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Moral Anthropology : A Critique (2018)

Bastin, Rohan [Mitwirkender] ; Bell, Kirsten [Mitwirkender] ; Evens, Terry [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9781785338694

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)

Series Statement: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis 16

DDC: 301

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Keywords: Ethnologie ; Moral

Abstract: A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way. Contributions from anthropologists from around the world from different theoretical traditions and with expertise in a multiplicity of ethnographic areas makes this collection a provocative contribution to larger discussions not only in anthropology but the social sciences more broadly.

DOI: 10.1515/9781785338694

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Against Exoticism : Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology (2016)

Bhattacharyya, Urmi [Mitwirkender] ; Kapferer, Bruce [Mitwirkender] ; Lefkaditou, Theodora [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9781785333712

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (154 p.)

DDC: 305.8

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Keywords: Kulturrelativismus ; Ethnozentrismus ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung

Abstract: Anthropology begins in the encounter with the 'exotic': what stands outside of-and challenges-conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches. Chapters look at the risk of exoticism in the perspectivist approach, the significant exotic corrective of Lévi-Strauss vis-à-vis an imperializing Eurocentrism, our nostalgic relationship with the ethnographic record, and the attempts of local communities to readapt previous exoticized referents, renegotiate their identity, and 'counter-exoticize.' This volume demonstrates a range of approaches that will be valuable for researchers and students seeking to effectively establish comparative methodological frameworks that transcend issues of relativism and universalism.

DOI: 10.1515/9781785333712

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In the Event : Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments (2015)

Fibiger, Thomas [Mitwirkender] ; Kapferer, Bruce [Mitwirkender] ; Krause-Jensen, Jakob [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9781782388906

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (186 p.)

DDC: 306.01

Abstract: Events are "generative moments" in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic studies from around the world-varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and management-this volume analyzes generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations. These events-including the Ashura ritual in Bahrain, social cleavages in South Africa, a Buddhist cave in Nepal, drought in Burkina Faso, an earthquake in Pakistan, the cartoon crisis in Denmark, corporate management at Bang & Olufsen, protest meetings in Europe, and flooding and urban citizenship in Mozambique-are not simply destructive disasters, crises, and conflicts, but also generative and constitutive of the social.

DOI: 10.1515/9781782388906

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Transcultural Montage (2013)

Antick, Paul [Mitwirkender] ; Binter, Julia T. S. [Mitwirkender] ; Bjerregaard, Peter [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9780857459657

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (300 p.)

DDC: 306

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Abstract: The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. The contributors-anthropologists, filmmakers, photographers, and curators-explore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological writing, film, and exhibition making. Exploring phenomena such as human perception, memory, visuality, ritual, time, and globalization, they apply montage to restructure our basic understanding of social reality. Furthermore, as George E. Marcus suggests in the afterword, the power of montage that this volume exposes lies in its ability to open the very "combustion chamber" of social theory by juxtaposing one's claims to knowledge with the path undertaken to arrive at those claims.

DOI: 10.1515/9780857459657

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Crisis of the State : War and Social Upheaval (2009)

Alnaes, Kirsten [Mitwirkender] ; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge [Mitwirkender] ; Boserup, Rasmus Alenius [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9781845459093

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (338 p.)

DDC: 303.6/2

Abstract: Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here as an embedded part of lived reality. This relationship to the state is exposed as an integral factor to the formation of the social - whether in Africa, the Middle East, South America or the United States. Through the examination of these particular empirical settings of war or war-like situations, the book further argues for the continued importance of the state in shifting social and political circumstances. In doing so, the authors provide a critical contribution to debates within a broad spectrum of fields that are concerned with the future of the state, the nature of sovereignty, and globalization.

DOI: 10.1515/9781845459093

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Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond : Perspectives from Social Anthropology (2006)

Banerjee, Mukulika [Mitwirkender] ; Banks, Marcus [Mitwirkender] ; Fillitz, Thomas [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9781782386117

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.)

DDC: 306.2094

Abstract: By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world's large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and governments, with some considerable impact on state power. In contrast to right-wing extremist parties in the past, these recent movements mostly operate within legal parliamentary channels, using essentialized notions of local culture to mobilize against real and alleged threats to local identities of status, gender, religion, nationhood and ethnicity. Prompted by this near-simultaneous rise to political influence of more than a dozen apparently similar parties across Western Europe, this collection offers a range of European case studies with selected global examples, such as the Front National, the late Pim Fortuyn, India and the BJP, and Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party in Australia. It takes up the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by this phenomenon and asks what distinctive contributions anthropology might make to its study.

DOI: 10.1515/9781782386117

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The Manchester School : Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (2006)

Evens, T. M. S. (Terry) [Herausgeber] ; Frankenberg, Ronald [Mitwirkender] ; Glaeser, Andreas [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9780857458582

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (348 p.)

DDC: 305.8001

Abstract: Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice theory, and implicitly politically charged, it was developed as a tool to bring into account what orthodox structural functionalism was ill-equipped to address, namely, problems such as change, conflict, deviance, and individual choice. Edited by two students of Gluckman, the volume comprises reprinted pieces by Gluckman and his colleague Clyde Mitchell, a Coda by Mitchell's student, Bruce Kapferer, contributions by Gluckman's students and/or friends and colleagues, including Ronnie Frankenberg, Kapferer, Evens, Handelman, and Sally Falk Moore, as well as a number of contributions from other practitioners of the extended case. Apart from the reprinted pieces by Gluckman and Mitchell, all the contributions have been written for this volume. These essays, historical, theoretical, and ethnographical, serve to highlight and critically examine the fundamental features of the extended-case method, in order to advance its substantial, continuing merits.

DOI: 10.1515/9780857458582

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Ritual in Its Own Right : Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation (2005)

Droogers, André [Mitwirkender] ; Greenfield, Sidney M. [Mitwirkender] ; Handelman, Don [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9780857458889

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 p.)

DDC: 306.4

Abstract: Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves, and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile approach to comprehending ritual dynamics.

DOI: 10.1515/9780857458889

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Oligarchs and Oligopolies : New Formations of Global Power (2005)

Ifeka, Caroline [Mitwirkender] ; Kapferer, Bruce [Mitwirkender] ; Kapferer, Roland [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9780857458599

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (122 p.)

Series Statement: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis 7

DDC: 303.482

Abstract: As corporate practices are becoming more fused with state processes, the state itself is increasingly taking on a corporate structure, as well as a more overt oligarchic character. Evidence of this can be seen in the growing domination of political organizations and institutions by close-knit social groups (familial dynasties, closed associations, or personal networks) that seek exclusive control over economic resources. These new forms of state power that are emerging are not reducible to the past, and the nation-state, as the essays in this volume show, is giving way to a political-economic formation that has multiple state-like effects and is able to act in ways systemic with deterritorializing global processes. Exploring these processes in different concrete locations from North America to Russia, West Africa, and Australia, the authors show that current configurations of global, imperial, and state power cannot be understood without examining their relation to formations of oligarchic control. They bring us closer to an understanding of the ways in which the nation-state is being transformed by globalization.

DOI: 10.1515/9780857458599

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Beyond Rationalism : Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery (2003)

Bastin, Rohan [Mitwirkender] ; Brendbekken, Marit [Mitwirkender] ; Devisch, René [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9780857458551

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 p.)

DDC: 306.4

Abstract: This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the authors are concerned to break away from the dictates of a western externalist rationalist understanding of these phenomena without falling into the trap of mysticism. The articles address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas.

DOI: 10.1515/9780857458551

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