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  • Frobenius-Institut  (4)
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    Lineages and advancements in material culture studies : perspectives from UCL anthropology (2021)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-00-018581-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 282 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Materielle Kultur Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie ; Ethnographie ; Ethnologie ; Feldforschung ; Methodologie
    Abstract: This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. Many of the chapters explicitly lay out the state of play in the field, challenging how the anthropology of material culture is being done, and arguing for new directions of enquiry or new methods of investigation. The contributors foreground research methods, with many of the contributors exploring the ramifications of specific methods, and exploring new methodological frameworks to address areas of human experience that require a new analytical approach.The 15 original case studies draw from a range of research contexts, including digital objects, infrastructure, digital objects, data, extra-terrestriality, ethnographic curation, medical materiality, and include timely reappraisals of now classical analytical models that have shaped the way we understand the object, the discipline, knowledge formation, and the artefact. (Umschlagtext)
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    Environment and Post-Soviet transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea region : sea changes (2021)
    London : UCL Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-80008-033-1 (PDF) , 978-1-80008-036-2 (epub) , 978-1-80008-037-9 (mobi) , 978-1-80008-035-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-1-80008-034-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 264 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Edition: 9781800080331.pdf.pdf
    Series Statement: Economic Exposures in Asia
    Keywords: Usbekistan Kasachstan ; Ökologie ; Umwelt ; Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt ; Humanökologie ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Geschichte ; Anthropologie ; Aralsee
    Abstract: The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan`s Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to those living on the sea`s shores.Following the fluctuating fortunes of the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet fisheries, the book shows how the vast environmental changes the region has undergone cannot be disentangled from the transformations of Soviet socialism and postsocialism. This ethnographic perspective prompts a critical rethinking of the category of environmental disaster through which the region is predominantly known. Tracing how the sea`s retreat and partial return have been apprehended by diverse local actors in the former port of Aral`sk and surrounding fishing villages, as well as by scientists, bureaucrats and international development workers, William Wheeler draws out the multiple meanings environmental change acquires within different contexts. This study of how people make their lives amidst overlapping ecological and political-economic upheavals is rich in ethnographic detail that is both rooted in Soviet legacies and alive to the new transnational connections that are reshaping the region.Offering a rigorous political ecology of Soviet socialism and after, the book is a major contribution to the nascent environmental anthropology of Central Asia. It will be of interest to environmental anthropologists, environmental historians, and scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia and the former USSR.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Glossary and abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 The Aral Sea and the modernisation of Central Asia: a century of catastrophes -- 2 Seeing like a bureaucrat: problems of living standards and employment -- 3 Ocean fish, state socialism and nostalgia in Aral`sk -- 4 Rupture and continuity in Aral fishing villages -- 5 From Soviet ruins: flounder, the Kökaral dam and the return of the Small Aral Sea -- 6 Zander and social change in Bögen -- 7 Aral`sk today: fish, money, ekologiia -- Conclusion -- Appendix: sources for fish catches, 1905-1980 -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 242-255
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    Mobile museums : collections in circulation (2021)
    London : UCL Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-78735-508-8 (PDF) , 978-1-78735-526-2 (epub) , 978-1-78735-532-3 (mobi) , 978-1-78735-520-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-1-78735-514-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 352 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Museumskunde Ausstellung ; Sammler und Sammlung ; Anthropologie ; Archäologie
    Abstract: Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. It brings together an impressive array of international scholars and curators from a wide variety of disciplines - including the history of science, museum anthropology and postcolonial history - to consider the mobility of collections. The book combines historical perspectives on the circulation of museum objects in the past with contemporary accounts of their re-mobilisation, notably in the context of Indigenous community engagement. Contributors seek to explore processes of circulation historically in order to re-examine, inform and unsettle common assumptions about the way museum collections have evolved over time and through space.By foregrounding questions of circulation, the chapters in Mobile Museums collectively represent a fundamental shift in the understanding of the history and future uses of museum collections. The book addresses a variety of different types of collection, including the botanical, the ethnographic, the economic and the archaeological. Its perspective is truly global, with case studies drawn from South America, West Africa, Oceania, Australia, the United States, Europe and the UK. Mobile Museums helps us to understand why the mobility of museum collections was a fundamental aspect of their history and why it continues to matter today. (Umschlagtext)
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    The _global smartphone : beyond a youth technology (2021)
    London : UCL Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-78735-961-1 (PDF) , 978-1-78735-964-2 (epub) , 978-1-78735-965-9 (mobi) , 978-1-78735-963-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-1-78735-962-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 295 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: The-Global-Smartphone.pdf
    Series Statement: Ageing with Smartphones
    Keywords: Technologie, moderne Alter ; Computer ; Telekommunikation ; Massenmedien ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Kulturvergleich ; Kommunikationstechnologie ; Brasilien ; Italien ; Japan ; Irland ; Kamerun ; Israel ; Chile ; China ; Soziologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from this global and comparative research project. Smartphones have become as much a place within which we live as a device we use to provide `perpetual opportunism`, as they are always with us. The authors show how the smartphone is more than an `app device` and explore differences between what people say about smartphones and how they use them.The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which we can transform it. As a result, it quickly assimilates personal values. In order to comprehend it, we must take into consideration a range of national and cultural nuances, such as visual communication in China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, and access to health information in Chile and Ireland - all alongside diverse trajectories of ageing in Al Quds, Brazil and Italy. Only then can we know what a smartphone is and understand its consequences for people`s lives around the world. (Verlgsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter summaries -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What people say about smartphones -- 3. The smartphone in context -- 4. From apps to everyday life -- 5. Perpetual opportunism -- 6. Crafting -- 7. Ageing and smartphones -- 8. The heart of the smartphone - LINE, WeChat and WhatsApp -- 9. General and theoretical reflections -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Erschien auch in französischer, italienischer, portugiesischer und spanischer Parallelausgabe
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