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  • 1
    ISBN: 978-1-79364-822-8 , 978-1-79364-823-5 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIX, 186 Seiten
    Keywords: USA Afrikaner ; Migration ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Frau ; Demographie
    Abstract: Today, African immigrants constitute a growing and increasingly visible component of the US population. African Immigrants in the United States: The Gendering Significance of Race? takes a closer look at the growth of African immigration to the United States in recent decades, as well as implications of this growth. Mamadi Corra highlights several resulting sociodemographic processes underway, including the changing composition of the foreign-born and US Black populations. Corra also takes a closer look at sociodemographic profiles of these "new African Americans" or "new Americans," highlighting the increasing diversity, yet also the racialized portrait of this group of immigrants. Key patterns discussed include the shifting racial and gender composition of immigrants, with a growing proportion of "Black" and female African immigrants on one hand and a decreasing proportion of "White" and male immigrants on the other hand. The book also compares socioeconomic profiles of African immigrants with other immigrant groups, as well as native-American subgroups. Taken together, Corra discovers that the salience of race that is mediated by gender.
    Description / Table of Contents: Africans in the United States : An Increasingly Visible Immigrant Population -- Patterns of African Immigration to the United States and Sociodemographic Profile -- Immigration and the U.S. Experience : Theoretical Foundations -- An Intra-Group Comparison of African Immigrants in the United States : Gendered Variations? -- African Immigrants in the United States : The Gendering Significance of Race through International Migration? -- African Immigrants in the United States : A Comparison with Natives -- African Immigrants in the United States : Summary and Concluding Observations.
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  • 2
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVII, 208 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Nordwest-Indien ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Gewalt ; Frau ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: In Semiotics of Rape, Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body, but a language through which a range of issues—including caste and gender hierarchies, control over land and labor, and the shape of justice—are contested. Rather than focus on the laws governing rape, Oza closely examines rape charges to show how the victims and survivors of rape reclaim their autonomy by refusing to see themselves as defined entirely by the act of violation. Oza also shows how rape cases become arenas where bureaucrats, village council members, caste communities, and the police debate women`s sexual subjectivities and how those varied understandings impact the status and reputations of individuals and groups. In this way, rape gains meaning beyond the level of the survivor and victim to create a social category. By tracing the shifting meanings of sexual violence and justice, Oza offers insights into the social significance of rape in India and beyond.
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  • 3
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    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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  • 4
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    Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-009-05598-7 (paperback) , 978-1-316-51150-3 (hardback) , 978-1-009-05298-6 (epub)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 323 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 160
    Keywords: Angola Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Grundeigentum ; Geschlechterforschung ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Frauenrecht ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884-5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights eventually came to inform the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labour. By centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and especially African women, this book challenges dominant historical narratives, and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: List Maps and Plans, Illustrations, Tables and Graphs -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Currency and Price-Level Adjustments -- Introduction: A History of Ownership, Dispossession, and Inequality -- 1 - Who Owned What? Early Debate over Land Rights and Dispossession -- 2 - Property Rights in the Nineteenth Century -- 3 - Written Records and Gendered Strategies to Secure Property -- 4 - Commodification of Human Beings -- 5 - Branded in Freedom: The Persistent Commodification of People -- 6 - The Erasure of Communal Rights -- 7 - Global Consumers: West Central Africans and the Accumulation of Things -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 278-312
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  • 5
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    Seattle : University of Washington Press
    ISBN: 978-0-295-74965-5 (eBook) , 978-0-295-74963-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-0-295-74964-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 183 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Global South Asia
    Keywords: Indien Gujarat ; Hindu ; Muslime ; Geschichte ; Segregation ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart hundreds of towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town of Anand, some relocating with the financial assistance of their relatives overseas. Following such dramatic displacement and disorientation, Anand emerged as a site of opportunity and hope. For its residents and transnational visitors, Anand`s Muslim area is not just a site of marginalization; it has become an important focal point and regional center from which they can participate in the wider community of Gujarat and reimagine society in more inclusive terms.This compelling ethnography shows how in Anand the experience of residential segregation led not to estrangement or closure but to distinctive practices of mobility and exchange that embed Muslim residents in a variety of social networks. In doing so, New Lives in Anand moves beyond established notions of ghettoization to foreground the places, practices, and narratives that are significant to the people of Anand. It asks how people get on with their lives after an episode of violence to create new spaces and societies and to reconfigure their sense of belonging. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. Reorientation in a Post-Violence Landscape -- Regional Orientations: The Charotar Sunni Vohras -- Rural-Urban Transitions: From the Village to the Segregated Town -- Uprooted and at Home: Transnational Routes of (No) Return -- Getting Around: Middle-class Muslims in a Regional Town -- Conclusion. New Lives, New Concepts.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 978-1-56902-781-3/ (PB) , 978-1-56902-780-6 / (HB)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 189 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Äthiopien Harar ; Bekleidung ; Körperschmuck ; Schmuck ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Ästhetik
    Abstract: Oromo women live as traders, wood carriers, shepherds, and farmers in and around the ancient trade center of Harar, Ethiopia. They have lived with the uncertainties of drought, famine, war, and political unrest for several generations and experienced poverty, disease, and severe restrictions in personal freedom. These same women, both young and old, adorn themselves with an array of body modifications and supplements. What is it about the objects and practices themselves that appear to hold such significance? This rich ethnography illustrates why Oromo women decorate their bodies in particular ways and why they invest so much timeand effort in doing so. By tracing the development of dress within the Oromo social system from the mid-nineteenth century to today, and through a close examination of dress activated on the body in particular contexts like lifecycle rituals, spirit possession practice, and nationalist movements, the reader will uncover how truly valuable a woman`s decorated body is as an aesthetic and symbolic system.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 165-187
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  • 7
    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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  • 8
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    London : UCL Press
    ISBN: 9781800082274
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Economic Exposures in Asia
    Keywords: Indien Unberührbarer ; Tamile ; Tee ; Arbeit ; Soziale Klasse ; Arbeiterklasse ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaft ; Krise ; Geschichte ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturanthropologie ; Feldforschung
    Abstract: What does the collapse of India`s tea industry mean for Dalit workers who have lived, worked and died on the plantations since the colonial era? Plantation Crisis offers a complex understanding of how processes of social and political alienation unfold in moments of economic rupture. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Peermade and Munnar tea belts, Jayaseelan Raj - himself a product of the plantation system - offers a unique and richly detailed analysis of the profound, multi-dimensional sense of crisis felt by those who are at the bottom of global plantation capitalism.Tea production in India accounts for 25 per cent of global output. The colonial era planation system - and its two million strong workforce - has, since the mid-1990s, faced a series of ruptures stemming from neoliberal economic globalisation. In the South Indian state of Kerala, otherwise known for its labour-centric development initiatives, the Tamil speaking Dalit workforce, whose ancestors were brought to the plantations in the 19th century, are at the forefront of this crisis and the profound impacts it brings to their social identity and economic wellbeing. Out of the colonial history of racial capitalism and indentured migration, Plantation Crisis opens our eyes to the collapse of the plantation system in India, and the profound impacts this has on the Dalit workers who lived there for generations.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgements0 Introduction1 Pre-crisis: The making of moral order2 Workers: Stay on, move out3 Retirees: Failed attempt to stay on4 Youth: Hidden injuries of caste5 `Dam`ned in dispute6 Crisis of relations7 Rumour and gossip in a time of crisis.8 New companies, new workforce9 The social consequences of crises.Appendix 1: A short history of Peermade tea beltReferences
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  • 9
    ISBN: 978-1-80073-372-5 , 978-1-80073-373-2/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 192 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Westafrika Guinea Bissau ; Ernährung ; Nahrungsmittel ; Produktion ; Nahrungsmittelversorgung ; Europa ; Portugal ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Handel ; Konsum
    Abstract: Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders and consumers and a wide range of small intermediaries that operate in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal. By investigating the way meanings of food and land are embedded in everyday experiences and relationships in the various phases of the movement, on both sides of the migration, it reveals the connections that transnational processes of food production, exchange and consumption generate between two lifeworlds.
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  • 10
    ISBN: 978-1-80073-327-5/(Hb) , 978-1-80073-328-2/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 173 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Worlds in Motion 10
    Keywords: Europa Republik Niger ; Westafrika ; Belgien ; Italien ; Migration ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Kosmopolitismus ; Mobilität ; Rassismus ; Diskriminierung ; Kolonialismus
    Abstract: Europe is often described as `flooded` by migrants or by Muslim `others,` with Western African men especially portrayed as a security risk. At the same time the intensified mobility of privileged people in the Global North is celebrated as creating an increasingly cosmopolitan world. This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. Their voices show some of the contradictions in current discourses. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent denial of racism and colonialism that seeks to secure the innocence of Europe.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations. - Acknowledgments. - Introduction. - Part I: Making Precarious Migrants. - Chapter 1. Living in Divided Europe: The Theme Park and the Street. - Chapter 2. "Enough of Refugees": Depictions of Precarious Migrants in EuropeChapter 3. Into the Heart of Europe: Migrants in Brussels and Beyond. - Chapter 4. Global Citizens and the BackstageChapter 5. Multicultural Europe: Invasions against European Values?. - Part II: Entangled Histories. - Chapter 6. This is All in the Past Now: Niger and a Global World. - Chapter 7. Nostalgic Colonialism: Different Kinds of Otherness. - Chapter 8. Spaces of Innocence: Belgium`s Colonial History and Beyond. - Part III: Europe`s Past and Future. - Chapter 9. The Heart of Darkness: EUrope as a Concept. - Conclusion: Welcome to the Future: Dismaland and Anxieties in Europe
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  • 11
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    Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-0-367-62708-9/(pb.)
    Language: English
    Pages: 312 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: second edition
    Series Statement: Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Keywords: Lateinamerika Entwicklung ; Dekolonisation ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Beziehungen, internationale
    Abstract: Written in an accessible language, this book is a fully updated and revised edition of Latin American Development, a text which provides a comprehensive introduction to Latin American development in the twenty-first century and is anchored in decolonial theory and other critical approaches.This new edition has been revised and updated in a way that takes into account recent changes in political leadership, the retreat of the Pink Tide, the Colombian peace accords, new forms of political and territorial mobilization, the intensification of extractivism, murders of environmental defenders, major disasters, and the new contours of feminist and anti-patriarchal struggles. It features new chapters on decolonial theory, Latin America in the world, disastrous development, Afrodescendant struggles and the Latin American city. The book emphasizes political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of development and considers key challenges facing the region and the diverse ways in which its people are responding, as well as providing analysis of the ways in which such challenges and responses can be theorized. It explores the region`s historical trajectories, the implementation and rejection of the neoliberal model, and the role played by diverse social movements
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Made in Conquest: The Making of Contemporary Latin America 2. A Decolonial History of Latin America 3. Coloniality, Capitalism and Neoliberalism 4.Extractivism and Ontological Politics 5.Latin America in the World 6. The Coloniality of Gender and Sexuality 7. Indigenous Politics and Movements 8. Afrodescendant Politics and Movements 9. Disastrous Development 10. The Latin American City 11. Making the Decolonial Turn
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  • 12
    ISBN: 978-3-8394-6009-2 , 3837660095
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (Seite 262)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Culture and Social Practice
    Keywords: Afrika Mali ; Migration ; Flucht ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik
    Abstract: The effects of the intra-African and European deportation regimes brought about since the European Union's externalization of its migration and development policy by transferring it to countries of sub-Saharan Africa remain largely understudied - especially their effects on people's everyday life after forced returns. Based on extensive field research, Susanne U. Schultz's book analyses the supposedly "failed" migration of Malian men, the social situations in which they find themselves following deportation, and the implications of their "failure" for their social environment and broader society. This important ethnographic study creates empirical knowledge on key issues in migration research, policy, and practice in the context of a charged debate.
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  • 13
    ISBN: 978-1-80073-567-5 (hardback) , 978-1-80073-668-9 (open access ebook)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 268 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Worlds in Motion volume 12
    Keywords: Asien Japan ; Migration ; Mobilität ; Flüchtling ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The emotional, social, and economic challenges faced by migrants and their families are interconnected through complex decisions related to mobility. Tangled Mobilities examines the different crisscrossing and intersecting mobilities in the lives of Asian migrants, their family members across Asia and Europe, and the social spaces connecting these regions. In exploring how the migratory process unfolds in different stages of migrants` lives, the chapters in this collected volume broaden perspectives on mobility, offering insight into the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it. (Verlagsangaben)
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  • 14
    ISBN: 978-1-78699-894-1 (hardback) , 978-1-78699-893-4 (ePDF) , 978-1-78699-891-0 (ePUB)
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 219 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Politics and Society in Urban Africa 4
    Keywords: Südafrika Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Arbeit ; Soziologie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Ungleichheit ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Johannesburg 〈Stadt, Südafrika〉
    Abstract: Based on new evidence that challenges existing theories of urban inequality, Crankshaw argues that the changing pattern of earnings and occupational inequality in Johannesburg is better described by the professionalism of employment alongside high-levels of chronic unemployment.Central to this examination is that the social polarisation hypothesis, which is accepted by many, is simply wrong in the case of Johannesburg. Ultimately, Crankshaw posits that the post-Fordist, post-apartheid period is characterised by a completely new division of labour that has caused new forms of racial inequality. That racial inequality in the post-apartheid period is not the result of the persistence of apartheid-era causes, but is the result of new causes that have interacted with the historical effects of apartheid to produce new patterns of racial inequality. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Theories of Urban Inequality -- Part One: De-Industrialisation and the Labour Market -- 2. The Changing Occupational Structure: Social Polarisation or Professionalisation? -- 3. Professionalisation, Unemployment and Racial Inequality -- Part Two: From a Fordist to a Post-Fordist Spatial Order -- 4. Johannesburg's Fordist Spatial Order -- 5. The Edge City of Sandton -- 6. From Racial Ghetto to Excluded Ghetto: Soweto, Eldorado Park and Lenasia -- 7.Racial Residential Desegregation in White Neighbourhoods -- 8. Conclusion: Urban Inequality -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [198]-213
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9780821424698 , 9780821424766
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 322 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New African histories
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Aderinto, Saheed Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
    DDC: 966.903
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    Keywords: Animals Colonial influence ; Animals Social aspects ; History ; Human-animal relationships History ; Nigeria Colonial influence ; Nigeria Politics and government To 1960 ; Nigeria ; Kolonialismus ; Mensch ; Tiere ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Part 1: Loyal Companions, Tasty Food, Distinguished Athletes, Political Beings --A Meaty Colony: Nigerians and the Animals They Ate --The Living Machines of Imperialism: Animal Aesthetics, Imperial Spectacle, and the Political Economy of the Horse and Donkey --"Dogs Are the Most Useful Animals": A Canine History of Colonial Nigeria --"The Nigerian Political Zoo": Animal Art, Modernism, and the Visual Narrative of Nation-Building --Part 2: Pathology, Empathy, Anxiety --"Beware of Dogs": Rabies and the Elastic Geographies of Fear --The Lion King in the Cage: Nature, Wildlife Conservation, and the Modern Zoo --"Let Us Be Kind to Our Dumb Friends": Animal Cruelty in the Discourse of Colonial Modernity --"A Great Evil Ritual Murder": The Save-the-Nigerian-Horse-and-Donkey Campaign.
    Abstract: "From debates over the aesthetics of birds in the urban landscape to how horse racing enhanced imperial power to the ways in which water navigation impacts aquatic creatures, Saheed Aderinto argues that it is impossible to comprehend the full extent of imperial domination without considering the colonial subjecthood of animals"--
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9781478018964 , 9781478016328
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 386 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Erlmann, Veit Lion's share
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    Keywords: Linda, Solomon ; Music Law and legislation ; History ; Copyright Music ; History ; Music and race ; MUSIC / Ethnomusicology ; HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa ; Südafrika ; Musikwirtschaft ; Geistiges Eigentum
    Abstract: "In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellectual property system. In Lion's Share Veit Erlmann traces the role of copyright law in this process and its impact on the South African music industry. Although the South African government tied the reform to its post-apartheid agenda of redistributive justice and a turn to a post-industrial knowledge economy, Erlmann shows how the persistence of structural racism and Euro-modernist conceptions of copyright threaten the viability of the reform project. In case studies ranging from anti-piracy police raids and the crafting of legislation to protect indigenous expressive practices to the landmark lawsuit against Disney for its appropriation of Solomon Linda's song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" for The Lion King, Erlmann follows the intricacies of musical copyright through the criminal justice system, parliamentary committees, and the offices of a music licensing and royalty organization. Throughout, he demonstrates how copyright law is inextricably entwined with race, popular music, postcolonial governance, indigenous rights, and the struggle to create a more equitable society"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Aspirations and Apprehensions : Toward an Anthropology in Law -- The Past in the Present : Copyright, Colonialism, and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" -- Assembling Tradition, Representing Indigeneity : The Making of the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act 28 of 2013 -- Circulating Evidence : The Truth about Piracy -- Which Collective? The Infrastructure of Royalties -- Southern African Copyright : The Basics.
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9783110733198 , 3110733196
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 230 Seiten)
    Series Statement: ZMO-Studien 43
    Series Statement: ZMO-Studien
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Thinking the re-thinking of the world
    DDC: 306.091724
    Keywords: Religion and politics ; Imperialism History ; Imperialism ; Intellectual life ; Religion and politics ; Social conditions ; History ; RELIGION / Islam / History ; Developing countries Social conditions ; Developing countries Intellectual life ; Developing countries ; Decolonialism ; Humanities ; Social Sciences ; post-colonial studies ; Electronic books. ; History. ; Ethnologie ; Kolonialismus ; Imperialismus ; Kolonie ; Antikolonialismus ; Kolonialmacht ; Entkolonialisierung ; Geistesleben ; Kulturleben ; Wissenschaft ; Humanwissenschaften ; Geisteswissenschaften ; Diskussion ; Geschichte
    Abstract: As far too many intellectual histories and theoretical contributions from the 'global South' remain under-explored, this volume works towards redressing such imbalance. Experienced authors, from the regions concerned, along different disciplinary lines, and with a focus on different historical timeframes, sketch out their perspectives of envisaged transformations. This includes specific case studies and reflexive accounts from African, South Asian, and Middle Eastern contexts. Taking a critical stance on the ongoing dominance of Eurocentrism in academia, the authors present their contributions in relation to current decolonial challenges. Hereby, they consider intellectual, practical and structural aspects and dimensions, to mark and build their respective positions. From their particular vantage points of (trans)disciplinary and transregional engagement, they sketch out potential pathways for addressing the unfinished business of conceptual decolonization. The specific individual positionalities of the contributors, which are shaped by location and regional perspective as much as in disciplinary, biographical, linguistic, religious, and other terms, are hereby kept in view. Drawing on their significant experiences and insights gained in both the global north and global south, the contributors offer original and innovative models of engagement and theorizing frames that seek to restore and critically engage with intellectual practices from particular regions and transregional contexts in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. This volume builds on a lecture series held at ZMO in the winter 2019-2020
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgements , Introduction: 'Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World' as Urgent and Necessary Process , South and North, East and West , Contesting Northern Hegemony in Knowledge-Making in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences , Sovereignty and Ascendancy , Knowledge and Power in Sociology , C. A. Diop's Decolonising Historiography , Decentring the Grand Narrative of the Enlightenment , The Pūrva-Pakṣa of Modern Indian Thought , List of Contributors
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    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
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    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
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    Rochester : University of Rochester Press
    ISBN: 978-1-64825-025-5 (hardback) , 978-1-80010-419-8 (ebook) , 978-1-80010-420-4 (epub)
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 390 Seiten , Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß)
    Series Statement: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora 94
    Keywords: Großbritannien Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonialtruppe ; Schwarze ; Militär ; Nigeria ; Ghana ; Sierra Leone ; Gambia ; Identität ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Gewalt ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army explores the complex and constantly changing experience of West African soldiers under British command in Nigeria, the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Sierra Leone, and the Gambia. Since cost and tropical disease limited the deployment of British metropolitan troops to the region, British colonial rule in West Africa depended heavily on locally recruited soldiers and their families. This force became Britain's largest colonial army in Sub-Saharan Africa. West African Soldiers looks at the development of this colonial military from the conquest era of the late nineteenth century to decolonization in the 1950s. Rather than describing the many battles fought by this army both regionally and overseas, and informed by the concept of military culture, the book looks at the broad and overlapping themes of identity, culture, daily life, and violence. Chapter topics include the enslaved origins of the force, military identities including the myth of martial races, religious life, visual symbols like uniforms and insignia, health care related to tropical and sexually transmitted diseases, the experience of army wives, disciplinary flogging, mutiny, day-to-day violence committed by troops, and the employment of former soldiers by the colonial state. Based on archival research in five countries, the book derives inspiration from previous work on ordinary African soldiers in the British and German colonies of East Africa and in French West Africa.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Slave Origins -- Chapter 2: Identities: Nigeria and Ghana -- Chapter 3: Identities: Sierra Leone and the Gambia -- Chapter 4: Religion -- Chapter 5: Symbols -- Chapter 6: Health -- Chapter 7: Women -- Chapter 8: Flogging -- Chapter 9: Mutiny -- Chapter 10: Murder and Mayhem -- Chapter 11: Former Soldiers -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Mini-Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 353-375
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    Cambridge, UK : Polity
    ISBN: 978-1-5095-4741-8 (paperback) , 978-1-5095-4740-1 (hardback) , 978-1-5095-4742-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-5095-4807-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xxv, 130 Seiten
    Uniform Title: Mort d'un voyageur
    Keywords: Frankreich Sinti ; Gerichtsbarkeit ; Recht ; Polizei ; Tötung ; Minorität ; Diskriminierung ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: It is a simple story. A 37-year-old man belonging to the Traveller community is shot dead by a special unit of the French police on the family farm where he was hiding since he failed to return to prison after temporary release. The officers claim self-defense. The relatives, present at the scene, contest that claim. A case is opened, and it concludes with a dismissal that is upheld on appeal. Dismayed by these decisions, the family continues the struggle for truth and justice. Giving each account of the event the same credit, Didier Fassin conducts a counter-investigation, based on the re-examination of all the available details and on the interviews of its protagonists. A critical reflection on the work of police forces, the functioning of the justice system, and the conditions that make such tragedies possible and seldom punished, Death of a Traveller is also an attempt to restore to these marginalized communities what they are usually denied: respectability.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; A Simple Story. Preface to the English Edition; Terminological Note; Preamble; Prologue; I. The Father; II. The First Officer; III. The Mother; IV. The Second Officer; V. The Doctor; VI. The Sister; VII. The Prosecutor; VIII. The Journalist; IX. Dignity; X. Campaign; XI. Mourning; XII. Biography; XIII. Investigation; XIV. Dismissal; XV. Truth; XVI. Lies; XVII. Reconstruction; XVIII. That Day; Epilogue
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    ISBN: 978-1-350-16716-2 (online) , 978-1-350-16714-8 (epdf) , 978-1-350-16715-5 (ePub) , 978-1-350-16713-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 334 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Edition: Refugees and Religion 2021.pdf
    Keywords: Europa Deutschland ; Großbritannien ; Migration ; Vietnam ; Afrika ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Religion und Politik ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Utrecht University and the Max Planck Society.Understanding religion from a material and corporeal angle, this book addresses the ways in which refugees practice their religions and convert or develop new faiths. It also evaluates how secular institutions in Europe frame and determine what is classified as religion according to the law, and delineate the limits of religious authority, religious practice, and religious speech.The question of nationalism and migration has been shaping the political landscape in Europe for more than a decade, resulting in a nationalist upsurge. This volume places the current trajectories of people from Asia and Africa who flee from conditions such as oppression and conflict, and who are seeking refuge in Europe in a broader historical and comparative perspective. In so doing, it addresses past experiences in Europe with the role of religion in both producing and accommodating refugees, in the aftermath of the Peace of Westphalia, World War II, and in the context of the Cold War. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Politics of religious plurality in Europe -- Part II. People on the move from Vietnam -- Part III. People on the move in and from Africa -- Part IV. Political spaces of reception -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on contributors -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [289]-319"This volume emerged from two workshops, one in December 2017 and a second in September 2018, both at Utrecht University" (Preface)
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    Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers
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    ISBN: 978-1-62637-940-4
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 335 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Third edition
    Series Statement: Understanding
    Keywords: Indien Landeskunde ; Geographie ; Umweltbelastung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Kastenwesen ; Religion ; Geschlechterrolle ; Frau ; Urbanisation ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Kommunalismus
    Abstract: "Sheds light on the paradoxical nature of the world's largest and most diverse democracy"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introducing India / Neil DeVotta. - A geographic preface / Douglas Hill. - The historical context / Benjamin B. Cohen. - The political system / Eswaran Sridharan. - Economies and development / Rahul Mukherji and Seyed Hossein Zarhani. - International relations / Sumit Ganguly. - The politics of caste / Christophe Jaffrelot. - Religion / Chad M. Bauman and Ainslie T. Embree. - The status of women / Lisa Trivedi. - Population, urbanization, and environmental challenges / Kelly D. AlleyLooking ahead / Neil DeVotta
    Note: "This third edition likewise includes six new chapters." (Preface, S. xv) ; Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 293-315
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    Albany : State University of New York Press
    ISBN: 978-1-4384-8603-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 242 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: USA Kleine Antillen ; Virgin Islands ; Finanzwesen ; Geld ; Wirtschaft ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Beziehungen, interethnische
    Abstract: Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.Virgin Capital examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands. A tax holiday program, the EDC encourages financial services companies to relocate to these American-owned islands in exchange for an exemption from 90% of income taxes, and to stimulate the economy by hiring local workers and donating to local charitable causes. As a result of this program, the largest and poorest of these islands—St. Croix—has played host to primarily US financial firms and their white managers, leading to reinvigorated anxieties around the costs of racial capitalism and a feared return to the racial and gender order that ruled the islands during slavery. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the boom years leading up to the 2008-2009 financial crisis, Virgin Capital provides ethnographic insight into the continuing relations of coloniality at work in the quintessentially "modern" industry of financial services and neoliberal "development" regimes, with their grounding in hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitical positioning.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Into the Field: Navigating Self-Reflexivity at "Home" -- 3. Spectral Time: Tracing Racial Capitalism in the USVI from Plantation Slavery to the Economic Development Commission -- 4. The End of an Era: The Shuttering of Stanford Financial -- 5. Putting Race to Work: Racialization and Economic Opportunity -- 6. Easy Money and Respectable Girls: Gender Ideology and Neoliberal Development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
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    ISBN: 978-3-8376-5667-1 , 3-8376-5667-5
    Language: English
    Pages: 194 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Series Statement: Global Studies
    Uniform Title: Namibias Kinder
    Keywords: Namibia Kind ; Kindheit ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Krise ; Gewalt ; Armut ; Interview
    Abstract: Many children in Namibia find themselves facing a social crisis. They have been abandoned or abused, are malnourished, homeless, or live in shacks that barely provide any protection. However, amidst these disastrous living conditions, children have developed remarkable survival skills, and come up with equally clever and disillusioned analyses of their situation.For three years, Michaela Fink and Reimer Gronemeyer conducted interviews in Namibia with women who take care of vulnerable children. The book gives these children a voice in interviews and essays.
    Description / Table of Contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- What is this about? An Overview -- I. Children of the Crisis - Living Conditions in Namibia -- II. Children in Rural Areas -- III. Children in Urban Katutura -- IV. The New Civil Society Places - Refuges for Children in Need -- Conclusion: African Children. European Childhoods -- Appendix
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181-194
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    New York : Berghahn Books
    ISBN: 978-1-80073-027-4 , 978-80073-028-1 (formal falsche ISBN für E-Book) , 978-1-80073-028-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 234 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Réunion Frankreich ; Minorität ; Hindu ; Hinduismus ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Selbstbild
    Abstract: Seeking recognition presents an important driving force in the making of religious minorities, as is shown in this study that examines current debates on religion, globalization, diaspora, and secularism through the lens of Hindus living in the French overseas department of La Réunion. Through the examination of religious practices and public performance, the author offers a compelling study of how the Hindus of the island assert pride in their religion as a means of gaining recognition, self-esteem, and social status. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustratione -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- (Im)mobile in the Indian Ocean -- Pride Politics and the Making of a Religious Minority -- Relating to India in Different Ways -- The Quest for Religious Knowledge -- Strategic Bricolage -- Rituals, Emotions, and Aesthetics -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Index
    Note: Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, [2019] unter dem Titel "Source of Pride: Hindu Religion in La Réunion"
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    Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-8214-2398-1/ (paperback) , 978-0-8214-2397-4/ (hardcover)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 276 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New African Histories
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Nigeria ; Gesellschaft ; Frau ; Aktivismus ; Revolte ; Frau und Politik ; Frauenbund ; Politik ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Nationalismus ; Nationenbildung ; Finanzwesen ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschichte ; Abeokuta 〈Stadt, Nigeria〉
    Abstract: "In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women's Union and then of Nigeria's first national women's organization, the Nigerian Women's Union, in 1949. These organizations became ground zero for a new political vision of a vehicle for women across Nigeria to define their interests, desires, and needs while fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship. In The Great Upheaval, Judith A. Byfield has crafted a finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation-making that not only tells a story of women's postwar activism but grounds it in a nuanced account of the complex tax system that generated the "upheaval." In capturing the dynamism of women's political activism in Nigeria's postwar period, Byfield illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism. She thus offers new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Ultimately, she challenges us to problematize the collapse of her female subjects' greatest aspiration, universal franchise, when the country achieved independence in 1960"--
    Description / Table of Contents: The Birth and Demise of a Nation: The Egba United Government -- Abeokuta's Centenary: Masculinity and Nationalist Politics in a Colonial Space -- Race, Nation and Politics in the Interwar Period -- Women, Rice and War: Economic Crisis in Wartime Abeokuta -- "Freedom from Want": Politics, Protest and the Postwar Interlude -- Daughters of Tinubu: Crisis and Confrontation in Abeokuta.
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    ISBN: 978-1-350-05002-0 (hardback) , 978-1-350-19538-7 (paperback) , 978-1-350-05003-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 244 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Suspensions - Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
    Keywords: Iran Frau und Politik ; Frau und Religion ; Frau und Islam ; Soziale Bedingungen ; HIV ; Prostitution ; Sexualität ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Geschlechterforschung ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Menschenrecht ; Freiheit ; Strafrecht ; Massenmedien ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Teheran
    Abstract: Gender and sexuality in modern Iran is frequently examined through the prism of nationalist symbols and religious discourse from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi takes a different approach, by interrogating how normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health discourses have resulted in the female body being deemed as immodest and taboo. Through a diverse blend of sources -a popular cultural women's journal, a red-light district, cases studies of temporary marriages, iconic public statues, and an HIV-AIDS advocacy organization in Tehran - this work argues that conceptions of gender and sexuality have been mediated in public discourse and experienced and modified by women themselves over the past thirty years of the Islamic Republic.Expanding upon existing philosophical theory, technological research and scholarship on gender and sexuality in Iran, this book focuses much needed attention on under-studied, marginalized communities, such as widows living with HIV. This work interrogates how bodily technologies are constructed discursively and socially in Iran and the values and perspectives which are incorporated in them. (Umschlagetext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A note on transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Reform: an art of visual persuasion -- 2. Red-lights in parks; a social history of Park-e Razi -- 3. Safety valves and postrevolutionary "prostitution" -- 4. Naked modesty and the reformation of statues -- 5. When HIV/AIDS meets government morality -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [207]-233
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    ISBN: 978-3-8376-5802-6 , 3-8376-5802-3
    Language: English
    Pages: 286 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Series Statement: Forced Migration Studies Series volume 1
    Keywords: Migration Flüchtling ; Flucht ; Gewalt ; Kriminalität ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Vertreibung ; Stereotyp ; Diskriminierung
    Abstract: Multiple refugee regimes govern the lives of forced migrants simultaneously but in an often conflicting way. As a mechanism of inclusion/exclusion, they tend to engender the violence they sought to dissipate. Protection and control channel agency through mechanisms of either tutelage and victimisation or criminalisation. This book contrasts multiple groups of refugees and refugee regimes, revealing the inherent coercive violence of refugee regimes, from displacement and expulsion, to stereotypification and exclusion in host countries, and academic knowledge essentialisation. This violence is international, national, society-based, internalised, and embodied - and it urgently needs due scholarly attention.
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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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    Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
    ISBN: 978-0-299-33250-1/(ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-0-299-33253-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 339 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Africa and the Diaspora
    Keywords: Afrika Ost-Afrika ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Bantu ; Buganda ; Ethnizität ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Nationalität ; Kolonialismus ; Victoriasee
    Abstract: Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L. Schoenbrun examines groupwork - the imaginative labor that people do to constitute themselves as communities - in an iconic and influential region in East Africa. His study traces the roots of nationhood in the Ganda state over the course of a millennia, demonstrating that the earliest clans were based not on political identity or language but on shared investments, knowledges, and practices.Grounded in Schoenbrun's skillful mastery of historical linguistics and vernacular texts, The Names of the Python supplements and redirects current debates about ethnicity in ex-colonial Africa and beyond. This timely volume carefully distinguishes past from present and shows the many possibilities that still exist for the creative cultural imagination.
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Python Imaginaries: Conceiving Ancient Groups beyond the Face-to-Face, 800 to 1200 -- 2. Possessing an Inland Sea: Making Mukasa, 1200s to 1600s -- 3. Mukasa's Wealth: Belonging and Information, 1500s and 1600s -- 4. Vigilant Python: A Bellicose Eighteenth Century and Groupwork's Inner Edge -- 5. Ladies and Slaves: Gendered Groupwork and a Long Nineteenth Century -- 6. Hiding Clans: Eighteenth-Century Misrule and Twentieth-Century Groupwork -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Lexical-Semantic Reconstructions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-857-3 , 978-1-78920-856-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 237 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Pacific Perspectives 8
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Indigenität ; Bergbau ; Rohstoff ; Mineral ; Kupfer ; Gold ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: Exploring the social complexities of the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea, this book tells the story of local stakeholder strategies on the eve of industrial development, largely from the perspective of the Paiyamo one of the project's so-called impact communities. Engaging ideas of knowledge, belief and personhood, it explains how fifty years of encounters with exploration companies shaped the Paiyamo's aspirations, made them revisit and re-examine their past, and develop new strategies to move towards a better, more prosperous future.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustration; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Text Introduction ; Chapter 1. Role play; Chapter 2. Making up Paiyamo; Chapter 3. Make Believe; Chapter 4. The Book of Paiyamo; Chapter 5. Precipitating the Mine Conclusion References; Index
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    ISBN: 978-0-8165-4078-5 (paperback) , 978-0-8165-4293-2 (E-Book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 242 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Autobiographie Belletristische Darstellung ; USA ; Mobilität ; Arbeitsmigration ; Indianer, Mittel-Amerika ; Mexiko ; Mestize ; Schmuck ; Latino ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Oaxaca ; Los Angeles
    Abstract: From the day he was born, Federico Jimenez Caballero was predicted to be a successful man. So, how exactly did a young boy from Tututepec, Oaxaca, become a famous Indigenous jewelry artist and philanthropist in Los Angeles. Federico tells the remarkable story of willpower, curiosity, hard work, and passion coming together to change one man&;s life forever.As a child growing up in a small rural town in southern Mexico, Jimenez Caballero faced challenges that most of us cannot imagine, let alone overcome. From a young age, Federico worked tirelessly to contribute to his large family, yet his restless spirit often got him into trouble. Finding himself in the middle of a village-wide catastrophe, he was exiled to a boarding school in Oaxaca City where he was forced to become independent, resilient, and razor-sharp in order to stay afloat. Through his incredible people skills, bravery, and a few nudges from his bold mother, Federico found himself excelling in his studies and climbing the ranks in Oaxaca City. He always held a deep love and respect for his Mixtec Indigenous roots and began to collect Indigenous jewelry and textiles. Through a series of well-timed connections, Federico met his wife Ellen, and, shortly afterward, he came to the United States as a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the late 1960s.Carrying his passion for Indigenous jewelry with him from Oaxaca, Federico owned a series of shops in Los Angeles and sold jewelry at flea markets to well-known Hollywood stars. Over the years, he cultivated relationships and became a philanthropist as well as the owner of a museum in Oaxaca City. This book is the inspiring first-person account of eighty years in the life of a man who moved from humble beginnings to the bright lights of Hollywood, following his passion and creating long-lasting relationships as he climbed the ladder of success. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introductin: My ancestors, my heritage -- Part 1. Childhood -- My parents -- Starting a family -- My early childhood -- Early school days and a name change -- The growing Jiménez family -- An enterprising youth -- Home life -- A Christmas to remember -- Part 2. Coming of age -- Traveling to the big city -- The cure! -- Finding new work -- A surprise visit -- A baptismal ceremony for Juan -- New opportunities and marriage -- Part 3. Finding my way -- Leaving Oaxaca -- A turning point -- Leaning about museums and philanthropy -- A merger and my ongoing role on the Autry Board -- Making Los Angeles a better place for Latinos -- Building our personal collection and a museum -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 241-242
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    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: 0-7969-2598-4 , 978-0-7969-2598-5
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 246 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Südafrika Migration ; Identität ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Regierung ; Rassenkonflikt ; Diskriminierung ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers develops an argument about how individual migrants, coming from four continents and diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, are in many ways affected by a violent categorisation that is often nihilistic, insistently racial, and continuously significant in the organisation of South African society. The book also examines how relative privilege and storytelling function as instruments for migrants to negotiate meanings and shape their lives. It employs narrative life story research as its guiding methodology and applies various disciplinary analytical perspectives, with an overall focus on social categorisation and its consequences. The featured stories stress how unsettled, mutable, and in flux social categories and identities are - just as a messy pencil sketch challenges clear definitions. (Umschlagtext)
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-4780-1324-2/(hardcover) , 978-1-4780-1415-7/(paperback) , 978-1-4780-2146-9/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 339 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Mexiko USA ; Grenze ; Männlichkeit ; Mann ; Sozialisation ; Migration ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Diskriminierung ; Diaspora ; Sexualität ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Flores-Magón, Enrique [Leben und Werk] ; Nadel, Leonard [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora offers a transnational affective narrative of masculinities along the US-Mexico border, showing how men's emotional vulnerability and intimacies have challenged the overdetermined script of machismo. To challenge this narrative, Nicole Guidotti-Hernández offers a theory of transnational Mexican masculinity rooted in emotional and physical intimacy and family settings from the 1890s to the 1950s. The first half of the book focuses on Enrique Flores-Magón, a well-recognized anarchist political leader and journalist, and his multiple families. Guidotti-Hernández analyzes Flores-Magón's archive to argue that his politics were rather gender normative and insistent on the production of a master narrative of the revolution that subordinated women. The second half examines Leonard Nadel's photographs of braceros, the over 4.5 million Mexican men who travelled to the US to work in temporary agricultural jobs from 1942 through 1964. Guidotti-Hernández demonstrates how the complex emotive life of braceros is best examined in the historical context of the Salinas Valley. The main methodological mode mines the historical record for thinking about emotion as a history of gender and sexuality as they are forged in migration. Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora provides key interventions for studies of masculinity within the fields of American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Historical Studies, and Studies of Mexico and its diaspora
    Description / Table of Contents: Greeting cards, love notes, love letters -- PLM intimate betrayals, Enrique Flores Magón, Paula Carmona, and the gendered history of denunciation -- Out of betrayal and into anarchist love and family -- Bodily harm -- De la familia liberal -- The split -- The emotional labor of being in Leavenworth -- Deportation to a home that doesn't exist, or "He has interpreted the alien's mind" -- Making braceros out of place and outside of time -- The Salinas Valley and hidden affective histories -- Hip forward into domestic labor and other intimacies -- Queer precarious lives -- Wanting to be looked at -- Passionate violence and thefts.
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    ISBN: 9789004461239
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 278 Seiten
    Series Statement: Inner Asia book series volume 13
    Series Statement: Inner Asia book series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.4095843
    RVK:
    Keywords: Geschichte 1991-2009 ; Frau ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Kirgisien ; Women / Kyrgyzstan / Social conditions ; Women's rights / Kyrgyzstan ; Kyrgyzstan / History / 1991 ; Women / Social conditions ; Women's rights ; Kyrgyzstan ; History ; Kirgisien ; Frau ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Geschichte 1991-2009
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674979574
    Language: English
    Pages: 314 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 970.01
    RVK:
    Keywords: Indians of North America Antiquities ; Collection and preservation ; History ; Cultural property Protection ; History ; Anthropological museums and collections History ; Racism in anthropology History ; Cultural property Repatriation ; History ; United States Antiquities ; Collection and preservation ; History
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Online Resource
    London : UCL Press
    ISBN: 9781787354555
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (Seite 292 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Economic Exposures in Asia
    Keywords: Indien Muslime ; Islam ; Künstler ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Arbeit ; Frau ; Migration ; Arbeitsmigration ; Kunst ; Islamische Kunst
    Abstract: Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans provides an ethnography of life, work and migration in a North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry. It traces artisanal connections within the local context, during migration within India, and to the Gulf, examining how woodworkers utilise local and transnational networks, based on identity, religiosity, and affective circulations, to access resources, support and forms of mutuality. However, the book also illustrates how liberalisation, intensifying forms of marginalisation and incorporation into global production networks have led to spatial pressures, fragmentation of artisanal labour, and forms of enclavement that persist despite geographical mobility and connectedness. By working across the dialectic of marginality and connectedness, Thomas Chambers thinks through these complexities and dualities by providing an ethnographic account that shares everyday life with artisans and others in the industry. Descriptive detail is intersected with spatial scales of `local`, `national` and `international`, with the demands of supply chains and labour markets within India and abroad, with structural conditions, and with forms of change and continuity. Empirically, then, the book provides a detailed account of a specific locale, but also contributes to broader theoretical debates centring on theorisations of margins, borders, connections, networks, embeddedness, neoliberalism, subjectivities, and economic or social flux
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Marginalisation, connectedness and Indian Muslim artisans: an introduction -- 2. A brief history of Indian Muslim artisans -- 3. The Indian craft supply chain: money, commodities and intimacy -- 4. Muslim women and craft production in India: gender, labour and space -- 5. Apprenticeship and labour amongst Indian Muslim artisans -- 6. Neoliberalism and Islamic reform among Indian Muslim artisans: affect and self-making -- 7. Friendship, urban space, labour and craftwork in India -- 8. Internal migration in India: imaginaries, subjectivities and precarity -- 9. Labour migration between India and the Gulf: regimes, Imaginaries and continuities -- 10. Marginalisation and connectedness: a conclusion.
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    East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-61186-104-4 , 978-1-60917-395-1
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 152 Seiten , Diagramme
    Edition: [10. Auflage]
    Series Statement: African Diaspora Series
    Keywords: USA Afro-Amerikaner ; Afrikaner ; Arabische Staaten ; Afrika, Subsahara ; Migration ; Integration ; Akkulturation ; Ethnizität ; Minorität ; Arbeit ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaft ; Schwarze ; Weiße ; Araber, Afrika ; Rasse
    Abstract: Africans are among the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the United States. Although they are racially and ethnically diverse, few studies have examined how these differences affect their patterns of incorporation into society. This book is the first to highlight the role of race and ethnicity, Arab ethnicity in particular, in shaping the experiences of African immigrants. It demonstrates that American conceptions of race result in significant inequalities in the ways in which African immigrants are socially integrated. Thomas argues that suggestions that Black Africans are model-minorities who have overcome the barriers of race are misleading, showing that Black and Arab-ethnicity Africans systematically experience less favorable socioeconomic outcomes than their White African counterparts. Overall, the book makes three critical arguments. First, historical and contemporary constructions of race have important implications for understanding the dynamics of African immigration and settlement in the United States. Second, there are significant racial inequalities in the social and economic incorporation of contemporary African immigrants. Finally, Arab ethnicity has additional implications for understanding intra-racial disparities in incorporation among contemporary African immigrants. In general, these arguments are foundational for understanding the diversity of African immigrant experiences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Improving minority student persistence: an institutional factors approach / Yvonne R. Hilton, Monica Gray -- Minority recruitment and retention among gifted students / Chandra A. Stallworth, Ken D. Thomas -- Engineering study abroad: high impact strategy for increasing access / Monica Gray, Connie Lundy -- Empowering women in STEM: embedding STEM in K-12 education / Gretchen Dietz [and 3 others] -- Developing a learning community of engineers through an honors first-year seminar / Melissa L. Johnson, Kristy Spear -- Engineering teams: supporting diversity in engineering education / Jennifer Loy, Simon Howell, Rae Cooper -- Addressing cultural and gender project bias: engaged learning for diverse student cohorts / Jennifer Loy, Rae Cooper -- Revisioning the Engineering Profession: How to Make It Happen! / Judith Gill, Mary Ayre, Julie Mills -- A globally focused, experiential educational system for STEM fields: measures for intentionally promoting diversity / Aaron Sakulich, Amy Peterson -- Diversifying engineering education: a transdisciplinary approach from RWTH Aachen University / Linda Steuer [and 3 others] -- Engineering pathways in a U.S. public institution of higher education: a strategy for fostering student diversity / Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala, Anthony Maciejewski -- Getting off the engineering enrollment rollercoaster: interaction between academia and upstream petroleum industry / Tatyana Plaksina
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 135-148
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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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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-680-7 , 978-1-78920-681-4
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 221 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Worlds in Motion 7
    Keywords: Europa Westafrika ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Akkulturation ; Migration ; Integration ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Grenze ; Europäische Union
    Description / Table of Contents: "Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new approach to West African migrants in Europe. It argues that a migration lens is not necessarily the best starting point to understand these dynamic im/mobility processes. Rather than seeing migrancy as the primary marker of their lives, this book positions these trajectories in a wider social script of mobility and discusses how African migrants are confronted with rigid mobility regimes, but also how they manage to transgress and circumvent them"-- provided by the publisher
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press
    ISBN: 978-0-520-34117-3 (paperback) , 0-520-34117-1 (paperback) , 978-0-520-97457-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 168 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, 1 Karte
    Series Statement: Global Korea 3
    Keywords: Südkorea Arbeitsmigration ; Arbeiterklasse ; Fremder ; Peru ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Religion ; Kultureinfluss ; Globalisierung ; Akkulturation ; Kulturethologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Peruvian migrant workers began arriving in South Korea in large numbers in the mid-1990s, eventually becoming one of the largest groups of non-Asians in the country. Migrant Conversions shows how despite facing unstable income and legal exclusion, migrants have come to see Korea as an ideal destination, sometimes even as part of their divine destiny. Faced with a forced end to their residence in Korea, Peruvians have developed strategies to transform themselves from economic migrants into heads of successful transnational families, influential church leaders, and cosmopolitan travelers. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 global financial crisis, Migrant Conversions explores the intersections of three types of conversions - monetary, religious, and cosmopolitan - to argue that migrants use conversions to negotiate the meaning of their lives in a constantly changing transnational context. As Peruvians carve out social spaces, they create complex and uneven connections between Peru and Korea that challenge a global hierarchy of nations and migrants. Exploring how migrants, churches, and nations change through processes of conversion reveals how globalization continues to impact people`s lives and ideas about their futures and pasts long after they have stopped moving or after a particular global moment has come to an end. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructing "The End" -- 1. Peru, South Korea, Peru . . . -- 2. Monetary Conversion -- 3. Religious Conversion -- 4. Cosmopolitan Conversion - Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 149-154
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    ISBN: 978-1-78699-858-3 (pbk.) , 1-78699-858-0 , 978-1-78699-857-6 (hbk.) , 1-78699-857-2 , 978-1-78699-854-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-78699-856-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-1-78699-855-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 216 Seiten
    Series Statement: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
    Keywords: Südafrika Republik Südafrika ; Versicherung ; Finanzwesen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Ungleichheit ; Armut ; Alltag ; Demokratie
    Abstract: An ethnographic study of how financial products and services affect inequalities and conflicts in South Africa."Set in one of the world's most unequal and violent places, this ethnographic study reveals how insurance companies discovered a vast market of predominantly poor African clients. After apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa became a 'testing ground' for new insurance products, new marketing techniques and pioneering administrative models with a potentially global market. Drawing on Rorty's notion of irony for understanding how the contradictions inherent to solidarity affect inequality and conflict as well as drawing on a vast array of case studies, Ironies of Solidarity examines how both Africans enjoy the freedoms that they have gained in financial terms and how the onset of democracy effected the risks faced in everyday life. Bähre examines the ways in which policies are sold and claims are handled, offering a detailed analysis of South Africa's insurance sector." -- Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. An ironic analysis 3. Hope and redistribution 4. Penetrating a new market 5. The Janus face of inclusion 6. The enchantment of abstract finance 7. Transforming mutualities in business 8. Death as moral hazard 9. Conclusion: Ironies of solidarity
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 190-208
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    New York : New York University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-4798-8194-9 , 978-1-4798-0686-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 222 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Critical Perspectives on Youth 6
    Keywords: Iran Jugend ; Jugendlicher ; Erwachsener ; Armut ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis In Coming of Age in Iran, Manata Hashemi takes readers inside the lives of Iranian youth. Drawing on first-hand accounts, Hashemi shows how the young Iranian men and women known as the "burnt generation"—those between the ages of 15 and 29, who came of age after Iran`s 1979 Islamic Revolution—face their future prospects.With a compassionate eye, Hashemi paints a nuanced portrait of their day-to-day struggles in Iran. Hashemi spent months with these youth, observing them at bazaars, hair salons, parks, and mosques, tutoring them in English and sharing meals in their family homes. Many young Iranian men and women are jobless, living with their parents, and delaying marriage, ultimately failing to meet what they consider the traditional benchmarks of adulthood. Hashemi follows their stories, one by one, as they try to climb up the proverbial ladder of success.Coming of Age in Iran sheds light on the inner lives of a new generation of Iranian youth as they struggle in the face of ongoing economic crisis.
    Description / Table of Contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Saving Face -- 2. All in a Day's Work -- 3. Dress for Success -- 4. Be Good, Do Good -- 5. Moral Conformism and Its Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 197-170
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    ISBN: 978-1-350-03923-0 , 978-1-350-03924-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 467 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Kultur ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Sprache ; Wirtschaft ; Massenmedien ; Materielle Kultur ; Terminologie ; Lexikon ; Wörterbuch
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    Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
    ISBN: 978-1-4962-2022-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 166 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: USA Kanada ; Indianer, Plains ; Sioux ; Lakota ; Widerstand ; Unabhängigkeit ; Indianerpolitik ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Biographie ; Sitting Bull, Häuptling [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man`s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains—a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux`s historical territories that were sacred to him and his people.Robert M. Utley explores the final four years of Sitting Bull`s life of freedom, from 1877 to 1881. To escape American vengeance for his assumed role in the annihilation of Gen. George Armstrong Custer`s command at the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull led his Hunkpapa following into Canada. There he and his people interacted with the North-West Mounted Police, in particular Maj. James M. Walsh. The Mounties welcomed the Lakota and permitted them to remain if they promised to abide by the laws and rules of Queen Victoria, the White Mother. But the Canadian government wanted the Indians to return to their homeland and the police made every effort to persuade them to leave. They were aided by the diminishing herds of buffalo on which the Indians relied for sustenance and by the aggressions of Canadian Native groups that also relied on the buffalo.Sitting Bull and his people endured hostility, tragedy, heartache, indecision, uncertainty, and starvation and responded with stubborn resistance to the loss of their freedom and way of life. In the end, starvation doomed their sovereignty. This is their story.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 155-158
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    Book
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-5036-1266-2 , 978-1-5036-1265-5 , 978-1-5036-1267-9/ (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: 232 Seiten
    Series Statement: Anthropology of Policy
    Keywords: Australien Ureinwohner, Australien ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozialpolitik ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Ökologie ; Postkolonialismus
    Abstract: Can there be good social policy? This book describes what happens to Indigenous policy when it targets the supposedly 'wild people' of regional and remote Australia. Tess Lea explores naturalized policy: policy unplugged, gone live, ramifying in everyday life, to show that it is policies that are wild, not the people being targeted. Lea turns the notion of unruliness on its head to reveal a policy-driven world dominated by short term political interests and their erratic, irrational effects, and by the less obvious protection of long-term interests in resource extraction and the liberal settler lifestyles this sustains. Wild Policy argues policies are not about undoing the big causes of enduring inequality, and do not ameliorate harms terribly well either without yielding all hope.Drawing on efforts across housing and infrastructure, resistant media-making, health, governance and land tenure battles in regional and remote Australia, Wild Policy looks at how the logics of intervention are formulated and what this reveals in answer to the question: why is it all so hard? Lea offers readers a layered, multi-relational approach called policy ecology to probe the related question, 'what is to be done?' Lea's case material will resonate with analysts across the world who deal with infrastructures, policy, technologies, mining, militarization, enduring colonial legacies, and the Anthropocene.
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    ISBN: 978-0-8165-3715-0 (hardcover) , 978-0-8165-4207-9 (paperback)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 185 Seiten , Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß)
    Series Statement: Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
    Keywords: Mexiko Massenmedien ; Indianer, Mexiko ; Frau ; Schönheit, persönliche ; Propaganda ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Geschichte ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, visuelle
    Abstract: In the decades following the Mexican Revolution, nation builders, artists, and intellectuals manufactured ideologies that continue to give shape to popular understandings of indigeneity and mestizaje today. Postrevolutionary identity tropes emerged as part of broader efforts to reunify the nation and solve pressing social concerns, including what was posited in the racist rhetoric of the time as the "Indian problem". Through a complex alchemy of appropriation and erasure, indigeneity was idealized as a relic of the past while mestizaje was positioned as the race of the future. This period of identity formation coincided with a boom in technology that introduced a sudden proliferation of images on the streets and in homes: there were more photographs in newspapers, movie houses cropped up across the country, and printing houses mass-produced calendar art and postcards. La Raza Cosmética traces postrevolutionary identity ideals and debates as they were dispersed to the greater public through emerging visual culture.Critically examining beauty pageants, cinema, tourism propaganda, photography, murals, and more, Natasha Varner shows how postrevolutionary understandings of mexicanidad were fundamentally structured by legacies of colonialism, as well as shifting ideas about race, place, and gender. This interdisciplinary study smartly weaves together cultural history, Indigenous and settler colonial studies, film and popular culture analysis, and environmental and urban history. It also traces a range of Indigenous interventions in order to disrupt top-down understandings of national identity construction and to "people"; this history with voices that have all too often been entirely ignored. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. La reina de la raza: The Making of the India Bonita -- 2. La Flor más Bella del Ejido: Springtime Maidens, Invented Tradition, and Making a "Modern" Mexico City -- 3. Cine folclórico: From Racial Fantasy to Cinematic Spectacle -- 4. Virgén Xochimilco: Pure Women and Waters in Mexico City`s Suburban South -- 5. Dona Luz Jimenez: "The Most Painted Woman inAll of Mexico" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [175]-179
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    ISBN: 978-1-74305-792-6 , 978-1-74305-756-8
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 282 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Ethnologe Biographie ; Leben und Werk ; Australien ; Ureinwohner, Australien ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Regierung ; Politik ; Minorität ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Peter Sutton has been at various times, and sometimes simultaneously, a museum-based anthropologist with a foundational role in raising the profile of Australian Indigenous art, an anthropologist and linguist who has made significant ethnographic, analytical and theoretical contributions to both fields, and to the intersection between them, an expert on native title, and a public intellectual. In Ethnographer and Contrarian Sutton's colleagues reflect on aspects of his life and work. The book begins with a set of biographical essays that provide an overview of Peter's life and career, including a fascinating account of his early years. The second section focuses on his debate-changing and controversial book The Politics of Suffering. The essays reflect on the reactions to its original publication, or on its resonances with contributors' own experiences in the field. The third set of essays address Sutton's ground-breaking analysis of social change and of the transition between 'classical' and 'post-classical' social formations in Aboriginal Australia, and the emergence of 'families of polity'. The volume concludes with a complete bibliography of Sutton's published works.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents page 1 -- Contents page 2 -- Figures, Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Part 1 - Reflections on a life -- Chapter 1 - Introduction: A contrarian life -- Chapter 2 - Outside the square: From Christian Scientist to social scientist -- Chapter 3 - Living Larrimah: A reminiscence -- Chapter 4 - What is a social anthropologist doing in a museum? -- Part 2 - On the politics of suffering -- Chapter 5 - Suttonalia: A revealing moment in public anthropology -- Chapter 6 - Suffering and silence: Sutton's challenge -- Chapter 7 - Speaking to others: Anthropology's languages, audiences and engagements -- Chapter 8 - Personal challenges and professional research in Aboriginal Australia: Reading 'The Politics of Suffering' -- Chapter 9 - Culture, development and the future of remote Aboriginal communities -- Chapter 10 - The politics of suffering: Some contrarian reflections -- Part 3 - On classical and post-classical societies -- Chapter 11 - Marriage networks in Arnhem Land and beyond -- Chapter 12 - The resilience of Lakes societies: From classical systems to 'families of polity' and the endurance of 'underlying title' -- Chapter 13 - Sutton's model of underlying and proximate customary title and the Lander Warlpiri region -- Chapter 14 - Géza Róheim's Australian dreams -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index -- Wakefield Press -- Back cover.
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press
    ISBN: 978-0-520-34448-8 (hardcover) , 0-520-34448-0 (hardcover) , 978-0-520-34449-5 (paperback) , 0-520-34449-9 (paperback) , 978-0-520-97555-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 278 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Mexiko Mittelamerika ; Yucatan ; Tourismus ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and imagining life. And yet, tourism also creates jobs, encourages infrastructure development, and in many places inspires the only possibility of hope and well-being. Stuck with Tourism explores the ambivalent nature of tourism by drawing on ethnographic evidence from the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula, a region voraciously transformed by tourism development over the past forty years. Contrasting labor and lived experiences at the beach resorts of Cancún, protected natural enclaves along the Gulf coast, historical buildings of the colonial past, and maquilas for souvenir production in the Maya heartland, this book explores the moral, political, ecological, and everyday dilemmas that emerge when, as Yucatán's inhabitants put it, people get stuck in tourism's grip. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Predatory and Sticky Tourism Geographies -- Beach Enclosures: Manufacturing a Caribbean Paradise -- Wild Hotspots: Contested Natures on the Maya Coast -- Colonial Enclaves: Site-Specific Indigeneity for Luxury Tourism -- City-Village: Domestic Maquila in the Tourist Offstage -- Conclusion: Tourism Fixation and Disciplinary Retoolings -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 223-252)
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    New Haven, Conn. : Yale Universtity Press
    ISBN: 978-0300246759 , 0300246757 , 0-300-07815-3 , 978-0-300-07815-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 464 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Veritas paperback edition
    Series Statement: Yale Agrarian Studies
    Series Statement: The _Yale ISPS Series
    Keywords: Staat Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Krise ; Staatszerfall
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 359 - 434
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-359-2 , 978-1-78920-360-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 246 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Afrika Gesellschaft ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Ethik ; Verhalten, kulturelles ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Mosambik ; Südafrika ; Elfenbeinküste ; Kamerun ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Kinshasa 〈Stadt, Demokratische Republik Kongo〉
    Abstract: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection of essays offers insight that develops a stronger grasp on the interaction between moral practices and discourses, and specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 9 Beiträge
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    Language: English
    Pages: 39 Seiten
    Keywords: Feldforschung Epidemie ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: Isolation measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 means that social researchers who have for doing fieldwork in a pandemic - specifically, ideas for avoiding in-person interactions by using mediated forms that will achieve similar ends. Social research has been conducted online for many years, of course. There are many examples of using online survey tools or doing content analyses or ethnographies using existing online interactions as research materials. Interviews have been conducted by phone or Skype for a long time. This document was initially directed at ways for how to turn fieldwork that was initially planned as using face-to-face methods into a more `hands-off` mode. However, people have added useful material about `born digital` research (content already generated on the internet by online interactions), which provides an alternative source of social research materials if researchers decide to go down that path.
    Note: (crowd-sourced document)
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    New York : Routledge
    ISBN: 9780429199547 , 9780429574443 , 9780429576553 , 780429578663 , 9780367189594
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 220 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa
    Keywords: Guinea Frau ; Frau und Politik ; Politik ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechterforschung ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische
    Abstract: "This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of political transformations. Carole Ammann argues that women`s political articulations in Muslim Guinea do not primarily take place within women`s associations or institutional politics such as political parties; but instead women`s silent forms of politics manifest in their daily agency, that is, when they make a living, study, marry, meet friends, raise their children, and do household chores. The book also analyses the relationship between the female population and the local authorities, and discusses when and why women`s claim making enjoys legitimacy in the eyes of other men and women, as well as representatives of `traditional` authorities and the local government. Paying particular attention to intersectional perspectives, this book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, social anthropology, political anthropology, the anthropology of gender, urban anthropology, gender studies, and Islamic studies."
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : Women's political articulations in a Guinean city -- Gendered conceptions throughout Guinean history -- Contested presidential elections in 2010 -- Expectations of the new president -- The Guinean State doing gender -- Women's limited impacts on institutional politics -- Everyday politics -- Struggling for recognition : interactions with local authorities -- Conclusion : women's silent politics.
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    Marseille : pacific-credo Publications
    ISBN: 978-2-9563981-9-6
    Language: English
    Pages: 182 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Neuguinea ; Irian Jaya ; Hochland ; Indigenität ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Ethnographie
    Abstract: This monograph is a comparative study of eight ways of life of highlanders in West Papua. It consists of ten sections: an introduction, a conclusion and eight ethnographic chapters, each dealing with a separate way of life. I chose this presentation since I wanted to make clear the individuality of each of them. In the book I attempt to trace the changes in these ways of life as they were occurring just previous to the settlement of colonial outsiders. This attempt proved feasible since for seven of them first contact accounts are available.
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    ISBN: 978-1-78735-147-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (178 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Economic Exposures in Asia
    Keywords: Mongolei Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Demokratisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Politik
    Abstract: Almost 10 years ago the mineral-rich country of Mongolia experienced very rapid economic growth, fuelled by China`s need for coal and copper. New subjects, buildings, and businesses flourished, and future dreams were imagined and hoped for. This period of growth is, however, now over. Mongolia is instead facing high levels of public and private debt, conflicts over land and sovereignty, and a changed political climate that threatens its fragile democratic institutions.Subjective Lives and Economic Transformations in Mongolia details this complex story through the intimate lives of five women. Building on long-term friendships, which span over 20 years, Rebecca documents their personal journeys in an ever-shifting landscape. She reveals how these women use experiences of living a `life in the gap` to survive the hard reality between desired outcomes and their actual daily lives. In doing so, she offers a completely different picture from that presented by economists and statisticians of what it is like to live in this fluctuating extractive economy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction - 1. When the party was cancelled - Interlude I - 2. Democracy and its discontent - Interlude II - 3. Loans for care - Interlude III - 4. Freedom and movement - Interlude IV - 5. Networks of exchange - Interlude V - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 151-155
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    ISBN: 978-1-78831-140-3 , 9781838604721 , 978-1-78672-364-2/(EPUB eBook) , 978-1-78673-364-1/(PDF eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 288 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: paperback edition
    Series Statement: International Library of African Studies 62
    Keywords: Westsahara Ethnie, Afrika ; Nomade ; Sahrauis ; Staatsentstehung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Flüchtling ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Geschichte ; Karawanenhandel ; Wüste ; Politik ; Geschlechterrolle ; Hassaniya ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 259-276
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    Durham$aLondon : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9781478003922 , 9781478003663
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 328 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bajorek, Jennifer Unfixed
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bajorek, Jennifer, 1970 - Unfixed
    DDC: 770.0966/0917541
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Photography Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Photography Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Entkolonialisierung ; Porträtfotografie ; Westafrika ; Westafrika ; Kolonialismus ; Fotografie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Introduction: At least two histories of liberation -- From early days to Kodak swag -- West African avant-gardes? -- Photography and decolonial imagination -- Note on geography, spelling, and language -- Part 1. What makes a popular photography? -- Ch. 1: Ça bousculait! (It was happening!) -- Early luminaries -- Numbers of prints, darkroom schedules, the interval -- What's in an angle? -- Vaccinostyl(e) -- Economic thresholds -- Methodological reflection: Where is photography's field? -- Ch. 2: Wild circulation: photography as urban media -- From Saint-Louis, with love -- Vernacular cosmopolitanism and media infrastructure -- They did it ?by photo? -- Tinkers, tailors: towards an expanded intermediality -- Undoing the colonial backdrop -- The road to Ouidah' and the moon -- Ch. 3: Decolonizing print culture: the example of Bingo -- Paris on the front page -- Africa on the cover -- Politics/anti-politics of representation -- Towards a transcolonial visual public -- Independence, pan-Africanism, and consumer marketing -- Know your African leaders -- Part 2. Republic of images -- Ch. 4: Africanizing political photography -- Censorship, political and other -- Protectionism and colonial markets -- State formation and the documentary impulse -- Aspirational research -- Proto-political images -- Methodological reflection: Endangered archives in the postcolony -- Ch. 5: The pleasures of state-sponsored photography -- The citizen stops for a moment -- The gift of electric light late at night -- Two ears, six copies -- Not everyone was happy -- Bureaucratic inspiration -- Heterogeneous visualities and the "ideal" image -- Ch. 6: African futures, lost and found -- Federation and non-alignment -- Visual histories under pressure -- Stirring it up (threats and promises).
    Abstract: "In Unfixed Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial political imagination in Francophone West Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960. Focusing on images created by photographers based in Senegal and Benin, Bajorek draws on formal analyses of images and ethnographic fieldwork with photographers to show how photography not only reflected but also actively contributed to social and political change. The proliferation of photographic imagery--through studio portraiture, bureaucratic ID cards, political reportage and photojournalism, magazines, and more--provided the means for west Africans to express their experiences, shape public and political discourse, and reimagine their world. In delineating how west Africans' embrace of photography was associated with and helped spur the democratization of political participation and the development of labor and liberation movements, Bajorek tells a new history of photography in west Africa--one that theorizes photography's capacity for doing decolonial work"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781478010012 , 9781478011064
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 403 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 307.1/21609597/8
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1973- ; Niedergang ; Planstadt ; Postkommunismus ; Baufälligkeit ; Nutzungsänderung ; Sozialismus ; Städtebau ; Stadtplanung ; Wiederaufbau ; Luftangriff ; Stadtforschung ; Architektur ; Deutschland ; Vinh ; Vietnam ; City planning / Vietnam / Vinh / German influences ; Urbanization / Vietnam / Vinh / History / 20th century ; Architecture, German / Vietnam / Vinh / History / 20th century ; Architecture / Political aspects / Vietnam / Vinh / History / 20th century ; Architecture, German ; Architecture / Political aspects ; Urbanization ; Vietnam / Vinh ; 1900-1999 ; History ; Vinh ; Städtebau ; Wiederaufbau ; Stadtplanung ; Deutschland ; Sozialismus ; Postkommunismus ; Geschichte 1973- ; Vietnam ; Vinh ; Städtebau ; Planstadt ; Baufälligkeit ; Nutzungsänderung ; Geschichte 1973- ; Vietnam ; Postkommunismus ; Planstadt ; Niedergang ; Stadtforschung ; Vinh ; Deutschland ; Luftangriff ; Stadtplanung ; Architektur ; Sozialismus ; Postkommunismus ; Geschichte 1973-
    Abstract: "Following a decade of United States bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism Christina Schwenkel examines the utopian visions of an expert group of Vietnamese and East German urban planners who sought to transform the devastated industrial town of Vinh into a model socialist city. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in Vietnam and Germany with architects, engineers, construction workers, and tenants in Vinh's mass housing complex, Schwenkel explores the material and affective dimensions of urban possibility, and the quick fall of Vinh's new built environment into unplanned obsolescence. She analyzes the tensions between aspirational infrastructure and postwar uncertainty to show how design models and practices that circulated between the socialist North and the decolonizing South underwent significant modification to accommodate alternative cultural logics and ideas about urban futurity. By documenting the building of Vietnam's first planned city and its aftermath of decay and repurposing, Schwenkel argues that underlying the ambivalent and often unpredictable responses to modernist architectural forms were anxieties about modernity and the future of socialism itself"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Ruination -- Annihilation -- Interlude: Urban Fragments -- Evacuation -- Interlude: Urban Fragments -- Solidarity -- Reconstruction -- Spirited Internationalism -- Interlude: Urban Fragments -- Rational Planning -- Interlude: Urban Fragments -- Utopian Housing -- Obsolescence -- Indiscipline -- Decay -- Renovation -- Revaluation -- Conclusion The Future of Utopias Past
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    ISBN: 978-0-8248-6780-5
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 391 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: paperback edition
    Keywords: Südostasien Laos ; Thailand ; Burma ; Kambodscha ; Sri Lanka ; Buddhismus ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschlechterrolle ; Sexualität ; Alltag ; Identität, sexuelle ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: Theravada Traditions offers a unique comparative approach to understanding Buddhism: it examines popular rituals of central importance in the predominantly Theravada Buddhist cultures of Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Instead of focusing on how religious ideas have impacted the ideals of government or ethical practice, author John Holt tries to ascertain how important changes, or shifts, in the trajectories of the political economies of societies have impacted the character of religious cultures. Each of the five chapters focuses on a particular rite and provides detailed historical, political, or social context: Holt shows how worship of the Phra Bang Buddha image in the annual pi mai or New Year's rites in Luang Phrabang, Laos, has changed dramatically since the 1975 communist revolution and the subsequent opening up of the country to tourism; he describes how, in the face of insurrections and a prolonged civil war, the annual asala perahara processions in Kandy, Sri Lanka, have come to reflect a robust assertion of a Sinhala Buddhist nationalist identity; how ordination rites among Thai Buddhists reflect the manner in which Thai culture has been ever more "commodified" in the context of its dramatically developing economy; and how in tightly controlled Myanmar the kathina rite, the act of giving new robes to members of the sangha after the completion of the rain-retreat season, transformed into a season of campaigning for gift-giving and merit-making; finally, he demonstrates how, in light of the devastating losses inflicted by the Khmer Rouge, pchum ben, the annual rite of caring ritually for one's deceased kin, became the most popular and perhaps most emotionally observed of all rites in the Khmer calendar year. In short, Theravada Traditions illustrates how popular, public ritual performance, far from being static, clearly indexes patterns of social and political change. Broad but deep, rigorous yet accessible, this rich, innovative volume provides a provocative introduction to the practice of Theravada Buddhism and the nature of social change in contemporary Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.
    Description / Table of Contents: Phra Bang : venerating the Buddha image in Lao religious culture -- Asala Perahara : powers of the Buddha's tooth-relic in Sri Lanka -- Upasampada and pabbajja : ordination in Thai Buddhist contexts -- Kathina : making merit in modern Myanmar (Burma) -- Pchum Ben : caring for the dead ritually in Cambodia -- Appendixes. 1. The Dalada sirita ; 2. Randoli Perahara ; 3. Wat Phnom ; 4. The Feast of the Offering to the Dead.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 337-373
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    ISBN: 978-1-5095-3180-6/(pbk.) , 978-1-5095-0694-1/(hbk.) , 978-1-5095-0698-9/(e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 203 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Immigration and Society
    Keywords: Migration Migration, illegale ; Flucht ; Umsiedlung ; Grenze ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Soziale Bedingungen ; USA ; Europa ; Mobilität, soziale
    Abstract: Undocumented migration is a global and yet elusive phenomenon. Despite contemporary efforts to patrol national borders and mass deportation programs, it remains firmly placed at the top of the political agenda in many countries where it receives hostile media coverage and generates fierce debate. However, as this much-needed book makes clear, unauthorized movement should not be confused or crudely assimilated with the social reality of growing numbers of large, settled populations lacking full citizenship and experiencing precarious lives.From the journeys migrants take to the lives they seek on arrival and beyond, Undocumented Migration provides a comparative view of how this phenomenon plays out, looking in particular at the United States and Europe. Drawing on their extensive expertise, the authors breathe life into the various issues and debates surrounding migration, including the experiences and voices of migrants themselves, to offer a critical analysis of a hidden and too often misrepresented population.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 168-194
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    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-5036-1002-6 , 978-1-5036-1074-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 307 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: South Asia in Motion
    Keywords: Großbritannien Inder ; Indien ; Militär ; Religion ; Religion und Politik ; Krieger ; Christentum ; Muslime ; Sikhismus ; Rajputs ; Paschtune ; Gurkah ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Nationalismus ; Identität ; Gewalt ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Rassismus ; Dekolonisation
    Abstract: During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, known as the "Martial Races," including British Christians, Hindustani Muslims, Punjabi Sikhs, Hindu Rajputs, Pathans from northwestern India, and "Gurkhas" from Nepal. As anti-colonial activism intensified, military officials incorporated some soldiers' religious traditions into the army to keep them disciplined and loyal. They facilitated acts such as the fast of Ramadan for Muslim soldiers and allowed religious swords among Sikhs to recruit men from communities where anti-colonial sentiment grew stronger. Consequently, Indian nationalists and anti-colonial activists charged the army with fomenting racial and religious divisions. In Faithful Fighters, Kate Imy explores how military culture created unintended dialogues between soldiers and civilians, including Hindu nationalists, Sikh revivalists, and pan-Islamic activists. By the 1920s and '30s, the army constructed military schools and academies to isolate soldiers from anti-colonial activism. While this carefully managed military segregation crumbled under the pressure of the Second World War, Imy argues that the army militarized racial and religious difference, creating lasting legacies for the violent partition and independence of India, and the endemic warfare and violence of the post-colonial world. --- provided by the publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Spiritual swords and martial violence -- Borders, boundaries, and belonging -- Purifying the soldier -- The government's salt from fast to famine -- A nation at odds with nationalism -- Martial masculinity in the fascist utopia.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 287-299
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    ISBN: 978-9956-551-13-2 , 9956-551-13-9 , 978-9956-551-61-3 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 739 Seiten
    Series Statement: Connected and Mobile 3
    Keywords: Afrika Information ; Technologie, moderne ; Kommunikationstechnologie ; Massenmedien ; Digitale Medien ; Ungleichheit ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Migration
    Abstract: What happens at the nexus of the digital divide and human trafficking? This book examines the impact of the introduction of new digital information and communication technology (ICT) - as well as lack of access to digital connectivity - on human trafficking. The different studies presented in the chapters show the realities for people moving along the Central Mediterranean route from the Horn of Africa through Libya to Europe. The authors warn against an over-optimistic view of innovation as a solution and highlight the relationship between technology and the crimes committed against vulnerable people in search of protection. In this volume, the third in a four-part series 'Connected and Mobile: Migration and Human Trafficking in Africa', relevant new theories are proposed as tools to understand the dynamics that appear in mobile Africa. Most importantly, the editors identify critical ethical issues in relation to both technology and human trafficking and the nexus between them, helping explore the dimensions of new responsibilities that need to be defined. The chapters in this book represent a collection of well-documented empirical investigations by a young and diverse group of researchers, addressing critical issues in relation to innovation and the perils of our time.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface by Chief Fortune Charumbira -- Acknowledgement -- A Word on the Review Procedure -- Acronyms -- Preamble -- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 1 - Black Holes in the Global Digital Landscape: The Fuelling of Human Trafficking on the African Continent -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The knowledge society -- Architecture of the information network -- The geographic misrepresentation of Africa and its effect on latency -- Black holes in the global digital landscape -- Stuck with this legacy -- Digitalisation of human trafficking for ransom -- Some empirical evidence -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 - Network Gatekeepers in Human Trafficking: Profiting from the Misery of Eritreans in the Digital Era -- Introduction -- Network gatekeepers -- The uneven digitally-connected world -- Methodology -- The relationship between the gated and the gatekeepers -- Alternative information sources -- Ability to produce and distribute information -- Relationship between the gated and the gatekeepers -- Political power -- The dependence of Eritrean refugees on human traffickers -- Alternatives to migration to Europe -- Alternative migration routes or options -- Autonomy to choose human smugglers and traffickers -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 - Bound Together in the Digital Era: Poverty, Migration and Human Trafficking -- Introduction -- The relationship between human trafficking and mixed migration -- Poverty, the main driver of mixed migration -- The cycle of poverty and human trafficking -- Deliberate poverty -- Trafficking in a digital age -- Slavery and trafficking for ransom: A profitable industry -- An African perspective on combatting human trafficking through the eradication of poverty -- Conclusion -- References.
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    Toronto : Anansi International
    ISBN: 978-1-4870-0683-9 , 978-1-4870-0684-6 , 978-1-4870-0685-3
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 398 Seiten
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Gefängnis ; Flüchtling ; Migration ; Menschenrecht ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Erlebnisbericht ; Biographie ; Kurde ; Iran ; Presse ; Manus 〈Insel, Papua-Neuguinea〉
    Abstract: "Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains. In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile. Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains?"--Publisher's summary.
    Note: "Includes a foreword by Richard Flanagan, plus translator's note and essay"--back cover. Translated from the Farsi
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    Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 978-1-4696-5311-2 (cloth) , 978-1-4696-5312-9 (pbk) , 978-1-4696-5313-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 163 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Critical Indigeneities
    Keywords: USA Mexiko ; Mittelamerika ; Indianer, Mexiko ; Indianer, Mittel-Amerika ; Migration ; Frau ; Gewalt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Armut ; Recht ; Neoliberalismus
    Abstract: "Incarcerated stories uses ethnography and oral history to document and assess the plight of indigenous women migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Their harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration parallel the worst stories we hear about immigrants' journeys; but as Speed argues, the circumstances for indigenous women are especially devastating against the backdrop of neoliberal economic and political reforms that have taken hold in Latin America as well as the U.S. First these women were promised greater autonomy and economic opportunity under reforms meant to promote indigenous rights at home, but the attention given to indigenous recognition veiled policies that furthered the economic disruption for women"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 139-155
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    Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 978-0-226-62434-1 , 978-0-226-62420-4 /Hb. , 978-0-226-62448-8 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: 264 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Republik Niger Mann ; Jugendlicher ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziales Leben ; Städtisches Gebiet ; Männlichkeit ; Diskriminierung ; Identität
    Abstract: Niger most often comes into the public eye as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men trying, against all odds, to find jobs and fill their time with meaningful occupations. At the heart of Adeline Masquelier`s groundbreaking book is the fada—a space where men gather to escape boredom by talking, playing cards, listening to music, and drinking tea. As a place in which new forms of sociability and belonging are forged outside the unattainable arena of work, the fada has become an integral part of Niger`s urban landscape. By considering the fada as a site of experimentation, Masquelier offers a nuanced depiction of how young men in urban Niger engage in the quest for recognition and reinvent their own masculinity in the absence of conventional avenues to self-realization. In an era when fledgling and advanced economies alike are struggling to support meaningful forms of employment, this book offers a timely glimpse into how to create spaces of stability, respect, and creativity in the face of diminished opportunities and precarity. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Waiting for tea -- The writing on the walls: ma(r)king the place of youth -- Snapshots: bringing (invisible) women into view -- Hip-hop, truth, and Islam -- Keeping watch: bodywork, street ethics, and masculinity -- Dress and the time of youth -- Zigzag politics: tea, ballots, and agency -- Conclusion.
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    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-093160-5/ (hardback) , 978-0-19-093161-2/ (pbk.) , 978-0-19-093162-9/ (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 217 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Global and Comparative Ethnography
    Keywords: Nordamerika Mexiko ; Elite, politische ; Reichtum ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sport ; Diskriminierung ; Soziale Klasse ; Ungleichheit ; Golf von Mexiko 〈Region,
    Abstract: While most research on inequality focuses on impoverished communities, it often ignores how powerful communities and elites monopolize resources at the top of the social hierarchy. In Privilege at Play, Hugo Ceron-Anaya offers an intersectional analysis of Mexican elites to examine the ways affluent groups perpetuate dynamics of domination and subordination. Using ethnographic research conducted inside three exclusive golf clubs and in-depth interviews with upper-middle and upper-class golfers, as well as working-class employees, Ceron-Anaya focuses on the class, racial, and gender dynamics that underpin privilege in contemporary Mexico. His detailed analysis of social life and the organization of physical space further considers how the legacy of imperialism continues to determine practices of exclusion and how social hierarchies are subtlety reproduced through distinctions such as fashion and humor, in addition to the traditional indicators of wealth and class. Adding another dimension to the complex nature of social exclusion, Privilege at Play shows how elite social relations and spaces allow for the resource hoarding and monopolization that helps create and maintain poverty.
    Description / Table of Contents: The history of golf in Mexico -- Invisibility and hyper-visibility -- Inside the community -- An ostensibly raceless nation -- The racialization of space -- Gender on the golf course.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 193-211
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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: 978-1-138-50185-0 , 978-1-138-50186-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 280 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Ethnologe Feldforschung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Gesundheit ; Umwelt ; Tabu ; Theorie ; Methodologie ; Risiko ; Adaption
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: pulling back the curtain -- A few secrets I wish I'd known -- Paths into the field -- Gendered relations and other challenges in the field -- The observer and the observed: the metamorphosis of research, methods, and the researcher -- Dangerous fields -- Ethics, advocacy, and other everyday moral dilemmas of research -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I -- Paths into the field -- 1 Learning fields -- The long walk into the field -- Learning from the field -- Concluding remarks -- Questions for reflection -- Note -- References -- 2 Stumbling around the sacred: some personal observations -- Introduction -- Why I might study religion -- Luck, fast and dumb -- Studying the sacred -- On qualifications and authenticity -- Relax, it's only sacred -- My rebirth -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Questions for reflection -- Notes -- References -- 3 From the Orinoco to Sorority Row: searching for a field site as an evolutionary anthropologist -- Questions for reflection -- Notes -- References -- Part II -- Gendered relations and other challenges in the field -- 4 Doing ethnomusicological research as a white woman in Cameroon and the Central African Republic -- Being a woman in the field -- Doing a man's job -- Questions for reflection -- Notes -- References -- 5 A boss, a mother, a red antelope, and all the things in between -- Introduction -- Am I really a woman? -- To be "patron" and becoming "ma fille" -- The ethnomusicologist and the xylophone mother bar -- White girl, mother, grandmother, and novice in Gabon -- My Gabon modus vivendi -- "La blanche" and the bishop -- Mother Hélène's daughter -- The novice and the Myene people -- Conclusion.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-5017-3513-4 , 978-1-5017-3553-0 , 978-1-5017-3512-7 , 1-5017-3512-8 , 978-1-5017-3626-1 , 1-5017-3626-4 , 978-1-5017-3513-4/weitere Ausgabe
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 246 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Afrika Äthiopien ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Arbeit ; Arbeit, informelle ; Armut ; Alltag ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Entwicklung ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Addis Abeba 〈Äthiopien〉
    Abstract: The Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Replete with richly depicted characters and multi-layered narratives on history, everyday life and visions of the future, Marco Di Nunzio's ethnography of hustling and street life is an investigation of what is to live, hope and act in the face of the failing promises of development and change. Di Nunzio follows the life trajectories of two men, "Haile" and "Ibrahim," as they grow up in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, enter street life to get by, and turn to the city's expanding economies of work and entrepreneurship to search for a better life. Apparently favourable circumstances of development have not helped them achieve social improvement. As their condition of marginality endures, the two men embark in restless attempts to transform living into a site for hope and possibility. By narrating Haile and Ibrahim's lives, The Act of Living explores how and why development continues to fail the poor, how marginality is understood and acted upon in a time of promise, and why poor people's claims for open-endedness can lead to better and more just alternative futures. Tying together anthropology, African studies, political science, and urban studies, Di Nunzio takes readers on a bold exploration of the meaning of existence, hope, marginality, and street life.
    Description / Table of Contents: Migrants, gentlemen and thugs -- A thug's life -- Donkeys with ashes -- Do not cross the red line -- Keep on hustlin' -- Life is a paradise -- The time of the bumpkins -- Embracing uncertainty
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    ISBN: 978-1-84701-224-1 , 1-84701-224-8
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 186 Seiten , 1 Karte
    Edition: First published in hardback
    Series Statement: Eastern Africa Series
    Keywords: Äthiopien Amhara ; Landnahme ; Reform ; Landnutzung ; Landrecht ; Landwirtschaft ; Bauer ; Bauerntum ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik
    Abstract: An alternative analysis of the impact of the 1975 land reforms on peasant land rights, rural inequality and development in Ethiopia's Amhara highlands; essential reading for those engaged in research and policymaking in peasant studies, land and agriculture.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Svein Ege -- Peasant land tenure: a critical review / Svein Ege -- The Dersha system: rethinking land tenure under the Därg / Svein Ege -- Land tenure in Gojam under the Därg / Yigremew Adal and Svein Ege -- Land tenure in Baba Säat, North Wälo / Harald Aspen -- Rural land and urban aspirations: future orientation in a time of change / Harald Aspen -- An unstable land tenure system / Svein Ege -- Conclusion / Harald Aspen.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 165-179
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    ISBN: 978-981-4722-75-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, [7 ungezählte], 720 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: reprint
    Keywords: Indonesien Ost-Indonesien ; Orale Geschichte ; Orale Tradition ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziales Leben ; Entwicklung ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Sawuinseln 〈Inselgruppe, Indonesien〉
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 552-567
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    Lucknow : New Royal Book Company
    ISBN: 978-81-936349-2-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 153 Seiten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Indien Islam ; Muslime ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Alltag ; Soziales Leben ; Beziehungen, interreligiös
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    Online Resource
    London : UCL Press, University College London
    ISBN: 978-1-78735-134-9 (PDF) , 978-1-78735-137-0 (epub) , 978-1-78735-138-7 (mobi) , 978-1-78735-139-4 (html) , 978-1-78735-136-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-1-78735-135-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 118 Seiten)
    Edition: First published
    Edition: Being-Young-Male-and-Muslim-in-Luton.pdf
    Series Statement: Spotlights
    Keywords: England Islam ; Muslime ; Mann ; Städtisches Gebiet ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Soziologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: What is it like to be a young Muslim man in post-7/7 Britain, and what impact do wider political factors have on the multifaceted identities of young Muslim men? Drawn from the author`s ethnographic research of British-born Muslim men in the English town of Luton, Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton explores the everyday lives of the young men and, in particular, how their identity as Muslims has shaped the way they interact with each other, the local community and the wider world.Through a study of religious values, the pressures of masculinity, the complexities of family and social life, and attitudes towards work and leisure, Ashraf Hoque argues that young Muslims in Luton are subverting what it means to be `British` through consciously prioritising and re-articulating self-confessed `Muslim identities` in novel and dynamic ways that suit their experiences as a post-colonial diaspora. Employing extensive participant observation and rich interview content, Hoque paints a detailed picture of young Muslims living in a town consistently associated in the popular media with terrorist activity and as a hotbed for radicalisation. He challenges widely held assumptions about cultural segregation, gender relations and personal liberty in Muslim communities, and gives voice to an emerging generation of Muslims who view Britain as their home and are very much invested in the long-term future of the country and their permanent place within it.This short and accessible book will be of interest to students seeking grounding in Islam and Muslim communities in diaspora, and scholars from an array of social science and humanities backgrounds including Anthropology, Sociology of Religion, Political Science, Urban Studies and Cultural Studies. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Discussion -- 1. Luton -- 2. Family -- 3. Friends -- 4. Religion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 104-113 , [Doctoral thesis, SOAS London, 2011, entitled Hoque, Ashraf-ul: Generation terrorised : Muslim youth, being British and not so British]
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    ISBN: 9780816540266 , 9780816539666
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 238 Seiten , 24 cm x 16 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lamana Ferrario, Gonzalo, 1966 - How "Indians" think
    DDC: 305.800985/09032
    Keywords: Vega, Garcilaso de la Criticism and interpretation ; Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe Criticism and interpretation ; Indians of South America Intellectual life 17th century ; Racism History 17th century ; Peru Race relations 17th century ; History
    Abstract: "This book argues that Indigenous thinkers of colonial Peru penned the Americas' first documents on critical race theory"--
    Abstract: "This book shines light on Indigenous perspectives through a novel interpretation of the works of the two most important Amerindian intellectuals in the Andes, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca. Building on but also departing from the predominant scholarly position that views Indigenous-Spanish relations as the clash of two distinct cultures, Gonzalo Lamana argues that Guaman Poma and Garcilaso were the first Indigenous activist intellectuals and that they developed post-racial imaginaries four hundred years ago. Their texts not only highlighted Native peoples' achievements, denounced injustice, and demanded colonial reform, but they also exposed the emerging Spanish thinking and feeling on race that was at the core of colonial forms of discrimination. These authors aimed to alter the way colonial actors saw each other and, as a result, to change the world in which they lived+--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 76
    ISBN: 0300196113 , 9780300196115
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 270 Seiten , Illustrationen , 25 cm
    Series Statement: Eurasia past and present
    DDC: 306.09517/3
    Keywords: Post-communism ; Economic history ; Manners and customs ; Social conditions ; Mongolia ; Ulaanbaatar ; History ; Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) Social conditions 20th century ; Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) Economic conditions 20th century ; Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) Social life and customs ; Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) History ; Ulan Bator ; Wirtschaftssoziologie
    Abstract: An ethnography of the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar during the nation's transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Urban Hunters is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation's transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos characterized by wild inflation, disappearing banks, and closing farms, factories, and schools. During this time of widespread poverty, a generation of young adults came of age. In exploring the social, cultural, and existential ramifications of a transition that has become permanent and acquired a logic of its own, Lars Hojer and Morten Axel Pedersen present a new theorization of social agency in postsocialist as well as postcolonial contexts
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 77
    ISBN: 9781108472807
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 360 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African studies series 141
    Series Statement: African studies
    DDC: 364.1532096875
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    Keywords: Rape History ; Rape Law and legislation ; History ; Sexual consent Political aspects ; History ; Xhosa (African people) Sexual behavior ; History
    Abstract: Introduction: Writing the history of rape -- Custom and consent in Xhosaland -- Sex and spiritual power -- Liberalism and the colonial law of sexual violence -- Rape and racial boundaries -- Navigating the politics of consent -- Conclusion: Rape and the postcolony
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    Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
    ISBN: 9781496215543
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 417 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates , illustrations, portraits , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Critical studies in the history of anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301
    RVK:
    Keywords: Boas, Franz ; Boas, Franz / 1858-1942 ; Boas, Franz / 1858-1942 ; Anthropologists / Germany / Biography ; Anthropologists / United States / Biography ; Racism in anthropology ; Anthropology / History / 19th century ; Anthropology / History / 20th century ; Anthropologists ; Racism in anthropology ; Germany ; United States ; Biographies ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Boas, Franz 1858-1942
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Ardently desired boy : young Boas and his family -- 2. Student life into its deepest depths : Boas at university -- 3. In heaven, in love, and separation : preparing for the Arctic voyage -- 4. Creating a future for us : to Baffin Land and back -- 5. Divided desires : pulled between New York and Germany -- 6. West to the Indians : Northwest Coast fieldwork, employment by science, and marriage -- 7. All our hopes come to such a disgrace : Boas at Clark University -- 8. The World's Columbian Exposition : Boas and Frederic Ward Putnam -- 9. Your orphan boy : struggling to find a place -- 10. The greatest undertaking of its kind : the Jesup North Pacific Expedition -- 11. Taking hold in New York : from the AMNH to Columbia University
    Note: First of two volumes. Volume 2 (forthcoming) subtitled: Shaping anthropology and working for social justice. (Series editors' introduction)
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    ISBN: 9781789201130
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 316 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Luso-tropicalism and its discontents
    DDC: 305.800917/569
    Keywords: Freyre, Gilberto Criticism and interpretation ; Freyre, Gilberto Political and social views ; Portuguese-speaking countries Race relations 20th century ; History ; Portugal Colonies ; Race relations ; History ; Brazil Race relations 20th century ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Freyre, Gilberto 1900-1987 ; Portugiesisches Sprachgebiet ; Rassenmischung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Geschichte 1880-1980
    Abstract: Klappentext: "Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre's Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world. Encompassing Brazil as well as Portuguese-speaking societies in Africa, Asia, and even Portugal itself, it places an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation to challenge the conventional understanding of twentieth-century racialization, proffering new insights into such controversial topics as human plasticity, racial amalgamation, and the tropes and proxies of whiteness"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Gilberto Freyre's view of miscegenation and its circulation in the Portuguese empire, 1930s-1960s / Claudia Castelo -- Gilberto Freyre : racial populism and ethnic nationalism / Jerry Davila -- Anthropology and pan-Africanism at the margins of the Portuguese empire : trajectories of Kamba Simango / Lorenzo Macagno -- Eugenics, genetics, and anthropology in Brazil : The masters and the slaves, racial miscegenation, and its discontents / Robert Wegner and Vanderlei Sebastiao de Souza -- Gilberto Freyre and the UNESCO research project on race relations in Brazil / Marcos Chor Maio -- "An immense mosaic" : race-mixing and the creation of the genetic nation in 1960s Brazil / Rosanna Dent and Ricardo Ventura Santos -- The racial science of patriotic primitives : Mendes Correia in Portuguese Timor / Ricardo Roque -- Reassessing Portuguese exceptionalism : racial concepts and colonial policies toward the Bushmen in southern Angola, 1880s-1970s / Samuel Coghe -- "Anthropo-biology," racial miscegenation, and body normality : comparing bio-typological studies in Brazil and Portugal, 1930-1940 / Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes -- Luso-tropicalism debunked, again : race, racism, and racialism in three Portuguese-speaking societies / Cristiana Bastos -- Being (Goan) modern in Zanzibar : mobility, relationality and the stitching of race / Pamila Gupta -- Afterword I / Nelia Dias -- Afterword II / Peter Wade.
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    New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780190879372 , 9780190879365
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 177 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Félix, Adrián, 1983- author Specters of belonging
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Félix, Adrián, 1983 - Specters of belonging
    DDC: 973/.046872
    Keywords: Mexicans Politics and government ; Mexican Americans Politics and government ; Mexican Americans Attitudes ; Naturalization ; Citizenship ; Return migration ; Citizenship ; Citizenship ; Emigration and immigration ; Mexican Americans ; Mexican Americans ; Mexican Americans ; Mexican Americans ; Mexicans ; Mexicans ; Naturalization ; United States ; Social aspects ; Attitudes ; Attitudes ; Politics and government ; Politics and government ; Politics and government ; United States ; Naturalization ; Return migration ; Politics and government ; United States ; Return migration ; Mexico ; Mexico ; Mexico ; United States ; Emigration and immigration ; United States ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Mexico Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; USA ; Mexikanischer Einwanderer ; Rückwanderung ; Staatsangehörigkeit
    Abstract: Introduction : the political life cycle of Mexican migrants -- Enunciations of transnational citizenship : Mexican migrants' encounters with naturalization -- Enactments of transnational citizenship : migrants' entanglements with Mexican party politics -- Embodiments of transnational citizenship : postmortem repatriation from the United States to México -- Conclusion : transnational afterlife -- Epilogue : phantom paisanos
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    New York ; London ; Oxford ; New delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Publishing
    ISBN: 9781632869241 , 9781632869258
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 514 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1699 ; Thanksgiving Day ; Wampanoag ; Massachusetts ; Wampanoag Indians / Massachusetts / History / 17th century ; Thanksgiving Day / History ; Indians of North America / First contact with Europeans / Massachusetts ; HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) ; HISTORY / Native American ; Indians of North America / First contact with Europeans ; Race relations ; Thanksgiving Day ; Wampanoag Indians ; Massachusetts ; Pilgrims (New England colonists) ; Thanksgiving Day ; Massachusetts / History ; 1600-1699 ; History ; History ; Massachusetts ; Wampanoag ; Thanksgiving Day ; Geschichte 1600-1699
    Abstract: "Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousmaequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the 'First Thanksgiving.' The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving"--
    Abstract: In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. When the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation, Ousmaequin and 90 of his men visited Plymouth for the "First Thanksgiving." 400 years after that famous meal, Silverman focuses on the Wampanoag Indians as he examines the creation-- and bloody dissolution-- of their alliance. This history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday celebrating the white proprietorship of the United States. -- adapted from jacket
    Description / Table of Contents: Mourning in America -- The Wampanoags' old world -- Danger on the horizon -- Golgotha -- Reaching out to strangers -- Ousamequin's power play -- A great man and a little child -- Ungrateful -- Ruining Thanksgiving -- "Days of mourning and not joy" -- Toward a day with less mourning
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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    Durham : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-4780-0018-1 , 978-1-4780-0003-7 /Hb. , 978-1-4780-0203-1 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 256 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [123]
    Keywords: Anthropologie, soziale Ethnologie ; Infrastruktur ; Technologie, moderne ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint`s poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure / Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta -- Part I. Time -- 1. Infrastructural Time / Hannah Appel -- 2. The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta -- 3. Infrastructures in and out of Time: The Promise of Roads in Contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey -- 4. The Current Never Stops: Intimacies of Energy Infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel --Part II. Politics -- 5. Infrastructure, Apartheid Technopolitics, and Temporalities of "Transition" / Antina von Schnitzler -- 6. A Public Matter: Water, Hydraulics, Biopolitics / Nikhil Anand -- Part III Promise -- 7. Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure / Brian Larkin -- 8. Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker -- 9. Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution / Dominic Boyer -- Contributors -- Index
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 9 Beiträge
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-948711-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 304 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Islam Muslime ; Gesellschaft, westliche ; Amerika ; Europa ; Australien ; Multikulturalität ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wahrnehmung ; Fremdwahrnehmung ; Islamophobie ; Beziehungen Christentum-Islam ; Migration
    Abstract: This book focuses on the way Muslims and mainstream societies in the West, especially in America, Australia, and Europe, perceive each other. It focuses on the meaning of being a Muslim in a multicultural, multi-religious, and technologically developed world. The essays in the volume explore the socio-political, cultural, and historical differences between the two groups, Muslims and Western societies, while attempting to reconcile some of these differences in creative ways by initiating constructive dialogues between them. It also takes into account the tensions, challenges, and complexities between these communities across various contexts, including, schools, universities, media, government, private, and public institutions. This volume thus explores this interplay between perceptions and misperceptions by delving into the societal structures of Western host and immigrant communities.
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    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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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 978-0-226-51594-6 , 978-0-226-51613-4 , 978-0-226-51627-1/ebook
    Language: English
    Pages: 258 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Kolumbien Ölpalme ; Industrie ; Umwelt ; Umweltbelastung ; Wirtschaft ; Klimawandel ; Menschenrecht ; Landnahme ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: "Palma africana represents the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the threat to life, human and nonhuman, that characterizes the contemporary moment. In Colombia, where Taussig has worked for decades, palm oil plantations are spreading in areas that were once cornucopias of animal, bird, and plant life. Deforestation and habitat loss are the first effects."--Provided by publisher."It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist's dream." So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the contemporary moment. But to what elixir does he refer? Palm oil. Saturating everything from potato chips to nail polish, palm oil has made its way into half of the packaged goods in our supermarkets. By 2020, world production will be double what it was in 2000. In Colombia, palm oil plantations are covering over one-time cornucopias of animal, bird, and plant life. Over time, they threaten indigenous livelihoods and give rise to abusive labor conditions and major human rights violations. The list of entwined horrors--climatic, biological, social--is long. But Taussig takes no comfort in our usual labels: "habitat loss," "human rights abuses," "climate change." The shock of these words has passed; nowadays it is all a blur. Hence, Taussig's keen attention to words and writing throughout this work. He takes cues from precursors' ruminations: Roland Barthes's suggestion that trees form an alphabet in which the palm tree is the loveliest; William Burroughs's retort to critics that for him words are alive like animals and don't like to be kept in pages--cut them and the words are let free. Steeped in a lifetime of philosophical and ethnographic exploration, Palma Africana undercuts the banality of the destruction taking place all around us and offers a penetrating vision of the global condition. Richly illustrated and written with experimental verve, this book is Taussig's Tristes Tropiques for the twenty-first century.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 251-254
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
    ISBN: 978-1-5179-0082-3 , 978-1-5179-0083-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XXI, 360 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Nordamerika USA ; South Dakota ; Dakota ; Sioux ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Indianerpolitik ; Indianerreservation ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Liberalismus ; Wahl ; Macht
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  • 87
    ISBN: 978-81-316-0974-3
    Language: English
    Pages: 214 Seiten
    Edition: reprinted
    Keywords: Indien Kaste ; Kastenwesen ; Kulturgeschichte ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Recht, hinduistisches ; Rein-Unrein ; Diskriminierung ; Dharma ; Ethik ; Verhaltensnorm ; Altertum
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  • 88
    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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  • 89
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    New Delhi : Mittal Publications / in collaboration with Sanskruti and Sanskriti, Guwahati
    ISBN: 978-81-8324-896-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 440 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Indien Kaste ; Kastenwesen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Ungleichheit ; Indigenität ; Adivasi ; Unberührbarer ; Gesellschaft, moderne
    Note: "Institute of Dravidian Culture and Research (Sanskruti), the anthropological research wing of SVD - Society of the Divine Word (India), Hyderabad conducted its 4th National Seminar on Caste System in Contemporary India: Issues and Implications on January 27-28, 2017 at the Institute's Arnold Bhavan central campus located at Ravindranagar Colony, Habsiguda, Hyderabad
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  • 90
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    New York : Berghahn Books
    ISBN: 978-1-78533-424-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 235 Seiten , 8 Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Guinea Bissau Kreole, Af ; Ethnizität ; Postkolonialismus ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [201]-228
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  • 91
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    Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press
    ISBN: 978-1-4696-4055-6 , 978-1-4696-4054-9 , 978-1-4696-4056-3 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 220 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Critical Indigeneities
    Keywords: Hawaii Polynesien ; Polynesier ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Ethnizität ; Identität ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
    Abstract: "Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For Kanaka Maoli people, the concept of "aloha" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the form of things like the "hula girl" of popular culture. Considering the way aloha is embodied, performed, and interpreted in Native Hawaiian literature, music, plays, dance, drag performance, and even ghost tours from the twentieth century to the present, Stephanie Nohelani Teves shows that misunderstanding of the concept by non-Native audiences has not prevented the Kanaka Maoli from using it to create and empower community and articulate its distinct Indigenous meaning.While Native Hawaiian artists, activists, scholars, and other performers have labored to educate diverse publics about the complexity of Indigenous Hawaiian identity, ongoing acts of violence against Indigenous communities have undermined these efforts. In this multidisciplinary work, Teves argues that Indigenous peoples must continue to embrace the performance of their identities in the face of this violence in order to challenge settler-colonialism and its efforts to contain and commodify Hawaiian Indigeneity.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195 - 208
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  • 92
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    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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  • 93
    ISBN: 978-93-86552-84-6 , 978-93-86552-85-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 306 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Süd-Asien Religion ; Reform ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Islam ; Kultur ; Geschichte ; Literatur ; Pakistan ; Indien
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  • 94
    ISBN: 978-1-137-60278-7 , 978-1-137-60047-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXV, 230 Seiten , Karte
    Series Statement: Perspectives from Social Economics
    Keywords: Amerika Argentinien ; Brasilien ; Kanada ; Kolumbien ; Guyana ; Haiti ; Jamaika ; USA ; Afro-Amerikaner ; Diaspora ; Schwarze ; Frau ; Selbsthilfe ; Gemeinschaft ; Alternativbewegung ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Rassismus ; Sklaverei ; Kolonialismus ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term "Black social economy," a self-help sector that remains autonomous from the state and business sectors. With the Western Hemisphere`s ignoble history of enslavement and violence towards African peoples, and the strong anti-black racism that still pervades society, the African diaspora in the Americas has turned to alternative practices of socio-economic organization. Conscientious and collective organizing is thus a means of creating meaningful livelihoods. In this volume, fourteen scholars explore the concept of the "Black social economy," bringing together innovative research on the lived experience of Afro-descendants in business and society in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, and the United States. The case studies in this book feature horrific legacies of enslavement, colonization, and racism, and they recount the myriad ways that persons of African heritage have built humane alternatives to the dominant market economy that excludes them. Together, they shed necessary light on the ways in which the Black race has been overlooked in the social economy literature.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Daring to Conceptualize the Black Social Economy. - 2. Revisiting Ideas and Ideologies in African American Social Economy: From the Past Forward. - 3. Drawing on the Lived Experience of African Canadians: Using Money Pools to Combat Social and Business Exclusion. - 4. The Social Economy in a Jamaican Perspective. - 5. Building Economic Solidarity: Caribbean ROSCAs in Jamaica, Guyana and Haiti. - 6. The Everyday Social Economy of Afro-descendants in the Chocó, Colombia. - 7. The Social Economy of Afro-Argentines and African Descendants in Buenos Aires. - 8. Commerce, Culture, and Community: African Brazilian Women Negotiating Their Social Economies. - 9. The Quilombolas` Refuge in Brazil: Social Economy, Communal Space and Shared Identity. - 10. Conclusion: Black life in the Americas: Economic resources, cultural endowment, and communal solidarity.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 203-222
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  • 95
    ISBN: 978-90-04-35407-4 , 978-90-04-36598-8 /eBook
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 322 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series volume 37
    Keywords: Kenia Tansania ; Somalia ; Mosambik ; Sansibar ; Tanganjika ; Indischer Ozean ; Europa ; USA ; Suaheli ; Migration ; Flüchtling ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sufismus ; Islam ; Poesie ; Frau ; Sklavenhandel ; Soziale Medien ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude.
    Description / Table of Contents: Transliteration, Orthography and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors - Introduction -- Translocality in the Past -- Vectors (Carriers) of Translocality --Reflections (Representations) of Translocal Connections -- Experiencing Translocality: Translocality from the Bottom - Translocality in Daily Experience -- Index
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 11 Beiträge
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    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    ISBN: 978-1-138-89402-0 , 978-1-138-89403-7 , 978-1-315-17997-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 207 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Amazonas-Gebiet Kautschuk ; Industrie ; Ressource ; Rohstoff ; Handel ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte
    Abstract: In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America, emphasizing the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. Through a critical examination focused on the rubber industry, Nugent addresses myths that continue to influence perceptions of Amazonia. The book challenges widely held assumptions about the hyper-naturalism of the `lost world' of the Amazon where `the challenge of the tropics' is still to be faced and the `frontiers of development' are still to be settled. It is relevant for students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, history, political ecology, geography and development studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: reface: The Amazon Rubber Boom, Tapping into the Past 1. Requiem for the Amazon Rubber Boom 2. This Substance Called Rubber: Hevea and Its Relations 3. Anthropological Rubber in the Amazon 4. Postcards from El Dorado: an overview of historical accounts of the rubber industry 5. Embedded Tropes and the Shift of Time 6. Failure as a Stage of Modernization, Part one: Narratives of failure 7. Failure as a Stage of Modernization, Part two: Modernity redux, the failure of Fordlandia 8. After the Wild Frontier 9. The Melancholy and the Modern 10. Rubber in London 11. Concluding Comments
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  • 97
    Language: English
    Pages: 556 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Äthiopien Ländliches Gebiet ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Urbanisation ; Arbeitsmigration ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Unternehmen ; Frau ; Gesundheitswesen
    Abstract: This book documents transformation in twenty rural communities in Ethiopia, that have changed almost beyond recognition, in complex ways with different implications for various people--men and women, adults and youth, rich and poor. The communities have become less rural through urbanisation and more outward-looking, including through labour migration. The local economies have become more diversified, offering opportunities for entrepreneurial individuals and greater participation of women. At the same time inequalities have risen and young people's aspirations have grown with more educational opportunities. However, youth face increased challenges in improving their livelihoods and transitioning to adulthood. The expansion in health care is important, particularly for young women, mothers and babies, though girls still face a range of risks in growing up, and poverty and remoteness affect the wellbeing of mothers and infants. This book will appeal to policymakers, practitioners, donors and academics seeking to understand Ethiopia today through the experiences of the majority of its people who still live beyond the major conurbations; and the ways their lives have evolved over the last twenty years.
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  • 98
    ISBN: 978-1-4985-5088-8 , 978-1-4985-5089-5/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XXI, 332 Seiten
    Keywords: Afrikaner Migration ; Globalisierung ; Diaspora ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
    Abstract: Since their early beginning in Africa as foragers, hunters and gatherers, humans have been on the move. In modern times, their movements have been compelled by geographical, economic, political, cultural, social and personal reasons. However, beginning in the second-half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century their reasons for and pattern of migration have been largely influenced by globalization. Globalization, by its very nature, cuts across virtually every aspect of the human life and human society. And especially in the United States, African immigrants are subject to the undercurrents of globalization - particularly in the areas of culture, religion, interpersonal relationships, and the assimilation and acculturation process. Relying on the vast theoretical and practical experience of academics and public intellectuals across three continents, this book succinctly interrogates some of the pull/push factors of migration, the challenges of globalizing forces, and the daily reality of relocation. The everyday reality and experiences of blacks in the diaspora (Latin America, Caribbean, and Europe) are also part of the discourse and the subject matters are approached from different perspectives and paradigms. Africans and the Exiled Life, therefore, is a compelling and rich addition to the ongoing global debate and understanding of migration and exile.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-302
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  • 99
    ISBN: 978-0-8223-7044-4 , 978-0-82237-056-7 , 978-0-8223-7201-1/online
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 280 Seiten , 17 illustrations
    Keywords: Stadtplanung Migration ; Zuwanderung ; Integration ; Enteignung ; Arbeit ; Kulturvergleich ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Türkei ; Deutschland ; USA ; Mardin 〈Stadt, Türkei〉 ; Manchester 〈Stadt, New Hamshire〉 ; Halle, Saale 〈Stadt, Deutschland〉
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    London & Company : Hurst
    ISBN: 978-1-78738-154-4
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 257 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Jugendlicher ; Erwachsener ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Vision
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: 'There is no Plan B' -- 1. The Click-Baiter -- 2. The English Man -- 3. The Fixer -- Part II: 'I am Ready for a Fight' -- 4. The Angry Young Men -- 5. The Angry Young Woman -- Part III: 'Nothing is What it Looks Like' -- 6. The Star -- 7. The Scammer -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements.
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