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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-74548-3 , 1-138-74548-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 142 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Transsexualität ; Hijra ; Menschenrecht ; Recht ; LGBT ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziales Leben ; Diskriminierung ; Literatur
    Abstract: This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their larger struggle for legal rights and dignity but also their personal hardships. It situates the issues and concerns of the Indian transgender community within a global context to explore the extent of social justice in independent India.By narrating stories of individuals, local movements and activities of groups like the Association of Transgenders and Hijras in Bengal, and the Pratyay Gender Trust, the book gives context to the changes that globalisation has brought to the narrative around transgenders in India. The shift caused by globalisation has challenged their marginalisation and has led to stories, films and queer individuals like Chapal Bhaduri - the jatra rani - and the iconic filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh to flourish and become relevant. This book brings these literatures and personal stories to the fore to allow readers to perceive the changes and the challenges that Indian society faces when it comes to ensuring the rights for transgender people.This volume will be of interest to scholars of gender studies, queer studies, literature and social work along with readers who want to engage with the transgender movement and community in India.
    Description / Table of Contents: Situating human rights of the third gender within state and society: an introduction --. Intellectual trajectories of human rights --. The postmodernist critique of traditional human rights theory --. Postcolonial approach to human rights: situating gender in South Asia --. Constitutionalisation and realisation of human rights of the third gender in post-independent India --. Civil society and human rights activism --. Representation of the third gender in Indian cinema and literature --. Globalisation and the new age of rights --. Interrogating the major paradigms of human rights; analysing the dynamics of change and tracing future possibilities.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 978-90-04-52498-9 (hardback) , 978-90-04-54581-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 337 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde volume 315
    Keywords: Indonesien Kolonie, holländisch ; Historiographie ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Imperialismus ; Ideologie ; Geschichte ; Valentijn, François [Leben und Werk] ; Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie
    Abstract: In 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company's empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn composed this work and how it largely determined the Dutch perspective on the colonies in Asia until the 1850s. It seeks to highlight both the great diversity of knowledge gathered in Valentyn's book and its geographical spread, from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with a focus on the Indonesian archipelago. Huigen's book is the first in-depth study of Valentyn's work, which is a foundational text in the history of Dutch colonialism. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Part 1 -- 1 Describing Imperial Space -- 2 Lobbying for a Bible Translation in 'Low' Malay -- 3 The Valentyn Case: Scholarly Authorship at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century -- Part 2 -- 4 Natural History for liefhebbers in Valentyn's Description of Animals from Amboina -- 5 'Dutch Power in Those Territories' Historical Representation in Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien -- 6 Antiquarian Ambonese Valentyn's Comparative Ethnography and Ethnology -- 7 'This Business of Our Nation' The Questionable Conduct of the Dutch in Japan -- 8 'Waste Land' into 'Earthly Paradise': The Geography of the Cape of Good Hope -- 9 A Paper Empire: Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien as a Reference Work -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Text Organisation of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [308]-354
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  • 3
    Book
    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    Language: English
    Pages: Seite 193-418 , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Anthropologie Globalisierung ; Geopolitik ; Transport, Verkehr ; Schiffahrt ; Indien ; Georgien ; Schmuggel ; Ecuador ; Erdöl ; Europa ; Migration ; Namibia ; Nahrungsmittelversorgung ; Bangladesh ; Wald ; Klimawandel ; USA ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Kirche, unabhängige ; Apokalyptik ; Nepal ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen ; Sozialer Wandel ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 4
    ISSN: 978-90-04-51258-0 , 90-04-51258-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXI, 688 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: East and West (Brill) 14
    Uniform Title: Si chou zhi lu yu dong xi wen hua jiao liu
    Keywords: China Ost-Asien ; Zentral-Asien ; Xinjiang ; Seidenstraße ; Handel ; Handelsbeziehung ; Handelsroute ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Kultureinfluss ; Reisebericht ; Gesellschaft, westliche
    Abstract: The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West, originally written in Chinese by Rong Xinjiang and now translated into English, provides insights into previously unresolved issues concerning the interactions among the societies, economies, religions and cultures of the "Western Regions", and beyond, during the first millennium."This first and only English translation of Rong Xinjiang's The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West is a collection of 28 papers on the history of the Silk Road and the interactions among the peoples and cultures of East and Central Asia, including the so-called Western Regions in modern-day Xinjiang. Each paper is a masterly study that combines information obtained from historical records with excavated materials, such as manuscripts, inscriptions and artefacts. The new materials primarily come from north-western China, including sites in the regions of Dunhuang, Turfan, Kucha, and Khotan. The book contains a wealth of original insights into nearly every aspect of the complex history of this region"
    Note: "This book is translated into English from the original (Sichou zhilu yu dongxi wenhua jiaoliu by Rong Xinjiang)."
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  • 5
    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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  • 6
    Book
    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-03-201427-2 (hbk.) , 978-1-03-201923-9 (pbk.) , 978-1-00-048296-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 203 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Vitality of Indigenous Religions
    Keywords: Ethnie, Europa Lappland ; Norwegen ; Samen ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Heiliger Hain ; Schamanismus ; Religion, traditionelle ; Tradition ; Religionsethnologie
    Abstract: Indigenous religion(s) are afterlives of a particular sort, shaped by globalising discourses on what counts as an indigenous religion on the one hand and the continued presence of local traditions on the other. Focusing on the Norwegian side of Sápmi since the 1970s, this book explores the reclaiming of ancestral pasts and notions of a specifically Sámi religion. It connects religion, identity and nation-building, and takes seriously the indigenous turn as well as geographical and generational distinctions. Focal themes include protective activism and case studies from the art and culture domain, both of which are considered vital to the making of indigenous afterlives in indigenous formats. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of Global Indigenous studies, Sámi cultural studies and politics, Ethnicity and emergence of new identities, Anthropology, Studies in religion, and folklore studies. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Afterlives in the making: Sámi religion - indigenous formats -- 2 Let the river live - water is life: indigenous activism from Alta to Standing Rock -- 3 Sacred mountains - spiritual activism -- 4 Mari Boine - vocal resistance, sonic sovereignty -- 5 Drum-time revisited: the heritagization of shamanism -- Conclusion: Changing topographies of indigenous religion(s) -- Index
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  • 7
    Book
    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-03-210837-7 , 978-1-03-211285-5 , 978-1-00-321922-4/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe) , 978-1-00-321922-4/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVIII, 197 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Indien Zentral-Indien ; König ; Herrschaft ; Macht ; Unabhängigkeit ; Ahnenkult ; Politik ; Religion ; Gemeinschaft ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Machtverhältnis ; Autorität ; Wissen ; Stammesgesellschaft ; Ethnographie ; Deo, Aditya Pratap [Leben und Werk] ; Kanker (Distrikt, Indien)
    Abstract: "Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a unique study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author, a scion of the erstwhile ruling family of Kanker, delves into the oral accounts given in the ancestral deity practices of the mixed tribe-caste communities of the region to highlight popular narratives of its historical polity. As he struggles with his own dilemmas as ethnographer-king, what comes into view is a polity where the princely state is drawn out amidst a terrain of gods and spirits as much as that of law courts and magistrates, and political power is divided, contested and shared between the raja/state and the people. This study constitutes not only an intervention in the larger debate on the relationship between state formations and tribal peoples, but also on the very nature of history as a knowledge practice, especially the understandings of power, authority and sovereignty in it. Combining intensive ethnography, complementary archival work and crucial theoretical questions engaging social scientists worldwide, the author charts an unusual explanatory path that can allow us to meaningfully understand societies/peoples that have historically been marginalized and seen as different. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history, anthropology, politics, religion, tribal society and Modern South Asia"
    Description / Table of Contents: The king as "I" -- The realm of the state -- Liminal crossings -- The world of the Anga Deo -- Enchanted realms.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 180-189
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  • 8
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVI, 443 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity
    Keywords: Getreide Hirse ; Nahrungsmittel ; Nahrungsmittelversorgung ; Ernährung ; Sicherheit ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Landwirtschaft
    Abstract: Orphan Crops for Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security;discusses the issues, challenges, needs and opportunities related to the promotion of orphan crops, known also as neglected and underutilized species (NUS).The book is structured into six parts, covering the following themes: introduction to NUS, approaches, methods and tools for the use enhancement of NUS, integrated conservation and use of minor millets, nutritional and food security roles of minor millets, stakeholders and global champions, and, building an enabling environment. Presenting a number of case studies at regional and country level, the chapters cover different but highly interlinked aspects along the value chains, from acquisition and characterization of genetic diversity, cultivation, harvesting to value addition, marketing, consumption and policy for mainstreaming. Cross cutting issues like gender, capacity building and empowerment of vulnerable groups are also addressed by authors. Representatives from communities, research for development agencies and the private sector also share their reflections on the needs for the use enhancement of NUS from their own perspectives.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food security, sustainable agriculture, nutrition and health and development, as well as practitioners and policymakers involved in building more resilient food and production systems.
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  • 9
    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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  • 10
    ISBN: 978-90-04-50769-2 , 978-90-04-50770-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 246 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies of Religion in Africa volume 50
    Keywords: Gabun Madagaskar ; Afrika, Subsahara ; Judentum ; Christentum ; Soziale Medien ; Religionsethnologie
    Abstract: Millions of African Christians who consider themselves genealogical descendants of one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel-in other words, Jewish by ethnicity, but Christian in terms of faith-are increasingly choosing a religious affiliation that honors both of these identities. Their choice: Messianic Judaism. Messianic adherents emulate the Christians of the first century, observing the Jewish commandments while also affirming the salvational grace of Yeshua (Jesus). As the first comparative ethnography of such "fulfilled Jews" on the African continent, this book presents case studies that will enrich our understanding of one of global Christianity's most overlooked iterations". (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Note on origina publications -- 1. Defining Messianic Judaism : historical, textual, and metacontextual considerations -- 2. Contextualizing Messianic identities in current (Africanist) scholarship -- 3. First-century Christians in Gabon : history, origins, and motivations -- 4. First-century Christians in Gabon, continued : community structure, observance, and worldviews -- 5. First-century Christians in Madagascar : history, origins, and motivations -- 6. First-century Christians in Madagascar, continued : community structure, observance, and worldviews -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [213]-241
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  • 11
    ISBN: 978-1-032-19584-1 , 978-1-003-25990-9/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 136 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Central Asian Studies Series 41
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Kasachstan ; Uigure ; Kunst ; Kunst, asiatische ; Kultur ; Kultur und Gesellschaft ; Soziale Rolle ; Identität ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Queer
    Abstract: This collection of multi-disciplinary essays offers a fresh, perspective on Central Asian art and culture as it gains increased attention on both the local and international stage. Influenced by the golden ages of its history - from the ancient Scythians, through the glory of the Persians and Turks, and shaped by the Russian and later Soviet imperial powers - the region is revealed as exotic, dramatic, and universally topical. Contributions come from scholars and participants in the Central Asian cultural scene who specialise in different, often isolated, spheres. Their unifying theme is identity and its formation, including national, ethnic, cultural, religious and gender identities.Art and culture are shown to have active social roles - representing, analysing, questioning and supporting social upheavals and change. Culture is seen as an intrinsic part of society; while being affected by the specific historical context, it does at times affect it in return. From major socio-economic and political shifts, to smaller yet not less potent personal and individual identities, this collection demonstrates we are once again experiencing a time in which culture plays a crucial role in opening minds and facilitating change.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Art and culture - actors or representatives? Aliya de Tiesenhausen 2. Nation, religion and social heat: heritaging Uyghur mäshräp in Kazakhstan Rachel Harris and Ablet Kamalov 3. The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull Christianna Bonin 4. Soviet architecture, Kazakh nationalist sentiments and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan, 1925-33: the cases of Kyzylorda and the House of Government of the Kazakh ASSR in Almaty Basan Kuberlinov 5. From Sufism to communism: incarnations of the Uyghur song `Imam Hüsäynim` Mu Qian 6. Contesting convention: agency in Dushanbe`s contemporary art scene Kasia Ploskonka 7. Queer identity in the contemporary art of Kazakhstan Saltanat Shoshanova
    Note: The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey.
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  • 12
    ISBN: 978-90-04-42385-5 (hardback) , 978-90-04-42386-2 (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 299 Seiten , Illustrationen (teils farbig)
    Series Statement: Open Jerusalem volume 4
    Uniform Title: Le _moine sur le toît
    Keywords: Israel Äthiopien ; Diaspora ; Kopte ; Kirche ; Äthiopisch Orthodoxe Kirche ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Geschichte ; Jerusalem
    Abstract: Around 1900 the small Ethiopian community in Jerusalem found itself in a desperate struggle with the Copts over the Dayr al-Sultan monastery located on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre. Based on a profoundly researched, impassioned and multifaceted exploration of a forgotten manuscript, this book abandons the standard majority discourse and approaches the history of Jerusalem through the lens of a community typically considered marginal. It illuminates the political, religious and diplomatic affairs that exercised the city, and guides the reader on a fascinating journey from the Ethiopian highlands to the Holy Sepulchre, passing through the Ottoman palaces in Istanbul. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements for the English edition -- List of figures -- Note on translation and dates -- Introduction : A Historical Emergency: the Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript -- 1. Dayr al-Sultan: A Rooftop Monastery -- 2. An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript -- 3. The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text -- 4. Conflicts and Protections: 1850-1903 -- 5. With Memory as His Only Weapon -- 6. The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation -- 7. The Ethiopians in a Global City -- Conclusion: The Keys to Power: the Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary -- Amharic text of Walda Madhen and English translation -- Appendix 1. German Version of the Ethiopian anonymous test of 1893 -- Appendix 2. Letter written by Samuel Gobat to James Howard Harris, Eearl of Malmesbury, June 29, 1852 -- Appendix 3. Account of Giovanni Battista Albengo, 1893 -- Appendix 4. Short chronology -- Sources and chronology -- Index of persons
    Note: "Originally published in French as Le moine sur le toit: histoire d'un manuscrit éthiopien trouvé à Jérusalem (1904). Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020" (Rückseite des Titelblattes)
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  • 13
    ISBN: 978-1-03-219581-0 (hbk) , 978-1-03-219582-7 (pbk) , 978-1-00-059402-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe) , 978-1-00-059399-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe) , 978-1-00-325988-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 157 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Central Asian Studies Series 40
    Abstract: This edited book introduces new research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The research presented in this volume is based on recent field research in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Beijing, Guangzhou, Yiwu and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. The nine chapters in this book illustrate how informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus have provided space for millions of people across the region to negotiate changes in state and society in the three decades since the breakup of the Soviet Union and the emergence of successor states.Collectively, the book suggests that informality should be seen as a normative order for polities in Central Asia and the Caucasus for three reasons: (1) The inability - or unwillingness - of the states to measure commercial transactions. (2) The highly personalized nature of small business operations that rest on networking and social relations, oral agreements and trust. (3) Markets and bazaars being embedded within states in which clientelism frequently thrives.This book is a significant new contribution to the study of trade and informal markets in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers and advanced students of Sociology, History, Politics, Business, Economics, Social Anthropology and Geography.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Central Asian Survey.
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  • 14
    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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  • 15
    ISBN: 978-90-04-47164-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 387 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 27
    Keywords: Afrika Entwicklung ; Prognose ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Zivilisation
    Abstract: The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers - all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors - Introduction - Part 1. Re/Thinking -- Part 2. Living -- Part 3. Confronting -- Part 4. Imagining -- Part 5. Relating -- Part 6. Concluding -- Index
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  • 16
    ISBN: 978-90-04-51903-9 (hardback) , 978-90-04-51966-4 (e-book)
    Language: English , Swahili
    Pages: XIII, 292 Seiten , Illustrationen, Faksimiles
    Series Statement: Studies of Religion in Africa volume 51
    Keywords: Ost-Afrika Tansania ; Kenia ; Uganda ; Religiöser Text ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Religionsethnologie ; Christentum ; Islam ; Bibel ; Koran ; Sprache, afrikanische ; Quelle ; Originaltext ; Beziehungen, interreligiös
    Abstract: The present volume sets Swahili religious tracts available in Kenya and Tanzania in their context. The book starts with an overview of tracts in Swahili from the 19th century to the present day, an examination of Swahili as a religious language, and an introduction to Swahili versions of the Bible and Qur'an. Chesworth then introduces the range of tracts currently available, examining eight in detail. In particular he considers how they present scripture in order to promote their own faith, Islam or Christianity, whilst denigrating the `other`. Finally, the volume discusses the impact from modern media on these tracts. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Tables, Figures and Map -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part 1 Tracts and Translation in East Africa -- Chapter 2 Early Christian Tracts in East Africa -- Chapter 3 Christian Tracts in East Africa during the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4 Muslim Tracts in East Africa during the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5 Swahili as a Religious Language -- Part 2 Muslim and Christian Tracts -- Chapter 6 Tracts in Current Circulation in East Africa -- Chapter 7 Using Scripture to Refute the Other`s Faith -- Chapter 8 Jesus in the Qur'an Al-Ma'ida (5):112-20 -- Chapter 9 Testimonies of Converts -- Chapter 10 Teaching Those of Your Own Faith -- Chapter 11 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 Passages from Different Versions of the Bible and Qur'an -- Appendix 2 Copy of Sisi ni Wasomaji wa kudumu … (We Are Constant Readers), with English Translation -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical Passages -- Index of Qur'anic Passages -- General Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 234-276
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-51141-5 (hardback) , 978-90-04-51167-5 (e-book)
    ISSN: 2589-885X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 297 Seiten , Illustrationen (teils farbig), Karten
    Series Statement: Crossroads volume 4
    Keywords: China Astronomie ; astronomische Karte ; Buddhismus ; Mission, christliche ; Kartographie ; Kalender ; Kosmologie ; Wissenschaftsgeschichte
    Abstract: The history of cosmology is often understood in terms of the development of modern science, but Asian cosmological thought and practice touched on many aspects of life, including mathematics, astronomy, politics, philosophy, religion, and art.Because of the deep pervasion of cosmology in culture, many opportunities arose for transmissions of cosmological ideas across borders and innovations of knowledge and application in new contexts. Taking a wider view, one finds that cosmological ideas traveled widely and intermingled freely, being frequently reinterpreted by scholars, ritualists, and artists and transforming as they overlapped with ideas and practices from other traditions. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "this volume arose from a series of conferences" (Acknowledgements)
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9789004500228 , 9004500227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 333 pages) , illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for interdisciplinary studies volume 26
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Africa, the cradle of human diversity
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Human beings Origin ; Human evolution ; Human genetics Variation ; Ethnology ; Human beings - Origin ; Human evolution ; Human genetics - Variation ; Population ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Africa Population ; Africa
    Abstract: "This book explores important chapters of past and recent African history from a multidisciplinary perspective. It covers an extensive time range from the evolution of early humans to the complex cultural and genetic diversity of modern-day populations in Africa. Through a comprehensive list of chapters, the book focuses on different time-periods, geographic regions and cultural and biological aspects of human diversity across the continent. Each chapter summarises current knowledge with perspectives from a varied set of international researchers from diverse areas of expertise. The book provides a valuable resource for scholars interested in evolutionary history and human diversity in Africa. Contributors are Shaun Aron, Ananyo Choudhury, Bernard Clist, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Rosa Fregel, Jackson S. Kimambo, Faye Lander , Marlize Lombard, Fidelis T. Masao, Ezekia Mtetwa, Gilbert Pwiti, Michèle Ramsay, Thembi Russell, Carina Schlebusch, Dhriti Sengupta, Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi, Mário Vicente"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction : Engagement Cross-Disciplinary Research in Africa / , Early Humans in Africa. , A Southern African Perspective on Human Origins Research between 500,000 and 50,000 Years Ago : Current Dilemmas and Questions for the Future / , Further Notes on the Ngaloba Industry, a Middle Stone Age Assemblage Directly Associated with Early Homo in the Greater Laetoli, Northern Tanzania / , Cultural Transitions in Africa. , West-Central African Diversity from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, Continuities and Transitions during the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene / , Ancient Urban Assemblages and Complex Spatial and Socio-Political Organization in Iron Age Archaeological Sites from Southern Africa / , Diversity and Variability in the Preindustrial Iron-Smelting Technologies of Great Zimbabwe, Southern Africa / , Grappling with Diversity in Livestock-Related, Non-Agriculturist Archaeology in the Light of Genetic Research into the Lactase Persistence Allele, -14010*C, in Southern Africa / , Genomic Research of Ancient and Modern Populations in Africa. , Paleogenomics of the Neolithic Transition in North Africa / , Ancient DNA Studies and African Population History / , The H3Africa Consortium: Publication Outputs of a Pan-African Genomics Collaboration (2013 to 2020) / , Disentangling the Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in African Diaspora Populations from a Genomic Perspective /
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    Book
    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 9781032060194 , 1032060190
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 210 Seiten , 25 cm
    Series Statement: Central Asian studies 42
    Series Statement: Central Asian studies series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Critical reader in Central Asian studies
    DDC: 958
    RVK:
    Keywords: Civilization ; Diplomatic relations ; Education, Higher ; Politics and government ; Social conditions ; History ; Asia, Central Study and teaching (Higher) ; Asia, Central History ; Asia, Central Politics and government ; Asia, Central Civilization ; Asia, Central Social conditions ; Asia, Central Foreign relations ; Central Asia ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note:
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 20
    ISBN: 978-0-367-33780-3 , 978-1-00-033967-3 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: 469 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Felsbild Wissen, lokales ; Prähistorische Kunst ; Prähistorie ; Archäologie ; Philosophie ; Synkretismus ; Bild ; Metaphysik
    Abstract: "Ontologies of Rock Art is the first publication exploring a wide range of ontological approaches to rock art interpretation, constituting the basis for ground-breaking studies on Indigenous knowledges, relational metaphysics, and rock imageries. The book contributes to the growing body of research on the ontology of images by focusing on five main topics: ontology as a theoretical framework; the development of new concepts and methods for an ontological approach to rock art; the examination of the relationships between ontology, images and Indigenous knowledges; the development of relational models for the analysis of rock images; and the impact of ontological approaches on different rock art traditions across the world. Generating new avenues of research in ontological theory, political ontology and rock art research, this collection will be relevant to archaeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers. In the context of an increasing interest in Indigenous ontologies, the volume will also be of interest to scholars in Indigenous Studies"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Foreword: What was an image, there and then? -- Notes -- References cited -- Introduction: Ontology, rock art research, and the challenge of alterity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Thinking about alterity in rock art studies: An historical overview -- 3. Alterity and the ontological turn -- 4. Conclusion -- Note -- References cited -- Part I: Philosophical and historical perspectives -- 1. Rock art and the aesthetics of hyperobjects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hyperobjects -- 3. The coldness of formalism -- 4. The case of rock art -- References cited -- 2. Rock art and the ontology of images: The ecology of images in hunter-gatherer and agrarian rock art -- 1. Rock art images and hunter-gatherer societies -- 2. Images in the making and the relational ecology of images -- 3. Making a mark: Image making in Neolithic Britain and Ireland -- 4. Image making in the southern Scandinavian late Neolithic and Bronze Age -- 5. Agrarian rock art? -- 6. Ontology from the ground up: Towards an ecology of rock art images -- Note -- References cited -- 3. Rock art, shamanism, and the ontological turn -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Shamanism and the first ontological turn -- 2.1 Transformation and personhood -- 2.2 The ontology of images -- 2.3 Landscapes of rock art -- 2.4 Sensorial/affective aspects of rock art -- 3. Radical alterity versus empirical reality -- 4. Ontology and the neoliberal turn -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References cited -- 4. Ontology and human evolution: Neanderthal "art" and the method of controlled equivocation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Neanderthals are us: Conceptualizing Neanderthal art -- 3. Understanding Neanderthal cosmologies: Challenges -- 4. Viveiros de Castro's perspectival anthropology.
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  • 21
    ISBN: 978-90-04-47260-0 , 978-90-04-49824-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 337 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde volume 314
    Keywords: Indonesien Lombok ; Java ; Musik und Kultur ; Musik, traditionelle ; Adat ; Kultureinfluss ; Islam ; Gamelan ; Popular Culture ; Musikethnologie ; Sozio-religiöse Organisation ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: This longitudinal study weaves the complex stories of many disparate musics into an account of quests for identities that illuminates Lombok`s history, its complex religious and ethnic composition, and its current political circumstances. It focuses on agents, musicians and leaders on the ground, and the socioreligious and artistic changes that transformed many music forms. The book outlines the years of political difficulty for music and years of transition and government interventions to remake musics, and identifies the emerging ideologies and developments that laid the groundwork for a diversity of musics - traditional, Islamic, popular - to simultaneously exist in an unprecedented way. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of figures and tables -- Introduction: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 1 Change, Religion, and Identity in Music Cultures -- Chapter 2 `Traditional` Musics: Functions, Contestations, Interpretations -- Chapter 3 The Phenomenon of Gendang Beleq -- Chapter 4 Wayang Sasak: Shadowplay, Practices, Elements, and Narratives -- Chapter 5 Music, Islam, and Islamization -- Chapter 6 Popular Musics and `Musik Rakyat` -- Chapter 7 Minority Musics of Lombok -- Chapter 8 Nexus of Sasak/Balinese Interaction: The Lingsar Festival -- Chapter 9 Performing Arts Education and Issues of Sustainability -- Chapter 10 Conclusion: Making Sense of All of This -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [315]-330
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  • 22
    ISBN: 978-0-367-62137-7 , 978-1-00-311007-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 166 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Central Asia Research Forum
    Keywords: Usbekistan Zentral-Asien ; Ökologie ; Umweltpolitik ; Ressource ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: This book argues that sustainable energy development represents a new frontier for many transitional economies, including those countries that are well endowed with traditional energy resources, as exemplified by the case of Uzbekistan in Central Asia.The book highlights the challenges and issues faced by the energy sector in countries which are undergoing a transition from government-led economic models to open market economies. Using Uzbekistan as a case study, the book demonstrates these challenges, as well as opportunities of being part of an increasingly interconnected global market, to show how governments can ensure inclusive economic growth and build pathways toward sustainable development by deploying renewable energy sources (RES). By applying the Quadruple Bottom Line strategy as a conceptual framework to evaluate social, economic, and environmental benefits and governance as a key dynamic component, the book includes recommendations for implementing a transition strategy to renewable energy consumption for developing countries and offers insights into ways of dealing with government policy in post-Soviet countries.Presenting a holistic approach to promoting RES deployment in Uzbekistan and elsewhere, this book will be of interest to researchers interested in energy transition in developing countries, development economics, Central Asian politics, and the management of natural resources and climate-change issues. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Lists of units of measurement, abbreviations, figures, maps, tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Reconciling Energy, the Environment and Sustainable development in Central Asia 1. "Uzbek" Model of Economic Development and Energy Resources 2. Uzbekistan and its energy sector 3. RES Development in Uzbekistan: a Shift from Passive to Proactive Deployment Policy 4. The Challenges of RES Deployment in Uzbekistan: Analysis of Local Discourses 5. Feasibility Study of Hybrid Wind-Solar Stand-Alone Energy Systems Using HOMER software 6. Socio-Economic Impact of the Deployment of Renewable Energy Sources 7. Conclusion: Green Growth, a New Frontier for Development? -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [140]-161
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  • 23
    ISBN: 978-0-367-35057-4
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 267 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Central Asian Studies Series 39
    Keywords: Mongolei Kasache ; Literatur ; Literaturethnologie ; Sozialismus ; Nationalismus ; Identität ; Musikethnologie ; Lied ; Demokratisierung ; Schrift ; Propaganda ; Film ; Soziale Medien ; Beziehungen Mensch-Tier
    Abstract: This book re-examines the origins of modern Mongolian nationalism, discussing nation building as sponsored by the socialist Mongolian People`s Revolutionary Party and the Soviet Union and emphasizing in particular the role of the arts and the humanities. It considers the politics and society of the early revolutionary period and assesses the ways in which ideas about nationhood were constructed in a response to Soviet socialism. It goes on to analyze the consequences of socialist cultural and social transformations on pastoral, Kazakh, and other identities and outlines the implications of socialist nation building on post-socialist Mongolian national identity. Overall, Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia highlights how Mongolia`s population of widely scattered seminomadic pastoralists posed challenges for socialist administrators attempting to create a homogenous mass nation of individual citizens who share a set of cultural beliefs, historical memories, collective symbols, and civic ideas; additionally, the book addresses the changes brought more recently by democratic governance. (Verlagsangaben)
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    ISBN: 978-0-367-61504-8 , 978-1-003-11090-3 , 1-003-11090-8
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 213 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
    Keywords: Saudi-Arabien Wallfahrt ; Muslime ; Islam ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Mekka
    Abstract: "This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women's mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women's lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experiences of female pilgrims to Mecca and other pilgrimage sites, and how these are embedded in historical and current contexts of globalisation and transnational mobility. This volume will be relevant to a broad audience of researchers across pilgrimage, gender, religious, and Islamic studies"
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Muslim pilgrimage through the lens of women's new mobilities / Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, and Viola Thimm -- 1. Under male supervision? Nationality, age and Islamic belief as basis for Muslim women's pilgrimage / Viola Thimm -- 2. Young Moroccan-Dutch women on hajj: Claiming female space / Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany & Marjo Buitelaar -- 3. Power in Moroccan women's narratives of the hajj / Kholoud Al-Ajarma -- 4. Shi'i Muslim women's pilgrimage rituals to Lady Fatemeh-Masoumeh's shrine in Qom / Ladan Rahbari -- 5. Israeli Dead Sea cosmetics and charity for Palestinian children: Indonesian women's shopping activities while on pilgrimage to Jerusalem / Mirjam Lücking -- 6. 'Clothing cannot improve moral behaviour': Pilgrimage, fashion, and entrepreneurship in a West African market / Erin Kenny -- 7. Considering the silences: Understanding historical narratives of women's Indian Ocean hajj mobility / Jacqueline H. Fewkes -- 8. Bosnian women on hajj / Dzenita Karic -- 9. In the 'Land of Wonders': Bint Al-Shati''s pilgrimage: The hajj and the construction of reformist religiosity / Richard van Leeuwen -- 10. Stepping in the footsteps of Hajar to bring home the hajj: Dialogical positioning in Asra Nomani's memoir Standing Alone / Marjo Buitelaar -- Glossary.
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  • 25
    ISBN: 978-1-350-14714-0 ( hbk) , 978-1-350-14713-3 ( pbk) , 978-1-003-08739-7 (ebk)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 182 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Anthropologie Ethnologe ; Berufsbild ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Why does the world need anthropology and anthropologists? This collection of essays written by prominent academic, practising and applied anthropologists aims to answer this provocative question.In an accessible and appealing style, each author in this volume inquires about the social value and practical application of the discipline of anthropology. Contributors note that the problems the world faces at a global scale are both new and old, unique and universal, and that solving them requires the use of long-proven tools as well as innovative approaches. They highlight that using anthropology in relevant ways outside academia contributes to the development of a new paradigm in anthropology, one where the ability to collaborate across disciplinary and professional boundaries becomes both central and legitimate. Contributors provide specific suggestions to anthropologists and the public at large on practical ways to use anthropology to change the world for the better.This one-of-a-kind volume will be of interest to fledgling and established anthropologists, social scientists and the general public. (Verlagsangabe)
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  • 26
    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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    Book
    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-0-367-34743-7 , 978-0-429-32762-9 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 241 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Central Asian Studies Series 37
    Keywords: Usbekistan Beziehungen, internationale ; Russland ; China ; USA ; Japan ; Europa
    Abstract: "This book examines the development of Uzbekistan's international relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Drawing on extensive original research, including interviews with key people, and presenting an analysis of social, economic and political developments inside Uzbekistan, the book argues that the concentration of power in the state has contributed significantly to the way in which foreign policy is conducted. It goes on to consider Uzbekistan's relations with major powers including the United States, Russia, China, Japan and the European Union, and identifies factors which have led to both Russia and China being more successful in establishing economic co-operation with Uzbekistan than other countries. The book concludes by assessing likely future developments"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Abbreviations Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Uzbekistan`s relations with major powers Chapter 2. Rethinking State-Society Relations in Uzbekistan Chapter 3. Russia in Uzbekistan Chapter 4. China in Uzbekistan Chapter 5. The United States in Uzbekistan Chapter 6. Other major powers: Japan and the European Union in Uzbekistan Chapter 7. Conclusion Index
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    Book
    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-350-10243-9 , 1-350-10243-1
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 236 Seiten
    Series Statement: Monographs on Social Anthropology 81 (=86)
    Keywords: Sambia Chinese ; China ; Migration ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Alltag ; Soziales Leben ; Beziehungen Afrika-Asien
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The tone of encounters: Strangers, anxiety and everyday exclusivism 2. Interactional affection: Suspicion and sustainability of voluntary cooperation 3. Emotional labour: Leadership, dependency and everyday work relations 4 Ethical qualia: Role ethics and the moral transformation of young Chinese migrants 5. Speaking with affect: Speech capital, situational affect and daily (mis)communication Conclusion Bibliography Index
    Note: Die Serienzählung sollte lauten: 86Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 216-230
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    ISBN: 978-1-00-018581-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 282 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Materielle Kultur Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie ; Ethnographie ; Ethnologie ; Feldforschung ; Methodologie
    Abstract: This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. Many of the chapters explicitly lay out the state of play in the field, challenging how the anthropology of material culture is being done, and arguing for new directions of enquiry or new methods of investigation. The contributors foreground research methods, with many of the contributors exploring the ramifications of specific methods, and exploring new methodological frameworks to address areas of human experience that require a new analytical approach.The 15 original case studies draw from a range of research contexts, including digital objects, infrastructure, digital objects, data, extra-terrestriality, ethnographic curation, medical materiality, and include timely reappraisals of now classical analytical models that have shaped the way we understand the object, the discipline, knowledge formation, and the artefact. (Umschlagtext)
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    Book
    Book
    Leiden : Brill
    ISBN: 978-90-04-46717-0/(hardback) , 978-90-04-46718-7/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe) , 978-90-04-46718-7/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 600 Seiten
    Series Statement: Women and Gender volume 20
    Keywords: Süd-Asien Sufismus ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Biographie
    Abstract: In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, the first biographical compendium of hundred and forty-one women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century, Tahera Aftab fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding the historical presence of women in Islam and brings women to the centre of the expanding literature on Sufism. The book's translated excerpts from the original Farsi and Urdu sources that were never put together create a much-needed English-language source base on Sufism and Muslim women. The book questions the spurious religious and cultural traditions that patronise gender inequalities in Muslim societies and convincingly proves that these pious women were exemplars of Islamic piety who as true spiritual masters avoided its public display
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Sufis, Sufism, and Transformations: 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. The Sufi Texts: From Imagination to the Inscribed Word -- 3. The Sufi Gaze: Perception of Women by Male Sufis -- 4. The Sufi Gaze: Sufi Perception of Family -- 5. The Sufi Gaze: Interaction with Maidservants and Women of Ill Repute -- 6. Women's Presence in Sufi Silsilas -- 7. Sufi Lodges: Fencing the Sacred and the Profane -- 8. Sufi Shrines: Manifesting the Deceased Sufi -- Part II. Biographies of Sufi Women: 9. Biographical Notices of Sufi Women by Time Period -- 10. Biographical Notices of Sufi Women according to Their Specific Status -- 11. Biographical Notices of Women Sufis Based on Oral Traditions Collected by Visiting Their Shrines -- 12. Sufi Women Identified by Name Only -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 978-1-003-05612-6 , 978-0-367-52042-7 , 978-0-367-52043-4
    Language: English
    Pages: 270 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Keywords: Konflikt, ethnischer Frieden ; Konfliktmanagement ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: All over the world and throughout millennia, states have attempted to subjugate, control and dominate non-state populations and to end their wars. This book compares such processes of pacification leading to the end of tribal warfare in seven societies from all over the world between the 19th and 21st centuries. It shows that pacification cannot be understood solely as a unilateral imposition of state control but needs to be approached as the result of specific interactions between state actors and non-state local groups. Indigenous groups usually had options in deciding between accepting and resisting state control. State actors often had to make concessions or form alliances with indigenous groups in order to pursue their goals. Incentives given to local groups sometimes played a more important role in ending warfare than repression. In this way, indigenous groups, in interaction with state actors, strongly shaped the character of the process of pacification. This volume?s comparison finds that pacification is more successful and more durable where state actors mainly focus on selective incentives for local groups to renounce warfare, offer protection, and only as a last resort use moderate repression, combined with the quick establishment of effective institutions for peaceful conflict settlement.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction 1 JÜRG HELBLING AND TOBIAS SCHWOERER 2 Pacification as Strategic Interaction of Indigenous Groups and State Actors 8 JÜRG HELBLING 3 The Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa (1830-1910) 56 MATTHIAS HÄUSSLER 4 The Eastern Highlands of New Guinea (1930-1965) 81 TOBIAS SCHWOERER 5 The Iban in Sarawak (1840-1920) 109 JÜRG HELBLING 6 The Lobi in French West Africa (1897-1940) 134 NATALIE AMMANN 7 The Naga in British North-East India (1830-1890) 157 RUTH WERNER 8 The Karimojong in Uganda (1898-2010) 180 TOBIAS SCHWOERER 9 The Waorani in Ecuador (1940-2000) 204 JÜRG HELBLING 10 Conclusion: Comparing Configurations and Processes of Pacification 233 JÜRG HELBLING AND TOBIAS SCHWOERER
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  • 32
    ISBN: 9781350127487
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 282 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lineages and advancements in material culture studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lineages and advancements in material culture studies
    DDC: 306.072/1
    Keywords: University College, London ; Material culture Case studies ; Material culture Research ; Methodology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; University College London ; Ethnologie ; Sachkultur
    Abstract: "This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research methods, and explore new methodological frameworks to address areas of human experience that require a new analytical approach. The case studies draw from a range of contexts, including digital objects, infrastructure, data, extra-terrestriality, ethnographic curation, and medical materiality. They include timely reappraisals of now classical analytical models that have shaped the way we understand the object, the discipline, knowledge formation, and the artefact"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 235-271
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    ISBN: 9780367357931
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 238 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: The anthropology of history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hirsch, Eric, 1956 - Ancestral presence
    DDC: 305.8009953
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Mafulus ; Papua New Guinea Social life and customs ; Papua-Neuguinea Ost ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: "Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also telling the story of the relation between worlds. For the Fuyuge people of the Papuan highlands, the past is not 'history' in a conventional sense. For them, the world and its history derives from a creator force called Tidibe which is central to Fuyuge cosmology: the Fuyuge are at the 'centre of the world'. But Fuyuge people are part of another history, too: they have experienced decades of mission and government influence from centres of power located elsewhere, to which their mountain home is marginal and remote. Through a detailed exploration of Fuyuge myth, changes to ritual life and cosmology, Eric Hirsch weaves an account of the relationship between these two histories. He documents the real changes wrought by colonialism, government and Christianity from the late nineteenth century to the turn of the millennium. Yet this is not a story of 'continuity and change'. Hirsch demonstrates how transformation was always central to Fuyuge life: changes brought by missionaries and government were processes they themselves initiated in the ancestral past through Tidibe, the cosmological creator force. Engaging in debates that have been pivotal to Melanesian anthropology, the book presents an ethnographically rich account of a distinctive world, cosmology and ideas of historical change. It also raises questions regarding assumptions central to Western History, its worldview and ideas of historical time"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-472-47582-4 , 978-1-315-59139-1/E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 219 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Vitality of Indigenous Religions [27]
    Keywords: Buddhismus Sherpa ; Nepal ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Schamanismus ; Ethnie, Südostasien
    Abstract: "This book analyses the social, political and religious life of the Hyolmo people of Nepal. Highlighting patterns of change and adaptation, it addresses the Shamanic-Buddhist interface that exists in the animated landscape of the Himalayas. Opening with an analysis of the ethnic revival of Nepal, the book first considers the Himalayan religious landscape and its people. Specific attention is then given to Helambu, home of the Hyolmo people, within the framework of Tibetan Buddhism. The discussion then turns to the persisting shamanic tradition of the region and the ritual dynamics of Hyolmo culture. The book concludes by considering broader questions of Hyolmo identity in the Nepalese context, as well as reflecting on the interconnection of landscape, ritual and identity. Offering a unique insight into a fascinating Himalayan culture and its formation, this book will be of great interest to scholars of indigenous peoples and religion across religious studies, Buddhist studies, cultural anthropology and South Asian studies"--
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures and tables -- Foreword by Graham Harvey -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ethnicity and the state. Historical introduction to Nepal`s ethnic revival movements -- 3 Notes towards a theory of landscape: from the animist landscape to the Buddhist beyul -- 4 Secret and sacred. Yolmo as a beyul -- 5 Shamans in Helambu -- 6 Ritual dynamics -- 7 Identity Matter -- 8 Conclusions -- Appendix 1 List of janajati adivasi as reported in the National Foundation for Upliftment of Aadibasi/Janjati Act, 2058 (2002) -- Glossary of recurrent terms appearing in tansliteration in the text -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [188]-211
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    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-62521-1 , 978-0-429-46007-4 / (ebook)
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 191 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Law and Anthropology
    Keywords: Indien Maharashtra ; Uttarakhand ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Konflikt ; Konfliktmanagement ; Staat und Gesellschaft ; Recht, traditionelles ; Recht
    Abstract: This book presents an ethnography of dispute processing by non-state forums and actors in rural India. As such it sheds light on a much neglected and contested topic. Arising in the context of recent legal and political debates that question the legitimacy of non-state actors engaged in dispute processing, the book explores the nature, form, and functioning of such forums and actors in two locations in rural India. Focusing on a fishermen's community belonging to the caste of Hindu Machimar Kolis in coastal Maharashtra and an agrarian community in Uttarakhand with members from the Pandit, Thakur, Bhotia, and Harijan caste groups, this study shows the manner in which non-state forums and actors engage with state law and its regulatory systems.
    Note: Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2017). - Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 175-189 , Dissertation, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2017
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    ISBN: 978-0-367-40901-2 , 978-1-00-009544-9 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 196 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Central Asian Studies Series 38
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Kasachstan ; Kirgisien ; Parlament ; Wahl ; Legitimität ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politisches System
    Abstract: This book explores the nature of parliamentary representation within the autocratic regimes of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It argues that although many parliaments are elected under flawed or non-competitive elections, autocratic governments are nevertheless aware of the need to appear representative and accessible to the demands of citizens and that even limited parliaments manage to represent their voters, sometimes in ways not intended by the regime. The book examines how elites structure, manage and organize representation; how they foster the desired kind of representation; and how they limit the ways in which parliaments fulfil their representative functions. The book concludes that Kazakhstan is a more hegemonic form of autocracy and the Kyrgyz Republic a more competitive form and that the degree to which parliaments fulfil their representational functions and how much room for manoeuvre individual MPs have depends largely on how much parties control candidate selection and the daily schedule and administrative resources of parliaments. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables, figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration - Abbreviations and glossary -- 1. Introduction: MPs Between Serving the Regime and Representing the Voters -- 2. Parliamentary Representation under Autocracy: A Framework for Analysis -- 3. Becoming Party Candidate and MP in Limited Competitive Elections -- 4. Who are the Representatives? Parliament`s Composition and Group Representation -- 5. Nation, Occupation or Village? Finding a Constituency Focus in a Proportional Electoral System -- 6. MPs Acting for Citizens: Where Can they Make a Difference? -- 7. Conclusion: Patterns of Authoritarian Parliamentary Representation -- Bibliography -- Annexes
    Note: "This book is based on my doctoral dissertation that I wrote between 2012 and 2016." (Acknowledgements)Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [161]-184 , Dissertation, Universität Bremen, 2017 unter dem Titel: Parliamentary representation in non-democracies: how parliamentarians matter in Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-69250-3 , 978-1--138-69249-7 , 978-1-315-53221-9 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 170 Seiten , Diagramme
    Keywords: kulturelles Eigentum Diebstahl ; Archäologie ; Handel, illegaler ; Schmuggel ; Kriminalität ; Recht
    Abstract: "Trafficking Culture outlines current research and thinking on the illicit market in antiquities. It moves along the global trafficking chain from 'source' to 'market, ' identifying the main roles and routines involved. Using original research, the authors explore the dynamics of this 'grey' market, where legal and illegal goods are mixed and conflated. It compares and contrasts this illicit trade with other 'transnational criminal markets, ' such as the illegal trades in drugs, wildlife, conflict diamonds, timber, human trafficking, and counterfeits. The analytical frames of organized crime and white-collar crime, drawn from criminology, provide a fresh perspective on a problem that has tended to be seen as archaeological, rather than criminological. Bringing insights from both disciplines together, this book represents a productive discourse between experts in these two fields, working together for several years to produce the evidence base that is reported here. Innovative forms of regulation are the most productive way to explore crime control in this field, and this book provides a series of propositions about practical crime reduction measures for the future. It will be invaluable to academics working in the fields of archaeology, criminology, art history, museum studies and heritage. The book will also be a vital resource for professionals in the field of cultural property protection and preservation"
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  • 38
    ISBN: 978-1-3501-2582-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 211 Seiten
    Series Statement: ASA Monographs 52 [sic] = 54
    Keywords: Zeit Politik ; Macht ; Nationalität ; Staat, moderner ; Anthropologie, politische ; Prognose
    Abstract: The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics and Chronocracy / Elisabeth Kirtsoglou and Bob Simpson. - 1. Migrant Imaginaries, Multiple Selves, and the Varieties of Temporal Experience / Michael D. Jackson. - 2. The Tree and the Net: Spatio-Temporal Narratives of Human Population Genomics / Peter Wade. - 3. The Pulverous State: Chronocracy and Affect in the Politics of Environmental Risk in Italy / Mateusz Laszczkowski. - 4. Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Era / Felix Ringel. - 5. Depressing Time: Waiting, Melancholia, and the Psychoanalytic Practice of Care / Laura Salisbury and Lisa Baraitser. - 6. Monsoon uncertainties, Hydro-chemical Infrastructures, and Ecological Time in Sri Lanka / Tom Widger and Upul Wickramasinghe. - 7. Partial Decomposition: Peat and its Life Cycles / Richard Irvine. - 8. Anticipatory Nostalgia and Nomadic Temporality: A Case Study of Chronocracy in the Crypto-colony / Elisabeth Kirtsoglou. - 9. The Moment Ethnography Becomes Past: De-temporalising Ethnographic Nostalgia / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
    Note: Zählung der Reihe vermutlich nicht korrekt (doppelt vergeben), entspricht Band 54
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-40474-8 , 978-90-04-43772-2 /E-Book
    ISSN: 1572-1892
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 295 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Volume 312
    Keywords: Indonesien Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politischer Wandel ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Demokratisierung ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Staatsentstehung ; Sukarno [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: In Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia`s Early Independence Period, Farabi Fakih offers a historical analysis of the foundational years leading to Indonesia`s New Order state (1966-1998) during the early independence period. The study looks into the structural and ideological state formation during the so-called Liberal Democracy (1950-1957) and Sukarno`s Guided Democracy (1957-1965). In particular, it analyses how the international technical aid network and the dominant managerialist ideology of the period legitimized a new managerial elite. The book discusses the development of managerial education in the civil and military sectors in Indonesia. The study gives a strongly backed argument that Sukarno`s constitutional reform during the Guided Democracy period inadvertently provided a strong managerial blueprint for the New Order developmentalist state. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. The Indonesian Elite and Its Authority -- 2. The Military Expansion into the State -- 3. Expertise and National Planning -- 4. Scientific Administration and the Question of Efficiency -- 5. Economic Planning during the Guided Democracy -- 6. The Managers of Social Engineering -- 7. Economic Policymaking in the Guided Democracy (1962-1965) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 267-295 , Dissertation, Universiteit Leiden, 2014, unter dem Titel: The Rise of the Managerial State in Indonesia: Institutional Transition during the Early Independence Period. 1950-1965. Online verfügbar unter https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-30358-4/(hbk) , 978-0-203-73096-6/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-351-39887-9/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-351-39888-6/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-351-39886-2/ (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxvi, 982 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Routledge Companions
    Keywords: Indigenität kulturelles Eigentum ; Repatriierung ; Kulturgut, Rückgabe ; Dekolonisation ; Museum ; Kulturpolitik ; Menschlicher Überrest ; Ethik
    Abstract: "This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral Remains. The Ancestral Remains of Indigenous peoples are today housed in museums and other collecting institutions globally. They were taken from anywhere the deceased can be found, and their removal occurred within a context of deep power imbalance within a colonial project that had a lasting effect on Indigenous peoples worldwide. Through the efforts of First Nations campaigners, many have returned home. However, a large number are still retained. In many countries, the repatriation issue has driven a profound change in the relationship between Indigenous peoples and collecting institutions. It has enabled significant steps towards resetting this relationship from one constrained by colonisation to one that seeks a more just, dignified, and truthful basis for interaction. The history of repatriation is one of Indigenous perseverance and success. The authors of this book contribute major new work and explore new facets of this global movement. They reflect on nearly 40 years of repatriation, its meaning and value, impact and effect. This book is an invaluable contribution to repatriation practice and research, providing a wealth of new knowledge to readers with interests in Indigenous histories, self determination, and the relationship between collecting institutions and Indigenous peoples"
    Description / Table of Contents: List of contributors -- List of figures and tables - Foreword / June Oscar AO - Introduction -- Part 1. A global movement: repatriation reflections from around the world -- Part 2. Histories and worldwide networks -- Part 3. Repatriation methods in research and practice -- Part 4. Restoring dignity -- Index
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-60412-4 , 978-0-429-46867-4/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 142 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Museums in Focus
    Keywords: Museum Museumskunde ; Sammler und Sammlung ; Kritik
    Abstract: Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the New Museum and PS1 in New York, Mona in Australia, Art42 in Paris and Donald Judd`s Marfa, the book assesses their potential to engage museum publics in new ways. Anti-museums seek to breathe relational and theatricalised vitality into the objects they exhibit, by connecting them to the contexts of their making, to their social life outside the museum, to visitors' lives via their transformative capacities for change, and by being a place of dialogue, exchange and transformation, rather than instruction. Documenting the ways in which they have been created by artists, collectors, and curators, the book also examines the extent to which anti-museums connect with other museums through the exchange of values and resources. Critically, it asks whether, after some 40 years of `new museology`, such institutions are still able to offer something fresh and valuable. Anti-Museum provides a sharp and incisive account of the anti-museum as it has been imagined, realised and experienced, and as it has relevance for understanding and working in the contemporary museum world. As such, the book will be of great interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of museums, cultural economy, inclusive urban regeneration, the democratisation of art and contemporary art. It should also appeal to museum professionals around the world.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover Page; Half Title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: anti-museum -- imagining the unthinkable; 2 Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne; 3 Donald Judd's Marfa: state of dialogue; 4 New York, New York: PS1 and the New Museum; 5 Mona (Museum of Old and New Art), Hobart; 6 Art42, Paris; 7 Conclusion: the art of museums beyond convention; References; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 129-137
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-41083-1 , 978-90-04-41084-8 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 347 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Climate and Culture 5
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Klimawandel ; Klima ; Ökologie ; Umweltwandel ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Tagungsbericht
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : environmental change and African societies / Julia Tischler and Ingo Haltermannpart -- To see or not to see : on the "absence" of climate change (discourse) in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania / Sara de Wit -- Perspectives on climate change in Makonde District, Zimbabwe since 2000 / Vimbai Kwashiraipart -- Environmental and climate change in Africa : global drought and local environmental infrastructure / Emmanuel Kreike -- Shamba forestry in colonial Kenya : colonial dominance or African opportunity? / Ben Fanstone -- I'm staying! : climate variability and circular migration in Burkina Faso / Jonas Østergaard Nielsen -- Living with a changing climate in sub-Saharan Africa : more of the same / Joy Clancy -- Sustainable Mauritius? : environmental change, energy efficiency, and sustainable development in a small island state in the Indian Ocean / Laura Jeffery -- Transformative learning for global change? : reflections on the Wascal Master Programme in climate change and education in the Gambia / Irit Eguavoen and Erick Tambopart -- Africa in transition : what role for the environment? / Ton Dietz -- Africa's high modernism : historical ecologies of climate change and hydrologies of watersheds (Blue Nile and Zambezi) / James C. McCann -- Increasing urbanisation and the role of green spaces in urban climate resilience in Africa / Bertrand F. Nero, Daniel Callo-Concha, and Manfred Denich.
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    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-05788-3 , 978-0-429-20379-4 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 256 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published 2019, first issued in paperback
    Keywords: Indien Nord-Indien ; Punjab ; Sufismus ; Islam ; Altar ; Grab ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals and their complex narratives, and provides an insight into their urban and rural landscapes in the post-Partition (Indian) Punjab.What happened to these shrines when attempts were made to dissuade Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus from their veneration of popular saints in the early twentieth century? What was the fate of popular shrines that persisted even when the Muslim population was virtually wiped off as a result of migration during Partition? How did these shrines manifest in the context of the threat posed by militants in the 1980s? How did such popular practices reconfigure themselves when some important centres of Sufism were left behind in the West Punjab (now Pakistan)? This book examines several of these questions and utilizes a combination of analytical tools, new theoretical tropes and an ethnographic approach to understand and situate popular Sufi shrines so that they are both historicized and spatialized. As such, it lays out some crucial contours of the method and practice of understanding popular sacred spaces (within India and elsewhere), bridging the everyday and the metanarratives of power structures and state formation.This book will be useful to scholars, researchers and those engaged in interdisciplinary work in history, social anthropology, historical sociology, cultural studies, historical geography, religion and art history, as well as those interested in Sufism and its shrines in South Asia. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction: Situating popular veneration -- 1. Historiography, fieldwork, and debates on sacred shrines -- 2. Shrines, wilayat, and lived landscapes -- 3. Dreams, memories, dissent -- 4. Popular art, circulation, and visualization of space -- Epilogue: Sites of memory -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 230-249
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-42440-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVII, 395 Seiten , Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Karten
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Volume 313
    Keywords: Java Indigenität ; Musik ; Musik, traditionelle ; Musikethnologie ; Tanz ; Tanz, ritueller ; Heilbehandlung ; Medizin, traditionelle ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Hochzeitsritual ; Beschneidung
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    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    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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    ISBN: 978-90-04-39992-1 , 978-2-86978-856-5 , 978-90-04-41122-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 198 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa Futures volume 1
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Südafrika ; Südliches Afrika ; Westafrika ; Migration ; Integration ; Identität ; Freiheit ; Mobilität ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Pan-Afrikanismus ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: This comparative book debates migration and regional integration in the two regional economic blocs, namely the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The book takes a historical and nuanced citizenship approach to integration by analysing regional integration from the perspective of non-state actors and how they negotiate various structures and institutions in their pursuit for life and livelihood in a contemporary context marked by mobility and economic fragmentation. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction and background -- Conceptual underpinnings and contemporary debates -- Historical and theoretical issues -- Migration policies in Africa -- Migration and regional integration : West Africa and Southern Africa -- SADC and ECOWAS : Comparative perspectives -- Resilient economy, migration and regional integration -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [179]-191
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    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-35467-8 , 978-0-429-42464-9 / (e-book) , 9780429755613 / (falsche ISBN) , 9780429755606 / (falsche ISBN) , 9780429424649 / (falsche ISBN) , 9780429755620 / (falsche ISBN)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 278 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia 65
    Keywords: Süd-Asien Indien ; Bangladesh ; Nepal ; Indigenität ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Film ; Film, ethnographischer ; Musik ; Anthropologie, visuelle
    Abstract: "How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous communities take on radically new significances. 'Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia' shows how in the portrayal of indigenous groups by both 'insiders' and 'outsiders' imaginations of indigeneity and nation become increasingly interlinked. Indigenous groups, typically marginal to the nation, are at the same time part of mainstream polities and cultures. Drawing on perspectives from media studies and visual anthropology, this book compares and contrasts the situation in South Asia with indigeneity globally"
    Note: Chapter 1 of this books is available for free in pdf format as open access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com.
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-39993-8 (hardback) , 978-2-86978-980-7 (hardback) , 978-90-04-41781-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English , French
    Pages: VIII, 193 Seiten
    Series Statement: Africa Futures volume 2
    Keywords: Südafrika Regionalismus ; Afrika ; Apartheid ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Fremdenfeindlichkeit ; Burundi ; Madagaskar ; Elfenbeinküste ; Migration ; Mobilität ; Rechtsethnologie ; Entwicklung, kulturelle ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Anthropologie, politische ; Südafrikanische Entwicklungsgemeinschaft
    Abstract: In Regional Integration in Africa: What Role for South Africa, Henri Bah, Zondi Siphamandla and Andre Mbata Mangu reflect on African integration and the contribution of post-apartheid South Africa. From their different scientific background, they demonstrate that despite some progress made under the African Union that superseded the Organisation of African Unity, Africa is still lagging behind in terms of regional integration and South Africa, which benefitted from the rest of the continent in her struggle against apartheid, has not as yet played a major role in this process. Apart from contributing to advancing knowledge, the book should be a recommended read for all those interested in African regional integration and the relationships between Africa and post-apartheid South Africa. (Umschlagtext)
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 9780367278250 , 9780367276812
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 245 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.420954
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    Keywords: Feminist theory ; Feminism ; Dalit women Social conditions ; Caste ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Indien ; Dalit ; Frau ; Diskriminierung ; Feminismus
    Abstract: Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and rethinks Indian feminism by replacing it with a new paradigm, namely, that caste-based feminist inquiry offers the only theoretical vantage point for comprehensively addressing gender-based injustices. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the chapters in the volume discuss key themes such as Indian feminism versus Dalit feminism; the emerging concept of Dalit patriarchy; the predecessors of Dalit feminism, such as Phule and Ambedkar; the meaning and value of lived experience; the concept of Difference; the analogical relationship between Black feminism and Dalit feminism; the intersectionality debate; and the theory-versus-experience debate. They also provide a conceptual, historical, empirical and philosophical understanding of feminism in India today.Accessible, essential and ingenious in its approach, this book is for students, teachers and specialist scholars, as well as activists and the interested general reader. It will be indispensable for those engaged in gender studies, women's studies, sociology of caste, political science and political theory, philosophy and feminism, Ambedkar studies, and for anyone working in the areas of caste, class or gender-based discrimination, exclusion and inequality.
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    Book
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-39384-4 , 1-138-39384-3
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 139 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Anthropologie, soziale Wunder ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Soziales Leben
    Abstract: What can wonder engender in terms of religious, political, and broader social practice? Thinkers from Plato to Martin Heidegger and Cornelius Castoriadis; surrealists such as Andre Breton and Pierre Mabille; and most recently the religious philosopher Mary-Jane Rubenstein have all explored the ways that wonder is not articulated once and for all, but continuously worked upon. This book engages with anthropological explorations of wonder, responding to recent work by Michael W. Scott in order to bring the weight, colour, scent and sound of real ethnographic encounters to new ways of thinking about wonder. The question for contributors is how wonder works as an index of challenges to the known, the moral, the true, and the real. The case studies reveal how probing wonder can bring us closer to understanding the formation of social institutions as various `modalities of wonder` destabilize old forms and articulate new ones.
    Note: This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Religious and Political Practice.
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    Leiden : Brill
    ISBN: 978-90-0434880-6 , 978-90-0439043-0 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 270 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: International Comparative Social Studies 42
    Keywords: Vertrauen Soziologie ; Kulturvergleich ; Psychologie
    Abstract: Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and methodological issues related to trust. The authors are from a variety of disciplines: psychology, sociology, political science, organizational studies, history, and philosophy, and from Britain, the United States, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, and Japan. They bring their vast knowledge from different historical and cultural backgrounds to illuminate contemporary issues of trust and distrust. The socio-cultural perspective of trust is important and increasingly acknowledged as central to trust research. Accordingly, future directions for comparative trust research are also discussed
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction / Masamichi Sasaki -- Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives -- The Experience of Trust: Its Content and Basis / Jack Barbalet -- Trust in the Moral Space / Piotr Sztompka -- Trust in Habit: A Way of Coping in Unsettled Times / Barbara A. Misztal -- Uncertainty and the Economic Need for Trust / Bart Nooteboom -- Historical Perspectives -- The Decline of Trust in Government / Geoffrey Hosking -- Trust in Transition: Culturalist and Institutionalist Debate Reflected in the Democratization Process in the Czech Republic, 1991-2008 / Marke´ta Sedla´c?kova´ and Jir?i´ S?afr -- Dynamics of Organizational and Interpersonal Interaction -- Trust Trap? Self-Reinforcing Processes in the Constitution of Inter-organizational Trust / Guido Mo¨llering and Jo¨rg Sydow -- The Relation between Interpersonal Trust and Adjustment: Is Trust Always Good? / Ken J. Rotenberg -- Cross-National Comparative Studies -- A Cross-National Study of Criteria for Judging the Trustworthiness of Others before a First Meeting / Masamichi Sasaki -- Social Trust in Japan and Taiwan: A Test of Fukuyama's Thesis / Robert Marsh -- Methodology -- What Do Survey Measures of Trust Actually Measure? / John Brehm and Meg Savel -- Back Matter -- Index.
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-34806-6
    ISSN: 1568-4474
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 190 Seiten
    Series Statement: International Comparative Social Studies 41
    Keywords: Afrika China ; Beziehungen Afrika-Asien ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: In this new book on Africa-China relations, Ngonlardje Kabra Mbaidjol strongly engages in the heated debates on African cooperation with China, an increassingly rich and powerful partner. The current dominant view highlights the neo-colonial and exploitative nature of these relations with a denial of any positive results for African people. However, the growing China-Africa partnership took its roots at Bandung 1955 conference, to culminate with an overt competition between China and other nations over African resources. For many, "a new scramble for Africa" emerges. Mbaidjol argues there is rather a "global scramble for China," a fierce battle to get the PRC's kind attention. Africa is right to engage the struggle to access China's development funding. Africa may wish to avoid being distracted by rival voices, but to endeavor doing its own homework and rehearse for the global competiton, in the only interest of African people. The new book unpacked Africa's preparedness and rehearsal strategy.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 159-184
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38100-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 295 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Dynamics volume 16
    Keywords: Afrika Südliches Afrika ; Natur ; Naturschutz ; Umweltschutz ; Fauna ; Wildtier ; Moral ; Nationalpark ; Politik
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38463-7/(ebook) , 978-90-04-38462-0 , 9004384626
    Language: English
    Pages: xxvii, 881 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Islamic History and Civilization 161
    Keywords: Ägypten Diplomatie ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Geschichte ; Kairo 〈Stadt, Ägypten〉
    Abstract: Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. This rich volume covers the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations established by (or with) the Mamluk sultanate. Twenty-six essays are divided in geographical sections that broadly respect the political division of the world as the Mamluk chancery perceived it. In addition, two introductory essays provide the present stage of research in the fields of, respectively, diplomatics and diplomacy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Mamluk diplomatics: the present state of research / Frederic Bauden -- Mamluk diplomacy: the present state of research / Malika Dekkiche -- Diplomatics, or another way to see the world / Malika Dekkiche -- Strong letters at the Mamluk Court / Lucian Reinfandt -- Embassies and ambassadors in Mamluk Cairo / Yehoshua Frenkel -- Careers in diplomacy among Mamluks and Mongols, 658-741/1260-1341 / Anne F. Broadbridge -- The golden horde and the Mamluks: the birth of a diplomatic set-up (660-5/1261-7) / Marie Favereau -- Mamluk-Ilkhanid diplomatic contacts: negotiations or posturing? / Reuven Amitaie -- Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: emissaries to the Mamluks as expressions of local political ambitions and ideologies during the Seventh/Thirteenth and Eighth/Fourteenth centuries / Hend Gilli-Elewy -- Between Iraq and a hard place: Sultan Ahmad Jalayir's time as a refugee in the Mamluk sultanate / Patrick Wing -- Nizam al-din Shami's description of the Syrian Campaign of Timur / Michele Bernardini -- Diplomatic entanglements between Tabriz, Cairo, and Herat: a reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu letter datable to 818/1415 / Frederic Bauden -- Fixed rules to a changing game? Sultan Mehmed II's realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk diplomatic conventions / Kristof d'Hulster -- Diplomatic correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo: the last hope for Al-Andalus / Barbara Boloix-Gallardo -- Entre ifriqiya hafside et Egypte Mamelouke: des relations anciennes, continues et consolidees / Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi -- Tracking down the Hafsid diplomatic missions all the way to the Turco-Mamluk borders (892-6/1487-91) / Lotfi ben Miled -- Diplomatic networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to early Ninth/Fifteenth centuries) / Eric Vallet -- "Aggression in the best of lands": Mecca in Egyptian-Indian diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth century / John I. Meloy -- Some remarks on the diplomatic relations between Cairo, Delhi/Dawlatabad, and Ahmadabad during the Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth centuries / Stephan Conermann, Anna Kollatz -- The Hati and the Sultan: letters and embassies from Abyssinia to the Mamluk Court / Julien Loiseau -- "Peace be upon those who follow the right way": diplomatic practices between Mamluk Cairo and the Borno Sultanate at the end of the Eighth/Fourteenth century / Remi Dewiere -- The European embassies to the court of the Mamluk Sultans in Cairo / Pierre Moukarzel -- In the name of the minorities: Lisbon's muslims as emissaries from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of Egypt / Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros -- Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 838-78/1435-73: the accounts of Pero Tafur, George Boustronios and Ibn Taghri Birdi / Nicholas Coureas -- Negotiating the last Mamluk-Venetian commercial decree (922-3/1516-7): commercial liability from the Sixth/Twelfth to the early Tenth/Sixteenth century / Gladys Frantz-Murphy -- Three Mamluk letters concerning the Florentine trade in Egypt and Syria: a new interpretation / Alessandro Rizzo -- Ecritoires: objets fonctionnels et symboliques indissociables des ceremonies officielles a l' epoque Mamelouke / Ludvik Kalus -- Precious objects for eminent guests: the use of chinese ceramics in Mamluk Cairo: the Fustat ceramic collection from the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels) / Valentina Vezzoli.
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38562-7 , 978-90-04-38728-7 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: 256 Seiten , Illustrationen, genealogische Tafeln, Karten
    Series Statement: Iran Studies volume 18
    Keywords: Iran Kultur ; Kultur und Gesellschaft ; Kulturgeschichte ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the pre-modern and early modern historical ties among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau, Central Asia, Western Xinjiang, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, as well as the circumstances that reoriented these regions and helped break up the Persianate ecumene in modern times. Essays explore the modalities of Persianate culture, the defining features of the Persianate cosmopolis, religious practice and networks, the diffusion of literature across space, subaltern social groups, and the impact of technological advances on language. Taken together, the essays reflect the current scholarship in Persianate studies, and offer pathways for future research. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction : Pathways to the Persianate / Assef Ashraf -- Remembering the Persianate / Abbas Amanat -- The Persian cosmopolis (900-1900) and the Sanskrit cosmopolis (400-1400) / Richard M. Eaton -- Living in marvelous lands : Persianate vernacular literatures and cosmographical imaginaires around the Bay of Bengal / Thibaut D'Hubert -- The politics of saint shrines in the Persianate empires / A. Azfar Moin -- From Yarkand to Sindh via Kabul : the rise of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi networks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Waleed Ziad -- Lives of the Enikolopians : multilingualism and the religious-national identity of a Caucasus family in the Persianate world / Hirotake Maeda -- Inclusion and exclusion in the "Persianate world" : views of Baluch people in the nineteenth century / Joanna de Groot -- The antipodes of "progress" : a journey to the end of Indo-Persian / Nile Green -- Index
    Note: "This volume grew out of a conference, held at Yale University in May 2014 ..."
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-0-367-20673-4 , 0-367-20673-0
    Language: English
    Pages: 172 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series 67
    Keywords: Usbekistan China ; Japan ; Südkorea ; Zentral-Asien ; Eurasien ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Seidenstraße ; Handel ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: This book analyses initiatives and concepts initiated by China, Japan and South Korea (the Republic of Korea) towards Central Asia to ascertain their impact on regionalism and regional cooperation in Central Asia.Using the case study of Uzbekistan, the book focuses on the formation of the discourse of engagement with the region of Central Asia through the notion of the Silk Road narrative. The author puts forward the prospects for engagement and cooperation in the region by analysing initiatives such as the Eurasian/Silk Road Diplomacy of Japan of 1997, the Shanghai Process by China, Korean corporate offensive, and other so-called Silk Road initiatives (One Belt One Road, OBOR or the Belt and Road Initiative, BRI). The book argues that material factors and interests of state are not the only motivations for engagement with Central Asia. The author suggests that cultural environment and identity act as additional behavioural incentives for the states cooperation as these factors create a space for actors in global politics. The book deconstructs Chinese narratives and foreign policy towards smaller states and presents a more balanced account of Central Asian foreign policy by taking into account Japanese and South Korean approaches to Central Asia.This book encourages wider theoretical discussions of Central Asian-specific forms of cooperation and relationships. It provides a timely analysis of Central Asian International Relations and is a helpful reference for researchers and students in the fields of international relations, security studies, Asian politics, global politics, Central Asian Studies and Silk Road studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Discursive power of "Silk Road" in China, Japan and South Korea`s foreign policies toward Central Asia; 2 Evolution of the "Silk Road" into a foreign policy discourse; 3 Discourses of rivalry or rivalry of discourses?; 4 Japanese and Chinese infrastructure development strategies in Central Asia; 5 Chinese, Japanese and South Korean economic cooperation road maps for Uzbekistan; 6 The Chinese economic "offensive" in post-Karimov Uzbekistan; 7 Revisiting Japan`s Silk Road master-narratives; 8 South Korea`s modernizing power in Uzbekistan; Conclusions: the last Asian frontier?
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-40270-6 , 978-90-04-40271-3 / (E-Book)
    ISSN: 2589-885X
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 275 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Crossroads Volume 1
    Keywords: Indischer Ozean Süd-Asien ; Saudi-Arabien ; Indien ; Komoren ; Malediven ; Südafrika ; Malaysia ; Sansibar ; Deutschland ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Kulturpolitik ; Kulturkontakt ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Kulturethologie ; Weltkulturerbe ; Historiographie ; Mobilität ; Identität ; Photographie, ethnographische ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Travelling Pasts, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen, offers an innovative exploration of the issue of heritage in the Indian Ocean world. This collection of essays demonstrates how the heritagization of the past has played a vital role in processes and strategies related to the making of socio-cultural identities, the establishing of political legitimacies, and the pursuit of economic and geopolitical gains. The contributions range from those dealing with the impact of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention in the Indian Ocean world as a whole to those that address the politics of cultural heritage in various distinct maritime sites such as Zanzibar, Mayotte, Cape Town, the Maldives, Calcutta and Penang. Also examined are the Maritime Silk Road and the Project Mausam initiatives of the Chinese and Indian governments respectively. The volume is an important contribution to the fields of Indian Ocean Studies and Heritage Studies. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, maps and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Travelling pasts: an introduction / Burkhard Schnepel -- Part 1. Indian Ocean cultural heritage and the 'world' -- Part 2. (Im-)materialities on the move -- Part 3. Travelling pasts in the Eastern Indian Ocean world -- Part 4. Travelling pasts in the Western Indian Ocean world -- Index
    Note: "based on a conference which took place in May 2017 within the framework of a larger research programme, situated at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in Halle, entitled 'Connectivity in Motion: Port Cities of the Indean Ocean'." (Seite 1-2)
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-50512-4 , 978-1-351-37977-9 / (e-book) , 978-1-351-37978-6 / (e-book) , 978-1-351-37976-2 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 247 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Keywords: Iran Tourismus ; Wallfahrt ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Frau ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Kulturanthropologie ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: Iran has long been regarded as an international pariah state in some parts of the international community. However, its negative image in many countries disguises its history of tourism and rich cultural and natural heritage. Following the July 2015 nuclear deal and the reduction in sanctions, Iran is focusing on international tourism as a means to generate economic growth in addition to its substantial domestic tourism market. Given the significance of tourism in the Middle East and in international politics, as well as restrictions on international mobility, this volume brings together the first contemporary collection of research on tourism in Iran. Written by experts based both within and outside of Iran, the chapters engage with a number of crucial issues including the importance of religion, the role of women in society, sustaining Iran's cultural heritage, Iran's image and the resistive economy to provide a benchmark assessment of tourism and its potential future in a troubled political environment. The book will undoubtedly be of interest not only to those readers who focus specifically on Iran but also those who seek a wider understanding of Iran's role in the region and how tourism is utilised as part of national and regional economic development policies.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, tables, boxes, contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Part I Context -- 1 Tourism in Iran: an introduction / Siamak Seyfi and C. Michael Hall -- 2 Domestic tourism in Iran: development, directions and issues / Siamak Seyfi, Adel Nikjoo & Mohammad Sharifi-Tehrani -- 3 Sanctions, the 2015 agreement and Iran`s tourism industry / Zahed Ghaderi, Sahar Soltani, Joan Henderson and Afsaneh Zareei -- Part II Pilgrimage and religious tourism -- 4 Pilgrimage Tourism in Iran / Mahmood Ziaei & Somayeh Amiri -- Chapter 5 The Mutual Relationship Between Women`s Pilgrimage Tourism and the Religious City: A Case Study of Mashhad, Iran / Nina Khamsy and Fatemeh Vossughi -- 6 Mass faith tourism and life satisfaction of residents: evidence from Mashhad, Iran / Hossein G. T. Olya -- Part III Heritage and tourism -- 7 Cultural heritage management and heritage tourism development in Iran: opportunities and challenges for the future / Fabio Carbone, Anahita Malek & Anahita Lohrasbi -- 8 Residents` perceptions towards heritage tourism development: the case of the historical city of Kashan, Iran / S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh and Hamid Ataeishad -- 9 The role of socio-cultural events in rebuilding Iran`s image / Bardia Shabani and Hazel Tucker -- 10 Food and tourism in Iran / Amir Sayadabdi and Saman Hassibi -- Part IV Emerging tourisms -- 11 Tourism and the empowerment of women in Iran / Banafsheh Farahani and Hamideh Dabbaghi -- 12 Participatory tourism development in Iran: implementing community based tourism within a migrating nomadic tribe / Fereshteh Fazel Bakhsheshi and Najmeh Hassanali -- 13 Effects of perceived quality and trust on behavioural intentions: an empirical study of health tourists in Mashhad, Iran / Shiva Hashemi, Masoumeh Tavangar, Azizan Marzuki, Moji Shahvali -- 14 The future(s) of tourism in Iran / C. Michael Hall and Siamak Seyfi -- Index
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-31415-3 , 978-0-429-45721-0/ (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 157 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Theorizing Ethnography
    Keywords: Philosophie Ethnographie ; Ungleichheit ; Differenzierung ; Ethnologie ; Wagner, Roy [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: Roy Wagner's work deals with two fundamental issues in anthropology: how to describe difference, and where to place it in anthropological discourse. His discussion and displacement of anthropological concepts such as "group" and "culture" in the 1970s and 1980s have arguably encouraged a deconstructive undertaking in the discipline. Yet Wagner's work, although part of the radicalizing move of the 1970s and 1980s in anthropology, was until some years ago not a central reference for anthropological theory. The question Dulley asks throughout her engagement with Wagner's main essays is whether it is possible for the emic gesture to account for difference within difference without falling into the closure of totalization. Wagner's work contains this potentiality but is hindered by its very foundation: the emic gesture, in which difference is circumscribed through a name that others. If this gesture is one of the pillars of anthropology, and one that allows for the inscription of difference, the reflection proposed in this book concerns anthropology as a whole: How can one inscribe difference within difference? Dulley argues that this can only be accomplished through an erasure of the emic. Offering a comprehensive discussion of Wagner's concepts and a detailed reading of his most important work, this book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to reflect on the relationship between ethnography and difference, and especially those who in various ways engage with the "ontological turn". As the book reflects on how Derridean differance can be appropriated by anthropology in its search for subtler and more critical ethnographic accounts, anthropologists interested in post-structuralist theory and methodology will also find it useful.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface 1. Introduction: Difference and Ethnography in Roy Wagner 2. Deconstruction, Alterity, Differance 3. Inventing Culture 4. Groups and Others 5. The Names of Others 6. On Metaphor 7. Final Remarks: Beyond the Emic Gesture 8. A Short Note, Under the Guide of Post-Script
    Note: Online-Ausgabe unter dem Titel: Difference and ethnography in Roy Wagner : the names of others / Iracema H. Dulley (?)
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38680-8 , 978-90-04-38742-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 287 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Uniform Title: Entrepreneurs africains et chinois
    Keywords: Afrika China ; Beziehungen Afrika-Asien ; Globalisierung ; Unternehmen ; Arbeitsmigration ; Arbeit ; Mobilität ; Mobilität, soziale ; Sozialer Wandel ; Außenpolitik ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Tagungsbericht
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: From rejection to social change / Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel -- Part 1. Others in distant places: opportunities for social mobility -- Social mobility of Chinese migrants in Ghana: the making of Chinese entrepreneurs / Katy N. Lam -- The impact of migration of the Chinese women in Niamey on gender and family relations / Naima Topkiran -- African cultural brokers in South China / Gordon Mathews -- Early Chinese migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: contract labourers and traders / Yoon Jung Park -- Part 2. Encounters with the other, stimuli for social change -- Grassroots social change triggered by Africa-China encounters in urban China / Kelly Si Miao Liang -- Business partners and employers: Chinese traders as facilitators of grassroots social innovation in West Africa / Karsten Giese -- A transformative presence? Chinese migrants as agents of change in Ghana and Nigeria / Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan -- The Chinese factor in Senegal: changing entrepreneurial dynamics, and socio-economic restructuring / Amy Niang -- Part 3. The products of others: 'Made in China' as imaginary and opportunity -- This "Made in China" that gets africa moving: chinese motorcycles and entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso / Guive Khan-Mohammad -- "Made in China" and the African "China dream": an alternative to the West? / Laurence Marfaing -- Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods: negotiating imaginaries of authenticity in Accra's China trade / Alena Thiel.
    Note: "This volume was originally published by Karthala in 2017 under the title "Entrepreneurs africains et chinois. Les impacts sociaux d'une rencontre particulière". - Includes a selection of work by paticipants in a workshop held in Dakar in January 2013 ...
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    ISBN: 978-0-8153-8737-4 , 978-1-3511-7316-2/(eBook) , 978-1-351-17315-5 , 978-1-351-17314-8 , 978-1-351-173
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 211 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Latin American Development
    Keywords: Lateinamerika Chile ; Mexiko ; Brasilien ; Kolumbien ; Peru ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Staat ; Armut ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Finanzwesen ; Geldverkehr
    Abstract: It has been almost two decades since conditional cash transfer programs first appeared on the agendas of multilateral agencies and politicians. Latin America has often been used as a testing ground for these programs, which consist of transfers of money to subsections of the population upon meeting certain conditions, such as sending their children to school or having them vaccinated. Money from the Government in Latin America takes a comparative view of the effects of this regular transfer of money, which comes with obligations, on rural communities. Drawing on a variety of data, taken from different disciplinary perspectives, these chapters help to build an understanding of the place of conditional cash transfer programs in rural families and households, in individuals' aspirations and visions, in communities' relationships to urban areas, and in the overall character of these rural societies. With case studies from Chile, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, this book will interest scholars and researchers of Latin American anthropology, sociology, development, economics and politics.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Rearticulations of rural lives through conditional cash transfers Martin Fotta & Maria Elisa Balen PART 1: GLOBAL CCT REPERTOIRES AND ITS LOCAL TRANSLATIONS 1. Gendering and engendering capital: Conditional cash transfers in Indigenous and rural households, Yucatan, Mexico Andre´s Dapuez 2. Filling the belly and feeding the mind? Bolsa Fami´lia and the building of children`s human capital in rural Amazonia Barbara A. Piperata 3. Peruvian mothers contending with conditional aid and its selective inattention to the conditions of rural life Tara Patricia Cookson PART 2: CCTs ORGANISING COMMUNITY RELATIONS 4. Fragmented rural communities: The faenas of Prospera at the interface of community cooperation and state dependency Cle´ment Crucifix & Sole`ne Morvant-Roux 5. Empowering women? Conditional cash transfers in Mexico Birgit Schmook, Nora Haenn, Claudia Radel & Santana Navarro-Olmedo 6. Money from above: Cash transfers, moral desert and enfranchisement among Guarani´ households of the Argentine Chaco Agustin Diz 7. Dangerous desires: The affects (and affections) of cash transfer programs among the Kalapalo from the Aiha village (Upper Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil). Marina Pereira Novo PART 3: ENVISIONING FUTURES THROUGH CCTS 8. From surprise to anticipation: Money, state and the future of social protection among displaced peasants in El Carmen de Boli´var, Colombia. Maria Elisa Balen 9. Beyond cash, beyond conditional: Ingreso E´tico Familiar and the senses of poverty in a group of Mapuche women Marjorie Murray & Gabriela Caban~a 10. Saying no: Bolsa Fami´lia, self-employment, and the rejection of jobs in northeastern Brazil Gregory Duff Morton Afterword: From affirmative to transformative distributive politics Jonathan DeVore Index
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-69371-5 , 978-1-315-52969-1/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 577 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Routledge Worlds
    Keywords: Melanesien Ethnographie ; Subsistenzwirtschaft ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Gewalt ; Massenmedien ; Klimawandel ; Geopolitik ; Sprachwissenschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Politik ; Materielle Kultur ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Entwicklung ; Ressource ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The `Melanesian world' assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. Maps of the region and its language groups. 1 Introduction: the challenge of Melanesia - Eric Hirsch and Will Rollason. PART I: HISTORICAL CONTEXT. 2 The archaeology of Melanesia - Glenn Summerhayes. 3 Melanesia: a region and a history - Max Quanchi. 4 Missionaries in the Melanesian world - John Barker. PART II: GEO-POLITICAL, LINGUISTIC AND REGIONAL OVERVIEWS. 5 Geo-political overview of Melanesia - Stewart Firth. 6 Melanesia as a zone of language diversity - Alan Rumsey. 7 Regional overview: from diversity to multiple singularities - Jaap Timmer. PART III: ECONOMY AND LIVELIHOOD. 8 Subsistence food production in Melanesia - R.M. Bourke. 9 Class, labour and consumption in urban Melanesia - Lorena Gibson. 10 Money schemes in contemporary Melanesia - John Cox. 11 Cash crops and markets - Timothy L.M. Sharp and Mark Busse. 12 Searching for Melanesian urbanity - Michael Goddard. PART IV: GOVERNMENT, POLITICS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. 13 Sovereignty, civil conflict and ethnicity - Matthew G. Allen. 14 Local government and politics: forms and aspects of authority - Steffen Dalsgaard. 15 Security governance in Melanesia: police, prisons and crime - Sinclair Dinnen. 16 Gender relations and human rights in Melanesia - Martha Macintyre. 17 Health, institutions and governance in Melanesia - Alice Street. 18 Owning the law in Melanesia - Melissa Demian and Benedicta Rousseau. PART V: RELIGION, CHURCH, RITUAL AND EXCHANGE PRACTICES. 19 `Witchcraft' and `sorcery' in Melanesia - Knut Rio. 20 Charismatic churches, revivalism and new religious movements - Annelin Eriksen and Michelle MacCarthy. 21 Cargo cult post mortem - Lamont Lindstrom. 22 Big men, ceremonial exchange and life-cycle events - Keir Martin. 23 Interpreting initiation in Melanesia: past and present - Pascale Bonnemere. PART VI: ART, MATERIAL CULTURE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE. 24 Museums and cultural centres in Melanesia: a series of experiments - Lissant Bolton. 25 Creation and destruction in Melanesian material culture - Anna-Karina Hermkens. 26 Contemporary art in Melanesia: from grassroots to national identity? - Eva Ch. Raabe. 27 Melanesian worlds of music and dance - Michael Webb. 28 The Melanesian world of paradise tourism: reflections on time, travel and cultural performance - John P. Taylor. PART VII: DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES. 29 Places and paths in Melanesian landscapes - Borut Telban. 30 Extractive industries in Melanesia - Glenn Banks. 31 Climate change in the islands and the highlands: Melanesian manifestations, experiences and actions - Edvard Hviding and Camilla Borrevik. 32 Western conservation in Melanesia: biodiversity conservation - for whom, by whom, and according to whom? - Bridget M. Henning. 33 New media, new Melanesia? - Geoffrey Hobbis. 34 Afterword - Marilyn Strathern. Index
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-31405-4 , 978-1-138-31404-7 , 978-0-429-45726-5 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 189 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Satire Politik ; Humor ; Witz
    Abstract: This book engages anthropologically with humor as political expression. It reveals how humor is in many instances central to human efforts to cope with political struggle and significant to understanding power dynamics in socio-political life. The chapters examine humor and joking activities across a diverse range of geographic areas and cultural contexts. The contributors consider humor as it is constituted in political anxiety, aggression and power, and when it becomes a tool to resist, repair, reconcile or make a moral claim. Collectively they demonstrate that humor can provide a powerful critique, a non-violent form of political protest and the space for restoration of human dignity.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Comic legacy and satirical voice in anthropological text -- The Politics of Joking: ambiguity, incongruity and absurdity -- References -- 1. You've got to be joking: Asserting the analytical value of humour and laughter in contemporary anthropology -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- 2. Disaster humor in an age of truth-bending politics -- The humor of mediatized politics, disaster, and the supernatural -- Vampire earthquakes and critiquing disaster management -- Conclusion: disaster and the absurd -- Notes -- References -- 3. "Joke" elections: Satirical activism and political opposition in Lithuania's electoral politics -- "Joke" elections -- Satirical activism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes -- References -- 4. When the fearful becomes funny: Joke-work in the midst of violence -- The violence of May 2000 -- Specters of uncertainty -- The fearful familiar -- George Speight and other jokes -- Theories of ethnic humor -- Incongruity and repression -- Jokes, dreams and the uncanny -- Liberating incongruity -- Creating disorder in an already disorderly universe -- Questioning racial imaginaries through humor -- Conclusion: knowing when to laugh and when to cry -- Notes -- References -- 5. Humor against forgetting: Joking in the space of death -- Humor as a method of inquiry -- Joking relations -- The joke -- Performing in the place of hell -- Humor against forgetting -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. Chisasibi Cree hunters and missionaries: Humor as evidence of tension -- Reverend Walton: influential Christian -- Cree-missionary relations: the Cree side of the story -- Cree-missionary relations re-appraised -- The Cree view of Christianity and traditional practiceConclusions -- Notes -- References -- 7. Mexican speech play: History and the psychological discourses of power -- Mexico: the frozen revolution -- Mexican speech play: the historical emergence of interpretation -- Interpretation and ideological formation -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8. The flesh of joking relationships: A study of Quechua sexual farce -- Fieldwork -- Quechua farces and joking relationships -- State of the art -- What does one do while teasing? -- A polemic stake -- 1. Future lovers' routine: a farce between men and women -- 2. Future mother-in-law and daughter-in-law routine: a female farce -- Notes -- References -- 9. Trickster in the mirror of play and anthropological imagination -- Play as an attribute of humanity -- Trickster as a timeless creator and a product of play and the comic -- Trickster as a paradoxical hero of human evolution -- Notes -- References -- 10. Trump's two bodies: The trickster-wrestler as a political type -- Introduction -- From big men to great men -- From exemplars to tricksters -- Why Trump is not (just) a trickster -- Trump as American wrestler -- Conclusion -- References -- 11. "An army of comedy": Political jokes and tropic ambiguity in the Trump era -- Introduction -- The appropriate incongruity of stand-up routines -- Tropic ambiguity -- Comedic contractions -- How jokes die -- The shedding of interpretation -- Conclusion -- References -- Afterword: Not all fun and games: The force of humor in political life -- Incongruity and ambiguity -- The power of affect -- Sociality, temporality, and contextual knowledge -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-39418-6 , 978-90-04-39679-1/e-book
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 252 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 311
    Series Statement: Power and Place in Southeast Asia 311
    Keywords: Osttimor Konflikt ; Konflikt, politischer ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Staatsentstehung ; Netzwerkanalyse ; Politik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000-2017, James Scambary analyses the complex interplay between local and national level conflict and politics in the independence period. Communal conflict, often enacted by a variety of informal groups such as gangs and martial arts groups, has been a constant feature of East Timor`s post-independence landscape. A focus on statebuilding, however, in academic discourse has largely overlooked this conflict, and the informal networks that drive Timorese politics and society. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Scambary documents the range of different cultural and historical dynamics and identities that drive conflict, and by which local conflicts and non-state actors became linked to national conflict, and laid the foundations of a clientelist state. (Umschlagtext)
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    ISBN: 978-0-367-00040-0 , 978-0-429-44483-8/ (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 249 Seiten , Karten, Diagramme
    Series Statement: International African Library 2
    Series Statement: African Seminars: Scholarship from the International African Institute 2
    Keywords: Afrika Ernährung ; Wirtschaft ; Nahrungsmittelversorgung ; Haushalt ; Stadt ; Politik ; Humanökologie ; Kano 〈Nigeria〉 ; Yaoundé 〈Kamerun〉 ; Dar es Salaam 〈Stadt, Tansania〉 ; Harare 〈Zimbabwe〉
    Abstract: Originally published in 1987, this book traces the broad outlines of urban food policy, drawing attention to the limited knowledge of regional social history. Urban food supply systems in Africa have developed very fast, in the midst of societies in which food production was not in general oriented to feeding distant populations of 'specialist consumers'. Institutional and political links had to be forged between town and country if food supply was to be cheap and predictable. This volume explores the political and material dynamics of urban food supply through 4 case studies: Kano, Yaounde, Dar es Salaam and Harare.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction Jane I. Guyer 2. Brittle Trade: A Political Economy of Food Supply in Kano Michael Watts 3. Feeding Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon Jane I. Guyer 4. A Century of Food Supply in Dar es Salaam: From Sumptious Suppers for the Sultan to Maize Meal for a Million Deborah F. Bryceson 5. The Development of Food Supplies to Salisbury (Harare) Paul Mosley 6. Comparative Epilogue Jane I. Guyer
    Note: Reprint der Ausgabe: "International African Library", Manchester University Press, 1987
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    ISBN: 9781138631137
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 364 Seiten
    Series Statement: Routledge international handbooks
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Diaspora ; Minderheit ; Einwanderung ; Forschung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    ISBN: 9789004396241
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 280 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, 1 Porträt
    Series Statement: Afrika-Studiecentrum series volume 37
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Crime, law and society in Nigeria
    DDC: 364.9669
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    Keywords: Crime History ; Criminal justice, Administration of ; Kriminalität ; Organisiertes Verbrechen ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Strafrecht ; Nigeria ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Nigeria ; Kriminalität ; Strafjustiz
    Note: Stephen-Ellis-Bibliographie: Seite 28-30 , Literaturangaben, Register , Introduction , Stephen Ellis : his life and work , Theft in early colonial Lagos, 1861-1906 , Smuggling across the Nigeria-Benin border and its impact on Nigeria's economic development , Changing patterns of crime and malfeasance in Nigerian port environments since the 1990s , Nature and management of human trafficking : the Nigerian Edo people's experience , Militancy and criminality in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria , Crime at the University of Lagos : insights from Akoka campus , Reporting crime in contemporary Lagos , Currency counterfeiting and "substantial justice" in colonial Nigeria : Rex vs Tijani Ali, 1931-33 , Class based criminal justice regime, supermarket courts, and illicit interests : the Nigerian criminal justice administration system in critical perspective , Book review: Stephen Ellis, (2016) This present darkness: a history of Nigerian organised crime. London: Hurst and Co
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    ISBN: 9781138505681
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 161 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Series Statement: Religion and citizenship
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 261.270954
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    Keywords: Social conflict Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Social conflict Religious aspects ; Islam ; Ethnic conflict Religious aspects ; Kommunalismus
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 146-157
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-35762-4 , 978-90-04-36211-6 /E-Book
    ISSN: 1877-9808
    Language: English
    Pages: 189 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib Volume 10
    Keywords: Algerien Landnutzung ; Grundeigentum ; Eigentum ; Recht, islamisches ; Rechtsethnologie ; Rechtswissenschaft, ethnologische ; Adoption
    Abstract: In spite of its privileged place on the African continent, in the Muslim world and in the Middle East and North Africa region, Algeria remains poorly known, and the works relating to contemporary Algerian society published outside of Algeria are rare. This book seeks to contribute to our understanding of Algerian society today, through its relationships to property and to law. Beyond this, the objective is to propose, in a comparative perspective proper to anthropology, new theoretical and methodological perspectives by which to apprehend the anthropology of law in a Muslim context. Algeria, as a post-colonial and post-Socialist State, whose population is overwhelmingly Muslim, proves to be a particularly interesting case to study. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Note on Arabic transliteration -- Introduction: Anthropological perspectives on law and property in Algeria / Yazid Ben Hounet and Baudouin Dupret -- Land tenure and capital ownership in Algeria / Ammar Belhimer -- The legitimacy of tilling the land versus land use rights : Algerian farmers' land appropriation processes on public land / Hichem Amichi, Marcel Kuper and Sami Bouarfa -- Rights of access or rights to bypass? Maritime concessions in Algeria / Tarik Dahou -- Dignity and honour : struggles over land and legitimacy in the Soummam Valley / Judith Scheele -- Land appropriation, tenure and legal practices in a steppe-like environment (Algeria) / Yazid Ben Hounet -- Anomie and the post-colonial state : local justice in the M'zab / Nejm Benessaiah -- To compensate or not to compensate? Law, property and Sahrawi refugees in Algeria / Alice Wilson -- Kafala and succession : the practices of transfer of the "parent's" name and goods to an adopted child / Emilie Barraud -- Index
    Note: "This volume was [...] an outcome of the research project "Property in Moslem Transitional Environments" (PROMETEE) that was conducted within the frame of the German-French program FRAL and associated teams affiliated to the Centre Jacques Berque (CJB) of Rabat and the Erlanger Zentrum für Islam und Recht in Europa (EZIRE)" (Rückkseite des Titelblattes)Enthält eine Einführung und 8 Beiträge
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-04800-3 , 978-1-315-17045-9 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 162 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Central Asia Research Forum
    Keywords: Eurasien Sibirien ; Russland ; Kasachstan ; Indien ; Politik ; Weltgeschichte ; Außenpolitik ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Schamanismus ; Maitreya-Bewegung ; Kult ; Veda
    Abstract: "Eurasia has assumed importance in the post-Soviet period and the peoples of Siberia have distinctive historico-cultural similarities with the Indian Himalayas due to common traditions and Buddhist culture. The Eurasianism of Russia brings it closer to India in historico-cultural, political and economic terms. Another important player in Eurasia is Kazakhstan, which has been highlighting the importance of Eurasianism. These relations provide an opportunity for India to engage in collaborative endeavours with the Eurasian countries. This book provides detailed analyses on the historico-cultural linkages between Eurasia (Buryatia, Khakassia ,Tuva and Altai Republics of Russian Fediferation) and India through history. It also examines the process of the revival of indigenous traditions in the region in the post-Soviet period, the importance of the Eurasian vector in Russian and Kazakhstan's foreign policy and the development of the Eurasian Economic Union and the implications this will have for India. Eminent academics and area specialists from Buryatia, Altai, Khakassia, Moscow, Kazakhstan and India have contributed to this book which provides a first hand view of the linkages between India and the Siberian region of India. Eurasia and India also includes rare photographs of the traces of Indian culture in Siberia. Offering a new undiferstanding of the significant and strategic Indian ties to Eurasian states, this book will be of interest to academics studying Eurasian and Central Asian society and geopolitics, International Relations and South and Central Asian Studies."--Provided by publisher.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Devendra Kaushik -- Historical and cultural role of Indian Mitra & Maitreya cults in the uniting process of Eurasia / Sergey Lepekhov -- The Vedic constants of historical and cultural kinship of the peoples of Siberia and India / I.A. Zhernosenko -- Eurasia and India: historical-cultural linkages / K. Warikoo -- Cultural links of southern Siberia and India: fine arts and music / M. V. Dorina -- Indian Buddhist heritage in central Asia and Eurasia / Baatr U. Kitinov -- Nikolai Roerich and Eurasia: the ambivalent horizon line / Rashmi Doraiswamy -- Shamanism in central Asia / V. N. Tuguzhekova -- Eurasian factor in Russian foreign policy: implications for India / Tatiana Shaumyan -- Eurasian vector of Kazakhstan's policy: relevance for India / Fatima Kukeyeva -- Eurasianism and Kazakhstan's foreign policy / Angira Sen Sarma -- International transport corridors of Eurasia: history, problems and perspectives / M. Baldano -- Eurasian regional economic cooperation: opportunities and challenges / Gatikrushna Mahanta
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 156-159
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38711-9 , 978-90-04-38744-7/Online
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 448 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies of Religion in Africa 47
    Keywords: Westafrika Sierra Leone ; Mission, christliche ; Frau ; Kolonie, britisch ; Missionsgeschichte ; Abolition ; Sklavenhandel ; Biographie ; Winsor, Sarah [Leben und Werk] ; Richards, Elizabeth [Leben und Werk] ; Klein, Suzanna [Leben und Werk]
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    ISBN: 978-1-4094-6863-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 232 Seiten. , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cultural Diversity and Law
    Keywords: Afrika Staat ; Recht, traditionelles ; Recht, modernes
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    ISBN: 978-1-904768-73-9 , 978-1-138-38084-4 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 227 Seiten
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    Series Statement: Critical Categories in the Study of Religion
    Keywords: Indien Hinduismus ; Veda ; Identität ; Religion und Gesellschaft
    Abstract: 'Defining Hinduism' focuses on what Hinduism is, what it has been, and what some have argued it should be. The oldest of the world religions, Hinduism presents a complex pantheon and system of beliefs. Far from being unchanging, Hinduism has, like any faith of duration, evolved in response to changing cultural, political and ideological demands. The book brings together some of the leading scholars working on South Asian religions today. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The Problem of Defining Hinduism; PART 1. DEFINITIONS OF HINDUISM; Orientation; 1 Wilhelm Halbfass, The Idea of the Veda and the Identity of Hinduism; 2 Julius J. Lipner, Ancient Banyan: An Inquiry into the Meaning of "Hinduness"; PART II. HINDUISM IN PRECOLONIAL PERIOD; Orientation; 3 David N. Lorenzen, Who Invented Hinduism?; 4 Will Sweetman, Unity and Plurality: Hinduism and the Religions of India in Early European Scholarship; PART III. HINDUISM IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD; AND IN INDEPENDENT INDIA; Orientation; 5 Brian K. Smith, Questioning Authority: Constructions and Deconstructions of Hinduism; 6 Robert Eric Frykenberg, Constructions of Hinduism at the Nexus of History and Religion; PART IV. HINDUISM AND CASTE; Orientation; 7 Mary Searle-Chatterjee, "World Religions" and "Ethnic Groups": Do These Paradigms Lend Themselves to the Cause of Hindu Nationalism?"; 8 Gail Omvedt, Introduction to Dalit Visions; 9 Timothy Fitzgerald, Problems with "Religion" as a Category for Understanding Hinduism
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [203]-217Enthält eine Einführung und neun bereits veröffentlichte und nachgedruckte Buchbeiträge oder Zeitschriftenaufsätze
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-74375-5 (pbk.) , 978-1-138-74372-4 (hbk.) , 978-1-315-18161-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 0-7100-9923-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 240 Seiten
    Edition: First published in 1984, this edition First published in 2018
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions. Rural History Volume 8
    Keywords: Mexiko Ländliches Gebiet ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Konflikt, ethnischer ; Kulturökologie ; Strukturalismus ; Marxismus ; Geschichte ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: In this title, first published in 1984, the author examines the social and political forces surrounding the practice of anthropology at different periods in the history of Mexico since 1917. She does this by analysing and tracing the development of competing anthropological perspectives, from ethnographic particularism and functionalism through indigenismo, cultural ecology, Marxism and the dependency paradigm, to the historical structuralism of the 1970s.This book provides the basis for a systematic analysis of peasant studies in Mexico, and discusses in stimulating terms the theoretical and empirical difficulties of the profession of anthropology itself. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Particularism, Marxism and functionalism in Mexican anthropology, 1920-50 -- 2 A dialogue on ethnic conflict: indigenismo and functionalism, 1950-70 -- 3 Cultural ecology, Marxism and the development of a theory of the peasantry, 1950-70 -- 4 Anthropology and the dependency paradigm in Mexico, 1960-75 -- 5 Historical structuralism and the fate of the peasantry, 1970-80 -- 6 Conclusions -- Notes -- Index
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-20053-1 , 978-0-367-03001-8
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 96 Seiten
    Keywords: Kosmopolitismus Mobilität, soziale ; Mobilität ; Raum
    Abstract: In academic descriptions of cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction often recurs. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to distinguish between cosmopolitanism as a set of mundane practices and/or competences on the one hand and cosmopolitanism as a cultivated form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other. For anthropologists whose ethnographic studies reveal many different expressions of cosmopolitanism, this distinction between aspiration and practice can often be quite ambiguous. This book therefore brings together five contributions from anthropologists who are reporting on encounters and aspirations that reveal different forms of spatial mobility, scales of commitment or risk, and are often transient, ambivalent and precarious. These are circumstances in which cosmopolitanism emerges as uneven and partial rather than as a comprehensive or unequivocal transformation of practice and outlook.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Mobility and cosmopolitanism: complicating the interaction between aspiration and practice 2. Circumscribed cosmopolitanism: travel aspirations and experiences 3. The dialectics of urban cosmopolitanism: between tolerance and intolerance in cities of strangers 4. Micro-cosmopolitanisms at the urban scale 5. `Like a foreigner in my own homeland': writing the dilemmas of return in theVietnamese American diaspora 6. Cultivating the cosmopolitan child in Silicon Valley
    Note: This book was originally published as a special issue of "Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power"
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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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    ISBN: 978-0-367-00209-1 (Pb) , 978-1-138-65750-2 (hbk)
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 126 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first issued in paperback
    Keywords: Australien Ozeanien ; New Zealand ; Neu-Kaledonien ; USA ; Ureinwohner, Australien ; Wasser ; Wasserrecht ; Konflikt ; Besiedlungsgeschichte ; Kolonisierung
    Abstract: Other People's Country thinks through the entangled objects of law - legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on - that govern waters and that make bodies of water 'lawful' within settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical interventions of cosmopolitics and political ecology, each opening up new approaches to questions of politics and 'the political', the chapters in this book locate these insights within material settler colonial 'places' rather than abstract structures of domination. A claim to water - whether by Indigenous peoples or settlers - is not simply a claim to a resource. It is a claim to knowledge and to the constitution of place and therefore, in the terms of Isabelle Stengers, to the continued constitution of the past, present and future of real worlds. Including contributions from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, critical legal studies, and settler colonial studies, this collection not only engages with issues of law, water and entitlement in different national contexts - including Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, New Caledonia and the USA - but also from diverse disciplinary and institutional contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Settler Colonial Studies.
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    ISBN: 978-0-8153-5908-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XXI, 219 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Keywords: New Zealand Museum ; Maori ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Konservierung ; Kultur und Gesellschaft ; Kulturpolitik ; Museumskunde ; Methodologie ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 〈Wellington〉
    Abstract: The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has been celebrated as an international leader for its bicultural concept and partnership with Maori in all aspects of the museum, but how does this relationship with the indigenous partner work in practice? Biculturalism at New Zealand's National Museum reveals the challenges, benefits and politics of implementing a bicultural framework in everyday museum practice. Providing an analysis of the voices of museum employees, the book reflects their multifaceted understandings of biculturalism and collaboration.Based on a year of intensive fieldwork behind the scenes at New Zealand's national museum and drawing on 68 interviews and participant observations with 18 different teams across the organisation, this book examines the interactions and cultural clashes between Maori and non-Maori museum professionals in their day-to-day work. Documenting and analysing contemporary museum practices, this account explores how biculturalism is enacted, negotiated, practised and envisioned on different stages within the complex social institution that is the museum. Lessons learnt from Te Papa will be valuable for other museums, NGOs, the public service and organisations facing similar issues around the world.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Background and Historical Context 1. Establishing Biculturalism: Constructing Te Papa and Implementing Biculturalism 2. Interpreting Biculturalism: Theory and Staff Perceptions 3. Performing Biculturalism: Creating Te Marae and Conducting Powhiri (Maori welcome ceremonies) 4. Learning Biculturalism: Training Staff and Educating the Public 5. Enacting Biculturalism: Organisational Culture 6. Tackling Biculturalism: Cultural Clashes around Human Remains and Taonga Maori 7. Grasping Biculturalism: Knowledge Transfer and Staff Transformation 8. Conclusion: The Future of Biculturalism
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  • 79
    ISBN: 978-90-04-36701-2 , 978-90-04-36619-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 233 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 20
    Keywords: Afrika Äthiopien ; Ruanda (Staat) ; Elfenbeinküste ; Südafrika ; Simbabwe ; Tansania ; Ghana ; Republik Niger ; Tschad ; Grenze ; Grenzstreit ; Außenpolitik ; Infrastruktur ; Territorialität ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Selbstbestimmung ; Nationalismus ; Wasserversorgung ; Erdöl ; China ; Dar es Salaam 〈Stadt, Tansania〉
    Abstract: The edited collection Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa presents research findings from the German Research Council`s Priority Programme 1448 "Adaptation and Change in Africa" (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are important new spatial practices that have emerged after the end of the Cold War in the fields of conflict, climate change, migration and urban development, to name but a few, and their ordering effects with regard to social relations. These findings bear particular relevance for the co-production of territorialities and sovereignties, for borders and migrations, as well as infrastructures and orders. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Figures - Abbreviations - Contributors -- Part 1. Territories and Sovereignties -- Part 2. Borders and Mobilities -- Part 3. Infrastructure and Order(s) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
    Note: Enthält 12 Beiträge
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  • 80
    ISBN: 978-90-04-32244-8 , 978-90-04-35636-8 /eBook
    ISSN: 2212-9383
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 346 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Youth in a Globalizing World 6
    Keywords: Afrika Politik und Gesellschaft ; Jugend ; Jugendlicher ; Politische Bewegung ; Moderne Kunst ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ägypten ; Tunesien ; Äthiopien ; Burkina Faso ; Kenia ; Uganda ; Benin ; Somalia ; Republik Niger ; Simbabwe ; Ghana ; Südafrika
    Abstract: What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today`s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions. The contributors represent several social science disciplines, and provide well-grounded qualitative analyses of young people`s everyday engagements by critically examining dominant discourses of youth, politics and ideology. Despite focusing on Africa, the book is a collective effort to better understand what it is like to be young today, and what the making of tomorrow`s yesterday means for them in personal and political terms.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Part 1. Envisioning -- Part 2. Entitlement -- Part 3. Embeddedness -- Index
    Note: Enthält 16 Beiträge , "[T]he Academy of Finland funded the research project Youth and Polical Engagement in Contemporary Africa (2012-2016), project nr 258235) under whose auspices this volume was compiled" (Preface)
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  • 81
    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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    ISBN: 978-0-367-21413-5 (IPrintausgabe) , 978-0-367-21694-8 , 0-367-21694-9 , 978-1-00-000410-6
    Language: English
    Pages: 300 Seiten
    Keywords: Mexiko Frau ; Politik ; Frau und Politik ; Aktivismus
    Abstract: To date, the mainstream literature on Mexican politics has said little about women, even though their participation as formal political actors has increased dramatically in the past fifteen years. Somewhat surprisingly, the political participation of women, although well documented in other Latin American countries, has been neglected in the case
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 The Emerging Role of Women in Mexican Political Life -- Part 1 The Context: Women in Political Life Worldwide -- 2 Women in Politics: Mexico in Global Perspective -- 3 Mexican Women's Inclusion into Political Life: A Latin American Perspective -- 4 Ten Theses on Women in the Political Life of Latin America -- 5 Supermadre Revisited -- Part 2 Women in the Mexican Political Arena -- 6 Women and Power in Mexico: The Forgotten Heritage, 1880-1954 -- 7 De la A a la ?: A Feminist Alliance Experience in Mexico -- 8 Everyday Struggles: Women in Urban Popular Movements and Territorially Based Protests in Mexico -- 9 The Role of Women's Nongovernmental Organizations in Mexican Public Life -- 10 Gender and Grassroots Organizing: Lessons from Chiapas -- Part 3 Women in Politics: Government and Political Parties -- 11 Women and Men, Men and Women: Gender Patterns in Mexican Politics -- 12 Feminist Policies in Contemporary Mexico: Strategies and Viability -- 13 Women in the Local Arena and Municipal Power -- 14 Women in the Border: The Panista Militants of Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez -- 15 Conclusion: Haciendo Política-The Mexican Case in Perspective -- References -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.
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  • 83
    ISBN: 978-90-04-37056-2 , 978-90-04-38112-4/e-book
    ISSN: 1568-1777
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 227 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series volume 38
    Keywords: Simbabwe Rhodesien ; Weiße ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In Elasticity in Domesticity: White women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 Ushehwedu Kufakurinani examines the colonial experiences of white women in what was later called Rhodesia. He demonstrates the extent to which the state and society appropriated white women`s labour power and the workings of the domestic ideology in shaping white women`s experiences. The author also discusses how and to what extent white women appropriated and deployed the domestic ideology. Institutional as well as personal archives were consulted which include official correspondence, diaries, personal letters, newsletters, magazines, commissions of inquiry, among other sources. (Umschalagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: White women and the unfolding Rhodesian society -- Domesticity, constructions of whiteness, and white femininity in Southern Rhodesia -- White women and the domestic space: housewifery in the Rhodesian context -- Emerging out of the sheaths of domesticity? White women in formal wage employment, c. 1914-1980 -- White women and wage employment -- Mothering the empire: overview of White women's organisations -- White women's organisations and settler society, 1920s-1970s -- Encounter with Africans, 1920s-1980 -- White women and the homecraft movement.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 207-223
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-68572-7 , 978-1-315-54306-2 / (e-book)
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    Pages: vi, 161 Seiten
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology 222
    Keywords: USA Großbritannien ; Islam ; Muslime ; Ökologie ; Umweltschutz ; Umweltpolitik ; Politische Bewegung
    Description / Table of Contents: chapter 1 Introduction / Rosemary Hancock -- chapter 2 The environmental movement -- History, activism, and philosophy / Rosemary Hancock -- chapter 3 Islam -- The context / Rosemary Hancock -- chapter 4 Muslims and environmentalism -- The wider field / Rosemary Hancock -- chapter 5 Framing in Islamic environmental organisations / Rosemary Hancock -- chapter 6 Emotion and identity in Islamic environmentalism / Rosemary Hancock -- chapter 7 Activism, moral practice, and religion / Rosemary Hancock -- chapter 8 Conclusion / Rosemary Hancock.
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  • 85
    ISBN: 978-90-04-34574-4
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    Pages: XV, 547 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 309
    Keywords: Sumatra Batak (Sumatra) ; Christentum ; Kolonisierung ; Geschlechterforschung
    Abstract: Christianity, Colonization, and Gender Relations in North Sumatra offers an account of changes in Toba Batak society (Sumatra, Indonesia) under the influence of Christianity and Dutch colonial rule (1861-1942). Sita van Bemmelen's research focuses on customs and customary law related to the life cycle and gender relations. The book's first part is a historical ethnography, describing society as it existed at the onset of colonial rule. The second part zooms in on the negotiations between the Toba Batak elite, the missionaries of the German Rhenish Mission and colonial administrators about the marriage customs. Each contestant had an evolving view on desirable modernity. Christianity and colonial rule changed the way the Toba Batak reproduced their patrilineal kinship system. This affected gender relations permanently. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [529]-546
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-01933-1 , 978-0-203-73282-3/ebook
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVII, 236 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: revised edition
    Keywords: Indien Heirat ; Heiratsvermittlung ; Kaste ; Liebe ; Ehe ; Familie ; Verwandtschaft ; Städtisches Gebiet ; Frau ; Armut ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Alltag ; Unberührbarer ; Recht, traditionelles ; Konfliktmanagement ; Delhi 〈Stadt, Indien〉
    Abstract: This book makes use of interesting case studies and photographs to describe everyday life in a squatter settlement in Delhi. The book helps to understand the marital experiences of these people most of whom belong to the Scheduled Caste and live in one identified geographical space. The author describes the shifts within their marriages, remarriages and other kinds of unions and their striking diversities, which have been described with care. Shalini Grover also examines the close ties of married women with their mothers and natal families. An important contribution of the book lies in the unfolding of the role of women-led informal courts, Mahila Panchayats and their influence in conflict resolution. This takes place in a distinctly different mode of community-based arbitration against the backdrop of mainstream legal structures and male-dominated caste associations. The book will be of interest to students of sociology and social anthropology, gender studies, development studies, law and psychology. Activists and family counsellors will also find the book useful.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword by Professor Patricia Uberoi 1. Mapping the Debate on Marriage 2. Revisiting Arranged Marriages: Marital Roles, Conflict and Kinship Support 3. Courtships and Love Marriages 4. Secondary Unions and Other Conjugal Arrangements 5. Informal Dispute Settlement: The Mahila Panchayats 6. Towards the Democratization of Marriage and Relationships: Conclusion
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 220-231
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  • 87
    ISBN: 978-90-04-35584-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 801 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Journal of African Archaeology. Monograph Series 13
    Keywords: Benin Republik Niger ; Dendi ; Archäologie ; Landschaft ; Geschichte ; Gedächtnis ; Paläoanthropologie ; Architektur ; Besiedlungsgeschichte ; Materielle Kultur ; Menschlicher Überrest
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-20811-7 , 978-1-138-20812-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 232 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Ethnologie Textanalyse ; Kreativität ; Ethnographische Repräsentation ; Ethnographie
    Note: Inhaltstext: How do anthropologists write their texts? What is the nature of creativity in the discipline of anthropology? This book follows anthropologists into spaces where words, ideas and arguments take shape and explores the steps in a creative process. In a unique examination of how texts come to be composed, the editors bring together a distinguished group of anthropologists who offer valuable insight into their writing habits. These reflexive glimpses into personal creativity reveal not only the processes by which theory and ethnography come, in particular cases, to be represented on the page but also supply examples that students may follow or adapt.
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    ISBN: 978-0-415-63503-5 , 978-1-138-31267-8 , 978-1-315-758534/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 449 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published in paperback
    Series Statement: Routledge Handbooks
    Keywords: Asien Südostasien ; Religion ; Glaube ; Reformbewegung ; Modernisierung ; Globalisierung ; Mission
    Abstract: The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia provides a contemporary and comprehensive overview of religion in contemporary Asia. Compiled and introduced by Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink, the Handbook contains specially written chapters by experts in their respective fields. The wide-ranging introduction discusses issues surrounding Orientalism and the historical development of the discipline of Religious Studies. It conveys how there have been many centuries of interaction between different religious traditions in Asia and discusses the problem of world religions and the range of concepts, such as high and low traditions, folk and formal religions, popular and orthodox developments. Individual chapters are presented in the following five sections: Asian Origins: religious formations Missions, States and Religious Competition Reform Movements and Modernity Popular Religions Religion and Globalization: social dimensions Striking a balance between offering basic information about religious cultures in Asia and addressing the complexity of employing a western terminology in societies with radically different traditions, ...
    Description / Table of Contents: Asian Origins: religious formations -- The invention of religions in East Asia / Jason Ananda Josephson -- Revealing the Vedas in 'Hinduism': foundations and issues of interpretations in South Asian Hindu traditions / Andrea Marion Pinkney -- Dual belief in Heaven and spirits: the metaphysical foundation of confucian morality / Kwang-Kuo Hwang -- Sikhism and its changing social structure / Surinder S. Jodhka and Kristina Myrvold -- Catholicism in India / Thomas J. Csordas and Amrita Kurian -- The localization of Roman Catholicism: radical transcendence and social empathy in a Philippine town / Julius Bautista -- The spread of Islam in Asia through trade and Sufism (ninth-nineteenth centuries) / Paul Wormser -- Reform Moverment and modernity -- Shinto's modern transformations: from imperial cult to nature worship / Aike P. Rots -- Islamic reform in Asia / Irfan Ahmad -- Engaged Buddhism in 1920's Japan: the Young East mission for social reform, global Buddhism and world peace / Judith Snodgrass -- Conversion in post-Mao China: from 'rice Christians' to 'cultural Christians' / Zheng Yangwen -- Popular Religions -- Shamanism in Eurasia: a Mongolian case study in comparitive light / Morten Axel Pedersen -- Chinese folk festivals / Thomas David DuBois -- Popular Buddhism: monks, magic, and amulets / James Taylor -- Spirit Worship and possession in Vietnam and beyond / Oscar Salemink -- Popular Qigong and transnational Falun Gong inside an outside post-mao China / Scott Dalby -- Shrines, religious helaing, and pilgrimage in South Asia / Carla Bellamy -- Revitalised Sufism and the new piety movements in Islamic Southeast Asia / Julia Day Howell -- Religion and globalization: social dimensions -- Reading gender and religion in East Asia: family formations and cultural transformations / Fang-Long Shih -- Confucian values and East Asian capitalism: a variable Weberian trajectory / Jack Barbalet -- Religion and Asia's middle classes / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Buddhism: modernization or globalization? / Lionel Obadia -- Hinduism and globalization: gurus, yoga and migration in northern Europe / Knut A. Jacobsen -- Internet and religion in Asia / Sam Han -- Globalising the Asian Muslim Umma: alternating movements East-West of spirituality, reform and militant jihad / Pnina Werbner -- Asian Pentecostalism: revivals, mega-churches, and social engagement / Terence Chong and Daniel P.S. Goh -- Religion, religions, and modernization / Bryan S. Turner.
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  • 90
    ISBN: 978-1-138-71839-5 , 978-1-315-19579-7 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 163 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    Keywords: China Brasilien ; Handel ; Diebstahl ; Finanzwesen ; Geld ; geistiges Eigentum ; Recht ; Materielle Kultur ; Konsum ; Kriminalität ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: At the end of the 1970s, Chinese merchandise moved to Brazil via Paraguay, forming an on-the-margins-of-the-law trade chain involving the production, distribution, and consumption of cheap goods. Economic changes in the twenty-first century, including the enforcement of intellectual property rights and the growing importance of emerging economies, have had a dramatic effect on how this chain works, criminalizing and dismantling a trade system that had previously functioned in an organized form and stimulated the circulation of goods, money, and people at transnational levels. This book analyses how exchange networks that produced, distributed, and sold cheap manufactured products animated a huge and vibrant system from China to Brazil, examining the process at global, national, and local levels. From a global perspective, intellectual property is a powerful discourse that governs the world system by framing the notion of piracy as a criminal activity. But at the national level, how do nation-states resist and/or endorse, interpret, and apply a global perspective? And what effect does that have on how ordinary people organize their lives around this system? Interweaving discourse on transnational traders and producers, national projects, and international institutions, Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South presents low-income traders not as passive victims of globalization, but as active actors in the distribution of cheap goods across borders in the Global South. Based on fifteen years of ethnographic field work in China and Brazil, Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South will be of interest to scholars of economic anthropology, development studies, political economy, Latin America studies, Chinese studies, and socio-legal studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction. 1. A Global Chain Before TRIPS and BRICS. Part 2: South America. 2. Stone Years: Informal and Moral Regimes. 3. Cleaning Goods and Selves: Local Belonging, International Displacement and Global Enforcement. 4. The Chinese Diaspora on the Brazil-Paraguay Border: A Migratory Process in Transformation. Part 3: China. 5. Celebrating the New China: Elites and Their Commodified Guanxi Networks. 6. The Human Cost of the China Price. 7. The Red Flag (TM): Intellectual Property, Copies and Enforcement in China. Part 4: Conclusion. 8. A Global Chain After TRIPS and BRICS
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  • 91
    ISBN: 978-90-04-37261-0 , 00-04-37261-X , 978-90-04-37270-2 /eBook
    ISSN: 1572-1892
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 214 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 310
    Keywords: Südostasien Philippinen ; Burma ; Indonesien ; Malaysia ; Singapur ; Thailand ; Vietnam ; Historiographie ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Film ; Elite ; Konsum ; Feminismus ; Pi Mui Nan [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: This book reveals how everyday experiences of being `modern` (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recover modern times at the intersection of public and private domains, encompassing sex, religion, art, film, literature and urban space. The authors examine the conditions and representations of modernity, as shaped by elites and the governed, by actors, artists, novelists and non-fiction writers. Plural encounters in cities, through spiritual communities, art, high and popular culture saw Southeast Asians fashioning modern times in dialogue with global capitalism, consumer culture and second-wave feminism. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "This volume is the outcome of a workshop [...] held in January 2015, Tracing Trajectories of Modernity in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s." (Acknowledgements); Enthält 9 Beiträge
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-79362-0 (pbk) , 978-1-135-71428-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 263 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    Keywords: Immaterielle Kultur kulturelles Eigentum ; geistiges Eigentum ; Differenzierung ; Kultur und Politik ; UNESCO
    Abstract: Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage examines various notions of property, in particular cultural property and intellectual property, their relationship to intangible cultural heritage and how these notions of property are employed in rights discourses by governments and indigenous and local communities around the world.There is a strong historical dimension to the book`s exploration of the interconnection between intellectual and cultural property, intangible cultural heritage and indigenous rights discourses. UNESCO conventions, discussions in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Convention on Biological Diversity and the recent emphasis on intangible cultural heritage have provided various discourses and models. The volume explores these developments as well as recent cases of conflicts and cross-border disputes about heritage.Case studies from Asia, as well as from Europe and Australia examine the key issues surrounding the complex relationship between intellectual and cultural property and intangible cultural heritage.
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  • 93
    ISBN: 978-90-04-34883-7 , 978-90-04-38018-9 /eBook
    ISSN: 2211-1441
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 521 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African History 6
    Keywords: Westafrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Mali ; Gambia ; Oyo ; Barden ; Ashanti ; Sokoto ; Bornu (NO-Nigeria) ; Historiographie ; Mythos und Legende ; Sklaverei ; Nigeria ; Fortier, Edmond [Leben und Werk] ; Timbuktu 〈Mali〉
    Abstract: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book`s central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources.
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Archaeology and Material Landscapes -- Part 2: Imagined Landscapes and Moral Topographies -- Part 3: Contextualising Writing and Written Sources -- Part 4: Contextualising Orature and Traditionalists -- Part 5: Projects, Texts, and Representations -- Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias' Publications -- Interview: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects -- Index
    Note: Enthält 22 Beiträge, eine Introduction der Herausgeber und ein Interview
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    ISBN: 978-1138928794
    Language: English
    Pages: 528 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Schönheit, persönliche Kreativität ; Ästhetik ; Kunst ; Kunst und Gesellschaft ; Wahrnehmung ; Materielle Kultur ; kulturelles Eigentum
    Note: Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics and creativity in recent years. The volume incorporates current work on perception and generative processes, and seeks to move beyond a purely aesthetic and relativist stance. The essays invite readers to consider how people sense and seek out beauty, whether through acts of human creativity and production; through sensory experience of sound, light, touch, or experiencing architecture; visiting heritage sites or ancient buildings; experiencing the environment through `places of outstanding natural beauty`; or through cooperative action, machine-engineering or designing for the future.
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-22971-6 , 978-1-138-22972-3
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 258 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Anthropology
    Keywords: Anthropologie Theorie ; Theorie, ethnologische ; Forschungstradition ; Universität ; Ausbildung ; Einführung
    Abstract: From the inception of the discipline in the 19th century, great ideas have always inspired and guided anthropologists when conducting their research amongst people all over the world. Such great ideas are born from the social and political contexts of their creators, and the challenge for scholars of anthropology today is to understand the value these ideas bring to modern fields of enquiry. Each chapter in this textbook has been written to provide a thorough yet engaging introduction to one particular theoretical school and style. These chapters build up to a coherent and well-organised picture of the history and contemporary shape of anthropological theory. Beginning with an introduction which reflects on the substantive themes which tie the chapters together, the book ends with an afterword by Marilyn Strathern reflecting on broader themes in the use of history and anthropological concepts. Presenting a detailed and comprehensive critical introduction to the most salient areas of the field, this book is essential reading for all undergraduate students undertaking a course on anthropological theory or the history of anthropological thought. It will also be useful reading for students of social and cultural anthropology, sociology, and human geography, and those enrolled in an anthropology course during their postgraduate degree with no background in the field.
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  • 96
    ISBN: 978-90-04-38014-1 , 978-90-04-38017-2 /eBook
    ISSN: 2211-1441
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 276 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African History 7
    Keywords: Goldküste Ghana ; Benin ; Westafrika ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonie, holländisch ; Kolonialtruppe ; Niederlande ; Dänemark ; Großbritannien ; Beziehungen Afrika-Europa
    Abstract: Long regarded as disturbing remnants of the Atlantic slave trade, the European forts and castles of West Africa have attained iconic positions as universally significant historical monuments and world heritage tourist destinations. This volume of original contributions by leading Africanists presents extensive new historical views of the forts in Ghana and Benin, providing both impetus and a scholarly basis for further research and fresh debate about their historical and geographical contexts; their role in the slave trade; the economic and political connections, centred on the forts, between the Europeans and local African polities; and their place in variously focused heritage studies and endeavours.
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 7 Beiträge
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-63314-8
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 240 Seiten
    Series Statement: Contemporary Liminality
    Keywords: Heimat Globalisierung ; Familie ; Gemeinschaft ; Gemeindesoziologie ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical. Populist politicians in both Europe and America play on anxieties over globalisation by promising to reconstitute the national home, through cutting immigration and `taking back control`. Increasing numbers of young people are unable to afford home-ownership, a trend with implications for the future shape of families and communities. The dominant conceptualisations of home in the twentieth century - the nation state and the suburban nuclear household - are in crisis, yet they continue to shape our personal and political aspirations. Home: The Foundations of Belonging puts these issues in context by drawing on a range of disciplines to offer a deep anthropological and historical perspective on home. Beginning with a vision of modernity as characterised by both spiralling liminality and an ongoing quest for belonging, it plumbs the archaic roots of western civilisation and assembles a wide body of comparative anthropological evidence to illuminate the foundations of a sense of home. Home is theorised as a stable centre around which we organise both everyday routines and perspectives on reality, bringing order to a chaotic world and overcoming liminality. Constituted by a set of ongoing processes which concentrate and embody meaning in intimate relationships, everyday rituals and familiar places, a shared home becomes the foundation for community and society. The Foundations of Belonging thus elevates `home` to the position of a foundational sociological and anthropological concept at a moment when the crisis of globalisation has opened the way to a revaluation of the local.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [180]-192
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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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  • 99
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-59327-5 , 978-1-138-59328-2 , 978-0-429-48956-3/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 358 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: second edition
    Keywords: Indien Unberührbarer ; Paria ; Literatur ; Comic ; Autobiographie ; Poesie ; Erzählung
    Abstract: This book breaks new ground in the study of Dalit literature, including in its corpus a range of genres such as novels, autobiographies, pamphlets, poetry, short stories and graphic novels. With contributions from major scholars in the field, alongside budding ones, the book critically examines Dalit literary production and theory. It also initiates a dialogue between Dalit writing and Western literary theory. This second edition includes a new Introduction which takes stock of developments since 2015. It discusses how Dalit writing has come to play a major role in asserting marginal identities in contemporary Indian politics while moving towards establishing a more radical voice of dissent and protest. Lucid, accessible yet rigorous in its analysis, this book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of Dalit studies, social exclusion studies, Indian writing, literature and literary theory, politics, sociology, social anthropology and cultural studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to the Second Edition: Taking stock, Updating, Moving forward. by Joshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-Barak. Introduction: Dalit Literatures in India: in, out and beyond. Joshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-Barak. 1. Caste differently. G. N. Devy. 2. Caste and democracy: three paradoxes. M.S.S. Pandian. 3. The politics of Dalit literature. Ravi Shankar Kumar. 4. `No name is yours until you speak it': notes towards a contrapuntal reading of Dalit literatures and postcolonial theory. Laetitia Zecchini. 5. Language and translation in Dalit literature. Nalini Pai. 6. Negotiations with faith: conversion, identity and historical continuity. Jasbir Jain. 7. Resisting together separately: representations of the Dalit-Muslim question in literature. Nida Sajid. 8. Creating their own gods: literature from the margins of Bengal. Sipra Mukherjee. 9. Caste and the literary imagination in the context of Odia literature: a reading of Akhila Nayak's Bheda. Raj Kumar. 10. Questions of caste, commitment and freedom in Gujarat, India: towards a reading of Praveen Gadhvi's The City of Dust and Lust. Santhosh Dash. 11. Dalit intellectual poets of Punjab: 1690-1925. Raj Kumar Hans. 12. Life, history and politics: Kallen Pokkudan's two autobiographies and the Dalit print imaginations in Keralam. Ranjith Thankappan. 13. Dalits writing, Dalits speaking: on the encounters between Dalit autobiographies and oral histories. Alexandra De Heering. 14. A Life Less Ordinary: the female subaltern and Dalit literature in contemporary India. Martine Van Woerkens. 15. Witnessing and experiencing Dalitness: in defence of Dalit women's Testimonio. Sara Sindhu Thomas. 16. Literatures of suffering and resistance: Dalit women's Testimonios and Black women slave narratives - a comparative study. Arpita Chattaraj Mukhopadhay. 17. Polluting the page: Dalit women's bodies in autobiographical literature. Carolyn Hibbs. 18. Intimacy across caste and class boundaries in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Maryam Mirza. 19. Caste as the baggage of the past: global modernity and the cosmopolitan Dalit identity. K. Satyanarayana. 20. Tense - past continuous: some critical reflections on the art of Savi Sawarkar. Santhosh Sadanandan. 21. The Indian graphic novel and Dalit trauma: A Gardener in the Wasteland. Pramod K. Nayar
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  • 100
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    Language: English
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Tunesien Ägypten ; Syrien ; Arabischer Frühling ; Fundamentalismus, islamischer ; Märtyrer ; Terrorismus ; Islam und Politik ; Christentum
    Abstract: "Death lies at the beginning of the Arab uprisings, and death continues to haunt them. Most narratives about the `Arab Spring` begin with Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vendor who set himself on fire. Egyptian protesters in turn referred to Khaled Said, a young man from Alexandria whom the police had beaten to death. This book places death at the centre of its engagement with the Arab uprisings, counterrevolutions, and their aftermaths. It examines martyrdom and commemoration as performative acts through which death and life are infused with meaning. Conversely, it shows how, in the making, remembering, and erasing of martyrs, hierarchies are (re)produced and possible futures are foreclosed. The contributors argue that critical anthropological engagement with death, martyrdom, and afterlife is indispensable if we want to understand the making of pasts and futures in a revolutionary present.
    Note: Originally published as a special issue of Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 80.2015,5
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