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Südostasien Indien ; Bangladesh ; Ernährung ; Essen ; Nahrungsmittel ; Nahrungsmittelversorgung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: Food practices of a people is the product of multiple factors. Endogenous as well as exogenous factors influence people`s opinion and preferences about food. In India and its neighbouring countries, food practices are often delimited by economic standing, religion, caste and analogous systems of social ranking of the consumers. State and market forces also influence food behaviour by exercising control over production and trade.Food and Power: Expressions of Food-Politics in South Asia studies power relations between those who eat and those who decide (or at least try to decide) what people should eat. It raises questions pertaining to the politicization of ethnographic tradition in South Asia in relation to the intersection of religion, economy and food. This book explores how traditional food practices have undergone change owing to the influences of migration globalization and popular media to understand how ethos of the powerful affects the foodways of relatively weaker ethnic, religious, occupational and gender groups. (Umschlagtext)
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    The _digitizing family : an ethnography of Melanesian smartphones (2020)
    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
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    ISBN: 978-3-030-34928-8 , 978-3-030-34929-5 / E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: 225 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Anthropologie, soziale Melanesien ; Salomonen ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Ethnographie ; Telekommunikation ; Handy ; Jugendlicher ; Familie ; Alter ; Soziologie ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Abstract: At once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands. In this `technography`, Geoffrey Hobbis studies the materiality and functional attributes of smartphones and their object biographies—modes of acquisition, maintenance, uses, limitations and the problems specific to this region in adopting and adapting smartphones in everyday life. As he examines the various uses of smartphones, as both telephone and multimedia device, Hobbis also explores the social and cultural transformations, the hopes and uncertainties, with which they are associated. Ultimately, in bringing together a study of digital technologies with classical anthropological theory, The Digitizing Family develops a theory of smartphones as kinship technologies and supercompositional objects. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- 1. Digitizing the Melanesian Family -- 2. Methodological Notes -- Part II. The Many Lives and Deaths of the Melanesian Smartphone -- 3. A Sketch of the Many Births, Lives and Deaths of Smartphones -- 4. A Digital Swiss Army Knife -- Part III. SIM Card Culture and Digitizing Kin Networks -- 5. Digitizing Social Networks -- 6. Telephonic Immorality and Uncertainty -- Part IV MicroSD Culture and Digital Parenting -- 7. The Muvi Haos -- 8. The Babysitting Smartphone -- Part V Towards a Theory of Smartphones as Kinship Tools -- 9. The Sociotechnical System of Melanesian Smartphones -- 10. Conclusion: Towards the Supercompositional Object -- Index
    Note: "Particular appreciation goes to Christine Jourdan and Pierre Lemonnier for co-supervising my doctoral work" (Seite v) , Thèse de doctorat en Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie, EHESS en cotutelle avec l'Université Concordia, Paris, 2017, intituler "A technographic investigation of mobile phone adoption in the Lau Lagoon, Malaita, Solomon Islands"
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    Credit and debt in an unequal society : establishing a consumer credit market in South Africa (2020)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-638-8 , 978-1-78920-639-5 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 199 Seiten
    Series Statement: The _Human Economy 7
    Keywords: Südafrika Kredit ; Konsum ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Wirtschaft ; Finanzwesen ; Markt
    Abstract: "South Africa was one of the first countries in the Global South that established a financialized consumer credit market. This market consolidates rather than alleviates the extreme social inequality within a country. This book investigates the political reasons for adopting an allegedly self-regulating market despite its disastrous effects and identifies the colonialist ideas of property rights as a mainstay of the existing social order. The book addresses sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and legal scholars interested in the interaction of economy and law in contemporary market societies
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Borrowing in the South African Consumer Credit Market -- Chapter 2. Raising the Storm of a Free Consumer Credit Market -- Chapter 3. The Institutional Framework: Implementing a Consumer Credit Market -- Chapter 4. Legislator`s Reactions to the Consumer Credit Market Crisis 2012-2014 -- Chapter 5. The Model of Rational Action in the South African Consumer Credit Market -- Conclusion: The Missed Options of the South African Consumer Credit Market -- References -- Index --
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [184]-194 , Habilitationsschrift Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen 2017
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    Radio nation : communication, popular culture, and nationalism in Mexico, 1920-1950 (2020)
    Tucson : University of Arizona Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8165-4158-4 (paper) , 978-0-8165-1852-4 (cloth)
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 154 Seiten , Illlustrationen
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Keywords: Mexiko Geschichte ; Radio ; Massenmedien ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Popular Culture ; Nationalismus
    Abstract: The role of mass communication in nation building has often been underestimated, particularly in the case of Mexico. Following the Revolution, the Mexican government used the new medium of radio to promote national identity and build support for the new regime. Joy Hayes now tells how an emerging country became a radio nation.This groundbreaking book investigates the intersection of radio broadcasting and nation building. Hayes tells how both government-controlled and private radio stations produced programs of distinctly Mexican folk and popular music as a means of drawing the country's regions together and countering the influence of U.S. broadcasts.Hayes describes how, both during and after the period of cultural revolution, Mexican radio broadcasting was shaped by the clash and collaboration of different social forces--including U.S. interests, Mexican media entrepreneurs, state institutions, and radio audiences. She traces the evolution of Mexican radio in case studies that focus on such subjects as early government broadcasting activities, the role of Mexico City media elites, the "paternal voice" of presidential addresses, and U.S. propaganda during World War II.More than narrative history, Hayes's study provides an analytical framework for understanding the role of radio in building Mexican nationalism at a critical time in that nation's history. Radio Nation expands our appreciation of an overlooked medium that changed the course of an entire country. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Radio, Nation, and Mexican History -- The Antimodern Trajectories of Radio and Nation -- The Birth of Broadcasting -- Broadcasting the Revolution -- Nation as Market -- The Paternal Voice of the Nation -- Radio at War: (Pan- )Americanism on the Air -- Conclusion: Radio and Television in the Postwar Period -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 131-147
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    White male Zen master : ein Ethnologe im Kloster (2020)
    Wuppertal : Edition Trickster im Peter Hammer
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    ISBN: 978-3-7795-0640-9 (Festeinband) , 3-7795-0640-8
    Language: English
    Pages: 157 Seiten
    Series Statement: Edition Trickster
    Keywords: Buddhismus Zen ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Rassismus ; Patriarchat ; Identität ; Erlebnisbericht
    Abstract: Mit Witz und Chuzpe erzählt der Ethnologe David Sumerauer von einem besonderen "Forschungsfeld": dem kalifornischen Zen-Kloster Tassajara. Nebem stundenlanger Meditation und viel Arbeit in der Küchencrew erlebt der Autor im Kloster hitzige Diskussionen über das eine große Thema: Identitätspolitik. Dürfen Weiße Dreadlocks tragen? Keinesfalls! Darf ein weißes Kind sich als Indianer verkleiden? Niemals! Und wie ist dann die buddhistische Praxis weißer Amerikaner zu sehen?Unerbittlich streiten die Buddhisten über die Fragen der kulturellen Aneignung und der Autor stellt ihren Diskurs dar. Dabei verschwindet Sumerauer jedoch nicht hinter seinem Text - im Gegenteil! Mit geradezu anarchistischem Vergnügen überrascht der Wissenschaftler durch seine Präsenz und sein Buch erweist sich als ungezwungenes Plädoyer für ein ethnologisches Schreiben fernab des üblichen wissenschaftlichen Jargons.
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    Entrepreneurs and capitalism since Luther : rediscovering the moral economy (2020)
    Lanham : Lexington Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-7936-2131-3 , 978-1-7936-2129-0 , 978-1-7936-2130-6 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: v, 173 Seiten
    Keywords: Kapitalismus Unternehmen ; Geschichte ; Moral ; Ethik ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: In Entrepreneurs and Capitalism since Luther: Rediscovering the Moral Economy, Ivan Light and Léo-Paul Dana study the history of business, capitalism, and entrepreneurship to examine the values of social and cultural capital. Six chapters evaluate case studies that illustrate contrasting relationships between social networks, vocational culture, and entrepreneurship. Light and Dana argue that, in capitalism`s early stages, cultural capital is scarcer than social capital and therefore more crucial for business owners. Conversely, when capitalism is well established, social capital is scarcer than cultural capital and becomes more crucial. Light and Dana then trace moral legitimations of capitalism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, the Gilded Age, and finally to Joseph Schumpeter whose concept of "creative destruction" freed elite entrepreneurs from moral restraints that encumber small business owners. After examining the availability of social and cultural capital in the contemporary United States, Light and Dana show that business owners` social capital enforces conventional morality in markets, facilitating commerce and legitimating small businesses the old-fashioned way. As their networks become more isolated, elite entrepreneurs must claim and ultimately deliver successful results to earn public toleration of immoral or predatory conduct.---Thema (Schlagwort): Entrepreneurship; Geschichte 1500-2020; Kapitalismus; Wirtschaftsethik
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: From Resources to Wealth ; Chapter 2: Protestant Ethnics ; Chapter 3: Merchants of Venice ; Chapter 4: Aleuts of Kodiak Island ; Chapter 5: Memons of Karachi ; Chapter 6: Koreans in Los Angeles ; Chapter 7: An Undercapitalized Billionaire ; Chapter 8: Economic Supermen ; Chapter 9: Rogues and Regulators ; Chapter 10: Two Worlds of Enterprise
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    General labour history of Africa : workers, employers and governments, 20th-21st centuries (2019)
    Suffolk : James Currey
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    ISBN: 978-1-84701-210-4 , 978-1-84701-218-0 , 978-92-2-133111-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 761 S. , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Afrika Arbeit ; Geschichte ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Arbeit, informelle ; Lohnarbeit ; Zwangsarbeit ; Arbeitsverhältnis ; Arbeitsmigration ; Industrie ; Landwirtschaft ; Bergbau ; Unternehmen ; International Labour Organisation
    Abstract: Co-published with the International Labour Organization on the centenary of its founding in 1919, the General Labour History of Africa is a landmark in the study of labour history. It brings, for the first time, an African perspective within a global context to the study of labour and labour relations. The volume analyses key developments in the 20th century, such as the emergence of free wage labour; the transformation in labour relations; the role of capital and employers; labour agency and movements; the growing diversity of formal and informal or precarious labour; the meaning of work; and the impact of gender and age on the workplace. The contributors - eminent historians, anthropologists and social scientists from Africa, Europe and the United States - examine African labour in the context of labour and social issues worldwide: mobility and colonial and postcolonial migration, child and forced labour, security, the growth of entrepreneurial labour, the informal sector and self-employment, and the impact of trade unionism, welfare and state relations. The book discusses key sectors such as mining, agriculture, industry, transport, domestic work, and sport, tourism and entertainment, as well as the international dimension and the history and impact of the International Labour Organization itself. This authoritative and comprehensive work will be an invaluable resource for historians of labour, social relations and African history. In association with the ILO Regional Office for Africa Stefano Bellucci is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and lecturer in African History and Economy at Leiden University, the Netherlands; Andreas Eckert is Director of the International Research Centre for Work and the Human Life Cycle in Global History and professor of African history at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction - Andreas Eckert Foreword: Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, ILO Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Africa Introduction: The 'Labour Question' in Africanist Historiography - Stefano Bellucci and Andreas Eckert Part I: Free and Unfree Labour Wage labour - Andreas Eckert Precarious and Informal Labour - Franco Barchiesi Forced Labour - Babacar Fall and Richard L. Roberts Part II: Key Sectors Agriculture - Julia Tischler Mining - Carolyn A. Brown Industry and Manufacturing - Patrick Neveling Transport - Stefano Bellucci Part III: International Dimensions and Mobility The International Labour Organization - Luca Puddu and Daniel Roger Maul and Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani Labour Migration - Helena Perez-Nino Part IV Varieties of Work Domestic Work - Deborah Fahy Bryceson Military and Pollice - Michelle R. Moyd and Joel Glasman Crime and Illegal Work - Laurent Fourchard White-Collar Workers - Dmitri van den Bersselaar Sport, Tourism and Entertainment - Andreas Admasie Part V: Entrepreneurs and Self-Employment Capitalists and Labour in Africa - Gareth Austin Entrepreneurial Labour - Sara S. Berry Professionals and Executives - Rory Pilossof Part VI: The State, Unions and Welfare Labour and the State - Akua O. Britwum and Leyla Dakhli Trade Unions - Bill Freund Social Welfare - Ben Scully and Rana Jawad Mutualism and Cooperative Work - Samuel A. Nyanchoga Part VII: Conclusions The Labour Question in Africa and the World - Frederick Cooper Select Bibliography
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    Impersonations : the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance (2019)
    Oakland, California : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-520-30166-5 (paperback) , 978-0-520-97223-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 225 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Indien Süd-Indien ; Andhra Pradesh ; Tanz ; Tanz und Gesellschaft ; Brahmanismus ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Identität, sexuelle ; Männlichkeit ; Darstellende Kunst ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Impersonations centers on an insular community of Smarta brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who don stri-vesam (woman`s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance limited to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries - village to urban to transnational, brahmin to non-brahmin, hegemonic to nonnormative - to explore the artifice of brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Taking Center Stage: The Poet-Saint and the Impersonator of Kuchipudi Dance History -- 2. "I am Satyabhama": Constructing Hegemonic Brahmin Masculinity in the Kuchipudi Village -- 3. Constructing Artifice, Interrogating Impersonation: Madhavi as Vidusaka in Village Bhamakalapam Performance -- 4. Bhamakalapam beyond the Village: Transgressing Norms of Gender and Sexuality in Urban and Transnational Kuchipudi Dance -- 5. Longing to Dance: Stories of Kuchipudi Brahmin Women -- Conclusion: Rewriting the Script for Kuchipudi Dance-- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Water, life, and profit : fluid economies and cultures of Niamey, Niger (2019)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-337-0 , 1-78920-337-6 , 978-1-78920-338-7 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 178 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Republik Niger Wasser ; Trinken ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Industrie ; Unternehmen ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. Why water? Why now? -- Situating water in the 21st century -- Historical urban development in Niamey -- Accessing water in Niamey -- Water delivery vendors in Niamey -- "Pure water" in Niamey -- Fluid materialism in Niamey -- Conclusion.
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    Inviting happiness : Food sharing in post-communist Mongolia ; text revised and expanded (2019)
    Boston : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-40965-1 (hbk) , 978-90-04-41063-3 (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVI, 288 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Inner Asia Book Series 11
    Keywords: Mongolei Essen ; Eßgewohnheit ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: "For Mongols, sharing food is more than just eating meals. Through a process of "opening" and "closing", on a daily basis or at events, in the family circle or with visitors, sharing food guarantees the proper order of social relations. It also ensures the course of the seasons and the cycle of human life. Through food sharing, humans thus invite happiness to their families and herds. Sandrine Ruhlmann has lived long months, since 2000, in the Mongolian steppe and in the city. She describes and analyzes in detail the contemporary food system and recognizes intertwined ideas and values inherited from shamanism, Buddhism and communist ideology. Through meat-on-the-bone, creamy milk skin, dumplings or sole-shaped cakes, she highlights a whole way of thinking and living"
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Transcription of Mongolian Terms -- Prologue -- 1 Techniques and Material Culture: Details and Design -- 2 Food Practices -- 3 The Structuring Role of Food Sharing -- 4 Food and Political or Religious Authorities -- Part 1 Ordinary Food Practices: Restric ted Sharing -- Chapter 1 The Space -- 1 The Steppe -- 2 The Encampment -- 3 The Yurt -- 4 The Stove -- 5 Kitchen Utensils -- Chapter 2 The Fundamental Pattern of the Meal -- 1 A Three-Meal-a-Day System -- 2 (Meat-Based) Soup, the Elementary Dish -- 3 Meat, the "Nourishing" Food -- Chapter 3 From Animal to Meat Product -- 1 Animal Herding -- 2 Slaughtering -- 3 Skinning -- 4 Butchering: Processing the Meat and Bones -- 5 Preserving and Storing -- 6 Processing the Blood and the Viscera -- Chapter 4 Basic Culinary Techniques -- 1 Cutting Techniques -- 2 The Share -- 3 The Pieces -- Chapter 5 Cooking Modes -- 1 An Aversion to Raw Food -- 2 The Essential Boiled Mode of Cooking -- 3 The Other Modes of Cooking or Processing -- Chapter 6 Distribution and Consumption of Meals -- 1 Offering of the First Part -- 2 Presentation, Service and Etiquette -- 3 Consuming Shares and Pieces -- 4 Sorting and Processing the Leftovers and Waste -- Chapter 7 Food Sharing and Hospitality -- 1 Closed/Open Restricted Sharing -- 2 The Visitor and the Host: the Rule of Hospitality -- 3 The Sequences of Different Visits -- 4 The Different Kinds of Visits -- 5 Hospitality Dishes, Festive Features -- 6 The Alcohols of Hospitality: between Danger and Feast -- 7 From Suspicion to Identification of the Visitor -- 8 Restricted Sharing and the "Stock of Visitors" -- 9 Sharing Happiness -- Part 2 Extra-Ordinary Food Practices: Extended Sharing -- Chapter 8 Extended Food Sharing -- 1 Extending Sharing Thanks to the "Stock of Visitors" -- 2 Specializing the Dishes.
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    The _impact of development on the environment and human rights : a study of three Indian projects (2019)
    Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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    ISBN: 978-1-5275-3132-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 163 Seiten , Karten
    Keywords: Indien Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umwelt ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Menschenrecht
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; Prologue; Introduction; Development, Environment and Human Rights -- I; Development, Environment and Human Rights -- II; Towards Sustainable Development in India; Coda; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Bibliography
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    Divided peoples : policy, activism, and indigenous identities on the U.S.-Mexico border (2019)
    Tucson : University of Arizona Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8165-3700-6 , 978-0-8165-4055-6 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 223 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
    Keywords: Mexiko USA ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Indianer, Mexiko ; Yaqui ; Cocopa ; Apache ; Tiwa ; Kickapoo ; Grenze ; Migration ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Umweltbelastung ; Soziales Leben ; Recht ; Politik ; Soziale Schichtung
    Abstract: The border region of the Sonoran Desert, which spans southern Arizona in the United States and northern Sonora, Mexico, has attracted national and international attention. But what is less discussed in national discourses is the impact of current border policies on the Native peoples of the region. There are twenty-six tribal nations recognized by the U.S. federal government in the southern border region and approximately eight groups of Indigenous peoples in the United States with historical ties to Mexico - the Yaqui, the O'odham, the Cocopah, the Kumeyaay, the Pai, the Apaches, the Tiwa (Tigua), and the Kickapoo.Divided Peoples addresses the impact border policies have on traditional lands and the peoples who live there&;whether environmental degradation, border patrol harassment, or the disruption of traditional ceremonies. Anthropologist Christina Leza shows how such policies affect the traditional cultural survival of Indigenous peoples along the border. The author examines local interpretations and uses of international rights tools by Native activists, counterdiscourse on the U.S.-Mexico border, and challenges faced by Indigenous border activists when communicating their issues to a broader public.Through ethnographic research with grassroots Indigenous activists in the region, the author reveals several layers of division - the division of Indigenous peoples by the physical U.S.-Mexico border, the divisions that exist between Indigenous perspectives and mainstream U.S. perspectives regarding the border, and the traditionalist/nontraditionalist split among Indigenous nations within the United States. Divided Peoples asks us to consider the possibilities for challenging settler colonialism both in sociopolitical movements and in scholarship about Indigenous peoples and lands.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. The Binational Yoeme (Yaqui) Nation -- 2. The "Desert People" On Militarized Desert Lands -- 3. An Indigenous Alliance on the Border -- 4. Domestic and International Border Crossing Policy -- 5. Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border -- 6. The Border in Indigenous Activist Counter-Discourse -- Conclusion: Maintaining, Creating and Re-Creating Ties -- Appendix A: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Appendix B: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- Appendix C: International Labor Organization (ILO) Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention
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    What are exhibitions for? : an anthropological approach (2019)
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
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    ISBN: 978-1-350-06535-2
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 231 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: reprinted
    Keywords: Ausstellung Sammler und Sammlung ; Museum ; Museumskunde ; Kommunikation ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Kunst ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: Why do people go to exhibitions, and what do they hope to gain from the experience? What would happen if people were encouraged to move freely through exhibition spaces, take photographs and be playful? In this book, Inge Daniels explores what might happen if people and objects were freed from the regulations currently associated with going to an exhibition. Traditional understandings of exhibitions place the viewers in a one-way communication form, where the exhibition and those behind its creation inform their audiences. However, motivations behind exhibition-going are multiple and complex and frequently the intentions of curators do not match the expectations of their visitors. Based on an in-depth ethnographic examination of the processes involved in the making and reception of one particular exhibition-experiment as well as a study that follows 'freed' objects into their new homes, this publication will not only shed light on what exhibitions are, but also what they could become in the future. Featuring over 175 colour illustrations and using practical examples, this is an important contribution for students and scholars of anthropology, museum studies, photography, design and architecture
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: What Are Exhibitions For? SPREAD 1: The AHJ booklet: A practical tool to study exhibition visitors. Chapter 1. Representational and Performative Knowledge SPREAD 2: Mike - 'There is a connecting memory in my feet' Chapter 2. Photography, Exhibition Design and Atmosphere SPREAD 3: Sue - 'Photography students have been very surprised to learn that what appears to be an actual window is in fact an illusion' Chapter 3. Similarities and Stereotypes SPREAD 4: Jen - 'I was very interested in anime and manga' Chapter 4. To Learn or Not to Learn SPREAD 5: Natasha - 'And I have been putting them in the dishwasher' SPREAD 6: Natalia - 'It's in our shower because it's very useful; Molly - 'It is something I found and can't give away' Chapter 5. Photography, Performance and Play SPREAD 7: Ali - 'I never found England a very interesting place' Conclusion: Exhibitions as Technologies of the Imagination? Notes References
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    Investing in the homeland : migration, social ties, and foreign firms (2019)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-472-13115-0 , 0-472-13115-X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 257 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Michigan Studies in International Political Economy Series
    Keywords: Georgien Philippinen ; Diaspora ; Migration ; Heimat ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Unternehmen ; Finanzwesen ; Geldverkehr ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Netzwerkanalyse
    Abstract: Once viewed as a "brain drain" migrants are increasingly viewed as a resource for promoting economic development back in their home countries. In Investing in the Homeland, Benjamin Graham finds that diasporans migrants and their descendants play a critical role in linking foreign firms to social networks in developing countries, allowing firms to flourish even in challenging political environments most foreign investors shun.Graham's analysis draws on new data from face-to-face interviews with the managers of over 450 foreign firms operating in two developing countries: Georgia and the Philippines. Diaspora-owned and diaspora-managed firms are better connected than other foreign firms and they use social ties to resolve disputes and influence government policy. At the same time, Graham shows that diaspora-affiliated firms are no more socially responsible than their purely foreign peers&;at root, they are profit-seeking enterprises, not development NGOs. Graham identifies implications for policymakers seeking to capture the development potential of diaspora investment and for managers of multinational firms who want to harness diasporans as a source of sustained competitive advantage.
    Description / Table of Contents: Diasporans as transnational brokers : a theory of homeland investment -- Research design and new firm-level data -- Measuring firms? : social connectedness -- How do diaspora-affiliated firms use social networks? -- The development impact of diaspora-affiliated firms
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    Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa (2019)
    New York : Basic Books
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    Language: English
    Pages: 537 Seiten , Karten, Illustrationen
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Zentralafrika ; Kongo-Becken ; Entdeckung ; Entdeckungsgeschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Umweltbelastung ; Ökologie ; Widerstandsbewegung ; Regenwald ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Globalisierung
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 473-522
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    Tourism and ethnodevelopment : inclusion, empowerment and self-determination (2018)
    London : Routledge
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    ISBN: 978-0-415-78844-1 , 978-1-315-22528-9 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 297 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Tourism and Anthropology
    Keywords: Tourismus Entwicklungsländer ; Anthropologie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Entwicklungsethnologie ; Südostasien ; Thai ; Karen ; Laos ; Indonesien ; Südamerika ; Brasilien ; Chile ; Ecuador ; Indianer, Brasilien ; Ethnie, Europa ; Samen ; Kulturwandel ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Minorität ; Selbstbestimmung ; Selbstverwaltung ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
    Abstract: Ethnodevelopment is a well-established concept in the field of development studies. Despite its relevance to tourism initiatives and processes in the Global South, it continues to be an underutilised concept in the field. This book bridges this gap, presenting an original conceptual framework to study the relationship between tourism and ethnodevelopment. It focuses on the processes of inclusion, empowerment, self-expression and self-determination to explore the effects of tourism initiatives on the identities, cultural resilience, livelihoods and economic opportunities of ethnic minority communities. Chapters explore a range of concepts and issues such as gender, authenticity, indigenous knowledge, tradition, the commodification of culture, community-based tourism, local entrepreneurship, cultural heritage, and tourism and the environment. Drawing on rich primary research conducted across South East Asia and South and Central America the book offers detailed evaluations of the successes and failures of various tourism policies and practices. This book makes a valuable contribution for students, scholars, practitioners and policy-makers alike interested in tourism, development studies, geography and anthropology.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures - List of tables - Notes on contributors - List of abbreviations - Introduction -- Part 1: Institutionalized Ethnic Tourism and Advances in Ethnodevelopment: Policies, Communities, Organizations -- Part 2: Ethnic entrepreneurship, Tourism and Ethnodevelopment -- Part 3: Empowerment approaches in Ethnic Tourism: Issues of Authenticity, Cultural Commodification and Environment, Gender -Conclusion -- Index
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    The _moral power of money : morality and economy in the life of the poor (2018)
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5036-0286-1 , 978-1-5036-0428-5 , 978-1-5036-0436-0/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 206 Seiten
    Series Statement: Culture and Economic Life
    Uniform Title: Las _sospechas del dinero
    Keywords: Argentinien Armut ; Geld ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Macht ; Moral ; Wirtschaft ; Finanzwesen ; Buenos Aires
    Abstract: Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people. Through vivid accounts of the stark realities of life in Villa Olimpia, Wilkis highlights the interplay of money, morality, and power. Drawing out the theoretical implications of these stories, he proposes a new concept of moral capital based on different kinds, or "pieces," of money. Each chapter covers a different "piece"-money earned from the informal and illegal economies, money lent through family and market relations, money donated with conditional cash transfers, political money that binds politicians and their supporters, sacrificed money offered to the church, and safeguarded money used to support people facing hardships. This book builds an original theory of the moral sociology of money, providing the tools for understanding the role money plays in social life today.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : money and moral capital -- Lent money -- Earned money -- Donated money -- Political money -- Sacrificed money -- Safeguarded money.
    Note: Originally published in 2013 in Spanish under the title: Las sospechas del dinero : moral y economía en el mundo popularLiteraturverzeichnis: Seite 185-196
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    Work and livelihoods : history, ethnography and models in times of crisis (2018)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-81398-4 , 978-1-315-74780-4 , 978-1-315-74780-4/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XIC, 223 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Anthropology 35
    Keywords: Industrie Arbeit ; Arbeiterklasse ; Arbeitsverhältnis ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Krise ; Finanzkrise ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Subalternität ; Armut ; Soziologie ; Ethnographie ; Polen ; Argentinien ; Brasilien ; Italien ; Deutschland ; Großbritannien ; Griechenland ; Slowakei ; USA ; Spanien
    Abstract: Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017 This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social processes and devise ideological, political, and economic responses to them. It shows how the reorganization and re-signification of work, notably shifts in the perception and valorization of work, affect domestic and community arrangements and shape the conditions of life of workers and their families.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Work and Livelihoods: an Introduction Victoria Goddard Section I - Past, Present and Future: Generations in Times of Crisis 2. Lost Generations? Unemployment, Migration and New Knowledge Regimes in Post EU Poland Frances Pine 3. Credentialism and Recommendations: The Bases of the Reproduction of the Metallurgical Working Class in Contemporary Argentina Laura Perelman and Patricia Vargas 4. Continuity and Disruption: the Experiences of Work and Employment Across Three Generations of Steelworkers in Volta Redonda Gonzalo Diaz CrovettoSection II - Continuities and Discontinuities5. Postfordist Work Organization and Daily Life from a Gender Perspective: the Case of FIAT-SATA in Melfi Fulvia D'Aloisio6. Profession, Masculinity, and Identity: Biographical Crisis of British and German Steelworkers in Comparison Vera Trappmann 7. Employment Precariousness and Social Reproduction in the Shipbuilding Industry of Piraeus Manos Spyridakis Section III - Lives of Worth 8. Regimes of Value and Worthlessness: How Two Subaltern Stories Speak Don Kalb 9. Post-industrial Landscape. Space and Place in the Personal Experiences of Residents of the Former Working-class Estate of Ksawera in Bedzin Kazimiera Wodz and Monika GnieciakSection IV - The Politics of Resistance 10. Workers and Populism in Slovakia Juraj Buzalka and Michaela Ferencova 11. `A Trojan Horse in our Midst': The Saturn Plant and the Disorganization of Autoworkers in the US Sharryn Kasmir 12. Getting by Beyond Work, or the Intertwining of Production and Reproduction among Heavy Industry Workers and their Families in Ferrol, Spain Irene Sabate MurielAfterword - Making Difference: Concluding Comments on Work and Livelihoods Susana Narotzky
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    Transfers of belonging : child fostering in West Africa in the 20th century (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-365980-2 , 978-90-04-36041-9 /eBook
    ISSN: 1574-6925
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 269 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 19
    Uniform Title: Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel
    Keywords: Westafrika Benin ; Borgu ; Elternschaft ; Kindheit ; Familie ; Familienrecht ; Verwandtschaft ; Adoption ; Pflegekindschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Vater-Kind ; Beziehungen Mutter-Kind ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen
    Abstract: In Transfers of Belonging, Erdmute Alber traces the history of child fostering in northern Benin from the pre-colonial past to the present by pointing out the embeddedness of child foster practices and norms in a wider political process of change. Child fostering was, for a long time, not just one way of raising children, but seen as the appropriate way of doing so. This changed profoundly with the arrival of European ideas about birth parents being the `right` parents, but also with the introduction of schooling and the differentiation of life chances. Besides providing deep historical and ethnographical insights, Transfers of Belonging offers a new theoretical frame for conceptualizing parenting.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Glossary 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Child Fostering -- 2. Parenthood in Rural Borgu -- 3. Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix -- References -- Index of persons -- Index
    Note: "Revised and tightened version" of Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel: Kindheit, Verwandtschaft und Zugehorigkeit in Westafrika by Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2013.
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    Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine (2018)
    Oxford : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78238-554-7 , 978-1-78920-059-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 302 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Series Statement: Epistemologies of Healing volume 15
    Keywords: Südafrika Ethnomedizin ; Heilbehandlung ; Medizin, traditionelle ; Wissen, lokales ; Pharmakologie ; Anthropologie, medizinische ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Rausch- und Genußmittel
    Abstract: "Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like "medicine," thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This 'natural' remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical -- from the "open air" to controlled environments -- learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing."--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: tracing the preclinical trial of an indigenous plant. Knowing umhloyane/Artemisia afra. Engaging in medicine. Tracing medicine/wayfaring. Imagining indigeneity. Healing the nation. Dreams, ancestors and sound healing. Weaving molecules in lifeConclusion--imagining the clinical trial.
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    Pilgrimage and political economy : translating the sacred (2018)
    New York : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-942-4
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 197 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Wallfahrt Das Heilige ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Politische Ökonomie ; Religion ; Sakraler Ort ; Japan ; Indien ; Pakistan ; Usbekistan ; Bosnien und Herzegowina ; Frankreich ; Mexiko ; Brasilien
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    Personal autonomy in plural societies : a principle and its paradoxes (2018)
    London : Routledge
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-22021-8
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 302 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Law and Anthropology
    Keywords: Menschenrecht Minorität ; Religion ; Vielfalt ; Differenzierung ; Recht ; Gesetzgebung ; Selbstbestimmung ; Sozialer Aspekt
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    Sketches in the theory of culture (2018)
    Cambridge : Polity Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5095-2830-1 , 978-1-5095-2829-5 , 978-1-5095-2833-2 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xxv, 289 Seiten
    Edition: English edition
    Uniform Title: Szkice z teorii kultury
    Keywords: Philosophie Kulturanthropologie ; Kultur ; Semiotik ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Soziale Organisation ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Abstract: Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures. Written by Zygmunt Bauman when he was still a professor in Poland and originally intended for publication in 1968, it was suppressed by the Polish government in the wave of repression following the protests in March of that year. For decades it was thought to be lost. Astonishingly, it survived in the form of an uncorrected set of proofs which were recently discovered and which are the basis of this edition.Now published in English for the first time, this book sheds new light on Bauman`s work prior to his emigration and illuminates the intellectual climate of Poland in the late 1960s. Bauman`s pursuit of a semiotic theory of culture includes a discussion of processes of individualization and the intensification of global ties, anticipating themes that became central to his later work. Though this book stands as a testament to an historical moment, it also transcends it. "We live in an age that seems, for the first time in human history, to acknowledge cultural multiplicity as an innate and fixed feature of the world, one which gives rise to new forms of identity that are at ease with plurality, like a fish in water," writes Bauman— a statement that is as true today as it was when Bauman penned it in the 1960s.Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a strikingly prescient reflection on culture and society by one of the most influential social thinkers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities and to the many readers of Bauman`s work.
    Description / Table of Contents: A Message in a Bottle. On the Recovered Work of Zygmunt Bauman - Dariusz Brzezinski -- From the Author. Part I. Sign and Culture. 1. The origins of the semiotic theory of culture, or the crisis of cultural anthropology. 2. Towards a semiotic theory of culture. 3. Man and sign. 4. The problem of universals and the semiotic theory of culture. 5. Some research problems in the semiotic theory of culture -- Part II. Culture and Social Structure. 1. Cultural and extra-cultural organization of society. 2. Economics, culture, and typologies of societies. 3. Cultural determinants of the research process. 4. Three observations about problems of contemporary education. 5. Masses, classes, elites: semiotics and the re-imagination of the sociological function of culture -- Afterword - Zygmunt Bauman, 2016 -- Notes -- Index
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    The _comedy studies reader (2018)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4773-1599-6 , 978-1-4773-1600-9 , 978-1-4773-1601-6 / (e-book) , 978-1-4773-1602-3 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 313 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: USA Komödie ; Satire ; Humor ; Ironie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Popular Culture ; Fernsehen ; Film ; Digitale Medien ; Anthropologie, visuelle
    Abstract: From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy Studies Reader.This anthology brings together classic articles, more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of themes and approaches for studying comedic media—the carnivalesque, comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization. The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two parallel trends in the evolution of the field—first, comedy`s development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a tendency that has led many popular commentators to characterize the present as a "comedy zeitgeist"; and second, comedy studies` new focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in "serious" discursive realms, including politics, economics, race, gender, and cultural power.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Volume Introduction: Comedy as Theory, Industry, and Academic Discipline -- 1. The Carnivalesque -- Introduction: The Naked Gun -- 2. Comedy Mechanics & Absurdity -- Introduction: Man Seeking Woman -- 3. Psychoanalyzing Comedy -- Introduction: Archer -- 4. Irony -- Introduction: Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents` Association Dinner 2006 -- 5. Genre --Introduction: 22 Jump Street -- 6. Race & Ethnicity -- Introduction: Key and Peele -- 7. Gender & Sexuality --Introduction: Inside Amy Schumer -- 8. Nation & Globalization -- Introduction / Peter Kragh Jensen and Matt Sienkiewicz -- Contributors -- Index
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    The _social faces of humour : practices and issues (2018)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-39019-5 , 978-1-138-39018-8 , 1-85742-269-4 , 978-0-429-42347-5 7 (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 357 Seiten
    Edition: reissued
    Series Statement: Popular Cultural Studies 11
    Keywords: Humor Witz ; Comic ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Familie ; Beruf ; Geschichte ; Großbritannien ; Australien
    Abstract: First published in 1996, this volume is a sequel to Humour in Society: Resistance and Control which was edited by George E.C. Paton and Chris Powell. Now, seven years later, the culturally central nature of humour seems greater than ever.This collection of original essays critically assesses the practices of humour in various role relationships in a number of social contexts, for example, in the workplace and between family members. A feature of this new volume is the critical analysis of socio-linguistic practices, including the use of jokes and cartoons, to manage tensions in social relationships at the micro- and macro-sociological levels of human interaction. Wider social and cultural issues area also examined by other contributors concerned with alternative comedy and sitcoms in British and Australian society, for example, which along with humour practices are situated by the editors in their introduction to substantiate the value of studying and researching the sociology of humour.
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    At home in the Okavango : white Batswana narratives of emplacement and belonging (2018)
    New York : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78238-773-2 , 978-1-78533-753-6
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 244 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition published in 2018
    Keywords: Botswana Okavango Delta ; Weiße ; Rassenkonflikt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Tourismus
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [219]-230
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    Stategraphy : toward a relational anthropology of the state (2018)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-699-7 , 978-1-78533-700-0 , 978-1-78533-701-7/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: 163 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Studies in Social Analysis 4
    Keywords: Anthropologie, politische Staat ; Sicherheit ; Politik ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Politischer Wandel ; Ethnographie ; Kulturvergleich ; Netzwerkanalyse
    Note: "Originally published as a special issue of Social Analysis, volume 58, issue 3"
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    Flexible capitalism : exchange and ambiguity at work (2018)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78238-615-5 , 978-1-78920-073-7 , 978-1-78238-616-2 (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 287 Seiten
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Series Statement: EASA Series 25
    Keywords: Arbeitsverhältnis Arbeit ; Kapitalismus ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
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    Styling South Asian youth cultures : fashion, media & society (2018)
    London : I.B. Tauris
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    ISBN: 978-1-78453-917-7 , 1-78453-917-1 , 987-1-78672-562-2 / (e-book) , 987-1-78673-562-1 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 232 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Dress Cultures
    Keywords: Asien Süd-Asien ; Indien ; Afghanistan ; Bangladesh ; Bhutan ; Malediven ; Nepal ; Pakistan ; Sri Lanka ; Mode ; Design ; Konsum ; Jugendkultur ; Jugendlicher ; Geschlechterforschung ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Abstract: For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have all, in related and distinctive ways, been producing confident young fashion consumers, who are proving to be an important market for fashion.This book explores South Asian youth cultures and fashion across the countries of this region and their diasporas from a transnational perspective. Through visual and textual analysis of film, photography and digital cultures, as well as ethnographic fieldwork, the expert contributors look at how gender, sexuality, class, the media and faith intersect with and style youth cultures. By establishing the heterogeneous nature of South Asia and its youth cultures, they also dismantle grand western narratives that tend to understand the region's diverse cultural modernity through the lens of homogeneity.
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsList of ImagesContributorsIntroduction: Styling South Asian Youth Cultures - By Lipi Begum and Rohit K DasguptaChapter One: Street Style vs. Style on the Street? : Two Interpretations of Indian Street Fashion - By Arti SandhuChapter Two: Style-ish Girls and Local Boys: Young Women and Fashion in Chennai - By Sneha KrishnanChapter Three: Rituparno Ghosh, Sartorial Codes and the Queer Bengali Youth - By Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K DasguptaChapter Four: In/visible Space: Reflections on the Realm of Dimensional Affect, Space and the Queer Racialised Self - By Raisa KabirChapter Five: Faces of Subversion: Queer Looks of India - By Sunil Gupta and Charan SinghChapter Six: Designing for 'Zippies' and the Madness of Bhootsavaar On Commercially Inflected Artistic Nationalism and Branded 'Subcultures' - By Tereza KuldovaChapter Seven: Emergent Collaborative Practices of Sustainable Design and Craft in Bangladesh - By Lynne Hammond and Tara Boath MooneyChapter Eight: Trouser Wearing Women: Changing Landscape of Fashion among Free Trade Zone Factory Workers and Contemporary Political Tensions in Sri Lanka - By Sandya HewamanneChapter Nine: Changing Fashions of Bhutanese Youth, Impacts on Cultural and Individual Identity - By Paul StricklandChapter Ten: Matching Clothes and Matching Couples: The Role of Dress in Arranged Marriages in Kathmandu - By Sarah Shepherd-ManandharChapter Eleven: 'Of Course It's Beautiful, But I Can't Wear It!' Constructions of Hindu Style Among Young Hindustani Women in Amsterdam - By Priya SwamyChapter Twelve: Bras are not for Burning: the Bra and Young Urban Women in Delhi and Bombay - By Lipi BegumAfterword: Locating the Style Cultures of South Asian Youth - By Reina LewisIndex
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    The _line becomes a river (2018)
    New York : Riverhead Books
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    ISBN: 978-0-525-53625-3 (International edition) , 978-0-7352-1771-3 (hardback) , 978-0-7352-1772-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 250 Seiten
    Keywords: USA Mexiko ; Grenze ; Migration ; Migration, illegale ; Autobiographie ; Bevölkerungsbewegung ; Bevölkerungspolitik ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Demographie
    Abstract: For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood. His mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line. (Verlagsangabe)
    Note: Titelzusatz auf dem Umschlag: Dispatches from the border"Some of the material in this book originally appeared, in different form, in Edible Baja Arizona, Guernica, Orion, Ploughshares, J Journal: New Writing on Justince, and South Loop Review." (Rückseite Titelblatt)Parallelausgabe in spanischer Sprache erschien unter dem Titel: La línea se convierte en río. Una crónica de la frontera
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    New geospatial approaches to the anthropological sciences (2018)
    Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8263-5967-4 , 978-0-8263-5968-1 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 290 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [122]
    Keywords: Ethnographie Anthropologie ; Paläoanthropologie ; Soziologie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Methodologie
    Abstract: Spatial analysis reaches across all the subdisciplines of anthropology. A cultural anthropologist, for example, can use such analysis to trace the extent of distinctive cultural practices; an archaeologist can use it to understand the organization of ancient irrigation systems; a primatologist to quantify the density of primate nesting sites; a paleoanthropologist to explore vast fossil-bearing landscapes.Arguing that geospatial analysis holds great promise for much anthropological inquiry, the contributors have designed this volume to show how the powerful tools of GIScience can be used to benefit a variety of research programs. This volume brings together scholars who are currently applying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and methods of geographical information sciences (GIScience) to diverse data sets of anthropological interest. Their questions crosscut the typical "silos" that so often limit scholarly communication among anthropologists and instead recognize a deep structural similarity between the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, the data they collect, and the analytical models and paradigms they each use. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Chapter One. Geospatial Anthropology: Integrating Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Sciences into Anthropological Fieldwork and Analysis, Robert L. Anemone and Glenn C. Conroy -- Chapter Two. Ongoing Developments in Geospatial Data, Software, and Hardware with Prospects for Anthropological Applications, Charles W. Emerson and Robert L. Anemone -- Chapter Three. Geospatial Approaches to Hominid Paleontology in Africa: What`s Old, What`s New, and What Doesn`t Change, Leslea J. Hlusko -- Chapter Four. Assessing Unsupervised Image Classification as an Aid in Paleoanthropological Explorations, Glenn C. Conroy, Amy Chew, Kenneth D. Rose, Thomas M. Bown, Robert L. Anemone, and Gregg F. Gunnell -- Chapter Five. Taking Virtual Anthropology to the Field: Building Three-Dimensional Digital Outcrop Models of Fossil Localities, Robert L. Anemone, Charles W. Emerson, Tyler W. Jones, Junshan Liu, and Cory Henderson -- Chapter Six. Tooth Surface Topography: A Scale-Sensitive Approach with Implications for Inferring Dental Adaptation and Diet, Peter S. Ungar -- Chapter Seven. Classifying Land Cover on Very High Resolution Drone-Acquired Orthomosaics, Serge A. Wich, Lian Pin Koh, and Zoltan Szantoi -- Chapter Eight. Understanding the Ecological Decision-Making of Tiwanaku Pastoralists through Geospatial Agent-Based Models, Benjamin Vining and Sara Burns -- Chapter Nine. Pastoralist Participation (PastPart): A Model of Mobility and Connectivity across the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor, Michael D. Frachetti, C. Evan Smith, and Cody Copp -- Chapter Ten. Modeling Archaeological Landscape Transformations in Early Andean Empires, Patrick Ryan Williams, Ana Cristina Londoño, and Megan Hart -- Chapter Eleven. PaleoCore: An Open-Source Platform for Geospatial Data Integration in Paleoanthropology, Denné N. Reed, W. Andrew Barr, and John Kappelman -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 225-271"School for Advanced Research advanced seminar New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences, [...] March 6-10, 2016" (Seite 272)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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    Global Nepalis : religion, culture, and community in a new and old diaspora (2018)
    New Delhi : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-948192-7 , 0-19-948192-X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 580 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Nepal Ethnizität ; Migration ; Ausländer ; Diaspora ; Religion ; Kultur ; Gemeinschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Abstract: Migration has always been a feature of Nepali society. Waves of Khas, Brahmans, and associated service castes were already moving south and east through the Himalayan foothills a millennium ago. As the population expanded, Nepalis from all backgrounds have continually moved onwards in search of new farmland and new opportunities, often encouraged to do so by local communities, local headmen, and the state. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that process continued eastwards from present-day Nepal into the north-east of India and beyond. Over the last thirty years international labour migration, as well as migration consequent on tertiary education, has radically changed the patterns of settlement of Nepalis outside their homeland. The present volume covers the many different contexts-from the USA to the Gulf, from India to Burma and Singapore-where large numbers of Nepalis are settled or working long-term. Taken together, and organized by region of settlement, the contributions in this book provide a comprehensive overview of Nepali diaspora populations around the world in their contemporary contexts. The common theme binding this volume is the exploration of the process of 'ethnogenesis' or the emergence of strong ethnic identities in which the contributors analyse how such identities strengthen more easily in the diaspora with a large population, than in the homeland.
    Description / Table of Contents: Partial contents The old diaspora: South Asia, southeast Asia, and beyond -- The new diaspora 1: transnational urban migrants in Singapore, the Gulf, and the USA -- The new diaspora 2: ethnicity, caste, and religion in the UK -- Uniting the diaspora and having an impact in the homeland
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    Transfers of belonging : child fostering in West Africa in the 20th century (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-36041-9 /eBook , 978-90-04-365980-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 269 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 19
    Uniform Title: Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel
    Keywords: Westafrika Benin ; Borgu ; Elternschaft ; Kindheit ; Familie ; Familienrecht ; Verwandtschaft ; Adoption ; Pflegekindschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Vater-Kind ; Beziehungen Mutter-Kind ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen
    Abstract: In Transfers of Belonging, Erdmute Alber traces the history of child fostering in northern Benin from the pre-colonial past to the present by pointing out the embeddedness of child foster practices and norms in a wider political process of change. Child fostering was, for a long time, not just one way of raising children, but seen as the appropriate way of doing so. This changed profoundly with the arrival of European ideas about birth parents being the `right` parents, but also with the introduction of schooling and the differentiation of life chances. Besides providing deep historical and ethnographical insights, Transfers of Belonging offers a new theoretical frame for conceptualizing parenting.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Glossary 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Child Fostering -- 2. Parenthood in Rural Borgu -- 3. Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix -- References -- Index of persons -- Index
    Note: "Revised and tightened version" of Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel: Kindheit, Verwandtschaft und Zugehorigkeit in Westafrika by Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2013.
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    Judges, judging and humour (2018)
    Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
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    ISBN: 978-3-030-09570-3 (pb) , 978-3-319-76738-3 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 335 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Gerichtsbarkeit Kriminalität ; Humor ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Emotion
    Abstract: This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time. It contributes to cultural studies and social science/socio-legal studies of both humour and the role of emotions in the judiciary and in judging. It explores the surprisingly varied intersections between humour and the judiciary in several legal systems: judges as the target of humour; legal decisions regulating humour; the use of humour to manage aspects of judicial work and courtroom procedure; and judicial/legal figures and customs featuring in comic and satiric entertainment through the ages.Delving into the multi-layered connections between the seriousness of the work of the judiciary on the one hand, and the lightness of humour on the other hand, this fascinating collection will be of particular interest to scholars of the legal system, the criminal justice system, humour studies, and cultural studies.
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    A _village goes mobile : telephony, mediation, and social change in rural India (2018)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-063028-7 , 978-0-19-063027-0
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 200 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Ländliches Gebiet ; Dorf ; Telekommunikation ; Handy ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Entwicklung ; Rezension
    Abstract: In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the smartphone. She here analyzes how mobile telephones emerged as multidimensional objects which, in addition to enabling telephone conversations, facilitated status aspirations, internet access, and entertainment practices. She explores how this multifaceted use of mobile phones has affected agency and power dynamics in economic, political, and social relationships, and how these new social constellations relate to culture and development. In eight chapters, Tenhunen asks such questions as: Who benefits from mobile telephony and how? Can people use mobile phones to change their lives, or does phone use merely amplify existing social patterns and power relationships? Can mobile telephony induce development? Going beyond the case of West Bengal, Tenhunen develops a framework to understand how new media mediates social processes within interrelated social spheres and local hierarchies by relating, media-saturated forms of interaction to pre-existing contexts.
    Description / Table of Contents: Theorizing phone use contexts and mediation -- Why mobile phones became ubiquitous : remediation and socialities -- Mobile telephony, economy and social logistics -- Mediating gender : mobile phones and women's agency -- Mediating conflict : mobile telephony and politics -- Smartphones, caste and intersectionalities.
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    African virtues in the pursuit of conviviality : exploring local solutions in light of global prescriptions (2017)
    Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa RPCIG, in collaboration with the Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
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    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 432 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Potentials
    Keywords: Afrika Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Globalisierung, kulturelle ; Globalisierung, wirtschaftliche
    Abstract: African societies have rich histories, cultural heritages, knowledge systems, philosophies, and institutions that they have shaped and reshaped through history. However, the continent has been repeatedly portrayed negatively as plagued by multitudinous troubles: famine, conflict, coup, massacres, corruption, disease, illiteracy, refugees, failed state, etc. Even worse, Africans are often viewed as incapable of addressing their problems on their own. Based on such erroneous perspectives and paternalism, exogenous solutions are prescribed, out of context, for African problems. This book sheds light on the positive aspects of African reality under the key concept of 'African potentials'. It is the product of sustained consultation over a five-year period between seasoned African and Japanese anthropologists, sociologists and scholars in other areas of African studies.
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    Beyond surgery : injury, healing, and religion at an Ethiopian hospital (2017)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 247 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Äthiopen Heilbehandlung ; Krankheit ; Medizin ; Biotechnologie ; Anthropologie, medizinische ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Geburt ; Religion ; Nichtregierungsorganisation
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    Children's agency and development in African societies (2017)
    Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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    Language: English , French
    Pages: X, 222 Seiten
    Series Statement: CODESRIA Book Series
    Keywords: Afrika Kind ; Jugendlicher ; Familie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
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    River dialogues : Hindu faith and the political ecology of dams on the sacred Ganga (2017)
    Tucson : University of Arizona Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8165-3510-1 , 0-8165-3510-8
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 257 Seiten
    Series Statement: Critical Green Engagements
    Keywords: Asien Indien ; Bangladesh ; Uttarakhand ; Ganges-Tal ; Fluß ; Hinduismus ; Hochwasser ; Ökologie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Ganges 〈Fluss〉
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [225]-249
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    Mining Africa : law, environment, society and politics in historical and multidisciplinary perspectives (2017)
    Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
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    Pages: VI, 380 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Afrika Bergbau ; Rohstoff ; Gold ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Sozialer Aspekt
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    Curated stories : the uses and misuses of storytelling (2017)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 212 Seiten
    Series Statement: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    Keywords: Wissen Wissenssoziologie ; Erzählung ; Rhetorik ; Sprachwissenschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. These narratives are typically heartbreaking accounts of poverty, mistreatment, and struggle that often move us deeply. But what do they move us to? And what are the stakes in the crafting and use of storytelling?In Curated Stories, Sujatha Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies to argue that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams the globe and returns with stories from the Afghan Women's Writing Project, the domestic workers movement and the undocumented student Dreamer movement in the United States, and the Misi n Cultura project in Venezuela to show how the conditions under which the stories are told, the tropes through which they are narrated, and the ways in which they are responded to may actually disguise the deeper contexts of global inequality. Curated stories shift the focus away from structural problems and defuse the confrontational politics of social movements. Not just a critical examination of contemporary use of narrative and its wider impact on our collective understanding of pressing social issues, Curated Stories also explores how storytelling might be reclaimed to allow for the complexity of experience to be expressed in pursuit of transformative social change.
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    Cultures of doing good : anthropologists and NGOs (2017)
    Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,
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    ISBN: 978-0-8173-1968-7 , 0-8173-1968-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 280 Seiten
    Series Statement: NGOgraphies
    Keywords: Nichtregierungsorganisation Sozio-politische Organisation ; Feldforschung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Sozialpolitik ; Soziales Netzwerk
    Abstract: Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts. Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subfield of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Thorough introductory chapters provide a short history of NGO anthropology, address how the study of NGOs contributes to anthropology more broadly, and examine ways that anthropological studies of NGOs expand research agendas spawned by other disciplines. In addition, the theoretical concepts and debates that have anchored the analysis of NGOs since they entered scholarly discourse after World War II are explained.
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    Prison worlds : an ethnography of the carceral condition (2017)
    Cambridge, UK : Polity Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5095-0755-9 , 978-1-5095-0754-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 382 Seiten
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Uniform Title: Ombre du monde
    Keywords: Frankreich Gefängnis ; Strafrecht ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Rassismus ; Ethnographie ; Gesellschaft, westliche ; Europa ; USA
    Abstract: The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are incarcerated as well as those who work there? To answer these questions, Didier Fassin conducted a four-year-long study in a French short-stay prison, following inmates from their trial to their release. He shows how the widespread use of imprisonment has reinforced social and racial inequalities and how advances in civil rights clash with the rationales and practices used to maintain security and order. He also analyzes the concerns and compromises of the correctional staff, the hardships and resistance of the inmates, and the ways in which life on the inside intersects with life on the outside. In the end, the carceral condition appears to be irreducible to other forms of penalty both because of the chain of privations it entails and because of the experience of meaninglessness it comprises. Examined through ethnographic lenses, prison worlds are thus both a reflection of society and its mirror. At a time when many countries have begun to realize the impasse of mass incarceration and question the consequences of the punitive turn, this book will provide empirical and theoretical tools to reflect on the meaning of punishment in contemporary societies.
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    Unlikely alliances : Native nations and white communities join to defend rural lands (2017)
    Seattle : University of Washington Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-295-74152-9 , 978-0-295-74151-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xxviii, 362 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Indigenous Confluences
    Keywords: Nordamerika USA ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Indigenität ; Landnutzung ; Landrecht ; Weiße ; Ressource ; Umwelt ; Umweltschutz ; Naturschutz ; Umweltpolitik ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Regierung ; Wasser ; Fischerei ; Erdöl
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Running upstream -- Fish wars and co-management (Western Washington) -- Water wars and breaching dams (Northwest Plateau) -- Part 2. Militarized lands and skies -- Military projects and environmental racism (Nevada & Southern Wisconsin) -- Part 3. Keeping it in the ground -- Resource wars and sharing sacred lands (Montana & South Dakota) -- Fossil fuel shipping and blocking (Northern Plains & Pacific Northwest) -- Fishing and mining -- Fishing and exclusion (Northern Wisconsin) -- Mining and inclusion (Northern Wisconsin) -- Conclusion
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    Teaching "proper" drinking? : pubs and clubs in Indigenous Australia (2017)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-76046-158-4 , 1-76046-158-X , 978-1-76046-157-7 , 1-76046-157-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 320 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Research Monograph. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research 39
    Keywords: Australien Ureinwohner, Australien ; Alkohol ; Krankheit ; Gesundheit ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Gesundheitswesen
    Abstract: In Teaching 'Proper' Drinking?, the author brings together three fields of scholarship: socio-historical studies of alcohol, Australian Indigenous policy history and social enterprise studies. The case studies in the book offer the first detailed surveys of efforts to teach responsible drinking practices to Aboriginal people by installing canteens in remote communities, and of the purchase of public hotels by Indigenous groups in attempts both to control sales of alcohol and to create social enterprises by redistributing profits for the community good. Ethnographies of the hotels are examined through the analytical lens of the Swedish 'Gothenburg' system of municipal hotel ownership. The research reveals that the community governance of such social enterprises is not purely a matter of good administration or compliance with the relevant liquor legislation. Their administration is imbued with the additional challenges posed by political contestation, both within and beyond the communities concerned.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Learning to drink: the social history of an idea -- 2. The Gothenburg system, monopolies and the community good -- 3. The role of beer canteens and licensed clubs -- 4. The wrecking of the Murrinh Patha Social Club: a case study -- 5. The rise and fall of the Tyeweretye Club: a case study -- 6. Indigenous communities buy hotels -- 7. The Indigenous purchase of the Crossing Inn -- 8. Drinking, Indigenous policy and social enterprise.
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    Death in the city : suicide and the social imaginary in modern Mexico (2017)
    Oakland, California : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-520-29031-0 (cloth) , 978-0-520-29032-7 (paperback) , 978-0-520-96453-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 257 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Violence in Latin American History 5
    Keywords: Mexiko Selbstmord ; Mord ; Tod ; Kriminalität ; Strafrecht ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Geschichte ; Ethnomedizin ; Ethnopsychologie ; Mexiko 〈Stadt〉
    Abstract: At the turn of the 20th century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In Mexico City, violent deaths in public spaces were commonplace in a city undergoing rapid modernization. Crime rates mounted, corpses piled up in the morgue, and the media reported on sensational cases of murder and suicide. More troublesome still, a compelling death wish appeared to grip women and youth. Drawing on a range of sources from judicial records to the popular press, 'Death in the City' investigates the cultural meanings of self-destruction in modern Mexico. The author examines responses to suicide and death and disproves the long-held belief that Mexicans possess a cavalier attitude toward suffering. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A social history of suicide in Mexico City, 1900-30 -- From corpse to cadaver : suicide & the forensic gaze -- Print culture, moral panic, and youth suicide -- The modern disease : medical meanings and approaches to suicide -- Death in the city : suicide and public space -- Stains of blood : death, vernacular mourning, and suicide -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Multiple faces of Khat (2017)
    Addis Ababa : Forum for Social Studies (FSS)
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    ISBN: 978-99944-50-61-9
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 162 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Äthiopien Rausch- und Genußmittel ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Konsum
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    Social media in South India (2017)
    London : UCL Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-911307-93-8 , 978-1-911307-92-1 , 978-1-911307-91-4/ (open access pdf) , 978-1-911307-96-9/ (open access html)
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 244 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Why We Post
    Keywords: Indien Süd-Indien ; Tamil Nadu ; Soziale Medien ; Internet ; Digitale Medien ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziales Leben ; Alltag ; Arbeit ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Verwandtschaft ; Bildung ; Wissen
    Abstract: One of the first ethnographic studies to explore use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, Social Media in South India provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what was once a space dominated by agriculture has resulted in a complex juxtaposition between an evolving knowledge economy and the traditions of rural life. While certain class tensions have emerged in response to this juxtaposition, a study of social media in the region suggests that similarities have also transpired, observed most clearly in the blurring of boundaries between work and life for both the old residents and the new.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures --List of tables --1. Panchagrami and its complexities --2. The social media landscape: people, their perception and presence on social media --3. Visual posting: continuing visual spaces --4. Relationships: kinship on social media --5. Bringing home to work: the role of social media in blurring work-non-work boundaries --6. The wider world: social media and education in a knowledge economy --7. Conclusion: social media and its continuing complexities --Notes --References --Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229-240
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    Two Lenins : a brief anthropology of time (2017)
    Chicago : HAU Books
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    ISBN: 978-0-9973675-3-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 150 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: The _Malinowski Monographs Series
    Keywords: Zeit Russland ; Sowjet-Union ; Sibirien ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Evenke ; Jäger ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Postkommunismus ; Kulturvergleich ; Anthropologie, philosophische ; Lenin, Vladimir Il'ic [Leben und Werk] ; Hammer, Armand [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov grounds his theoretical exploration in fascinating ethnographic and historical material on two Lenins: the first is the famed Soviet leader of the early twentieth century, and the second is a Siberian Evenki hunter—nicknamed "Lenin"—who experienced the collapse of the USSR during the 1990s. Through their intertwined stories, Ssorin-Chaikov unveils new dimensions of ethnographic reality by multiplying our notions of time.Ssorin-Chaikov examines Vladimir Lenin at the height of his reign in 1920s Soviet Russia, focusing especially on his relationship with American businessperson Armand Hammer. He casts this scene against the second Lenin—the hunter on the far end of the country, in Siberia, at the far end of the century, the 1990s, who is tasked with improvising postsocialism in the economic and political uncertainties of post-Soviet transition. Moving from Moscow to Siberia to New York, and traveling form the 1920s to the 1960s to the 1990`s, Ssorin-Chaikov takes readers beyond a simple global history or cross-temporal comparison, instead using these two figures to enact an ethnographic study of the very category of time that we use to bridge different historical contexts. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- chapter 1 "You will be as Gods" -- chapter 2 Lenin and the combined fodder -- chapter 3 An American in Moscow -- chapter 4 Time for the field diary -- chapter 5 Hobbes` gift -- chapter 6 Modernity as time -- References -- Index
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    Fat planet : obesity, culture, and symbolic body capital (2017)
    Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8263-5800-4 , 0-8263-5800-4 , 978-0-8263-5801-1 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 272 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [121]
    Keywords: Anthropologie, medizinische Körper ; Körperbewußtsein ; Schönheit, persönliche ; Eßgewohnheit ; Fettsucht ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Afrika ; Belize ; Fidschi-Insel ; Jamaika ; Nepal ; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
    Abstract: The average size of human bodies all over the world has been steadily rising over recent decades. The total count of people clinically labeled "obese" is now at least three times what it was in 1980. Fat Planet represents a collaborative effort to consider at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people. Making use of an array of social science perspectives applied in multiple settings, the authors examine the interplay of weight, wealth, history, culture, and meaning to fat and its social rejection. They explore the notion of symbolic body capital—the power of non-fat bodies to do what people need or want. In so doing, they illustrate the complex and quickly shifting dynamics in thinking about fat—often considered personal yet powerfully influenced by and influential upon the broader world in which we live. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Making Sense of the New Global Body Norms, Alexandra Brewis -- Chapter One - From Thin to Fat and Back Again: A Dual Process Model of the Big Body Mass Reversal, Daniel J. Hruschka -- Chapter Two - Managing Body Capital in the Fields of Labor, Sex, and Health, Alexander Edmonds and Ashley Mears -- Chapter Three - Fat and Too Fat: Risk and Protection for Obesity Stigma in Three Countries, Eileen P. Anderson-Fye, Stephanie M. McClure, Maureen Floriano, Arundhati Bharati, Yunzhu Chen, and Caryl James -- Chapter Four - Excess Gains and Losses: Maternal Obesity, Infant Mortality, and the Biopolitics of Blame, Monica J. Casper -- Chapter Five - Symbolic Body Capital of an "Other" Kind: African American Females as a Bracketed Subunit in Female Body Valuation, Stephanie M. McClure -- Chapter Six - Fat Is a Linguistic Issue: Discursive Negotiation of Power, Identity, and the Gendered Body among Youth, Nicole L. Taylor -- Chapter Seven - Body Size, Social Standing, and Weight Management: The View from Fiji, Anne E. Becker -- Chapter Eight - Glocalizing Beauty: Weight and Body Image in the New Middle East, Sarah Trainer -- Conclusion - Fat Matters: Capital, Markets, and Morality, Rebecca J. Lester and Eileen P. Anderson-Fye -- References -- Contributors -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-248"School of Advanced Research advanced seminar Obesity, Upward Mobility, and Symbolic Body Capital in a Rapidly Changing World, [...] March 2-6, 2014" (Seite 249)Enthält eine Einführung und 9 Beiträge
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    Underground America : narratives of undocumented lives (2017)
    London : Verso
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    ISBN: 978-1-78663-227-2 , 1-78663-227-6 , 978-1-78663-225-8 (E-Book) , 978-1-78663-226-5 (E-Book)
    Language: English
    Pages: 389 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Voice of Witness
    Keywords: USA Migration, illegale ; Interview ; Erlebnisbericht ; Biographische Methode ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Millions of immigrants risk deportation and imprisonment by living in the US without legal status. They are living underground, with little protection from exploitation at the hands of human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America presents the remarkable oral histories of men and women living without legal status and struggling to carve lives for themselves in the United States.Among the narrators: Farid, an Iranian-American business owner who employs a number of American citizens while he himself remains undocumented. A critic of the Iranian government, he fears for his safety if he is deported to his native country. Diana, who along with thousands of other Latino workers helped rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. After completing her work, she and many others were detained and imprisoned for not having proper documentation. Liso, who was enticed to come to the United States as a religious missionary, but on arrival was forced into unpaid domestic labor. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword: All stories are refugees from dangerous lands / Luis Albert Urrea -- Introduction: Permanent anxiety / Peter Orner -- Editor's note / Peter Orner -- Note for the 2013 edition / Sandra Hernandez -- Diana -- Mr. Lai -- Saleem -- Roberto -- Liso -- Hector -- Olga -- Abel -- Polo -- Dixie -- El Curita -- Julio -- Lorena -- El Mojado -- Yogesh -- Jose Garcia -- Elizabeth -- Nsombo -- Desiree -- Farid -- Rose -- Adela -- Estrella -- Enrique -- Editor's note for the afterword / Peter Orner -- Afterword: American DREAMer / Lorena -- Appendices -- Glossary
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    Substance and seduction : ingested commodities in early modern Mesoamerica (2017)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4773-1386-2 (cloth) , 978-1-4773-1387-9 (pbk) , 978-1-4773-1388-6 (library e-book) , 978-1-4773-1389-3 (nonlibrary e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 220 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: William & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    Keywords: Maya Mittelamerika ; Alte Kulturen, Mittelamerika ; Guatemala ; Kakao ; Tabak ; Zuckerrohr ; Alkohol ; Nahrungsmittel ; Genuss ; Rausch- und Genußmittel ; Konsum ; Geschichte ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziales Leben ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never encountered them before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces.Focusing on ingestible substances as a group, which has not been done before in the scholarly literature, the chapters in Substance and Seduction trace three key links between colonization and commodification. First, as substances that were taken into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of production and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities developed in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its ability to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplinary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword / Marcy Norton) -- Preface / Stacey Schwartzkopf and Kathryn E. Sampeck -- Introduction -- Part I. Old Flames, New Loves -- Part II. Substantial Matters -- Afterword / Carla D. Martin -- Bibliography -- Index
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    The _making of the African road (2017)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-33904-0 , 978-90-04-33674-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (290 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 18
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Tourismus ; Transport, Verkehr ; Automobil ; Infrastruktur ; Mobilität ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Abstract: The Making of the African Road offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road. (Verlagsangaben)
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    The _romance of crossing borders : studying and volunteering abroad (2017)
    New York : Berghahn
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    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 286 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Bildung Ausbildung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Universität ; Sprache ; Fremdwahrnehmung ; Rezension
    Abstract: This volume explores what draws students to study or volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling related to broader social and economic forces.
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    Gender and power in Indonesian Islam : Leaders, feminists, sufis and pesantren selves (2016)
    London [u.a.] : Routledge
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-65216-3 , 978-0-415-64358-0 , 978-0-203-79751-8/ebook
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 194 S.
    Series Statement: Women in Asia Series
    Keywords: Indonesien Java ; Lombok ; Islam ; Geschlechterrolle ; Macht ; Frau und Islam ; Muslime ; Internat ; Schule ; Sozialisation ; Sufismus ; Islam und Politik ; Feminismus ; Sexualität ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Kulturvergleich ; Aceh 〈Indonesien〉
    Abstract: The traditional Islamic boarding schools known as pesantren are crucial centres of Muslim learning and culture within Indonesia, but their cultural significance has been underexplored. This book is the first to explore understandings of gender and Islam in pesantren and Sufi orders in Indonesia. By considering these distinct but related Muslim gender cultures in Java, Lombok and Aceh, the book examines the broader function of pesantren as a force for both redefining existing modes of Muslim subjectivity and cultivating new ones. It demonstrates how, as Muslim women rise to positions of power and authority in this patriarchal domain, they challenge and negotiate "normative" Muslim patriarchy while establishing their own Muslim "authenticity." The book goes on to question the comparison of Indonesian Islam with the Arab Middle East, challenging the adoption of expatriate and diasporic Middle Eastern Muslim feminist discourses and secular western feminist analyses in Indonesian contexts. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book explores configurations of female leadership, power, feminisms and sexuality to reveal multiple Muslim selves in pesantren and Sufi orders, not only as centres of learning, but also as social spaces in which the interplay of gender, politics, status, power and piety shape the course of life.
    Description / Table of Contents: De-colonizing Islam and Muslim feminism / Bianca J. Smith and Mark Woodward -- Between Sufi and Salafi subjects : contested female leadership, spiritual power and gender matters in Lombok / Bianca J. Smith and Saipul Hamdi -- Leadership and authority : women leading dayah in Aceh / Asna Husin -- Gender in contemporary Acehnese dayah : moving beyond docile agency? / Eka Srimulyani -- When wahyu comes through women : female spiritual authority and divine revelation in mystical groups and pesantren-Sufi orders / Bianca J. Smith -- Reframing the gendered dimension of Islamic spirituality : silsilah and the "problem" of female leadership in tarekat / Asfa Widiyanto -- Interpreting and enacting Islamic feminism in Pesantren Al-Muayyad Windan / Saipul Hamdi -- Women's negotiation of status and space in a Muslim fundamentalist movement / Inayah Rohmaniyah -- The tawdry tale of Syech Puji and Lutfiana : child marriage and polygamy on the boundary of the pesantren world / Mark Woodward and Inayah Rohmanyiah -- Constructing sexuality in a panopticon pesantren / Mustaghrioh Rahayu.
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    How the world changed social media (2016)
    London : UCL Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-910634-47-9 , 978-1-910634-48-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiv, 262 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Why we Post
    Keywords: Soziale Medien Internet ; Massenkommunikation ; Massenmedien ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Politik ; Bildung ; Wirtschaft ; Geschlechterforschung
    Description / Table of Contents: What is social media? -- Academic studies of social media -- Our method and approach -- Our survey results -- Education and young people -- Work and commerce -- Online and offline relationships -- Gender -- Inequality -- Politics -- Visual images -- Individualism -- Does social media make people happier? -- The future.
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    Storytelling in Bali (2016)
    Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-31159-6 , 90-04-31159-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 562 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 304
    Keywords: Bali, Insel Erzählkunst ; Erzähltradition ; Erzählung ; Magie ; Alltag ; Soziales Leben ; Tanz und Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Bateson, Gregory [Leben und Werk] ; Batuan 〈Bali〉
    Abstract: In Storytelling in Bali, Hildred Geertz makes a case for the importance of the role of informal storytelling as an engine of social change in Bali in the 1930s. This is a study of more than 200 texts dictated by the painters of the village of Batuan in 1936 to the anthropologist Gregory Bateson. It is completed by three years field work in Batuan in the 1980s.The tales reveal a set of strong ambivalences about the magical powers of kings, priests and sorcerers, and about social strains within villages and families. These narratives were related in the daily settings of home and coffee shop and also in the spectacular dance-dramas of the time. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Notes on number, names and translations -- 1 Storytelling in Pre-Modern Bali -- 2 The World of the Storytellers -- 3 The Circulation of Popular Tales -- 4 Interpreting the Batuan Tales -- 5 Storytelling as an Engine of Social Change -- Appendix 1: The Batuan Painter/Storytellers -- Appendix 2: The Batuan Texts in English, with Annotations and Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index
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    The _truth about crime : sovereignty, knowledge, social order (2016)
    Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-226-42491-0 , 0-226-42491-X , 978-0-226-42488-0 , 0-226-42488-X , 978-0-226-42507-8/ebk
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 347 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Südafrika Kriminalität ; Konflikt, sozialer ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialisation ; Soziale Organisation ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Sicherheit ; Privatisierung ; Anthropologie, politische ; Apartheid ; Arbeit ; Landbevölkerung ; Recht ; Gesetzgebung ; Todesstrafe ; Gefängnis ; Strafrecht ; Polizei ; Statistik ; USA ; Cape Town 〈Südafrika〉
    Abstract: In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era where crime and policing are ever more complicit, they offer a powerful meditation on the new forms of sovereignty, citizenship, class, race, law, and political economy of representation that have arisen. To do so, the Comaroffs draw on their vast knowledge of South Africa, especially, and its struggle to build a democracy founded on the rule of law out of the wreckage of long years of violence and oppression. There they explore everything from the fascination with the supernatural in policing to the extreme measures people take to prevent home invasion, drawing illuminating comparisons to the United States and United Kingdom. Going beyond South Africa, they offer a global criminal anthropology that attests to criminality as the constitutive fact of contemporary life, the vernacular by which politics are conducted, moral panics voiced, and populations ruled. The result is a disturbing but necessary portrait of the modern era, one that asks critical new questions about how we see ourselves, how we think about morality, and how we are going to proceed as a global society.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part One Crime, capital, and the metaphysics of disorder: an overview, in three movements. 1.1 Crime, Policing, and the Making of Modernity the state, sovereignty, and the illegal. 1.2 The Order of Things to Come: crime-and-policing in the present continuous. 1.3 Forensic Fantasy and the Political Economy of Representation: scenes from the brave noir world -- Part Two Lawmaking, Lawbreaking, and Lawenforcement: five uneasy pieces. 2.1 Divine Detection: policing at the edge. 2.2 Imposture, Law, and the Policing of Personhood: the return of Khulekani Khumalo, zombie captive. 2.3. Figuring Crime: quantifacts, mythostats, and the production of the unreal. 2.4 Outsourcing Justice, Privatizing Protection: practices of popular sovereignty. 2.5 The Point of Sharp Things: an afterimage -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Index
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    From new peoples to new nations : aspects of Métis history and identity from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries (2016)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4426-2711-6 , 978-1-4426-4978-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 687 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten, Tabellen
    Keywords: Kanada Saskatchewan ; Dené ; Metis ; Geschichte ; Unabhängigkeitskampf ; Identität ; Ethnogenese ; Selbstbestimmung ; Selbstbild ; Recht ; Vertrag ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Riel, Louis [Leben und Werk] ; Hudson's Bay Company
    Abstract: From New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk trace the invention and reinvention of Metis identity from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Their work updates, rethinks, and integrates the many disparate aspects of Metis historiography, providing the first comprehensive narrative of Metis identity in more than fifty years. Based on extensive archival materials, interviews, oral histories, ethnographic research, and first-hand working knowledge of Metis political organizations, From New Peoples to New Nations addresses the long and complex history of Metis identity from the Battle of Seven Oaks to today's legal and political debates.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction Part I: Hybridity and Patterns of Ethnogenesis Chapter One: Race and Nation: Changing Ethnological and Historical Constructions of Hybridity Chapter Two: Economic Ethnogenesis: The Fur Trade and Metissage in the 18th and 19th Centuries Part II: The Genesis and Development of the Idea of the Metis Nation to 1930 Chapter Three: Fur Trade Wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the Idea of the Metis Nation, 1811-1849 Chapter Four: Louis Riel and the Religion of Metis Nationalism, 1869-1885 Chapter Five: L'Union Nationale Metisse Saint-Joseph, A.H. Tremaudan, and the Reimagining of the Metis Nation, 1910-1930s Part III: Government Policy and Metis Status in the 19th Century Chapter Six: The Manitoba Act and the Creation of Metis Status Chapter Seven: Extinguishing Rights and Inventing Categories: Metis Scrip as Policy and Self Ascription Chapter Eight: Indian Treaty versus Metis Scrip: The Permeability of Status Categories and Ethnicities Chapter Nine: The United States/Canada Border and the Bifurcation of the Plains Metis 1870-1900 Part IV: Economic Marginalization and the Metis Political Response 1896-1960s Chapter Ten: St. Paul des Metis Colony 1896-1909: Identity as Pathology Chapter Eleven: Political Mobilization in Alberta and the Metis Betterment Act of 1938 Chapter Twelve: The Liberals, the CCF, and the Metis of Saskatchewan, 1935-1964 Chapter Thirteen: Social Science and the Metis, 1950-1970 Part V: Politics, the Courts, and the Constitution: Reformulating Metis Identities Chapter Fourteen: A Renewed Political Awareness, 1965-2000 Chapter Fifteen: Reformulated Identities, 1965-2013 Chapter Sixteen: The Metis of Ontario Chapter Seventeen: The Metis of the Northwest Territories Chapter Eighteen: Ethnic Symbolism: Re-interpreting and Recreating the Past Conclusion
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    Intimacy at work : how digital media bring private life to the workplace (2016)
    Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press
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    ISBN: 978-1629580951
    Language: English
    Pages: 116 Seiten
    Series Statement: Anthropology and Business
    Keywords: Arbeit Internet ; Soziale Medien ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Kultur ; Handy ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Digitale Medien ; Alltag ; Gesellschaft ; Soziales Leben ; Familie
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    Critical geographies of sport : space, power and sport in global perspective (2016)
    Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-92712-4
    Language: English
    Pages: 256 Seiten
    Series Statement: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    Keywords: Sport Kulturgeographie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Politik ; Raum ; Geographie
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    Water and society : Changing perceptions of societal and historical development (2016)
    London : I. B. Tauris
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    ISBN: 978-1-78453-079-2 , 978-0-85773-904-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 292 S. , Ill.
    Series Statement: International Library of Human Geography
    Keywords: Wasserversorgung Wasser ; Fluß ; Wasserrecht ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Humanökologie ; Klimawandel ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte ; Entwicklung ; Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt ; Beziehungen Natur-Kultur
    Abstract: Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development. Dominant interpretations of the relationship between society and nature have remained water blind. In Water and Society historian and leading water expert Terje Tvedt argues for a change that acknowledges the significant role played by water in societal development. Reflecting his expertise as a geographer, historian and a political scientist, and drawing on his wide experience of water issues around the world, Terje Tvedt s Water and Society provides a long overdue reappraisal of the relationship between water and society, one that gives water its rightful place as central to any true understanding of human history and development.
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    Bounded mobilities : ethnographic perspectives on social hierarchies & global inequalities (2016)
    Bielefeld : Transcript
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    ISBN: 978-3-8376-3123-4
    Language: English
    Pages: 295 Seiten
    Series Statement: Culture and Social Practice
    Keywords: Mobilität Gesellschaft, moderne ; Ungleichheit ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Hierarchie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Globalisierung ; Globalisierung, kulturelle
    Abstract: Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalized. Boundaries are created, modified and consolidated, particularly in times of hypermobility. Evidently, mobility is closely tied to immobility.This volume features ethnographic research that challenges the concept of mobility from the perspective of social inequalities and global hierarchies.
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    Waterworlds : Anthropology in fluid environments (2016)
    New York, NY : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78238-946-0
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 308 S. , zahlr. Ill., Kt.
    Series Statement: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment 3
    Keywords: Wasser Wasserversorgung ; Umwelt ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Ethnographie ; Humanökologie
    Abstract: In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors' detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. Waterworlds at large / Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup -- Chapter 1. East Anglian fenland : water, the work of imagination, and the creation of value / Richard D.G. Irvine -- Chapter 2. Fluid entitlements : constructing and contesting water allocations in Burkina Faso, West Africa / Ben Orlove, Carla Roncoli, and Brian Dowd-Uribe -- Chapter 3. Raining in the Andes : disrupted seasonal and hydrological cycles / Astrid B. Stensrud -- Chapter 4. Respect and passion in a lagoon in the South Pacific / Cecilie Rubow -- Chapter 5. West African waterworlds : narratives of absence versus narratives of excess / Mette Fog Olwig and Laura Vang Rasmussen -- Chapter 6. To the lighthouse : making a liveable world by the Bay of Bengal / Frida Hastrup -- Chapter 7. Enacting groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati : searching for facts and articulating concerns / Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson -- Chapter 8. Mapping urban waters : grounds and figures on an ethnographic water path / Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen -- Chapter 9. Water literacy in the Sahel : understanding rain and ground water / Anette Reenberg -- Chapter 10. Deep time and shallow waters : configurations of an irrigation channel in the Andes / Mattias Borg Rasmussen -- Chapter 11. Moral valves and fluid properties : water regulation mechanisms in the bâdia of southeastern Mauritania / Christian Vium -- Chapter 12. Reflecting nature : water beings in history and imagination / Veronica Strang -- Chapter 13. The North Water : life on the ice edge in the high Arctic / Kirsten Hastrup.
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    Why we play : An anthropological study (2016)
    Chicago, IL : HAU Books
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    ISBN: 978-0-9861325-6-8 , 0-9861325-6-X
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 343 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: Enlarged edition
    Uniform Title: Jouer, une étude anthropologique
    Keywords: Spiel Theorie, ethnologische ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sibirien ; Mongolei
    Abstract: Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play's many dimensions, she offers an insightful look at why play has become so ubiquitous across human cultures. Hamayon begins by zeroing in on Mongolia and Siberia, where communities host national holiday games similar to the Olympics. Within these events Hamayon explores the performance of ethical values and local identity, and then she draws her analysis into larger ideas examinations of the spectrum of play activities as they can exist in any culture. She explores facets of play such as learning, interaction, emotion, strategy, luck, and belief, and she emphasizes the crucial ambiguity between fiction and reality that is at the heart of play as a phenomenon. Revealing how consistent and coherent play is, she ultimately shows it as a unique modality of action that serves an invaluable role in the human experience.
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    Violent conversion : Brazilian pentecostalism and urban women in Mozambique (2016)
    Rochester, NY : James Currey
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    ISBN: 1-84701-152-7 , 978-1-84701-152-7
    ISSN: 2398-8673
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 236 , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Religion in Transforming Africa [1]
    Keywords: Mosambik Frau und Religion ; Pentecost ; Brasilien ; Beziehungen Afrika-Amerika ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen ; Kirche ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: There has been an extraordinary growth in Pentecostalism in Africa, with Brazilian Pentecostals establishing new transnational Christian connections, initiating widespread changes not only in religious practice but in society. This book describes its rise in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, and the sometimes dramatic impact of Pentecostalism on women. Here large numbers of urban women are taking advantage of the opportunities Pentecostalism offers to overcome restrictions at home, pioneer new life spaces and change their lives through the power of the Holy Spirit. Yet, conversion can also mean a violent rupturing with tradition, with family and with social networks. As the pastors encourage women to cut their ties with the past, including ancestral spirits, they come to see their kin and husbands as imbued with evil powers, and many leave their families. Conquering spheres that used to be forbidden to them, they often live alone as unmarried women, sometimes earning more than men of a similar age. They are also expected to donate huge sums to the churches, often money that they can ill afford, bringing new hardships
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Gender, family and social transformations in Maputo -- Transnational spaces of conquest -- Moving frontiers: the generational trajectories of Pentcostal women -- Converting the spirit house -- Terapia do amor: confrontational public love -- 'Holy Bonfires' and campaings -- Conclusion -- Bbliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 197 - 225
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    The _psychopolitics of food : culinary rites of passage in the neoliberal age (2016)
    London and New York : Routledge
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-18256-1 , 978-1-315-64636-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 122 Seiten
    Keywords: Eßgewohnheit Essen ; Trinken ; Übergangsritual ; Sozialer Status ; Neoliberalismus ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
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    This is London : life and death in the world city (2016)
    London : Picador
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    ISBN: 978-1-4472-7627-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 423 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: England Großbritannien ; Europa ; Migration ; Bevölkerungsbewegung ; Alltag ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziales Leben ; Gemeindesoziologie ; Stadt ; London
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    Cultural entrepreneurship in Africa (2016)
    New York, NY [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis Ltd
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-85166-5
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 317 S. , Ill.
    Series Statement: Routledge African Studies 20
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Ghana ; Republik Niger ; Sierra Leone ; Senegal ; Kamerun ; Republik Südafrika ; Mali ; Nigeria ; Tansania ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Unternehmen ; Unternehmenskultur ; Kultur ; Industrie ; Massenmedien ; Popular Culture ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Sozialer Aspekt
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    Breaking rocks : music, ideology and economic collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa (2016)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-398-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 272 Seiten
    Series Statement: Dislocations volume 19
    Keywords: Demokratische Republik Kongo Popular Culture ; Musik ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Patronage ; Ideologie ; Migration ; Diaspora
    Abstract: Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, "Breaking Rocks" examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love song dedication can cost 6,000 dollars and a simple name check can trade for 500 or 600 dollars. Tracing this system of prestige through networks of musicians and patrons - who include gangsters based in Europe, kleptocratic politicians in Congo, and lawless diamond dealers in northern Angola - this book offers insights into ideologies of power and value in central Africa's troubled post-colonial political economy, as well as a glimpse into the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Bars, music, gender and politics -- Exchange, music, patronage -- Potlatch migrants : travelling to Europe, arriving in Kinshasa -- Rights, piracy and producers -- The president as gatekeeper, patronage as a class relationship. Elders and cadets Rey reproduced now -- Mikiliste economies -- Love and money -- Charismatic fetishism -- Conclusion
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    Sounds of life : Music, identitiy and politics in Zimbabwe (2016)
    Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publ.
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    ISBN: 978-1-4438-8677-2 , 1-4438-8677-7
    Language: English
    Pages: 305 S.
    Keywords: Simbabwe Musik ; Geschlechterrolle ; Frau ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziales Leben ; Folklore ; Politik
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    African print cultures : Newspapers and their publics in the twentieth century (2016)
    Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-472-05317-9 , 978-0-472-07317-7 , 978-0-472-12213-4/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 447 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Perspectives
    Keywords: Afrika Presse ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Abstract: This inaugural volume in the African Perspectives series features the work of new and well-established scholars on the diversity and heterogeneity of African newspapers published from 1880 through the present. Newspapers played a critical role in spreading political awareness among readers who were subject to European colonial rule, often engaging in anticolonial and nationalist discourse or popularizing support for African nationalism and Pan-Africanism. Newspapers also served as incubatorsof literary experimentation and new and varied cultural communities. The contributors highlight the actual practices of newspaper productionat different regional sites and historical junctures, while also developing a set of methodologies and theories of wider relevance to socialhistorians and literary scholars. The first of four thematic sections,"African Newspaper Networks," considers the work of newspaper editors and contributors in relating local events and concerns to issues affecting others across the continent and beyond.
    Description / Table of Contents: Print culture in colonial Africa / Derek R. Peterson and Emma Hunter -- Transatlantic passages : black identity construction in West African and West Indian newspapers, 1935-1950 / Leslie James -- Creole pioneers in the Nigerian provincial press / David Pratten -- The sociability of print : 1920s and 1930s Lagos newspaper travel writing / Rebecca Jones -- Colonial modernity and tradition : Herbert Macaulay, the newspaper press, and the (re)production of engaged publics in colonial Lagos / Wale Adebanwi -- Experiments with genre in Yoruba newspapers of the 1920s / Karin Barber -- Everyday poetry from Tanzania : microcosm of the newspaper genre / Kelly Askew -- Private entertainment magazines and popular literature production in socialist Tanzania / Uta Reuster-Jahn -- "True to life" : illuminating the processes and modes of Yoruba photoplays / Olubukola A. Gbadegesin -- Komkya and the convening of a Chagga public, 1953-1961 / Emma Hunter -- Making constituency in the province : the Osumare Egba (1935-1937) and the agenda of Ab'okuta modernization / Oluwatoyin Babatunde Oduntan -- "I will decide who will speak" : street parliaments and the newspaper ecology in Eldoret's Kamukunji / Duncan Omanga -- The afterlife of words : Magema Fuze, bilingual print journalism, and the making of a self-archive / Hlonipha Mokoena -- From corpse to corpus : the printing of death in colonial West Africa / Stephanie Newell -- Afterword / Stephanie Newell.
    Note: Papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the African Print Cultures Network, held July 2013 at the University of Birmingham, England.
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    Raj rhapsodies : tourism, heritage and the seduction of history (2016)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-0-7546-7067-4 , 0-7546-7067-8
    Language: English
    Pages: xlvi, 236 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first issued in paperback
    Series Statement: New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    Keywords: Indien Rajasthan ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Tourismus ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Orient-Bild ; Orientalismus ; Kulturpolitik ; Elite ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonie, britisch
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    Ultimate ambiguities : investigating death and liminality (2016)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78238-609-4
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 278 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    Keywords: Ritual Ritual und Zeremonie ; Ritual, religiöses ; Begräbnissitte ; Bestattung ; Bestattungsform ; Tod ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Religion, traditionelle ; Religion und Mythologie
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    Why we play : an anthropological study (2016)
    Chicago : HAU Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-912808-23-6
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 343 Seiten) , Karten
    Edition: Enlarged edition
    Uniform Title: Jouer, une étude anthropologique
    Keywords: Spiel Theorie, ethnologische ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sibirien ; Mongolei ; Kulturvergleich ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, psychologische
    Abstract: Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play's many dimensions, she offers an insightful look at why play has become so ubiquitous across human cultures. Hamayon begins by zeroing in on Mongolia and Siberia, where communities host national holiday games similar to the Olympics. Within these events Hamayon explores the performance of ethical values and local identity, and then she draws her analysis into larger ideas examinations of the spectrum of play activities as they can exist in any culture. She explores facets of play such as learning, interaction, emotion, strategy, luck, and belief, and she emphasizes the crucial ambiguity between fiction and reality that is at the heart of play as a phenomenon. Revealing how consistent and coherent play is, she ultimately shows it as a unique modality of action that serves an invaluable role in the human experience. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Foreword: In praise of play / by Michael Puett -- Map -- Introduction: "Playing" -- Part One: From games to play -- Chapter One: Can play be an object of research? -- Chapter Two: Play in the West -- Chapter Three: Play defined in negative terms -- Chapter Four: Buryat play -- Chapter Five: Lively rhythmical movements creating a fictional frame -- Part Two: Play and its multiple dimensions -- Chapter Six: Bodily involvement and the creation of other dimensions -- Chapter Seven: Imitation -- Chapter Eight: Foreshadowing -- Chapter Nine: The cognitive process -- Chapter Ten: Interaction -- Chapter Eleven: Dramatization -- Chapter Twelve: Involving psyche -- Chapter Thirteen: Indeterminacy -- Chapter Fourteen: Strategy -- Chapter Fifteen: The social and political repercussions -- Chapter Sixteen: The privilege of virility -- Chapter Seventeen: Taking advantage of the gap -- In Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of names
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    Contextualizing disaster (2016)
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-477-3 , 978-1-78533-280-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-1-78533-319-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (215 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Catastrophes in Context volume 1
    Keywords: Humanökologie Naturkatastrophe ; Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt ; Umweltwandel ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Ökologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences. Rather, building on insights developed by political ecologists, this book makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomena. (Verlagsangaben)
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    Transnational lives : expatriates in Indonesia (2016)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-26257-7 , 978-0-7546-4743-0 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 182 Seiten
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    Keywords: Indonesien Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziales Verhalten ; Arbeitsverhältnis ; Ausländer ; Identität ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturgeographie ; Beziehungen, transnationale
    Abstract: Privileged migrants, such as expatriates living abroad, are typically associated with lives of luxury in exotic locations. This fascinating and in-depth study reveals a more complex reality. By focusing on corporate expatriates the author provides one of the first book length studies on 'transnationalism from above'. The book draws on the author's extended research among the expatriate community in Jakarta, Indonesia. The findings, which relate to expatriate communities worldwide, provide a nuanced analysis of current trends among a globally mobile workforce. While acknowledging the potentially empowering impact of transnationalism, the author challenges current paradigms by arguing that the study of elite migration shows that transnational lives do not always entail fluid identities but the maintenance of boundaries - of body, race and gender. The rich ethnographic data adds a critical dimension to studies of migration and transnationalism, filling a distinct gap in terms of theory and ethnography. Written in an engaging and accessible style the book will be of interest to academics and students, particularly in anthropology, migration studies and human geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Expatriates: who are they? -- 2. Transnational lives and their boundaries -- 3. Expatriate wives -- 4. Space, embodiment and the gaze -- 5. Boundaries of the body -- 6. Performing expatriate identities -- 7. Young expatriates, alternative lifestyles? -- 8. A peculiar tribe -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [169]-179
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