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    ISBN: 978-1-84553-255-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 310 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Religion Natur ; Wasser ; Spiritualität ; Paganismus ; Religionsethnologie
    Abstract: Nature religions look to rivers, lakes and oceans for inspiration and spiritual transformation. 'Deep Blue' brings together the work of influential scholars in the field of nature religion, ranging across anthropology, mythology, sociology and psychology. The essays examine the interrelationship between spiritual practice, critical thinking, and environmental concern. Tracing the ancient history of humanity's close relationship with both salt and fresh water, the book calls for a sustainable relationship with water in contemporary western culture. 'Deep Blue' will be of interest to students of paganism and religion, environmental researchers and activists, and all those involved in the intersection between religion and ecology.
    Description / Table of Contents: InvocationAuthor BiographiesArtist's statementPrefaceGraham HarveyIntroduction: Sacred WatersSylvie Shaw and Andrew FrancisSection One - Entering Sacred SpaceEditor's Introduction1. 'Singing through the Sea'. Song, Sea and EmotionJohn Bradley2. Water of Life, Water of Death: Pagan Notions of Water from Antiquity to TodayDieter Gerten3. The Fertility Goddess of the Zulu: Reflections on a calling to Inkosazana's PoolPenny Bernard4. Rivers of Memory, Lakes of Survival - Indigenous Water Traditions and the Anishinaabeg NationMelissa NelsonSection Two - Divine ConnectionsEditor's Introduction5. Creature of WaterAndrew Francis6. SaltWater Feet: The Flow of Dance in OceaniaKaterina Martina Teaiwa7. I am the River BleedingDouglas Ezzy8. Deep Blue ReligionSylvie ShawSection Three - The Sacredness of WaterEditor's Introduction9. The Spirit of the Edge: Rachel Carson and Numinous Experience between Land and SeaSusan Bratton10. The Mystery of WatersVivianne Crowley11. Sister Water: An Introduction to Blue TheologyMeg Ferris12. Sea Spirituality, Surfing and Aquatic Nature ReligionBron TaylorSection Four - Waves of Energy: In Defence of WaterEditor's Introduction13. Animism, Economics and Sustainable Water DevelopmentDavid Groenfeldt14. Blue, Green and Red: Combining Energies in Defence of WaterVeronica Strang15. Neglect and Reclamation of Water as Sacred ResourceMichael YorkEco-logueAnd in Me You Find PeaceAdrianne HarrisClose
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  • 2
    ISBN: 0-415-43559-5 , 978-0-415-43559-8 , 0-415-43558-7 /Hb. , 978-0-415-43558-1 /Hb. , 978-0-203-93977-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 300 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Iranian Studies (London) 3
    Keywords: Iran Politik und Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Geschichte, politische ; Frau ; Recht ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Zentral-Asien ; USA ; Israel
    Abstract: Iran is an ancient country, an oil-exporting economy and an Islamic Republic. It experienced two full-scale revolutions in the twentieth century, the latter of which had large and important regional and international consequences, including an eight-year war with Saddam Hussein`s Iraq. And now in the twenty-first century, it confronts issues and experiences problems which have important implications for its future development and external relations.Featuring outstanding contributions from leading sociologists, social anthropologists, political scientists and economists in the field of Iranian studies, this book is the first to examine Iran and its position in the contemporary world. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Iran in the 21st Century: Politics, Economics and Confrontation / Homa Katouzian and Hossein Shahidi -- 2. Crafting a National Identity amidst Contentious Politics in Contemporary Iran / Farideh Farhi -- 3. The Dilemma of National Interest in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Hamid Ahmadi -- 4. From Multilingual Empire to Contested Modern State / Touraj Atabaki -- 5. Three Faces of Dissent: Cognitive, Expressive and Traditionalist Discourses of Discontent in Contemporary Iran / Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri -- 6. From Motherhood to Equal Rights Advocates: The Weakening of Patriarchal Order / Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut -- 7. Iran and the United States in the Shadow of 9/11: Persia and the Persian Question Revisited / Ali Ansari -- 8. A Look to the North: Opportunities and Challenges / Farhad Atai -- 9. Israel-Iranian Relations Assessed: Strategic Competition from the Power Cycle Perspective / Trita Parsi -- 10. Nuclear Policy and International Relations / Saideh Lotfian -- 11. A Case for Sustainable Development of Nuclear Energy and a Brief Account of Iran's Nnuclear Programme / Mehdi Askarieh -- 12. Managing Oil Resources and Economic Diversification in Iran / Massoud Karshenas and Hassan Hakimian -- 13. Capital Accumulation, Financial Market Reform and Growth in Iran: Past Experience and Future Prospects / Ahmad Jalali Naini -- 14. Human Resources in Iran: Potentials and Challenges / Djavad Salehi-Isfahani -- 15. The Significance of Economic History, and the Fundamental Features of the Economic History of Iran / Homa Katouzian -- Index
    Note: "The international conference entitled 'Iran facing the new century' was duly held at Wadham between 4 and 7 April 2004." (Preface)
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  • 3
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (36 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 73 (April 2008)
    Keywords: Südkorea Presse ; Massenmedien ; Mobilität ; Mobilität, soziale ; Soziale Medien ; Demokratisierung
    Abstract: This article aims to further develop the field of innovation studies by exploring the emergence of citizen journalism in South Korea`s social movement sector. To achieve this aim, the framework of innovation theory has been extended to innovations in social fields beyond technology and the economy. Our findings show that the emergence of citizen journalism resulted from brokerage activities among journalists, labor and unification activists, and progressive intellectuals. Despite different cultural visions and structural interests, these groups succeeded in building coalitions and constituted a sociocultural milieu which promoted reciprocal learning by allowing actors to realize new ideas and to exchange experiences. The empirical part of the study is based on a social network analysis of social movement groups and alternative media organizations active in South Korea between 1995 and 2002.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 31-36Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (27 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 69 (February 2008)
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Entwicklungsländer ; Politische Partei ; Politisches System ; Legitimität ; Demokratisierung
    Abstract: The institutionalization of political parties is said to be important for democratic development, but its measurement has remained a neglected area of research. We understand the institutionalization of political organizations as progress in four dimensions: roots in society, level of organization, autonomy, and coherence. On this basis we construct an Index of the Institutionalization of Parties (IIP), which we apply to 28 African political parties. The IIP uses extensive GIGA survey and fieldwork data. Initial results reveal a more differentiated degree of institutionalization than is commonly assumed. In addition to illustrating overall deficits in party institutionalization, the IIP highlights an astonishing variance between individual parties and - to a lesser extent - between national aggregates. Further research on party institutionalization remains necessary, particularly regarding its causes and consequences.
    Note: Zusammenfassung in deutscher und englischer Sprache
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 30 Seiten
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 79 (June 2008)
    Keywords: Regionalismus Hegemonie ; Führerschaft
    Abstract: Regional powers are often conceived of as "regional leading powers," states which adopt a cooperative and benevolent attitude in their international relations with their neighbors. The paper argues that regional powers can follow a much wider range of foreign policy strategies in their region. Three ideal-typical regional strategies are identified: empire, hegemony, and leadership. The paper is devoted to a theory-led distinction and clarification of these three terms, which are often used interchangeably in the field of international relations. According to the goals pursued, to the means employed, and to other discriminating features such as the degree of legitimation and the type of self-representation by the dominant state, the paper outlines the essential traits of imperial, hegemonic, and leading strategies and identifies subtypes for better classifying hegemony and leadership. (Verlagsangabe)
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 38 Seiten
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 80 (June 2008)
    Keywords: Mittelamerika Costa Rica ; El Salvador ; Nicaragua ; Gewalt ; Jugendlicher ; Kriminalität
    Abstract: The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador on the one hand, and the related security policies of the three states, on the other. In each country, there is an idiosyncratic way of constructing youth violence and juvenile delinquency. Also, each country has its own manner of reaction to those problems. In El Salvador youths are socially constructed as a threat to security, and the state implements predominantly repressive policies to protect citizens against that threat. In Nicaragua and Costa Rica, where the social discourse on youth violence is less prominent, the state's policies are neither very accentuated nor very coherent, whether in terms of repressive or nonrepressive measures. There are strong relations and mutual influences between the public's fear (or disregard) of youth violence and the state's policies to reduce it. (Verlagsangabe)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 33 Seiten
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 75 (April 2008)
    Keywords: Konfliktmanagement Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Europäische Union ; OECD
    Abstract: The concept of "structural stability" has been gaining prominence in development policy circles. In the EU`s and the OECD Development Assistance Committee`s (OECD DAC) understanding, it describes the ability of societies to handle intra-societal conflict without resorting to violence. This study investigates the preconditions of structural stability and tests their mutual interconnections. Seven dimensions are analyzed: (1) long-term economic growth, (2) environmental security, (3) social equality, (4) governmental effectiveness, (5) democracy, (6) rule of law, and (7) inclusion of identity groups. The postulated mutual enhancement of the seven dimensions is plausible but cannot be proven. The most significant positive relationship appears between "democracy" and "rule of law," respectively, on the one hand and the dependent variable "violence/ human security" on the other hand. This points to the usefulness of the political concept of structural stability to promote development policy agendas in this area at least. Applications that reach beyond these initial findings will, however, require further research. (Verlagsangaben)
    Note: Zusammenfassung in deutscher und englischer Sprache
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 31 Seiten
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 77 (May 2008)
    Keywords: Südafrika Simbabwe ; Diplomatie ; Hegemonie ; Macht
    Abstract: South Africa`s "quiet diplomacy" has been often used to reject the notion of South African leadership or regional hegemony in southern Africa. This article finds that this evaluation is founded on a misguided understanding of regional hegemony, which is based on conventional hegemony theories that are mostly derived from the global role of the United States after World War II. Alternatively, this article uses a concept of hegemony that, for example, takes into account the "regionality" of South Africa`s hegemony, which both allows external actors to impact on regional relations and allows South Africa to pursue its foreign policy goals on the global level of international politics. This concept helps to systemically analyze South Africa's foreign policy in the Zimbabwean crisis and to better integrate this policy into the broader framework of its regional and global ambitions. (Verlagsangabe)
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (45 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 85 (September 2008)
    Keywords: Nordafrika Naher Osten ; Arabische Staaten ; Politische Ökonomie ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: When comparing the speed and extent of economic development in different geographic regions of the world over the past 20 years, the under-average performance of Arab coun tries in general and Arab Mediterranean countries in particular is striking. This is despite an overall favorable geo-strategic situation at the crossroads of three continents, with ex cellent connections to sea and waterways and in direct proximity to the European Union, one of the world`s economic hubs. It is also despite the minor importance of negative fac tors such as a high-burden diseases or high levels of ethnic fractionalization. In this paper, I focus on identifying the most important constraints on Arab Mediterranean economic development. I use state-of-the-art econometric tools to quantify constraints that have been identified through economic theory and studies of the political economy charac teristics of the region. The empirical results offer support for the central hypothesis that limited technological capacities and political economy structures are the primary con straints on economic development. With a view to international structural adjustment ef forts, my findings imply that the limited success of the Euro-Mediterranean policy to stimulate the economic development of the Arab Mediterranean countries might be be cause structural adjustment efforts do not tackle - or at least do not sufficiently tackle - these constraints. (Abstract)
    Note: Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache
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  • 10
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (34 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 70 (March 2008)
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Religion und Politik ; Krisenbewältigung
    Abstract: Given the widespread focus on socioeconomic factors, it comes as no surprise that religion is neglected in most theoretical explanations of African civil conflicts. While scholarly interest is increasing in light of the civil wars in Sudan, Nigeria, and northern Uganda, no systematic empirical analysis has been undertaken to date. Hence, this paper aims to provide a preliminary assessment of the role of religions in sub-Saharan civil conflicts. Quantitative and qualitative analysis based on a newly compiled database including 28 violent conflicts show that religion plays a role more frequently than is usually assumed and that the effects of religions are principally ambiguous. Religious actors and institutions have escalating effects in many cases, yet more often they become active for peace. Religious identities and ideas seem to have a particular impact on conflict. Even though religion seems secondary when compared to classical "risk factors," the findings demonstrate that religious factors have to be taken seriously when analyzing civil conflicts in Africa.
    Note: Zusammenfassung in deutscher und englischer Sprache
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (30 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 71 (March 2008)
    Keywords: Iran Irak ; Krisenbewältigung ; Sicherheit ; OPEC
    Abstract: The remarkable stability of the cooperation among the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has generally been explained by these members` mutual dependency on high and stable oil revenues. Since the OPEC countries, however, face the double security dilemma of both domestic and external security threats, they are not simply eager to secure (absolute) oil revenues for the sake of domestic stability; they are also sensitive to the (relative) oil revenues of their competing or even conflicting partners. The existing approaches of rational egoism and defensive positionalism have proven to be rather inadequate in explaining this kind of gain-seeking behavior. This paper therefore develops the new theoretical approach of "gain-seeking mentalities," with the objective of tracing variations in OPEC members` gain-seeking behaviors. Using this approach, the empirical assessment of Iran and Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War and Iraq during the Gulf War of 1990/91 shows the extent to which Iran and Iraq altered their gain-seeking behavior as a result of a changing constellation of threats.
    Note: Zusammenfassung in deutscher und englischer Sprache
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 20 Seiten
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 76 (May 2008)
    Keywords: Mittelamerika Gewalt ; Forschung (Projekte) ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Methodologie
    Abstract: Taking as its point of departure debates on the value of criminal statistics and victimization surveys, this article explores the methodological challenge of an alternative approach to Central American violence(s). How can we collect qualitative data that help address the social construction of (in)security? The research project "Public Spaces and Violence in Central America" used multiple data sources, including guided interviews and pupils` essays. Drawing on research experience in Nicaragua, this paper asks, How can we collect data that reveal lifeworld experiences as well as hegemonic and counter-discourses on violence? Why is it crucial to keep a research diary? What is a "failed" or a "good" interview? This article argues for a research design based on theoretical considerations, impulsiveness and, most notably, constant self-reflection. (Verlagsangaben)
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (28 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 72 (March 2008)
    Keywords: Mittelamerika Costa Rica ; El Salvador ; Nicaragua ; Gewalt ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Recht ; Kriminalität ; Rausch- und Genußmittel
    Abstract: In Central America, legislation aiming to reduce violence and crime has become an important topic in the security debate. Focusing on Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, this paper analyzes laws and other legal texts regarding the trade in and consumption of drugs on the one hand, and gender-related violence on the other. It shows how the content and the wording of legal texts contribute to the social construction of stereotyped offenders, such as youth gang members, drug users, or foreign nationals. The legal texts in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua reflect both the hegemonic and the counter-discursive influences on each country`s legal discourse.
    Note: Zusammenfassung in deutscher, englischer und spanischer Sprache
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 28 Seiten
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 78 (May 2008)
    Keywords: Uganda Wirtschaft, informelle ; Kleingewerbe ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
    Abstract: Ugandan micro- and small enterprises (MSEs) still perform poorly. The paper util izes data collected in Uganda in March and April 2003 to analyze the business con straints faced by these MSEs. Using a stratified random sampling, a sample of 265 MSEs were interviewed. The study focuses on the 105 manufacturing firms that re sponded to all questions. It examines the extent to which the growth of MSEs is as sociated with business constraints, while also controlling for owners` attributes and firms` characteristics. The results reveal that MSEs` growth potential is nega tively affected by limited access to productive resources (finance and business ser vices), by high taxes, and by lack of market access. (Verlagsangaben)
    Note: Zusammenfassung in deutscher und englischer Sprache
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (42 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 83 (July 2008)
    Keywords: Zentralafrikanische Republik Elfenbeinküste ; Liberia ; Frieden ; Konfliktmanagement ; Macht ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Peace agreements form a crucial element of strategies to bring security from outside: they involve third-party mediators during the negotiation stage and often peacekeeping troops to guarantee the agreement at an implementation stage. Peace roundtables usually involve top politicians and military leaders, who negotiate, sign, and/or benefit from the agreement. What is usually and conspicuously absent from peace negotiations is broad-based participation by those who should benefit in the first place: citizens. More specifically, the local level of security provision and insecurity production is rarely taken into account. This paper reviews parts of the academic debate on power sharing and war termination, touching on some key findings by the main researchers working on the topic. The ambivalent African experience with Arend Lijphart`s four main ingredients of consociational democracy (grand coalition, minority veto, proportional representation, group autonomy) is summarized. Recent major African peace agreements (1999-2007) are analyzed, and their power-sharing content detailed. Most agreements contain some - though varying - power-sharing devices. Most striking is the variation regarding the important question of who is sharing power with whom. Obviously, only those present at the negotiation table can really count on being included in major ways. Finally, three country cases are analyzed over a longer time period: Côte d`Ivoire (2002-2007), Liberia (1994-2003), and Central African Republic (1996-2007). The conclusion focuses on the factors of failure of peace agreements that place a heavy emphasis on power sharing. (Verlagsangabe)
    Note: Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 26 S. , Ill.
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers 84
    Keywords: Costa Rica Gewalt ; Kriminalität ; Identität ; Meinung, öffentliche
    Abstract: Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Rica. These three issues play a central role in the media, politics, and everyday life, and the impression has emerged that security has changed for the worse and that society is now threatened permanently. However, crime statistics do not support this perception. The paper thus asks why violence and crime generate such huge fear in society. The thesis is that the Costa Rican national identity—with Costa Rica constructed as a nonviolent nation—impedes a realistic discussion about the phenomena and their causes, and simultaneously provides a platform for sensationalism and the social construction of fear.
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 29 Seiten
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 81 (June 2008)
    Keywords: Mittelamerika Costa Rica ; El Salvador ; Nicaragua ; Alltag ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziales Leben ; Gewalt
    Abstract: Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs, drug traffic, and ubiquitous insecurity. Politicians, the media, and social scientists in and outside the region often claim that the societies are in complete agreement with their judgment of the situation and that all society members are calling for law and order and social segregation. Focusing on Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, the paper analyzes the social perception of violence and crime. On the basis of essays written by secondary school students and interviews with citizens from all walks of life in the three countries, the paper points out how elite arguments on violence and crime are translated into everyday life, and what society members suggest be done to deal with these problems. The sources prove that there are noticeable hegemonic discourses on violence and crime in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Simultaneously, a majority of the respondents call for social and integrative solutions rather than the so-called "iron fist." The repressive trend in Central American policies therefore does not necessarily receive the presumed affirmation asserted by many authorities on and in the region. (Verlagsangabe)
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    Language: English
    Pages: 25 Seiten
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 74 (April 2008)
    Keywords: Indonesien Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politische Partei ; Politisches System ; Wahl ; Konflikt, sozialer ; Geschichte, politische
    Abstract: The basic patterns of the initial Indonesian party system have reemerged after more than four decades of authoritarianism. The cleavage model by Lipset and Rokkan is well-suited to analyzing the genesis of and the most salient features of this party system. However, in applying the approach, some adjustments have to be made. For instance, the national and industrial revolutions have to be conceived of differently. Moreover, it is useful to distinguish critical phases in the formation of parties. The four cleavages have to be reinterpreted and additional ones need to be identified. In Indonesia, economic cleavages are hardly significant in conflicts between political parties (especially the "capital" versus "labour" cleavage) or are expressed in terms of religion or allegiance to political leaders based in a specific region ("urban" versus "rural"). In addition, in comparison with 1999 and particularly with the 1950s, today's cleavages are less marked. Thus, the Lipset- Rokkan model has to be combined with other approaches which underline the importance of clientelism and the dealignment of parties. (Verlagsangabe)
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    ISBN: 0415467896 , 9780415467896 , 9780203893692
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 215 Seiten
    Series Statement: Transnationalism 21
    Series Statement: Routledge research in transnationalism
    DDC: 341.2
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    Keywords: Transnationalism ; International cooperation ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Transnationalism ; International cooperation ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Transnationale Politik ; Transnationale Politik
    Abstract: Transnational societal spaces : which units of analysis, reference, and measurement? / Ludger Pries -- Constructing transnational studies / Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt -- Beyond methodological ethnicity and towards city scale : an alternative approach to local and transnational pathways of migrant incorporation / Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Caglar -- Transstate spaces and development : some critical remarks / Thomas Faist -- Transnational humanitarian NGOs? : a progress report / Dennis Dijkzeul -- Transnational social movement networks and transnational public spaces : glocalizing gender justice / Ilse Lenz -- Transnational organisations in education / Christel Adick -- European works councils as transnational interest organisations? / Ludger Pries
    Description / Table of Contents: Transnational societal spaces : which units of analysis, reference, and measurement? / Ludger Pries -- Constructing transnational studies / Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt -- Beyond methodological ethnicity and towards city scale : an alternative approach to local and transnational pathways of migrant incorporation / Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Caglar -- Transstate spaces and development : some critical remarks / Thomas Faist -- Transnational humanitarian NGOs? : a progress report / Dennis Dijkzeul -- Transnational social movement networks and transnational public spaces : glocalizing gender justice / Ilse Lenz -- Transnational organisations in education / Christel Adick -- European works councils as transnational interest organisations? / Ludger Pries
    Note: Enthält Literaturverzeichnis und Index
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    London : Routledge
    ISBN: 978-0-415-40456-3 , 0-415-40456-8 , 978-0-415-40455-6 , 0-415-40455-X , 978-0-203-96610-5 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 490 Seiten , Tabellen
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Sexuality, Culture and Health
    Keywords: Kultur und Gesellschaft Kultureller Prozess ; Kulturwandel ; Sexualität ; Homosexualität ; HIV ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Identität, sexuelle ; Reproduktion, menschliche ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This new and revised edition of Culture, Society and Sexuality brings together and makes accessible a broad and international selection of readings to provide insights into the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of sexuality and relationships, and emerging discourses around sexual and reproductive rights. Clearly structured and presented, the book makes an extremely useful reference for students and researchers. Section one focuses on the social and cultural construction of sexuality as an emerging field of inquiry over the course of recent decades, and examines some of the most important theoretical insights and areas of investigation that have emerged as this field has developed. Section two links research on the construction of sexuality to a growing body of work on gender and sexuality in relation to a wide range of practical issues and contemporary social policy debates. It is an essential reader not only for students and researchers in these areas, but also for activists, health workers and service providers, who daily confront practical and policy issues related to sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. Richard Parker and Peter Aggleton -- Section 1: Culture, Society and Sexuality. Part 1: Conceptual Frameworks. Part 2: Gender and Power. Part 3: From Gender to Sexuality. Part 4: Sexual Identities/Sexual Communities -- Section 2: Sexual Meanings, Health, and Rights Part 5: Gender, Power and Rights. Part 6: Sexual Categories and Classification. Part 7: Sexual Negotiations and Transactions. Part 8: Contemporary and Future Challenges - Subject index - Name index
    Note: Enthält 24 bereits in anderen Werken veröffentlichte Beiträge.
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    London : Routledge
    ISBN: 978-0-415-41340-4 , 978-0-415-41339-8 , 0-415-41340-0 , 0-415-41339-7 , 9781315094151 / (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 607 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Routledge Student Readers
    Keywords: Mode Theorie ; Bekleidung ; Anthologie
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 50
    Keywords: Beziehungen, internationale Postmoderne ; Hegemonie ; Krise ; Kulturwandel
    Abstract: The paper tries to shed light on the conceptual link between international crises like the one following September 11, 2001, the Asian financial crisis of 1997/1998, the end of the Cold War or major international conflicts, and processes of change in the international system. It argues that cultural structures rest on their continuous instantiation through social practices, thereby making them coterminous with process. Process is constituted by meaningful acts of social agents, and can thus only be grasped by analysing meaning. Meaning is transmitted by language. Meaningful language is never reducible to individual speakers; it is a social act. In the paper, I call this process discourse. Linking Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) with the theory of hegemony developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, I will finally be able to show how hegemonic discourses serve as the nexus between crises and cultural structures and how they make cultural change possible.
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 56 (August 2007)
    Keywords: Lateinamerika Karibik ; Kuba ; Politisches System ; Politischer Wandel ; Macht ; Castro, Fidel [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: For theories of political succession and charismatic authority, the almost half-century long rule of Fidel Castro presents an extraordinary test case since Fidel in July 2006 handed over power "temporarily" to his deputy and brother Raúl. On the background of Max Weber's work on charismatic rule, the paper analyzes the way in which the Cuban leadership has responded to the succession question and identifies four aspects in which it differs from the succession problems typically attributed to charismatic rule: Cuba's longstanding exceptionalism regarding the "second man" behind the leader; the succession during the life-time of the leader with a sui generis modus of "cohabitation" between the outgoing and the incoming leader; the routinization of charisma which domestically allows a bureaucratic succession model with the Communist Party, rather than any individual, being postulated as Fidel Castro's heir; and as a correlate to the latter, the ritual transmission of Fidel's charisma to a heir beyond the nation-state, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, as the new charismatic leader to continue Fidel Castro's universal revolutionary mission. Für Theorien politischer Nachfolge und charismatischer Herrschaft stellt die fast ein halbes Jahrhundert währende Herrschaft Fidel Castros in Kuba einen denkbar prominenten Testfall dar, seit Fidel Castro im Juli 2006 die Amtsgeschäfte "vorübergehend" an seinen Vize und Bruder Raúl übergab. Max Webers Werk über charismatische Herrschaft aufgreifend, analysiert der vorliegende Artikel, wie die kubanische Führung auf die Nachfolgefrage geantwortet hat und identifiziert dabei vier Aspekte, die den kubanischen Fall von den typischerweise charismatischer Herrschaft zugeschriebenen Nachfolgeproblemen unterscheiden: Die Ausnahmerolle in Bezug auf den "zweiten Mann" hinter der Führungsperson; die Amtsnachfolge zu Lebzeiten mit einem ungewöhnlichen Modus der "Cohabitation" zwischen scheidendem Führer und designiertem Nachfolger; die Routinisierung des Charismas, die auf nationaler Ebene ein bürokratisches Nachfolgemodell ermöglicht, bei dem die Kommunistische Partei an Stelle eines individuellen Politikers das Erbe Fidels antritt; und schließlich, als Korrelat des vorangehenden, die rituelle Übertragung des Charismas Fidels zu einem Erben jenseits der nationalen Grenzen in Gestalt des venezolanischen Präsidenten Hugo Chávez, der als neuer charismatischer Führer zum Träger der universellen Revolutionsmission Fidel Castros erhoben wird.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 26-28Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 44
    Keywords: Südostasien Indonesien ; Philippinen ; Thailand ; Politik ; Politische Partei
    Abstract: It is generally acknowledged that a higher degree of party and party system institutionalisation is positively correlated with the consolidation of democracy. It is, thus, useful to compare different levels and types of institutionalisation. In this article the distinction made by Levitsky (`value infusion` vs. `behavioural routinisation`) with reference to party institutionalisation will be employed. Moreover, institutionalised party systems are characterized, according to Mainwaring and Torcal, by `stability of interparty competition`. The empirical research of this paper finds that the early organisational consolidation of social cleavages, such as in Indonesia, enhances institutionalisation. Furthermore, the relation between central and local elites appears to be essential: strong bosses or cliques undermine institutionalisation in the Philippines and in Thailand respectively. Most Indonesian parties are better institutionalised than those in the Philippines and Thailand with reference to `value infusion`. In addition, the party system in Indonesia is better institutionalised in terms of `stability of interparty competition`.
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 59 (September 2007)
    Keywords: Mittelamerika Krisenbewältigung ; Frieden ; Sicherheit ; Politisches System
    Abstract: The termination of war is mostly seen as a basis not just for recovery but for a fundamental transformation or change in development paths towards peace, stability and development. The Central American peace processes of the last decades were one of the first laboratories for the liberal peace-building paradigm which assumes that the threefold transformation to peace, democracy and market economy is a self-strengthening process leading to sustainable development. Although none of the three countries slipped back into war, serious deficits remain. This paper introduces an analytical framework that aims at interrelating the threefold transformation with the impact generated by four processes. These include the repercussions generated by the international system on a country`s society, its historical, cultural and social foundations, the legacies of violence and the peacebuilding initiatives the country concerned has witnessed. The comparative analysis of changes in the public security sector, the political system, conflict resolution and the use of resources show why there is so much path dependency that can explain the deficits of transformation.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 25-28Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 40
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Politische Partei ; Politisches System ; Ethnizität ; Wahl ; Demokratisierung
    Abstract: Starting from controversial findings about the relationship between party systems and the prospects of democratic consolidation, this article argues that problems can only be properly addressed on the basis of a differentiated typology of party systems. Contradictory research results do not pose an `African puzzle` but can be explained by different and inadequate approaches. We argue that a modified version of Sartori's typology of party systems provides an appropriate method for classifying African party systems. Based on Sartori's framework, a preponderance of predominant and dominant party systems is identified. This can partly be explained by the prevailing authoritarian nature of many multiparty regimes in Africa as well as by the ethnic plurality of African societies. High ethnic fragmentation is not transformed into highly fragmented party systems. This phenomenon can be attributed to the most frequent `ethnic congress party` which is based on an ethnic elite coalition. (Abstract)
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2 Political Party Systems -- 3 Electoral System and One-party Dominance -- 4 Social Cleavage and (Pre-)dominant Party Systems -- 5 Conclusion
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 23-25Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (36 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 51
    Keywords: Syrien Europa ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
    Abstract: The effect of `locking-in` economic reform and enhancing its credibility is generally re-garded as one of the most important potential effects of regional integration. Based on a detailed review of the theoretical debate, this paper develops a general framework for as-sessment to evaluate the ability of RIAs to serve as effective mechanisms for `commit-ment` and `signalling`. In the second part, this assessment framework is applied to the case of the Syrian-European Association Agreement (AA). Syria initialled an AA with the European Union in October 2004, but two and a half years later, this agreement is still pending formal signature. The empirical findings of this study show that despite several shortcomings, the Syrian-European AA, if it were to come into force, should be able to deliver an appropriate mechanism for signalling and commitment and thus to improve the credibility of the Syrian process of reform at home and abroad. A major loophole of the agreement, however, is represented by its lack of incentives to increase the `rewards for good policy`.
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 49
    Keywords: Westafrika Migration ; Europa ; Handelsbeziehung
    Abstract: The number of migrants from conflict regions in Africa has been increasing dramatically. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because it fostered over decades corrupt and autocratic regimes with dire disregard to principles of `good governance`. The aftermath of these regimes is still felt today and constitutes one of the underlying factors for politically motivated migration. Second, the EU contributed to Africa`s economic misery due to its selfish external trade policy. Nevertheless, the prevailing perspective of the EU and of its member countries concerning African immigration remains to be focused on security, the foreclosure of its external borders and prevention. Current EU programs and concepts to fight African migration are questionable. Even development-oriented approaches are bound to fail, if not backed by sustainable immigration policies.
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    ISBN: 0-415-40209-3 , 978-0-415-40209-5 , 0-203-96188-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-0-203-96188-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 186 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published; Special Indian edition
    Series Statement: India and the Modern World 3
    Keywords: Indien Wissenschaft ; Geisteswissenschaft ; Literatur ; Intellektuelle ; Religion ; Kultureinfluss ; Tagore, Rabindranath [Leben und Werk] ; Einstein, Albert [Leben und Werk]
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [180] - 182
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 53
    Keywords: Südafrika Beziehungen, internationale ; Außenpolitik ; Hegemonie
    Abstract: Regional powers can be distinguished by four pivotal criteria: claim to leadership, power resources, employment of foreign policy instruments, and acceptance of leadership. Ap-plying these indicators to the South African case, the analysis demonstrates the crucial significance of institutional foreign policy instruments. But although the South African government is ready to pay the costs of co-operative hegemony (such as capacity building for regional institutions and peacekeeping), the regional acceptance of South Africa`s leadership is constrained by its historical legacy. Additionally, Pretoria`s foreign policy is based on ideational resources such as its reputation as an advocate of democracy and human rights and the legitimacy derived from its paradigmatic behaviour as a `good global citizen`. However, the Mbeki presidency is more successful in converting these resources into discursive instruments of interest-assertion in global, rather than in regional bargains. In effect the regional power`s reformist South-oriented multilateralism is challenging some of the guiding principles of the current international system.
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 61 (November 2007)
    Keywords: Ägypten Tourismus ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
    Abstract: This article challenges claims that liberalising state regulated markets in developing countries may induce lasting economic development. The analysis of the rise of tourism in Egypt during the last three decades suggests that the effects of liberalisation and structural adjustment are constrained by the neo-patrimonial character of the Egyptian political system. Since the decline of oil rent revenues during the 1980s tourism development was the optimal strategy to compensate for the resulting fiscal losses. Increasing tourism revenues have helped in coping with macroeconomic imbalances and in avoiding more costly adjustment of traditional economic sectors. Additionally, they provided the private elite with opportunities to generate large profits. Therefore, sectoral transformations due to economic liberalisation in neo-patrimonial Rentier states should be described as a process, which has led to the diversification of external rent revenues, rather than to a general downsizing of the Rentier character of the economy.
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 55
    Keywords: Japan Wahl ; Politisches System
    Abstract: Electioneering for the Japanese Lower House has undergone significant changes in recent years. Not only institutional but also other environmental changes are pushing political actors in Japan to complement the hitherto dominant vote-mobilisation approach by vote-chasing strategies. Such strategies target in particular unaffiliated voters and emphasise party leaders. Yet, the notion of an `Americanisation` of campaigning in Japan seems premature at best. Notably, electioneering for the Lower House has become more party-oriented in the course of introducing new voter chasing strategies. It remains to be seen though whether specific campaign instruments and tactics used in recent general elections, such as the manifesto approach, can generate value-added in the longer term. (Abstract)
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    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (38 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers no. 54
    Keywords: Argentinien Politischer Wandel ; Gerichtsbarkeit
    Abstract: This article aims to evaluate to what extent the Argentine Senate was able to fulfil its constitutional function of controlling the Executive`s prerogative to nominate judges between 1983 and 2006, as well as to examine the factors that influenced the exercise of this role. To do so, the paper focuses on the parliamentary procedure of the proposals submitted by the Executive for the nomination of all federal judges, the members of the so-called `national justice` of Buenos Aires and those of the Public Ministry. The findings show that the Senate`s powers depend on several factors, such as, the institutional resources with which presidents count in this chamber (which includes not only the size of the parliamentary majority but also their power in the Committee of Acuerdos), the category of the position to be filled (whether involving Supreme Court justices or not), presidential ambitions in other policy areas (such as re-election), and the rules regulating the selection and confirmation of candidates (such as the secrecy or publicity of the legislative process). (Summary)
    Note: Zusammenfassung in spanischer, englischer und deutscher Sprache
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 45
    Keywords: Sambia Ethnizität ; Wahl ; Politik ; Politische Partei
    Abstract: Conventional wisdom holds that ethnicity provides the social cleavage for voting behaviour and party affiliation in Africa. Because this is usually inferred from aggregate data of national election results, it might prove to be an ecological fallacy. The evidence based on individual data from an opinion survey in Zambia suggests that ethnicity matters for voter alignment and even more so for party affiliation, but it is certainly not the only factor. The analysis also points to a number of qualifications which are partly methodology-related. One is that the degree of ethnic voting can differ from one ethno-political group to the other depending on various degrees of ethnic mobilisation. Another is that if smaller ethnic groups or subgroups do not identify with one particular party, it is difficult to find a significant statistical correlation between party affiliation and ethnicity - but that does not prove that they do not affiliate along ethnic lines.
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    Series Statement: GIGA Working Papers No. 60
    Keywords: Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche Rohstoff ; Entwicklungsländer ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
    Abstract: Scholars of institutional design attribute large importance to the choice of new institutions. The comparative analysis of how Rwanda and Zambia crafted their new electoral systems and the systems of government regards procedural, structural and rational choice variables which may influence the option for particular solutions. External influences and the type of transition are determinants that can decide which actors make their interests prevail. The degree of innovation or conservatism of new institutions is mainly a result of the speed of the process and the kind of actors involved. However, rational reflections on how to produce legitimacy and minimize personal risks which take into consideration the state of conflict in the country decide on the speed and on innovative outcomes. The structured analysis of only two cases uncovers already that it is rather difficult to realise the transfer of design recommendations into reality.
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    ISBN: 0415446864 , 9780415446860
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 173 p.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series Statement: Chinese worlds
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8951047
    Keywords: Chinese History ; Chinese History ; Chinese History ; Chinese ; Chinese Migrations ; Emigration and immigration Economic aspects ; Emigration and immigration Social aspects ; Chinesen ; Russland ; Osteuropa ; Einwanderung ; Auswanderung
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    ISBN: 0-7007-0956-8 , 0-7007-0957-6
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 290 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: Central Asia Research Forum
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Geschichte ; Politischer Wandel ; Staatsentstehung
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    ISBN: 0-415-05453-2 / (kart.) , 978-0-415-05453-9 / (kart.) , 0-415-05452-4 , 978-0-203-35925-9 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 248 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Ironie Politik ; Philosophie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Exegese
    Abstract: Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear analysis of the theory and the political contexts of irony, using a wide range of references from contemporary culture. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum.The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding.Irony's Edge outlines and then challenges all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challengin theory of irony to date.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: THE ""SCENE"" OF IRONY; 1 RISKY BUSINESS: THE ""TRANSIDEOLOGICAL"" POLITICS OF IRONY; 2 THE CUTTING EDGE; I Emotions and ethics on edge; II The ""devil's mark"" or the ""snorkel of sanity""?: the contradictory functions and effects of irony; 3 MODELING MEANING: THE SEMANTICS OF IRONY; I Images en route to a definition; II Theater goes to the movies: Henry V; 4 DISCURSIVE COMMUNITIES: HOW IRONY ""HAPPENS""; I The miracle of ironic communicationII Provocation and controversy: the work of Anselm Kiefer5 INTENTION AND INTERPRETATION: IRONY AND THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER; I The unbearable slipperiness of irony; II Eco's echoes and Wagner's vicissitudes; 6 FRAME-UPS AND THEIR MARKS: THE RECOGNITION OR ATTRIBUTION OF IRONY; I The sign( s) of the beast-in context; II Tricksters and enfants terribles: performing ironies; 7 THE END(S) OF IRONY: THE POLITICS OF APPROPRIATENESS; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 210 - 238
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    ISBN: 020330814X , 9780203308141 , 9780415349833 , 0415349834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 249 pages)
    Series Statement: Anthropology of Asia series
    DDC: 306/.095
    Abstract: Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology, and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 978-0-415-22379-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 613 S.
    Keywords: Ethnologie Ethnologe ; Biographie ; Wörterbuch
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    ISBN: 978-0-415-30350-7 , 0-415-30350-8 , 0-415-30351-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 279 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
    Keywords: Adoption Kulturvergleich ; Verwandtschaft ; Familie ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: Adoption is currently subject to a great deal of media scrutiny. High-profile cases of international adoption via the internet and other unofficial routes, have drawn attention to the relative ease with which children can be obtained on the global circuit, and have brought about legislation which regulates the exchange of children within and between countries. However a scarcity of research into cross-cultural attitudes to child-rearing, and a wider lack of awareness of cultural difference in adoptive contexts, has meant that the assumptions underlying Western childcare policy are seldom examined or made explicit.These articles look at adoption practices from Africa, Oceania, Asia and Central America, including examples of societies in which children are routinely separated from their biological parents or passed through several foster families. Showing the range and flexibility of the child-rearing practices that approximate to the Western term 'adoption', they demonstrate the benefits of a cross-cultural appreciation of family life, and allow a broader understanding of the varied relationships that exist between children and adoptive parents. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "The chapters presented in this volume were, for the most part, first presented at a panel on Cross-cultural Approaches to Adoption at the 2000 meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Krakow, Poland." (Preface)
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    ISBN: 0-415-30355-9 , 978-0-415-30355-2 , 0-415-30354-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 197 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
    Keywords: Wallfahrt Religionsethnologie ; Kultur und Religion ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Mobilität ; Tourismus ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: Pilgrimage is often associated with a medieval golden age of faith, yet it has survived until the present day and has even grown in popularity in recent decades. Reframing Pilgrimage proposes a radical new agenda for pilgrimage studies, considering such travel as just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility.Prioritizing anthropological arguments about mobility, locality and belonging over analyses of traditional religious studies, contributors examine the meanings of pilgrimage in world religions, as well as in non-religious contexxts such as 'roots-tourism'. They juxtapose studies of world religions in motion with a fresh understanding of the role of pilgrimage in apparently secular forms of travel, opening up new definitions of the field and ceating a new theory of pilgrimage as a form of voluntary displacement which constitutes cultural meaning in a world constantly 'en route'. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Reframing Pilgrimage / Simon Coleman and John Eade -- 2. 'Being There': British Mormons and the History Trail /Hildi Mitchell -- 3. From England's Nazareth to Sweden's Jerusalem: Movement, (Virtual) Landscapes, and Pilgrimage / Simon Coleman -- 4. Going and Not Going to Porokhane: Mourid Women and Pilgrimage in Senegal and Spain / Eva Evers Rosander -- 5. Embedded Motion: Sacred Travel among Mevlevi Dervishes / Bente Nikolaisen -- 6. 'Heartland of America': Memory, Motion and the (Re-)construction of History on a Motorcycle Pilgrimage / Jill Dubisch -- 7. Coming Home to the Motherland: Pilgrimage Tourism in Ghana / Katharina Schramm -- 8. Route Metaphors of `Roots-Tourism' in the Scottish Highland Diaspora / Paul Basu -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [175]-190"This volume emerged from an enjoyable workshop held at the European Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Kraków (2000)." (Acknowledgements)
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    ISBN: 0-415-23538-3 , 978-0-415-23538-9 , 0-415-23537-5 , 978-0-415-23537-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 161 Seiten
    Series Statement: ASA Research Methods in Social Anthropology [8]
    Keywords: Ethnopsychologie Methodologie ; Traum ; Kulturanthropologie ; Vorstellung
    Abstract: A pioneering guide to a new trend in ethnographic research: the use of imaginative, experiential methods such as dreamwork, artwork, Gestalt theory and psychodrama. Imagework techniques explore subject's imaginative resources to reveal unconscious knowledge about identity, belief and society.A Guide to Imagework is a pioneering guide to a new trend in ethnographic research: the use of imaginative, experiential methods such as dreamwork, artwork, Gestalt theory and psychodrama. Originating in group counselling and psychiatric therapy, imagework techniques explore subjects' imaginative resources to reveal unconscious knowledge about identity, belief and society. They are ideal for accessing rich qualitative data about how individuals and cultures function. Iain Edgar, a leading specialist on ethnographic method, has condensed top-level research theory on imagework into this handy practical manual. Complete with case studies and examples, hands-on tips and guidance on methods and ethics, it is an ideal starting point for any imagework project.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Defining the imagework method -- 2. 'Imaginary fields' and the qualitative research domain -- 3. Dreaming as ethnographic research -- 4. Methodological issues in dreamwork and imagework groups : a case-study approach -- 5. Amplifying the data through groupwork methods or making 'sense' out of 'nonsense' -- 6. Charting ethnographic dreaming -- 7. Ethical and practice issues -- 8. Conclusion.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [145]-154
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    ISBN: 978-0-415-93837-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 169 S. , Ill.
    Keywords: Kommunikation Internet ; Ethnizität ; Identität ; Rasse ; Diskriminierung ; Vorurteil ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Multikulturalität ; Beziehungen, transnationale
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    ISBN: 0415189551
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 170 Seiten
    Series Statement: Writing corporealities
    DDC: 303.60994
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    ISBN: 0-415-22906-5 , 978-0-415-22906-7 , 0-415-22905-7 /Hb. , 978-0-415-22905-0 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 229 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
    Keywords: Gewalt Kulturkonflikt ; Konflikt, sozialer ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: Violence is a key feature of human social relations, yet has received comparatively little attention from social scientists. With increasing levels of conflict and violence in the modern world, Anthropology of Cionece and Conflict offers a timely contribution to this growing area of anthropological research The authors provide a balanced approach to the cases of violence and the humam experience behind it, examining how violent conflict is often represented differently ba perpertrators, victims and observers, as well as by winners and losers in war. To what extent are the conditions that lead to conflicts commonly experienced across cultures?From each discussion emerges the imporance of viewing contemporary violence as grouded in long-term, antagonistic processes. Drawing on examples from North and South America, Africa and the recent civil strife in Si Lanka, Albania and the former Yugoslavia, this volume examines well-known conflicts, past and present, and provides ample evidence of the fact thtat violence is never an isolated event. All conflict is reliant on perpertrators, victims and witnesses. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : violent imaginaries and violent practices / Ingo W. Schröder and Bettina E. Schmidt; The violence in identity / Glenn Bowman. Violence as everyday practice and imagination. Socio-cosmological contexts, and forms of violence : war, vendetta, duels and suicide among the Yukpa of north-western Venezuela / Ernst Halbmayer; The interpretation of violent worldviews : cannibalism and other violent images of the Caribbean / Bettina E. Schmidt; The enactment of 'tradition' : Albanian constructions of identity, violence and power in times of crisis / Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers. Violence and conflict. Violence and culture : anthropological and evolutionary -psychological reflections on inter-group conflict in southern Ethiopia / Jon Abbink; Violent events in the western Apache past : ethnohistory and ethno-ethnohistory / Ingo W. Schröder. Violence in war. When silence makes history : gender and memories of war violence from Somalia / Francesca Declich; A turning point? : from civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka / Peter Kloos; Predicament of war : Sarajevo experiences and ethics of war / Ivana Macek -- Index
    Note: "[...]workshop 'Worldviews and Violence' at Frankfurt" (Preface and Seite 173)
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    ISBN: 0-415-19830-5 , 978-0-415-19830-1 , 0-415-19829-1 /Hb. , 978-0-415-19829-5 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 199 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
    Keywords: Feldforschung Ethnomethodologie
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    ISBN: 0-415-18015-5 , 978-0-415-18015-3 , 0-415-18014-7 /Hb. , 978-0-415-18014-6 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 258 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Europa Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politisches System ; Nationalismus ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Identität ; Kulturpolitik ; Nationenbildung ; Elite, politische ; Anthropologie, politische ; Europäische Union
    Abstract: The development of the European Union has been one of the most profound advances in European politics and society this century. Yet the institutions of Europe and the 'Eurocrats' who work in them have constantly attracted negative publicity, culminating in the mass resignation of the European Commissioners in March 1999.In this revealing study, Cris Shore scrutinises the process of European integration using the techniques of anthropology, and drawing on thought from across the social sciences. Using the findings of numerous interviews with EU employees, he reveals that there is not just a subculture of corruption within the institutions of Europe, but that their problems are largely a result of the way the EU itself is constituted and run. He argues that European integration has largely failed in bringing about anything but an ever-closer integration of the technical, political and financial elites of Europe - at the expense of its ordinary citizens.This critical anthropology of European integration is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the culture and politics of the EU. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Introduction: European integration as a cultural project -- PART I Inventing Europe -- 1 Forging a European nation-state? The European Union and questions of culture -- 2 Creating the people's Europe: symbols, history and invented traditions -- 3 Citizenship ofthe Union: the cultural construction of a European citizen -- 4 Symbolising boundaries: the single currency and the art of European governance -- PART ll EU civil servants -- Introduction: European Commission civilservants: the new Europeans? -- 5 A 'supranational' civil service? The role of the Commission in the integration process -- 6 The Brussels context: integration and engrenage among EU elites -- 7 Transnational, supranational or post-national? The organisational culture of the Commission -- 8 Conclusions: European construction, democracy and the politics of culture -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [235]-250Transferred to digital printing 2006
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    ISBN: 0415182832
    Language: English
    Pages: X,221 Seiten
    DDC: 306.85
    RVK:
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Note: Literaturangaben
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    London : Routledge
    ISBN: 0-415-19574-8 , 978-0-415-19574-4 , 0-415-19573-X , 978-0-415-19573-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 167 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: ASA Research Methods in Social Anthropology [7]
    Keywords: Japan Ethnographie ; Ethnologin ; Feldforschung ; Soziales Leben ; Kommunikation, interkulturelle ; Methodologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Joy Hendry tells the story of a 9 month period of fieldwork in a Japanese seaside town. There to study politeness, she had to deal with a suicide, a volcanic erruption and her son's friendship with the son of a powerful local gangster.In this highly personal account Joy Hendry relates her experiences of fieldwork in a Japanese town and reveals a fascinating cross-section of Japanese life. She sets out on a study of politeness but a variety of unpredictable events including a volcanic eruption, a suicide and her son's involvement with the family of a poweful local gangster, begin to alter the direction of her research. The book demonstrates the role of chance in the acquisition of anthropological knowledge and demonstrates how moments of insight can be embedded in everyday activity. An Anthropologist in Japan illuminates the education system, religious beliefs, politics, the family and the neighbourhood in modern Japan.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 155
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    ISBN: 0-415-18380-4 , 978-0-415-18380-2 , 0-415-18381-2 , 978-0-415-18381-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 387 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Innis Centenary Series
    Keywords: Politik und Gesellschaft Ökologie ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Bevölkerungswachstum ; Frauenrecht ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: Political Ecology addresses environmental issues which Innis was concerned with, from a contemporary, political economy perspective. They explore a wide range of themes and issues including: sustainability, risk and regulation, population growth, planetary management, impact of humanity on environment, role of technology and communication. Case studies provide further insight into issues such as industrial racism, women and development and collective action by highlighting ethical and political questions and providing critical insights into the issues and debates in political ecology. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables and figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' introduction -- Part 1. The new global order and the environment: defining the issues -- Part 2. Economics, society and ecology -- Part 3. Planetary management: tomorrow's world -- Part 4. Environment, gender and development -- Part 5. Consumption: work and affluence -- Part 6. Ecology and politics -- Index
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    ISBN: 0-415-18278-6 , 978-0-415-18278-2 , 0-415-18277-8 /Hb. , 978-0-415-18277-5 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 166 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
    Keywords: Entwicklung Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Tourismus ; Tansania ; Asien ; Malaysia ; Europa ; Malta ; Balearen ; Frankreich ; Spanien
    Abstract: This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions of all of those involved in local development schemes. The material is drawn from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. All the contributors use rigorous anthropological methods of analysis to shed light on the place of feelings of personal sentiment and identity in reactions to planned development schemes. In a world where direct action and public protest are routine responses to local development schemes, they show how protesters, developers and politicians often hold very different fundamental views about the environment, society, government and development which go beyond partisan economic and political interests. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction / S. Abram -- 2 Discourses on development in Malaysia / A.K. Larsen -- 3 Sex for leisure: modernity among female bar workers in Tanzania / Aud Talle -- 4 State vs. locality: the new Slovene-Croat state border / D. Knezevic -- 5 From economism to culturalism: Spain / C. Mairal Ruil, J. Angel Bergua -- 6 Contested space: planners, tourists, developers in Malta / J. Boissevain, N. Theuma -- 7 The road to ruin: the politics of development in the Balearic Islands / J. Waldren --8 When opposite worldviews attract: tourism and local development in southern France / C. Lindknud -- Index
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    ISBN: 0-415-13221-5 , 978-0-415-13221-3 , 0-415-13220-7 /Hb. , 978-0-415-13220-6 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 294 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
    Keywords: Anthropologie, politische Anthropologie, soziale ; Politik ; Macht ; Machtverhältnis ; Selbstbild ; Individuum und Gesellschaft ; Sozialpolitik ; Europa ; Schweden ; Norwegen ; Großbritannien ; Nord Irland ; Kanada ; Afrika ; HIV ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: Anthropology of Policy argues that policy has become an increasingly central organizing principle in contemporary societies, shaping the way we live, act and think. Policies create new categories of individuals such as 'subject', 'citizen', 'professional', 'national', 'criminal' and 'deviant', Policies also influence the way individuals constuct themselves as subjects, acting both on and through people as free and rational agents. If policy is a tool of government, it is equally a tool for studying government, and for tracing the links beween different sites, agents and levels within the complex policy process. Anthropology of Policy examines the merging structures and discourses through which policy operates to introduce new neo-liberal systems of government and new forms of power. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgement -- Introduction -- 1 Policy: a new field of anthropology / Cris Shore and Susan Wright -- Part I Policy as language and power -- 2 Writing development policy and policy analysis plain or clear: on language, genre and power / Raymond Apthorpe -- 3 The implications of 'medical', 'gender in development' and 'culturalist' discourses for HIV/AIDS policy in Africa / Gill Seidel and Laurent Vidal -- 4 Patients' bodies and discourses of power / Helle Ploug Hansen -- Part II Policy as cultural agent -- 5 Free to make the right choice? Gender equality policy in post-welfare Sweden / Annika Rabo -- 6 The cultural politics of populism: celebrating Canadian national identity / Eva Mackey -- 7 Governing Europe: European Union audiovisual policy and the politics of identity / Cris Shore -- Part III Policy as political technology: governmentality and subjectivity -- 8 Reform and resistance: a Norwegian illustration / Halvard Vike -- 9 Poverty in a 'post-welfare' landscape: tenant management policies, self-governance and the democratization of knowledge in Great Britain / Susan Brin Hyatt -- 10 Managing Americans: policy and changes in the meaning of work and the self / Emily Martin -- Epilogue -- Anthropology and policy research: the view from Northern Ireland / Hastings Donnan and Graham McFarlane -- Index
    Note: "The origins of this edited collection of essays began with a workshop organized by Anthropology in Action at the 1994 Conference of the EASA held in Oslo" (Preface and Acknowledgements)
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    London : Routledge
    ISBN: 0-415-13358-0 , 978-0-415-13358-6 , 0-415-13359-9 /Pbk. , 978-0-415-13359-3 /Pbk.
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 234 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
    Keywords: Mongolei Simbabwe ; England ; Argentinien ; Mexiko ; Papua-Neuguinea ; Jemen ; Bibel ; Wertvorstellung ; Verhaltensnorm ; Frau ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: Focusing on the social construction of morality, The Ethnography of Moralities discusses a topic which is complex but central to the study and nature of anthropology. With the recent shift towards an interest in indigenous notions of self and personhood, questions pertaining to the moral and ethical origins of beliefs relating to human rights become increasingly relevant.Some of the questions that the contributors address are:* How is the ethical knowledge grounded?* Which social domains most profoundly articulate moral values and which are most affected?* Who defines and who enforces what is right and wrong?* What constitutes an ethical breach?Suggested answers are made with reference to empirical material so that the complexities and varieties of theoretical and methodological issues are highlighted. They are also discussed with reference to a wide array of ethnographic studies from Argentina, Mongolia, Melanesia, Yemen, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Britain and The Old Testament. (Verlagsangaben)
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    ISBN: 0-415-12929-X , 978-0-415-12929-9 , 0-415-12928-1 /Hb. , 978-0-415-12928-2 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 219 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Amerika ; Vorderasien ; Europa ; Mosambik ; Großbritannien ; Anden ; Twana ; Iran ; USA ; Recht ; Rechtsethnologie ; Sexualität ; Staat und Gesellschaft ; Menschenrecht ; Minorität
    Abstract: Law is a discourse of absolutes, and yet it is beset by ambiguities. Legality is inevitably identified with morality, and yet there is in all legal systems a zone where the legal and the non-legal become hard to distinguish, and where it is debatable how far the moral and social standing of particular groups or individuals can be equated with their legal status. Anthropology is typically concerned with the frontiers of legality, and with groups defined by the law as marginal. Inside and Outside the Law reflects on the ambiguities of law's authority, drawing on comparative case-studies of ethnic groups within different modern states, of groups defined as marginal through their sexual behaviour, and on analyses of the ambiguities at the heart of state authority itself. Inside and Outside the Law will be of interest to political scientists and legal theorists, as well as anthropologists and sociologists concerned with popular conceptions of the state and its laws. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: inside and outside the law / Olivia Harris -- Part I The state and its attributes -- 2. Human rights talk and anthropological ambivalence: the particular context of universal claims / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour -- 3. Vigilantism: order and disorder on the frontiers of the state / Ray Abrahams -- 4. Trading in ambiguity: law, rights and realities in the distribution of land in northern Mozambique / Sue Fleming -- Part II Sexuality and legitimacy -- 5. The law and the market: rhetorics of exclusion and inclusion among London prostitutes / Sophie Day -- 6. In praise of bastards: the uncertainties of mestizo identity in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Andes / Thérèse Bouysse-Cassagne -- Part III The complicity of religion and state -- 7. Living their lives in courts: the counter-hegemonic force of the Tswana kgotla in a colonial context / Ørnulf Gulbrandsen -- 8. A public flogging in south-western Iran: juridical rule, abolition of legality and local resistance / Manuchehr Sanadjian -- 9. Which centre, whose margin? Notes towards an archaeology of US Supreme Court Case 91948, 1993 (Church of the Lukumí vs. City of Hialeah, South Florida) / Stephan Palmié -- Index
    Note: "[...] session on law for the 3rd EASA Conference in Oslo" (Acknowledgements)
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    ISBN: 0-415-12027-6 (pbk) , 0-415-12026-8 , 978-0-415-12027-2 , 978-0-415-12026-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 327 Seiten
    Series Statement: International Studies of Women and Place
    Keywords: Feminismus Kulturökologie ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Naturschutz
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    ISBN: 0-415-10201-4 , 978-0-415-10201-8 , 0-415-10202-2 /Pbk. , 978-0-415-10202-5 /Pbk.
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 129 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
    Keywords: Ethnologie Kulturanthropologie ; Ethnophilosophie ; Forschungstradition ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: As different societies merge into one global society and face the concomitant crisis of identity, of purpose and interest, social anthropology urgently needs to bring its methodology up to date: new methods are needed to analyse, compare and understand different cultures across space and time.Grasping the Changing World collects papers read at the second biannual EASA conference in Prague in 1992. The conference took place in an extraordinary 'postmodern' setting. With the fall of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe old certainties and time-honoured concepts had become obsolete; at the same time, anthropology too was in upheaval, and long-established patterns of thought seemed inadequate to grasp the rapidly changing realities. These doubts and tensions are reflected in this collection.The first half of Grasping the Changing World focuses on ways of conceptualising, modelling and perceiving the present, while the second half reassesses the theoretical strength or otherwise of social anthropology as a modern science. Combining methodological rigour and originality, this collection will make invaluable reading for all students of social anthropology, sociology and politics and its methodology as it is applied to the comparison and understanding of societies across space and time. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 The temporalities of tradition: Reflections on a changing anthropolog / Olivia Harris -- 2 The present: A bridge between the past and the future / Václav Hubiner -- 3 The 'Bogoras enigma': Bounds of culture and formats of anthropologists / Igor Krupnik -- 4 The concept of culture between modernity and postmodernity / Carla Pasquinelli -- 5 Circumscribing the environment: Sustainable development, ethnography and applied anthropology in southern Africa / Tim Quinlan -- 6 Anthropology and the contemporary construction of ethnicity in Indonesia and Britain / C. W. Watson -- Index
    Note: "Grasping the Changing World collects papers read at the second biennial EASA conference in Prague in 1992" (Preface)
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    London : Routledge
    ISBN: 0415132185 , 0415132193
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 248 p , 23 cm
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Civil society ; Civil society Cross-cultural studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Money, morality, and modes of civil society among American Mormons / Elizabeth Dunn -- How Ernest Gellner got mugged on the streets of London, or : civil society, the media, and the quality of life / Peter Loizos -- Anti-semitism and fear of the public sphere in a post-totalitarian society : East Germany / Sausanne Spülbeck -- The shifting meanings of civil and civic society in Poland / Michał Buchowski -- Bringing civil society to an uncivilized place : citizenship regimes in Russia's Arctic frontier / David G. Anderson -- The social life of projects : importing civil society to Albania / Steven Sampson -- Civic culture and Islam in urban Turkey / Jenny B. White -- Gender, state, and civil society in Jordan and Syria / Annika Rabo -- The deployment of civil energy in Indonesia : assessment of an authentic solution / Leo Schmit -- Community values and state cooptation : civil society in the Sichuan countryside / John Flower and Pamela Leonard -- Making citizens in postwar Japan : national and local perspectives / John Knight.
    Description / Table of Contents: Money, morality, and modes of civil society among American Mormons / Elizabeth Dunn -- How Ernest Gellner got mugged on the streets of London, or : civil society, the media, and the quality of life / Peter Loizos -- Anti-semitism and fear of the public sphere in a post-totalitarian society : East Germany / Sausanne Spülbeck -- The shifting meanings of civil and civic society in Poland / Michał Buchowski -- Bringing civil society to an uncivilized place : citizenship regimes in Russia's Arctic frontier / David G. Anderson -- The social life of projects : importing civil society to Albania / Steven Sampson -- Civic culture and Islam in urban Turkey / Jenny B. White -- Gender, state, and civil society in Jordan and Syria / Annika Rabo -- The deployment of civil energy in Indonesia : assessment of an authentic solution / Leo Schmit -- Community values and state cooptation : civil society in the Sichuan countryside / John Flower and Pamela Leonard -- Making citizens in postwar Japan : national and local perspectives / John Knight
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 0-415-10656-7 , 0-415-10655-9 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 261 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
    Keywords: Europa Geschichte der Ethnologie ; Forschungstradition
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    London : Routledge
    ISBN: 0-415-11176-5 , 0-415-11177-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 324 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Entwicklungsländer Asien ; Afrika ; Lateinamerika ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Frau
    Abstract: Development histories reveal a legacy of contested power. These essays explore the language of development and its meaning within different political contexts, drawing material from Africa, Asia and Latin America by way of comparison.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 278 - 311
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    London : Routledge
    ISBN: 0415060184 , 0415060192
    Language: English
    Pages: 244 S. , Kt.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Parmentier, Richard J. The Religions of Oceania. Tony Swain , Garry Trompf 1997
    Series Statement: Library of religious beliefs and practices
    DDC: 200.995
    RVK:
    Keywords: Oceania Religion ; Australia Religion ; Religion ; Oceania ; Oceania ; Religion ; Australia ; Religion ; Australien ; Religion ; Ozeanien ; Religion ; Neuguinea ; Indigenes Volk ; Aborigines ; Maori ; Religion
    Abstract: More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania. The Religions of Oceania is the first book to bring together up-to-date information on the great and changing variety of traditional religions in the Pacific zone. The book also deals with indigenous Christianity and its wide influence across the region, and includes new religious movements generated by the responses of indigenous peoples to colonists and missionaries, the best-known of these being the `Cargo Cults' of Melanesia. - More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania. The Religions of Oceania is the first book to bring together up-to-date information on the great and changing variety of traditional religions in the Pacific zone. The book also deals with indigenous Christianity and its wide influence across the region, and includes new religious movements generated by the responses of indigenous peoples to colonists and missionaries, the best-known of these being the `Cargo Cults' of Melanesia.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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