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  • 1
    ISBN: 978-3-11-098557-3 (PDF) , 978-3-11-098626-6 (EPUB) , 978-3-11-099727-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    ISSN: 2749-8913
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 198 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Vigilanzkulturen volume 4
    Keywords: USA Mexiko ; Grenze ; Ethnographie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Chicano ; Latino ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Digitale Medien ; San Diego
    Abstract: Watchfulness shapes many Chicanxs` and other People of Color`s everyday lives in San Diego. Experiencing racist discrimination can lead to becoming vigilant, which frames their subjectivity. Focusing particularly on Chicanxs, we show how they seek to intervene against structural inequalities and threats in their lives, such as by re-claiming space, consciousness raising, participating in protests, and healing practices. We argue that contestations surrounding belonging create particularly watchful selves and that this is a significant aspect of borderland lifeworlds more broadly.The book advances the Anthropology of borders, coloniality, subjectivity, and race, as well as contributing to Chicano and Latino Studies, and Urban Studies. Pushing the boundaries of conventional approaches, this book is methodologically innovative by including team fieldwork, digital ethnography, and illustrative work by a local artist. It fills a gap in Security Studies by examining peer-to-peer vigilance beyond top-down surveillance and bottom-up "sousveillance," and expanding previous understandings of watchfulness as an ambivalent practice that can also express care and contribute to community building, as well as representing a "way of life." (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1 Introducing Watchfulness in San Diego -- Chapter 2 A Hall of Mirrors: Watchfulness as Ethnographic Method -- Chapter 3 "Sometimes you have to Transform into a Serpent": Political Subject-making around Chicano Park -- Chapter 4 Watching out across Time and Space in Aztlán: Chronopolitics in Chicano Park -- Chapter 5 "Why us?": Making Environmental and Health Threats Visible -- Chapter 6 Watchful Brujxs: Social Justice Activism in the Digital Sphere -- Conclusion: Decolonial Watchfulness and Watchful Lives in San Diego -- References
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 179-195
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    ISBN: 978-3-947251-79-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: RessourcenKulturen 23
    Keywords: Kirgisien Kindheit ; Identität ; Sozialer Wandel ; Tradition ; Religion ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: This book introduces readers to an ethnography about children in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and the values associated with their upbringing from local people`s own point of views. The author, who conducted her research in Kochkor, a village in northern Kyrgyzstan, approaches the topic of children and their childhood through the prism of `healthy growth`. In the local context, ideas about healthy growth of children are not limited to their physical, mental or emotional development; it also includes bringing up `culturally educated` members of society with proper moral values, as well as the conduct of culturally determined health-related and life-cycle rituals. Discourses on the healthy development of children are presented through the voices of the people of Kochkor about Kyrgyz cultural practices, the increasing role of Islam, modernity and globalisation in Kyrgyzstan and how these dynamics have changed their perceptions of children and their childhoods. Therefore, this book can also be seen as an ethnographic study of the social changes in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan that are shaping and re-shaping the values, worldviews and daily practices of local people. (Umschlagtext)
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  • 3
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (61 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology no. 210
    Keywords: Deutschland Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Rechtsradikalismus ; Hass
    Description / Table of Contents: In the past, far-right aggression predominantly focused on national settings and street terror against minorities; today, however, it is increasingly embedded in global networks and acts within a strategic framework aimed at revolution, targeting the liberal order as such. Ideologically combining antisemitism, racism, and anti-feminism/anti-LGBTQI, adherents of this movement see modern societies as degenerate and weak, with the only solution being a violent collapse that they attempt to accelerate with their actions. The terrorist who attacked the synagogue and a kebab shop in Halle, Germany, in October 2019 clearly identified with this transnational community and situated his act as a continuation of a series of attacks inspired by white supremacy in the past decade. The common term `lone wolf` for these kinds of terrorists is in that sense a misnomer, as they are embedded in digital `wolf packs`.Although this movement is highly decentralized and heterogeneous, there are interactive processes that connect and shape the online milieu of extremists into more than the sum of its parts, forming a structure which facilitates a certain degree of cohesion, strategic agency, and learning. This paper uses the model of collective learning outside formal organizations to analyze how the revolutionary accelerationist right as a community of practice engages in generating collective identities and knowledge that are used in the service of their acts of death and destruction. (Abstract)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 50-61
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    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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    Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (198 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology volume 26
    Keywords: Sansibar Ost-Afrika ; Migration ; Inder ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: This research examines the social, political and economic history of Indians in Zanzibar in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specifically between 1870s and 1963. Based on evidence collected from oral interviews and written archival documents, this research work argues that, the Indian migration history in Zanzibar, during this period, was impacted by their religious diversity, economic factors and social factors, as well as the British colonial interest. This research analysis yielded a number of the following key findings: First, there were heterogeneous migration patterns among the Indian migrants in East Africa, influenced by various factors including religion, caste, and the historical contexts in which particular migrants arrived. Second, numerous different social, physical, economic and political processes in India and East Africa motivated Indians to leave their homeland and form a migration community in Zanzibar from 1800 to 1963. Third, the desire to pass on their religion, traditions and customs to their descendants was a significant motivation for Indians to open their own private schools in Zanzibar. Fourth, the change of administration in 1890 had a major impact on the Indians in Zanzibar, especially investors who had already invested heavily in the local economy. Finally, despite their minority status compared to other communities such as Africans and Arabs, Indians participated in the politics of Zanzibar that led towards independence. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Historical Background: Diversity of the Indian Diaspora in Zanzibar -- 3 The Development of the Indian Communities in Zanzibar, 1800-1963 -- 4 Indian Education in Zanzibar, 1870-1963 -- 5 The British Economic Legislation and Indian Interests, 1890-1938 -- 6 Indians in Zanzibar`s Politics, 1940s-1963 -- 7 Conclusion -- 8 Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [185]-198 , Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, [2022]
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    ISBN: 978-3-8394-5731-3 , 978-3-8376-5731-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (334 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Body Cultures
    Keywords: Deutschland Großbritannien ; Reproduktion, menschliche ; Medizin, westliche ; Recht, westliches ; Identität
    Abstract: While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in the UK and Germany, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived persons play in it. This book shows that it is not someone's decision to procreate that turns »being donor-conceived« into a meaningful categorisation. Rather, kinship knowledge gets activated by the donor-conceived in specific ways for »being donor-conceived« to become a powerful identification. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. Contextualising donor conception and anonymity -- 2. Research and analysis -- 3. The right to know -- 4. Public stories and new networks -- 5. Micropolitics of not-knowing -- 6. When the cat has been let out of the bag -- 7. Connections you might (not) make -- 8. Infrastructuring DNA -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- List of abbreviations -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 297-328 , Dissertation, Universität Bremen, 2020
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  • 7
    ISBN: 978-3-8394-6081-8 , 978-3-8376-6081-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (330 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Kultur und Soziale Praxis
    Keywords: Deutschland Islam ; Migration ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Bekleidung ; Handel ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Ethnologie ; Berlin
    Abstract: Unter dem Schlagwort »ethnische Ökonomie« wird die berufliche Selbstständigkeit von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in Politik und Wissenschaft diskutiert. Indem die Selbstständigen ihren »Markt machen«, positionieren sie sich mit dem und gegen diesen Diskurs. Robert Birnbauer zeigt aus einer wirtschaftsanthropologischen Perspektive, wie die Unternehmer*innen dabei ihre gesellschaftlichen Positionen und etablierte ökonomische Wissensbestände gleichermaßen verhandeln. Dazu folgt er dem Diskurs um »ethnische Ökonomie« von der politischen in die unternehmerische Praxis und zeigt: Geschäfte im Markt für muslimische Mode werden zum Resultat gesellschaftlicher Diskurse und der Markt zum Effekt beschreibbarer unternehmerischer Praxis - weit jenseits einer »unsichtbaren Hand«. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Einleitung -- 2. Methode und Theorie -- 3. Gesprächskreis Migration: Der »ethnische Ökonomie«-Diskurs als Gegenstand politischer Intervention -- 4. Inszenierungen (in) unternehmerischer Praxis -- 5. Doing market: Zur Performanz einer relationalen Marktordnung -- 6. Fazit: Doing market zwischen unternehmerischem Selbst und »ethnischer Ökonomie« -- 7. Ausblick -- 8. Anhang -- 9. Verwendete Literatur -- Dank
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 303-323 , Dissertation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021
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  • 8
    ISBN: 978-3-86395-518-2
    ISSN: 2512-6881
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (268 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology Band 22
    Keywords: Japan Naturkatastrophe ; Krisenbewältigung ; Künstler ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Ethnopsychologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Der "11. März 2011" oder "Fukushima" wurde zu einem Synonym für eine Katastrophe und Unsicherheit über mögliche Folgen in der ganzen Welt. Ausgehend von der Frage nach der persönlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung der Ereignisse untersucht Wiebke Grimmig die Rolle der Gegenwartskünstler bei der Verarbeitung der Dreifachkatastrophe (Erdbeben, Tsunami und atomaren GAU) in Japan. Sie setzt ihren Fokus auf die emotionale Verarbeitung der Katastrophe durch ihre Gesprächspartner und bezieht deren biographischen Hintergrund, die Rolle der Gegenwartskunst in Japan und wirtschaftspolitische Interessen mit in ihre Betrachtung ein. Durch den ethnologischen Zugang einer 12-monatigen Feldforschung in Tokyo sowie in den unmittelbar betroffenen Gebieten der japanischen Ostküste und unter Einbezug der Tiefenanalyse narrativer Interviews gewinnt sie ein vielschichtiges Verständnis der Ereignisse und ihrer Folgen. Die Arbeit liefert mit Beschreibungen und Erläuterungen zu gesellschaftlichen Themen wie Emotion, Individualität, Macht, Resilienz, Politik, Wirtschaft und Kommunikation einen wichtigen Beitrag zur sozialwissenschaftlichen Katastrophenforschung. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Danksagung -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Forschungsstand -- 2.1 "Fukushima" im internationalen Wissenschaftsdiskurs -- 2.2 Arbeiten über die Narrative zu "Fukushima" -- 2.3 Zusammenfassung -- 3 Theoretische und methodische Rahmungen -- 3.1 Katastrophen und ihre Folgen - Eine theoretische Verortung -- 3.2 Diskursanalyse -- 3.3 Emotionsforschung -- 3.4 Die Erforschung von Emotionen im Feld - Methodisches Vorgehen -- 3.5 Meine Gesprächspartner -- 4 Der sozio-kulturelle Kontext der Dreifachkatastrophe -- 4.1 Der kulturspezifische Ausdruck des Selbst im sozialen Gefüge -- 4.2 Ein diskursiver Blickwinkel auf die japanische Gesellschaft -- 5 Vertrauen und Risiko - Die vorläufige Bilanz einer gesellschaftlichen Katastrophe -- 5.1Der "soziale Tsunami" - Auswirkungen der Dreifachkatastrophe auf die japanische Bevölkerung -- 5.2 Kulturelle Spezifika als Katastrophenrisiko? -- 5.3 Die Akteure der Diskurse um den 11.03.2011 -- 6 Kunst und Künstler in Japan - Eine Milieuanalyse -- 6.1 Was ist Kunst? -- 6.2 Die Gegenwartskunst in Japan: Eine historische Einordnung -- 6.3 Gegenwartskunst heute -- 7 Kogoro aus Tokyo - "Fukushima ist ein Röntgenbild der japanischen Gesellschaft" -- 7.1 Kogoro, der Künstler -- 7.2 Eine Biographie der Emotionen -- 7.3 Traurigkeit und Wut: Die Verknüpfung biographischer Emotionen mit aktuellen Ereignissen -- 7.4 Die persönliche Bedeutung des 11. März 2011 - "I am one of the seeds of change" -- 8 Ayako von Shiogama - Der Tsunami im lokalen Kontext der Ostküste -- 8.1 Ayako, die Künstlerin -- 8.2 Eine lokal geprägte Lebensgeschichte -- 8.3 Biographische Hintergründe -- 8.4 Das Erleben des 11. März 2011 - Eine andere Realität -- 8.5 Die Kunst als Form persönlichen Handlungsvermögens -- 9 Die biographischen Antworten der Gegenwartskünstlerim Kontext des nationalen Post-Fukushima-Diskurses -- 9.1 Tsunami und Atomkraft: Eine Gegenüberstellung der emotionalen Diskurse -- 9.2 Vor und nach 2011 - Biographische Antworten auf gesellschaftliche Fragen -- 9.3 Die Ausnahme der Regel - Tasha aus Tokyo -- 9.4 Weitere essentielle Facetten der gesellschaftlichen Verortung -- 10 Gegenwartskünstler als Experten der Bedeutungsherstellung -- 10.1 Die Rolle des Gegenwartskünstlers in der gesellschaftlichen Aushandlung von Emotionen -- 10.2 Biographische Lösungswege für die Gesellschaft? -- 10.3 Emotionen als moralischer Kompass für eine Gesellschaft -- 10.4 Das Prinzip der narrativen Transparenz -- 11 Schlussfolgerungen - Die Kunst zu leben -- 12 Literaturverzeichnis
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 256-268 , Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2020
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  • 9
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    Halle (Saale) : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (30 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology no. 209
    Keywords: Deutschland Migration ; Mexiko ; Ehe ; Heirat ; Integration ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: This paper aims to analyse recent Mexican migration to Germany and the forms of integration into their host society by addressing the experience of Mexican women married with Germans in the city of Berlin. Mixed marriage I understand as a journey in which the interplay between individual agency and structural opportunities and constraints substantially impacts personal experiences and the narratives thereof. I employ a biographical approach and follow this journey, which has its beginnings in a person`s childhood as socialisation, socio-economic conditions and social imaginaries in the country of origin provide the foundation for a person`s life course. It continues by way of meeting and engaging in a relationship with one`s future husband and the decision to get married and migrate (permanently) for family reasons - a process involving negotiations, choices, and contingencies. The journey proceeds in the host country where settling down is connected to the experience of integration and to perceptions concerning restraints and opportunities in one`s new life abroad. Questions guiding the analysis of these processes are: What (common) narratives can be identified during the life paths characterizing migration? How do personal agency and structural opportunities and constraints interplay? And how does this interplay influence the experience of migration and integration? (Verlagsangabe)
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  • 10
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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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    Tübingen : Tübingen University Press
    ISBN: 978-3-947251-67-4
    Language: English , German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 Seiten) , zahlreiche Illustrationen
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Series Statement: RessourcenKulturen Band 19
    Keywords: Mittelmeerraum Schwarzes Meer ; Identität ; Altertum ; Religion ; Materielle Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Sowohl Individuen als auch soziale Gruppen defi nieren sich über ein Gefl echt ganz unterschiedlicher Zugehörigkeiten, die je nach Situation bewusst betont oder angepasst werden. Diese Vielschichtigkeit von Identitätsgefl echten und die Nutzung von Identität als soziale Ressource erschweren das Verständnis von Zugehörigkeiten antiker Akteure. Dies führte gerade bei Versuchen, Befunde und Individuen mit kollektiven Identitäten wie Ethnien zu verbinden, zu Widersprüchen, Vereinfachungen und Fehlzuordnungen. Die daraus entstandenen mistaken identities wiederum hatten und haben mitunter weitreichende Konsequenzen für Interpretationen von archäologischem Fundmaterial. Der vorliegende Band diskutiert diese Schwierigkeiten einerseits auf theoretischer und wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Ebene und legt andererseits konkrete Beispiele spezifi scher materieller Kontexte vor, die die Probleme und Grenzen im Umgang mit der Verknüpfung von Objekten und ethnischen oder kulturellen, politischen und religiösen Identitäten aufzeigen. Nicht zuletzt werden auch mistaken identities in Form von Fehlzuordnungen an der Materialbasis thematisiert und das Potential naturwissenschaftlicher Analysenmethoden im Zusammenhang mit Identitätsdiskursen in archäologischen Kontexten zur Diskussion gestellt. Die hier gesammelten Beiträge entstanden im Anschluss an die internationale Konferenz "Mistaken Identity", die vom 17.-19. November 2016 am Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen abgehalten wurde.
    Description / Table of Contents: Vorbmerkung / Veronika Sossau und Kai Riehle -- Identitätsdiskurse in den Altertumswissenschaften -- Fallstudien: ethnische, kulturelle und politische Identitäten in der materiellen Kultur des westlichen Mittelmeerraums -- Analysierbare Größen? Die Herkunft von Menschen und Dingen im Identitätsdiskurs
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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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    Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (14 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 11
    Keywords: China Zentral-Asien ; Handel ; Seidenstraße ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This paper was presented at the workshop "Goods, Languages, and Cultures along the Silk Road" at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, October 18 and 19, 2019. While many contributions to the workshop focused on recent developments in China`s current "New Silk Road" politics, on forms of communication, and on contemporary exchange of goods and ideas across so-called Silk Road countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia and with China, this short essay focuses on the history of the so-called Silk Road as an important transport connection. Although what is now called the "Silk Road" was not a pure East-West binary in antiquity but rather developed into a network that also led to the South and North, the focus here will be on describing the East-West connection.I will start with a few brief remarks on the origins of the connection referred to as the Silk Road and will then introduce the different great empires that shaped this connection between antiquity and the Middle Ages through military campaigns and by using it as a trading route and network. But the Silk Road was by no means only of economic and military importance. Its significance for the exchange and dissemination of religions should also be mentioned. This paper does not detail the importance of the numerous individual religions in the area of the Silk Road but discusses the phenomenon of the spread of religions and the loss of some of their own distinguishing characteristics in this spread, a phenomenon that could be described as a "unity of opposites" (coincidentia oppositorum). Finally, the essay asks who, in the face of the regular replacement of powers, held sovereignty over the transport connection: the subject (in the form of the empires) or the object (in the form of the road).Who were the main protagonists of and along the Silk Road in the course of history? Who were the people who became the great powers of the ancient Silk Road, building up the material route, governing parts of it, and organizing trade and relationships from the far East to the extreme West of the Eurasian continent?
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    ISBN: 978-1-80073-125-7 , 978-1-80073-124-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (247 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology volume 28
    Keywords: Fluß Wasser ; Meer ; Leben ; Kolumbien ; Kanada ; Brasilien ; Senegal ; Türkei ; Burma ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents `delta life` with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops `delta life` as a metaphor for approaching continual and intersecting sociocultural, economic and material transformations more widely. The book revolves around questions of hydrosociality, volatility, rhythms and scale. It thereby yields insights into people`s lives that conventional, hydrological approaches to deltas cannot provide. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Life at Water's Edge -- Chapter 1 - Displacing the Delta: Notes on the Anthropology of the Earth's Physical Features -- Chapter 2 - The Global Swamp: The Amphibious as a Figure of Heterotopia -- Chapter 3 - Stagnation: Waterflows and the Politics of Stranded Matter in La Mojana, Colombia -- Chapter 4 - Economy, Identity and Hydrology: Towards a Holistic Approach to Intersecting Volatilities in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada -- Chapter 5 - 'This Tide Will Be a Good Tide': On Movement, Anticipative Waiting and Tricking on the Islands of the Parnaiba Delta, Brazil -- Chapter 6 - Gleaning Time: Practice, Pause and Anticipation in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal -- Chapter 7 - Lived Histories of Flows and Sediments in a Turkish Delta -- Chapter 8 - Available, Yet Unavailable: Anchoring Land in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar -- Conclusion - Confluences and Distributaries in Delta Life -- Index
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    Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade 10
    Keywords: Georgien Jude ; Handel ; Sprache ; Kommunikation
    Abstract: The merchant language of the Georgian Jews deserves scholarly attention for several reasons. The political and social developments of the last fifty years have caused the extinction of this very interesting form of communication, as most Georgian Jews have emigrated to Israel. In a natural interaction, the type of language described in this article can be found very rarely, if at all. Records of this communication have been preserved in various contexts and received different levels of scholarly attention. Our interest concerns the linguistic aspects as well as the classification.In the following paper we argue that the specific merchant language of Georgian Jews belongs to the pragmatic phenomenon of "very indirect language." The use of mostly Hebrew lexemes in Georgian conversation leads to an unfounded assumption that the speakers are equally competent in Hebrew and Georgian. It is reported that a high level of linguistic competence in Hebrew does not guarantee understanding of the Jewish merchant language. In the Georgian context, the decisive factors are membership in the professional interest group of merchants and residential membership in the Jewish community. These factors seem to be equivalent, because Jewish members of other professional groups (and those from outside the particular urban residential area) have difficulties in following the language that are similar to those of the Georgian majority. We describe the pragmatic structure of interactions conducted with the help of the merchant language and take into account the purpose of the language`s use or the intention of the speakers. Relevant linguistic examples are analysed and their sociocultural contexts explained.
    Note: Datum der Veröffentlichung (online): 16.09.2021; Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: 16.09.2021
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    ISBN: 978-91-513-1114-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    ISSN: 0348-5099
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 Seiten, 3 MB) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology no 59
    Keywords: Tansania Nyamwezi ; Sukuma ; Soziale Bewegung ; Frieden ; Konflikt ; Identität ; Ethnographie ; Geschichte, nachkoloniale ; Kulturanthropologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: This rich and detailed ethnographic study analyses the formation and spread of the Sungusungu movement that arose in the early 1980s among the Sukuma-Nyamwezi people in west-central Tanzania, south of Lake Victoria. In the wake of the international oil crisis in the 1970s, aggravated by the costly war with Uganda, Tanzania experienced a peroiod of deep economic and social crisis with inflation, collapsing markets, a shortage of basic commodities and a breakdown of law and order; signified by increasing levels of violent crime, such as organized cattle theft and banditry in the rural areas. Against this backdrop, people began to organize and arm themselves to cope with the disintegrating and malevolent forces they were experiencing, not only as an existential threat to their daily lives but to society at large, The quest for everday peace (mhola) was omnipresent when the Sungusungu movement swept like a bush-fire from village to villlage. Within only a couple of years, several million people were involved in or at least affected by the Sungusungu movement, whose emergence constituted a generic moment that sparked a process with far-reaching social, political and judicial repercussions. Based on long-term filedwork engagements and extensive literature review, Per Brandström analyses the trajectory of the movement from its early emergence as a genuine localized popular movement to an institution for community policing under state supervision and control. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Preamble - Serendipity -- 1. What can we know and how to interpret? -- 2. Voices from the field -- 3. The beginnings and the people -- 4. Broadening the perspective -- 5. Who is a Sukuma and who is a Nyamwezi? -- 6. Do ethnicity and culture matter? -- 7. Yearning for mhola-- 8. From social movement to state-sanctioned institution -- 9. Sungusungu beyond its area of origin -- 10. The end of Sungusungu? -- 11. Forging political culture - colonial and postcolonial legacies -- 12 "We were just told" -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 239-255
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    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag
    ISBN: 978-3-8394-5892-1 , 978-3-8376-5892-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (362 Seiten) , Illustrationen (teils farbig)
    Series Statement: Materialitäten Band 30
    Keywords: Westafrika Senegal ; Gambia ; Senegambien ; Malinke ; Initiation ; Erbschaft ; Identität ; Gedächtnis ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Kultursoziologie ; Ikonographie
    Abstract: Das performative und materialisierte Erbe des Initiationsritus Kankurang in Senegal und Gambia ist von der UNESCO als »Immaterielles Kulturerbe« unter Schutz gestellt. Claudia Ba untersucht an diesem visuellen Erbe, wie dichotome Verständnisse von Moderne und Tradition in Afrika aufgehoben werden. Mit ihrem Konzept der ikonischen Kohärenz situiert sie raumzeitlich global fluktuierende Bilder visueller Erbekonstruktionen der afrikanischen Gegenwartsgesellschaften. Damit schafft sie einen neuen Modus der Gedächtnisforschung, dessen breites analytisches Potenzial sich an die Sozial- und Kultur- sowie Geschichtswissenschaft, aber auch an Interessierte richtet, die mit global zirkulierenden Bildern arbeiten.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Das Sichtbare im Unsichtbaren -- 2. Welche Interpretation für welche Bilder? -- 3. Immaterielles Kulturerbe visualisieren. 3.1 Welche Mnemotechniken in Westafrika? 3.2 Zeitdiagnosen in und über Westafrika. 3.3 Ikonische Kohärenz der Raum- und Zeit-Episteme -- 4. Visualisierungen des Kankurang als Figuration von Erbe. 4.1 Die Geheimnis-Ebenen als Phänomenstruktur. 4.2 Das Kankurang Documentation Center in Janjanbureh in Gambia. 4.3 Espace Kankourang in Mbour in Senegal -- 5. Visualisierungen als Strukturmerkmal. 5.1 Die ikonische Kohärenz als Kontingenzbewältigung. 5.2 Eine kritische Bilanzierung im Spiegel der Mediologie. 5.3 Trajektorien der Visualisierungen des Kankurang. 5.4 Mnemotechniken auf dem Weg zum Erbe -- Danksagung -- Verzeichnisse: Abkürzungen, Literatur
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 341-359 , Dissertation, Technische Universität Berlin, 2020
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    Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
    ISBN: 978-3-86395-506-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology volume 21
    Keywords: Südkorea Jugendlicher ; Jugend ; Mittelklasse ; Ethik ; Lebensstil ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: This dissertation explores the values and practices of young, middle-class South Koreans and what it means for them to live a good life. Based on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, it attends to the pathways and life trajectories of young adults living, studying and working in Seoul, the country`s economic, political, cultural and educational centre. Due to changing economic conditions, it appears to be increasingly difficult for young people today to reproduce middle-class status. In public discourse, these difficulties are expressed in the terms `Spec` or `Give-up Generation`. At the same time, young people are starting to question middle-class lifestyles and values and turn to practices which emphasise different standards. The author illustrates how young adults negotiate middle-class ideals by contextualising the values around four key themes - education, marriage, consumption, and work. In doing so, she explores her interlocutors` thoughts and reflections about middle-class values through a theoretical and methodological framework centred on ordinary ethics and the everyday use of money. This ethnography sheds light on the complex and heterogenous ways young people in South Korea conceptualise and realise the good in their lives, and it focuses attention on the explicitness of ethics and the relationship between money and values in these young Seoulites` everyday lives and social relations. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State of the art -- 3. Theoretical and methodological perspectives -- 4. The field - a historico-political, economic, and socio-cultural contextualisation -- 5. Imagine education -- 6. Designing and planning -- 7. Anticipation and consumption -- 8. Hoping for good work -- 9. Conclusion: aspiring to the good life -- References -- Figures -- Appendix -- Glossary
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 221-238 , Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2021
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    ISBN: 978-3-947251-32-2
    Language: English , German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (397 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Series Statement: RessourcenKulturen Band 13
    Keywords: Kulturanthropologie Skandinavien ; Bestattung ; Eisenzeit, Europa ; Levante, östliches Mittelmeer ; Luxusgüter ; Antike ; Wissen ; Indien ; Hirse ; Insel ; Wasserversorgung ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Gartenbau ; Deutschland ; Landschaftsformen ; Archäologie ; Philosophie ; Glück ; Griechenland, klassisch ; Wein ; Migration ; Bodenkunde ; Identität ; Medizin, traditionelle
    Abstract: This book presents case studies of the SFB 1070 ResourceCultures, which use an extended resource definition. Resources are analysed as contingent means to construct, sustain and alter social relations, units and identities. Accordingly, resources are seen as means of social practices of actors that depend on cultural and social appropriation and valuation. They constitute ResourceCultures. The contributions cover the topics of cross-sectional working groups and conferences that shaped the interdisciplinary collaboration on cultural, spatial and temporal dimensions of resources and ResourceCultures. (Umschlagtext)
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    Toronto : University of Toronto Press
    ISBN: 978-1-4875-3898-9 / (electronic bk.) , 978-1-4875-3899-6 / (Print) , 1-4875-3899-5 / (Print) , 1-4875-3898-7 / (Print) , 978-1-4875-4183-5 / (Print) , 1-4875-4183-X / ( Print) , 978-1-4875-0880-7 / (e-book) , 1-4875-0880-8 / (e-book) , 1-4875-0880-8 / (Print) , 978-1-4875-0880-7 / (Print)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 231 Seiten)
    Keywords: Brasilien Ghana ; Kenia ; Schweiz ; Religion ; Christentum ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Religionsethnologie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturanthropologie
    Abstract: "Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility explores the notion of "religious butinage" as a conceptual framework intended to shed light on the dynamics of everyday religious practice. Derived from the French word butiner, which refers to the foraging activity of bees and other pollinating insects, this term is employed by the authors metaphorically to refer to the "to-ing and fro-ing" of believers between religious institutions. Focused on urban, predominantly Christian settings in Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, and Switzerland, Butinage examines commonalities and differences across the four case studies and identifies religious mobility as located at the meeting points between religious-institutional rules and narratives, local social norms, and individual agency and practice. Drawing on Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone academic traditions, this monograph is dedicated to a dialogue between ethnographic findings and theoretical ideas, and explores how we may rethink common conceptions of religious normativity."
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction: Rethinking Religious Normativity -- The Mobile Religious Practitioner -- Religious Mobility: Current Debates -- Neighborliness as a Driver for Mobility in Brazil -- The Kenyan Case: Dynamism and Precariousness -- Mobility Intertwined: Migration, Kinship, and Education in Ghana -- Religion and Mobility in Switzerland: A Most Private Affair -- Between Bees and Flowers -- From Religious Mobility to Dynamic Religious Identities -- Conclusion: The Peripatetic Practitioner.
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    [Göttingen] : Göttingen University Press
    ISBN: 978-3-86395-493-2 (ISBN der Druckausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 258 Seiten , Illustrationen (überwiegend farbig)
    Series Statement: Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology volume 19
    Keywords: Ägypten Iran ; Tunesien ; Republik Niger ; Senegal ; Islamische Staaten ; Islam ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Muslime ; Alltag ; Ritual, religiöses ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The contributions to the present volume show that the countries that are often presented in the literature as forming part of a stereotypical and seemingly monolithic "Islamic world" in fact represent considerable diversity. From Iran to Senegal, we encounter a vast array of social and religious structures, historical trajectories, political regimes and relative positions of societies and individuals. We encounter also, in many different and often unexpected ways, the individual in multiple contexts. The present volume presents perspectives on everyday life in Muslim societies beyond the spectacular. From a broad academic background in Islamic and Iranian studies, social anthropology, sociology, philosophy and history, its contributors show that everyday life as well as religious practice in countries as diverse as Senegal, Niger, Egypt, Tunisia and Iran is not informed by one single "Islamic" tradition, but rather by multiple and often surprisingly different modes of religiosity and non-religiosity. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "result of a conference organised by the ERC-funded research project "Private Pieties. Mundane Islam and New Forms of Muslim Religiosity: Impact on Contemporary Social and Political Dynamics". (Foreword by the editor)Enthält eine Einführung und 11 Beiträge
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    ISBN: 978-3-11-072711-1 (EPUB) , 978-3-11-072653-4 (PDF)
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 299 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: 10.1515_9783110726534 ZMO-40.pdf
    Series Statement: Studien. Zentrum Moderner Orient Band 40
    Keywords: Globalisierung Muslime ; Islam ; Islam und Politik ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: To what extent can Islam be localized in an increasingly interconnected world? The contributions to this volume investigate different facets of Muslim lives in the context of increasingly dense transregional connections, highlighting how the circulation of ideas about `Muslimness` contributed to the shaping of specific ideas about what constitutes Islam and its role in society and politics. Infrastructural changes have prompted the intensification of scholarly and trade networks, prompted the circulation of new literary genres or shaped stereotypical images of Muslims. This, in turn, had consequences in widely differing fields such as self-representation and governance of Muslims. The contributions in this volume explore this issue in geographical contexts ranging from South Asia to Europe and the US. Coming from the disciplines of history, anthropology, religious studies, literary studies and political science, the authors collectively demonstrate the need to combine a translocal perspective with very specific local and historical constellations. The book complicates conventional academic divisions and invites to think in historically specific translocal contexts. (Verlagsangaben)
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    ISBN: 978-1-80073-415-9 , 978-1-80073-133-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 149 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne
    Series Statement: Integration and Conflict Studies volume 24
    Keywords: Sambia Bergbau ; Ethnographie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturanthropologie
    Abstract: In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt. Touching on topics including industrial history, colonial town planning, social control and materiality, gender relations and neoliberal structural change, After Corporate Paternalism offers unique insights into how people reappropriate former corporate spaces and transform them into personal projects of renovation, fundamentally changing the characteristics of their community. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Things Fall Apart -- Chapter 1. Of Company and Government -- Chapter 2. Of Men and Women -- Chapter 3. Of Miners and Teachers -- Chapter 4. Of Miners and Preachers -- Conclusion: Things Reassembled -- References -- Index
    Note: Dissertation, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2018
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    ISBN: 978-1-80073-057-1 , 978-1-80073-056-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (316 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies in Forced Migration volume 40
    Keywords: Flucht Flüchtling ; Migration ; Mittlerer Osten ; Irak ; Iran ; Afghanistan ; Syrien ; Jordanien ; Deutschland ; Frankreich ; Griechenland ; USA ; Heilbehandlung ; Mutilation ; Humanitäre Hilfe ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence. The collection bears witness to their struggles, while also highlighting their aspirations for safety, settlement, and social inclusion in their host societies and new homes. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: (Dis)Counting Refugees -- Part II: Protesting Exclusion -- Part III: Making Lives in Exile -- Part IV: Seeking Health -- Part V: Reshaping Humanitarianism -- Conclusion -- Index
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 17 Beiträge
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-108-97438-7
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 301 Seiten) , Karten
    Series Statement: Asian Connections 12
    Keywords: Eurasien China ; Türkei ; Afghanistan ; Russland ; Ukraine ; West-Europa ; Seidenstraße ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Geopolitik ; Handel ; Handelsbeziehung ; Handelsroute ; Händler ; Mobilität ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Globalisierung ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Magnus Marsden introduces readers to a dynamic yet historically durable universe of commercial and cultural connections. Through an exploration of the traders' networks, cultural and religious identities, as well as the nodes in which they operate, Marsden emphasises their ability to navigate Eurasia's geopolitical tensions and to forge transregional routes that channel significant flows of people, resources, and ideas. Beyond the Silk Roads will interest those seeking to understand contemporary iterations of the Silk Road within the context of geopolitics in the region.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction: Beyond the Silk Roads -- 1 - `Take Your Help Away and Leave Us in Peace!`: The Anthropology of Geopolitics as Lived -- 2 - Inter-Asian Corridor of Connectivity (1): The Eurasian World - China, Russia, Ukraine and Western Europe -- 3 - Inter-Asian Corridor of Connectivity (2): West Asia - China, the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey -- 4 - `Welcome to Yiwu, China International Trade City!` Everyday Life in a Chinese Commercial Node -- 5 - Minorities, Commerce and the Legacy of Muslim Asia`s Urban Cosmopolitanism: Afghanistan`s Hindus and Sikhs -- 6 - An Alternative Eurasian Economic Geography: Afghanistan`s Role in Long-Distance Trade -- 7 - Afghan Restaurants in Inter-Asian Worlds: Prestige, Information Pooling and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Long-Distance Trade -- Conclusion: Geopolitics, Critical Responsiveness and Navigational Agency in Eurasian Connectivity -- Note on Fieldwork -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 269-288
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    Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (11 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 12
    Keywords: Kaukasus Armenien ; Georgien ; Handel ; Markt ; Epidemie ; COVID-19 ; Netzwerkanalyse
    Abstract: As 2021 draws to a close, Covid-19 continues to prevail worldwide. With the proverbial return to normalcy still appearing distant, there is now a tacit acceptance globally that at least for the foreseeable future, we must live with Covid-19. Given that Covid-19 is an infectious disease—which by definition is transmitted from person to person—the continued prevalence of Covid-19 has implications for how local authorities, communities, and individuals around the world will approach public spaces. While it may be premature to assume a so-called coronacene (see Higgins et al. 2020), going into the future our use of public spaces will be overshadowed by the possibility, even if remote, of illness or death by virtue of close proximity to other individuals.Along with parks and squares, streets and avenues, bazaars constitute ubiquitous public spaces, including in countries of the developing world, such as Armenia and Georgia, our countries of discussion here. Although there is not a clear bifurcation between bazaars and other types of marketplaces, bazaars will usually be comprised of a multitude of nonfranchised, self-owned, small businesses that are variously family-run or rely on family labor. They are usually perceived as chaotic places that lack hygiene (the purportedly unhygienic character of the bazaar was brought to the forefront with the pandemic, given how Covid-19`s origin is widely assumed to be a Wuhan wet market). In Armenia and Georgia, and indeed, across the former Soviet Union, bazaars are a source of employment for the urban and peri-urban population; they also offer goods at price points attractive to a wide demographic. This working paper builds on the premise that the bazaar is an informal institution. Bazaar traders will typically assemble networks by themselves (with manufacturers and wholesalers, buyers and transporters). These networks will usually vary from one business to another. Also, ownership and rent structures are frequently opaque, and the majority of commercial transactions are in cash, which does not appear in state records. As a consequence, for the state, many small businesses do not exist (Fehlings and Karrar 2016, 2020).For those of us researching bazaar trading, Covid-19 has given rise to a basic question: How have independent businesses been transformed by the pandemic? This working paper is an attempt to parse this question in light of developments in Armenia and Georgia. In this working paper, we suggest that the Covid-19 pandemic has deepened informality in the bazaar. That being said, we want to underscore that the present discussion is exploratory. Our ethnography remains limited, and we look forward to returning to the field as soon as it is safe to do so.
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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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    ISBN: 978-1-78735-704-4 (PDF) , 978-1-78735-707-5 (epub) , 978-1-78735-708-2 (mobi) , 978-1-78735-706-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-1-78735-705-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 364 Seiten)
    Edition: First published
    Edition: Epidemiological-Change-and-Chronic-Disease-in-Sub-Saharan-Af
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Epidemie ; Gesundheit ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Gesundheitswesen ; Stillen ; Krankheit ; HIV ; Sterblichkeit ; Anthropologie, medizinische ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Temporalities: Beyond transition -- Numbers and categories -- Local biologies and knowledge systems: `New diseases` in context -- Index
    Note: "The volume emerges from a conference held at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, in September 2018" (Acknowledgements)
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    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Schweiz Mobilität ; Jugendlicher ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Note: Thèse, Université de Lausanne, 2021
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    Basel : University of Basel, Institute of Social Anthropology
    ISBN: 977-1664-66810-0 (Formal falsche ISBN)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (64 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Basel Papers on Political Transformations No. 22
    Keywords: Westafrika Savanne ; Senufo ; Subsistenzwirtschaft ; Ethnologie ; Ethnographie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Till Förster's paper asks how existential transformations are experienced, lived, remembered and conceived by the people, but also by ethnographers. Förster aims at capturing "la longue durée" of his fieldwork among the Senufo in northern Côte d`Ivoire, West Africa, by reproducing the messiness and often inconsistency of ethnographic experience.(Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: The stream beyond the village. October 1990. Soungmon Yéo. August 1996. Siriki Camara. January 2018. Kartcha Soro --My people's field. August 1991. Zogama Yéo. September 1996. Karkoulougnon Ouattara. August 1998. Lourgo Soro. August 1993. Tyosongui Soro -- My father's house. February 1986. Segba Tuo. September 1990. Lènita Soro. August 1991. Yacouba Yéo. March 2002. Kassoum Dagnogo. March 2002. Wosoho Soro -- Coda -- References
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press
    ISBN: 978-0-520-97514-9 , 978-0-520-34375-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 228 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: California Studies in Food and Culture 75
    Keywords: Afrika Ghana ; Banda ; Ashanti ; Hunger ; Hungersnot ; Essen ; Mais ; Hirse ; Nahrungsmittelversorgung ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklavenhandel, atlantischer ; Globalisierung ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa`s deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of "the scarcity slot," a kind of othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together archaeological, historical, and environmental data with food ethnography, she advances a new approach to building long-term histories of food security on the continent in order to combat these stereotypes. Focusing on a case study in Banda, Ghana that spans the past six centuries, The Scarcity Slot reveals that people thrived during a severe, centuries-long drought just as Europeans arrived on the coast, with a major decline in food security emerging only recently. This narrative radically challenges how we think about African foodways in the past, with major implications for the future. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Prologue and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Excavating Longue Durée Histories of Food Security in Africa -- 2. Choosing Local over Global during the Columbian Exchange -- 3. Tasting Privilege and Privation during Asante Rule and the Atlantic Slave Trade -- 4. Creating Chronic Food Insecurity in the Gold Coast Colony -- 5. Consuming a Remotely Global Modernity in Recent Times -- 6. Eating and Remembering Past Cultural Achievements -- Appendix A. Methodology -- Appendix B. Archaeobotanical Data -- Appendix C. Wild Leaves Used by Modern Villages -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 197-215
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press
    ISBN: 978-0-520-97391-6 , 978-0-520-31070-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 246 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Keywords: Tansania Gesundheitswesen ; Heilbehandlung ; Sterblichkeit ; Sterben ; Frau ; Schwangerschaft ; Ethik ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, medizinische
    Abstract: Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing maternal mortality rates, despite global development support. Growing administrative pressures to document good care serve to preclude good care in practice while placing frontline healthcare workers in moral and ethical peril. Maternal health emergencies expose the precarity of hospital social relations and accountability systems, which, together, continue to lead to the deaths of pregnant women. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The Mawingu Regional Hospital Maternity Ward -- 2. Working in Scarcity -- 3. Protocols and Deviations: Good Enough Care -- 4. "Bad Luck," Lost Babies, and the Structuring of Realities -- 5. Landscapes of Accountability in Care -- 6. The Stories We Tell about the Deaths We See -- 7. Already Dead -- 8. "Pregnancy Is Poison": The Road to Maternal Death -- 9. The Meanings of Maternal Death -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Deaths Occurring during the Field Period -- Glossary of Medical Terms -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 225-239
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    ISBN: 978-3-947251-11-7 , 978-3-947251-10-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (363 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: RessourcenKulturen Band 9
    Keywords: Levante, östliches Mittelmeer Eisenzeit, Europa ; Bronzezeit, Europa ; Handel ; Schiffahrt
    Note: Dissertation, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 2017
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    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag
    ISBN: 9783837653182
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Kultur und Soziale Praxis
    Keywords: Islam Geschlechterforschung ; Muslime ; Migration ; Bildung ; Selbstbild ; Ungleichheit ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Religionswissenschaft ; Islamwissenschaft ; Ethnographie ; Schweiz
    Abstract: Wie wirkt sich der aktuelle Islamdiskurs auf Bildungsbiografien junger Secondas aus? Wie beeinflussen unterschiedliche Differenzkategorien wie beispielsweise Gender und Religion die Bildungsbiografien? Wirken Sie intersektionell? Die Untersuchung legt dar, wie unterschiedlich junge Secondas aus der Schweiz mit der Herausforderung umgehen, als muslimische Frauen in einem tendenziell islamkritischen Umfeld bildungsbiografisch zu bestehen. Sie zeigt einerseits auf, mit welchen Bildungsbarrieren sie konfrontiert werden, andererseits legt sie basierend auf einer ethnographischen Forschung dar, wie die jungen Frauen auf unterschiedlichste "Taktiken" (De Certeau 1989) zurückgreifen, um auf bildungsbiografische Einschränkungen zu reagieren und diesen zu trotzen. Dabei wird diskutiert, inwiefern Religion als intersektionale, interdependente Analysekategorie gefasst werden kann.
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    ISSN: 1611-4531
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (66 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Kölner Ethnologische Beiträge Heft 56
    Keywords: Tansania Armut ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Soziale Einrichtung ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialpolitik ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Wohlfahrt ; TASAF 〉 Tanzania Social Action Fund ; Tanzania Social Action Fund
    Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit von Maria Lassak, die von Prof. Michael Bollig betreut wurde, wendet sich, empirisch fundiert, einem vernachlässigten Thema der Wirtschafts- und Sozialethnologie zu. Welche Bedeutung haben staatliche Wohlfahrtszahlungen für die Bearbeitung der Armutsfrage im Globalen Süden? Zunehmend entscheiden sich Länder des Globalen Südens (etwa Südafrika, Brasilien und Iran) dazu, durch großangelegte Wohlfahrtsprogramme ländliche Armut zu bekämpfen. In Südafrika (und auch in den Nachbarländern Botswana und Namibia) werden gehaltsunabhängige Renten gezahlt, die leicht über dem gesetzlich verbürgten Mindesteinkommen liegen. Jede Person über 65 (bzw. 60) - einerlei ob sie in ihrem Leben in einem formalen Arbeitsverhältnis war oder nicht - erhält eine Grundrente. Diese Grundrenten spielen im ländlichen Raum des südlichen Afrika eine zentrale Rolle. Im ländlichen Südafrika etwa stellen gehaltsunabhängige Renten in fast 50 Prozent der Haushalte das zentrale Haushaltseinkommen dar. In anderen Staaten des Globalen Südens werden derartige Renten, Kindergelder und Grundeinkommen an bedürftige Haushalte ausgezahlt (so etwa im Bolsa Familia Programm Brasiliens). Diesen Weg geht auch Tansania in einigen Pilotprojekten. Lassak nimmt als theoretische Vorlage die neuesten Arbeiten James Fergusons, die in der Streitschrift "Give Man a Fish" überzeugend zusammengefasst wurden. Ferguson argumentiert, dass angesichts überbelasteter natürlicher Ressourcen und vielfach gescheiterter Versuch den ländlichen Raum in marktorientierte Produktionsprozesse einzubeziehen und so Wohlstand zu schaffen, nur "social transfers" (Renten, Kindergelder etc.) die Möglichkeit bieten, Armut zu bekämpfen. Ferguson beschreibt wie die permanenten Versuche, verarmte ländliche Bevölkerungen zu Produzenten für den Weltmarkt zu machen, immer wieder scheitern - schlicht, weil derartige Produzenten auf dem Weltmarkt nicht konkurrieren können. Die alte Diktion, man solle den Menschen keine Fische geben, sondern sie beim Fischen anleiten (um so unabhängig zu werden), entlarvt Ferguson als neoliberale Ideologie. Lassak erläutert diesen theoretischen Hintergrund ihrer Arbeit kurz, aber angemessen und zielführend. Mit empirischen Daten aus dem Süden Tansanias weist sie auf die große Bedeutung dieser Thematik für die soziale und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des ländlichen Raums hin. Angesichts der Vielzahl nationaler Programme, die alle "social transfers" als zentrale Strategie der Armutsbekämpfung identifizieren, wird die Ethnologie sich in den kommenden Jahren vermehrt dieser Thematik zuwenden müssen, um kulturellen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Wandel in ruralen Zonen des Globalen Südens zu verstehen (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Abstract -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Theoretischer Rahmen -- 3 Sozialhilfe in Tansania -- 4 Geographischer Hintergrund -- 5 Methoden -- 6 Praktische Umsetzung des Programms -- 7 Analyse der Konzepte und Wirkungsweisen -- 8 Fazit -- 9 Bibliografie
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 65-66Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache , Masterarbeit, Universität zu Köln, Institut für Ethnologie, 2020
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    ISBN: 978-3-8394-5250-9 , 978-3-8376-5250-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Kultur und Soziale Praxis
    Uniform Title: Erscheinungsformen von Religion in Flüchtlingsunterkünften Nordrhein-Westfalens
    Keywords: Deutschland Flüchtling ; Identität ; Religion ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Religionssoziologie
    Abstract: Die Publikation ist zugleich die Dissertationsschrift der Autorin, mit der sie 2020 unter dem Titel 'Erscheinungsformen von Religion in Flüchtlingsunterkünften Nordrhein-Westfalens - eine qualitative Analyse' ... an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster im Fach Soziologie promoviert wurde"Mit der Aufnahme vieler Geflüchteter im Jahr 2015 ergeben sich in Deutschland neue gesellschaftliche Fragestellungen, die auch religionsbezogene Aspekte beinhalten. Flüchtlingsunterkünfte als besondere Räume des Zusammenlebens eignen sich hierbei sehr gut, um nachzuvollziehen, wer jene Geflüchtete sind, inwiefern ihr Alltag von Religion geprägt ist und wie unter den Bewohner*innen und von Seiten der Sozialarbeiter*innen mit Phänomenen um Religion umgegangen wird. Natalie Powroznik nimmt sich diesen Aspekten im nordrhein-westfälischen Kontext an und zeigt aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive, wie vielfältig und unterschiedlich Religion in Erscheinung treten kann - und warum der erste Blick manchmal täuscht. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Danksagung -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Theoretische Grundlagen -- 3. Methodik -- 4. Forschungsethik -- 5. Erste Dimension: Religiöse Zugehörigkeiten und Zuschreibungen am Fallbeispiel des Ramadan -- 6. Die kommunale Unterkunft als Bedeutungsträger -- 7. Zweite Dimension: Religiöse und ethnische Zugehörigkeiten im Spannungsfeld des gemeinsamen Wohnens am Fallbeispiel des Putzplans -- 8. Dritte Dimension: Erwartungen und Zuschreibungen in Hinblick auf religiöse Praktiken am Fallbeispiel des ›Zuckerfests‹ -- 9. Vierte Dimension: Religiöse Irritationen und Spannungen am Fallbeispiel der Konversion -- 10. Schluss -- Bibliografie -- Anhang: Bilder, Tabellen, Interviews
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 241-254 , Dissertation, Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2020 unter dem Titel: Erscheinungsformen von Religion in Flüchtlingsunterkünften Nordrhein-Westfalens - eine qualitative Analyse
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    ISSN: 1611-4531
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 73 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Kölner Ethnologische Beiträge Heft 57
    Keywords: Südafrika Wasser ; Krise ; Trinken ; Wasserversorgung ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Krisenbewältigung ; Kapstadt 〈Stadt, Südafrika〉
    Abstract: This study, supervised by Prof. Michaela Pelican and supported with a research grant of the Thematic Network 'Remapping the Global South - Teaching, Researching, Exchanging' of the Global South Studies Center Cologne (GSSC), addresses the 2018-2019 water crisis in Cape Town. It foregrounds the experiences of Capetonians whose voices, so far, have received little attention in the discourse surrounding the water crisis: that is, Capetonians living in the townships who, irrespective of the crisis, have been living with limited water supplies and inadequate urban infrastructure. Teresa Cremer investigates how the political framing of the acute water shortage as a "crisis" was perceived by different actors and social groups, and which new scopes of action and social practices it has engendered. She argues that while the portrayal of water scarcity as a "crisis" and the measures of the city administration primarily reflect the interests and perspectives of Cape Town's privileged middle and upper classes, the needs of poorer and marginalized residents are hardly heard. At the same time, she shows that the crisis discourse not only reinforces existing inequalities, but also opens up new spaces for creativity and action. In her ethnography, Cremer focuses on the public water collection point in the Newlands neighbourhood and vividly describes how it is valued and made use of by different groups of actors as a site of dense social interaction and creative income-generating strategies. The end of the water crisis in 2019 and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 led to the closing of the Newlands water collection point. Yet Cremer's very well-informed and lucidly argued analysis is instructive also in view of other crisis situations, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. The study demonstrates the strength of empirically grounded, ethnographic research to critically question crisis discourses, and recognize alternative perspectives and the emergence of new productive spaces. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Editor's preface -- List of pictures and figures -- List of acronyms -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The water crisis in Cape Town 2015-2018 - a dominant narrative -- 3. Theoretical framework -- 3. Methods and research setting -- 5. Improvising multiple (s)paces in a single place -- 6. Conclusion and outlook -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 70-73 , Master Thesis, Universität zu Köln, Institut für Ethnologie, 2020
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    ISBN: 978-1-78735-748-8 (PDF) , 978-1-78735-751-8 (epub) , 978-1-78735-752-5 (mobi)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 262 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Edition: Exploring-Materiality-and-Connectivity-in-Anthropology-and-B
    Keywords: Methodologie Anthropologie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Archäologie ; Materielle Kultur
    Abstract: Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. Somewhat akin to Heisenberg`s uncertainty principle, it sees materiality and connectivity as two interrelated modes in which an entity is, or more precisely - is becoming, in the world. The question, thus, is how these two modes of becoming relate and fold into each other.Throughout the four-year research process that led to this book, the authors approached this question not just from a theoretical perspective; taking the suggestion of 'thinking through things' literally and methodologically seriously, the first two workshops were dedicated to practical, hands-on exercises working with things. From these workshops a series of installations emerged, straddling the boundaries of art and academia. These installations served as artistic-academic interventions during the final symposium and are featured alongside the other academic contributions to this volume. Throughout this process, two main themes emerged and structure Part II, Movement and Growth, and Part III, Dissolution and Traces, of the present volume, respectively. Part I, Conceptual Grounds, consists of two chapters offering conceptual takes on things and ties - one from anthropology and one from archaeology.As interrelated modes of becoming, materiality and connectivity make it necessary to coalesce things and ties into thing~ties - an insight toward which the chapters and interventions came from different sides, and one in which the initial proposition of the editors still shines through. Throughout the pages of this volume, we invite the reader to travel beyond imaginaries of a universe of separate planets united by connections, and to venture with us instead into the thicket of thing~ties in which we live. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Materiality and Connectivity / Martin Saxer and Philipp Schorch -- Part I: Conceptual Grounds -- 1. In the gathering shadows of material things / Tim Ingold -- 2. Doing/changing things/us / Philipp W. Stockhammer -- Part II: Movement and Growth -- 3. Becoming imperial: the politicisation of the gift in Atlantic Africa / Julia T. S. Binter -- 4. How pilgrimage souvenirs turn into religious remittances and powerful medicine / Catrien Notermans and Jean KommersIntervention -- 5. Invoking the gods, or the apotheosis of the Barbie doll / Natalie Göltenboth -- 6. Stallions of the Indian Ocean / Srinivas Reddy -- 7. Labelling, packaging, scanning: paths and diversions of mobile phones in the Andes / Juliane Müller -- Intervention -- 8. Establishing intimacy through mobile phone connections / Anna-Maria Walter -- Part III: Dissolution and Traces -- 9. Smoky relations: beyond dichotomies of substance on the Tibetan Plateau / Gillian G. Tan -- Intervention -- 10. What remains: the things that fall to the side of everyday life / Marc Higgin -- 11. Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan / Jennifer Clarke -- 12. Towards a fragmented ethnography? Walking along debris in Armero, Colombia / Lorenzo Granada -- Intervention -- 13. Remembering and non-remembering among the Yanomami / Gabriele Herzog-Schröder -- 14. The matter of erasure: making room for utopia at Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, Mexico City / Adam Kaasa -- 15. Refugee life jackets thrown off but not away: connecting materialities in upcycling initiatives / Elia Petridou -- Intervention -- 16. Tamga tash: a tale of stones, stories and travelling immobiles / Lisa Francesca Rail -- Index
    Note: "This volume is the outcome of a profoundly collaborative research endeavour consisting of two workshops and a symposium conducted between 2015 and 2017." (Acknowledgements)
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    Halle (Saale) : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (27 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 202
    Keywords: Brasilien Gefängnis ; Gewalt ; Recht ; Strafrecht ; Rechtsethnologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The prison system of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, functions through a series of documents that make the incarcerated available as objects of legal knowledge and intervention. This bureaucratic system, in turn, fulfils a federal legal mandate for a progressive model of imprisonment. In this paper, I consider the production and circulation of a set of legal documents within a single men`s prison in Rio de Janeiro, one that I call Tobias Barreto. I offer a close examination of the files that proliferate within the prison, with an emphasis on one document - the criminological exam - that forms a nexus between penal courts, prison administrators, treatment workers, and incarcerated people. Through a rigid set of evaluations, these documents render the history and futures of the incarcerated person as evidence, a process that underpins any "progression" through a prison sentence. I argue that while documents relay an assurance of progress, this assurance is undercut by a generalised suspicion regarding incarcerated people`s claims of having reformed. The analysis highlights both the tensions and the complicity between progressive governance and punitive violence. (Verlagsangabe)
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press
    ISBN: 978-0-520-97594-1 , 978-0-520-35551-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 201 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Frau ; HIV ; Epidemie ; Prostitution ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, medizinische
    Abstract: In this vitally important book, medical anthropologist Holly Wardlow takes readers through a ten-year history of the AIDS epidemic in Tari, Papua New Guinea, focusing on the political and economic factors that make women vulnerable to HIV and on their experiences with antiretroviral therapy. Alive with the women`s stories about being trafficked to gold mines, resisting polygynous marriages, and struggling to be per ceived as morally upright, Fencing in AIDS demonstrates that being female shapes every aspect of the AIDS epidemic. Offering crucial insights into the anthropologies of mining, ethics, and gender, this is essential reading for scholars and professionals addressing the global AIDS crisis today. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "We Are No Longer Fenced In" -- 1. "Rural Development Enclaves": Commuter Mining, Landowners, and Trafficked Women -- 2. State Abandonment, Sexual Violence, and Transactional Sex -- 3. Love, Polygyny, and HIV -- 4. Teaching Gender to Prevent AIDS -- 5. Caring for the Self: HIV and Emotional Regulation -- 6. "Like Normal": The Ethics of Living with HIV -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181-196
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    Basel : University of Basel, Institute of Social Anthropology
    ISBN: 977-1664-66810-0 (Formal falsche ISBN)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (56 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Basel Papers on Political Transformations No. 20/21
    Keywords: Sambia Ethnologie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturanthropologie ; Solwezi (Stadt, Sambia)
    Abstract: What is social change, and where is it coming from? How can we see it when it happens, and is there ever any moment of time where there is no change? Societies never stagnate, of course, but is there something like a c c e l e r a t e d change or the b e g i n n i n g of social change? What are the conditions for it? And how can we not only recognise it when it happens but also relate it to a readership?These questions shaped the discussions during two terms in the seminar rooms of the Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Basel and - albeit in the background - during six weeks of guided field research in Solwezi town in Northwestern Zambia (and in one case in Alice Springs, Australia) in January and February 2018.In this Basel Paper issue, master students in Social Anthropology and African Studies present the results of this enquiry.The issue`s contribution is threefold: First, it engages with the question of how to present social change with the help of vignettes, second, it offers a diverse tapestry of insights into a central region of today`s capitalist world and, third, it attempts a refine-ment of the ethnographic method of participant observation. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Vignettes, Social Change and Solwezi Town / Rita Kesselring -- PART I: Social Situations -- Water and Sociality in Solwezi: Washing as a Water Practice / Julia Hohn -- Multilingualism, a New Language Policy and Language Practice in Primary Schools in Solwezi/ Carole Martin -- Agricultural Practices in Solwezi: Structures of Superiority, Hierarchy and Agency / Monika Huber -- From Solwezi to Zollywood: Hierarchy and Dependency in a Theatre and Arts Group / Anna Karsko -- (Extr)Activism, Governance and Power: A Short Account of Advocacy / Monika Huber -- PART II: Methodology -- Access, Power and Agency: Intersubjective Experiences of Refugees in the Meheba Refugee Settlement / Misato Kimura -- Watching TV together in Solwezi: A Reflection of Intimacy and Hierarchies of Knowledge in Ethnographic Research / Deborah Oliveira -- The Social and Material: Relationships in Ethnographic Fieldwork / Aurel Everwijn -- Gaining First Ethnographic Experiences: Aboriginal Art Production in Alice Springs, Australia / Michèle Monnier -- Epilogue: What Makes a Good Vignette? / Anna Christen -- References
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Leuven University Press
    ISBN: 978-94-6166-341-2 , 978-94-6270-238-7 , 978-94-6166-342-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 217 Seiten
    Series Statement: Current Issues in Islam
    Keywords: Deutschland Türke ; Humor ; Satire ; Muslime ; Darstellende Kunst ; Islam ; Migration ; Identität ; Nationalität ; Islamophobie
    Abstract: Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been asking for decades what it means to be German and what it means for Turkish Germans, Muslims of the second and third generations, to call Germany their home. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the dynamics that underpin these questions in the still-evolving popular culture space of German mainstream humour in the 21st century. The first book-length study on the topic to combine close readings of film, television, literary and online comedy, and transnational culture studies, Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment presents the argument that Turkish German humour has moved from margin to mainstream by intervening in cultural incompatibility and Islamophobia discourse
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    ISSN: 0110-3709
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 272 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: University of Otago Studies in Archaeology no. 29
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Pazifischer Raum ; Archäologie ; Keramik ; Handel
    Abstract: Materialising Ancestral Madang documents the emergence of pottery production processes and exchange networks along the northeast coast of New Guinea during the last millennium before the present. This dynamic period in the Pacific`s human past involved important fluctuations to people`s mobility, social interaction, and technological organisation. It therefore remains crucial to understanding and historicising the expansive maritime subsistence trading networks that famously characterised the coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book investigates these transformations by exploring the archaeology of Madang District; the heart of the Madang exchange network that revolved around the production and distribution of distinctive red-slipped pots. Potsherds of this style have been previously found spanning a 200 km radius, reaching Karkar Island, the Bismarck Archipelago, and even the New Guinea Highlands. By combining archaeological survey, excavation, craft ethnography, and archaeometric analyses, the volume systematically delineates the production groups that were working within this broader community of practice. The study shows that pre-colonial potters made use of a range of local raw materials and were free to improvise with their forming and decorating techniques but learned and reproduced similar technological sequences over the past 500-600 years. It is likely that social restrictions permitted only potters from a small number of clans to produce ceramics and that the finished vessels were then distributed both informally within the local area and strategically during extensive trade voyages along the northeast coast of New Guinea. These results therefore cast light on an important but previously obscured aspect of Pacific culture history and provide a model for how craft production and exchange processes have manifested and commodified across the generations. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements --Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Archipelago of Contented People -- Chapter 3. Bel Production and Exchange -- Chapter 4. Modern Potting Communities -- Chapter 5. Traces of the Past -- Chapter 6: Archaeological Investigations -- Chapter 7. Pre-Colonial Potting I: Production -- Chapter 8. Pre-Colonial Potting II: Procurement and Distribution -- Chapter 9. Pre-Colonial Potting III: Decorating -- Chapter 10. Materialising Ancestral Madang -- Chapter 11. Bel Culture History -- Conclusions -- Endnote -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 258-272"University of Otago Master of Arts thesis (Gaffney 2016), upon which this volume is based" (Acknowledgements) , Thesis (Master of Arts), University of Otago, 2016
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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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    Halle (Saale) : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 204
    Keywords: Sierra Leone Sprachpolitik ; Identität ; Sprache ; Nationalität ; Nationalsprache
    Abstract: This paper examines language and national identity in Sierra Leone using Eric Kaufmann`s (2017) model of the rise of nationalism which rests on four `pillars` derived from complexity and systems theory: `tipping points` feedback loops distributed knowledge and emergence. The `emergence` here is that of nations and nation-states which often involve some form of linguistic nationalism. In this form of nationalism a language or languages are nominated as the keystone of national identity or the indispensable medium of communication in the systems that make up the nation-state apparatus and the civil society that accompanies it. The relationship between language and nationalism has been a difficult one in many African countries since independence. One such case is Sierra Leone where ethnic languages a lingua franca and English all coexist within what one writer has called a `language ecology`. The evolution of that ecology is driven not only by national-level policy but also by the independent policy decisions of civil society organisations such as the University of Makeni Sierra Leone`s first private university. A consideration of the roots of the language policy of that university suggests that Kaufmann`s model of nationalism`s emergence has merit but that it should be supplemented by attention to the exogenous factors that drive the crises through which his four `pillars` have their combined effect. (Verlagsangabe)
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    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag | Stuttgart : UTB GmbH
    ISBN: 9783839450093
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (450 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Kultur und soziale Praxis
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    Keywords: Inder ; Generation 2 ; Identität ; Zugehörigkeit ; Online-Community ; World Wide Web 2.0 ; Deutschland ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Im Jahr 2000 gründeten drei junge Männer das Internetportal »Indernet« - einen deutschsprachigen Raum von »Indern der zweiten Generation« für »Inder der zweiten Generation«. Aufbauend auf Material, das sie über 17 Jahre gesammelt hat, legt Urmila Goel in ihrer Ethnografie drei Mosaike dieses virtuellen Raums. Sie beschreibt, wie die unterschiedlichen Teile des Portals (Artikel, Forum, Gästebuch, etc.) genutzt wurden und zeichnet die Entwicklungsschritte des Community-Portals von seiner Gründung bis zum Umzug ins Web 2.0 nach. Dabei analysiert sie rassismuskritisch, wie das »Indernet« zu einem Raum der natio-ethno-kulturellen (Mehrfach-)Zugehörigkeit wurde und welche Ausschlüsse damit einhergingen.
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    ISSN: 1611-4531
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (105 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: Heft52_Schiefer.pdf
    Series Statement: Kölner Ethnologische Beiträge 52
    Keywords: Deutschland Schottland ; Alkohol ; Trinken ; Identität ; Beziehungen, interkulturelle ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Tourismus
    Abstract: Uns allen ist Whisky bekannt als globalisiertes Konsumprodukt, das vorwiegend mit Schottland in Verbindung gebracht wird und dem das Flair der exklusiven Spirituose für Kenner und Genussmenschen anhaftet. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit, die von Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican betreut wurde, untersucht genau diese Vorstellungen und deren soziale Produktion, wobei die Perspektive von in Deutschland lebenden Konsumenten im Mittelpunkt steht. Dabei legt Frau Schiefer besonderes Augenmerk auf zwei Aspekte: Whiskykonsum als multisensorisches Erlebnis und als gemeinschafts- und identitätsstiftende Aktion.Für ihre Untersuchung der Whiskykonsumgemeinschaft und -kultur in Deutschland führte Frau Schiefer eine empirische Forschung in Deutschland und in Schottland durch. Die Arbeit zeichnet sich dabei durch eine innovative Fragestellung und vielfältige Methodik aus, sowie durch die sorgfältige und erkenntnisreiche Analyse des reichhaltigen Forschungsmaterials.Im Zentrum der Arbeit stehen folgende Fragen: Was macht den Reiz des Whiskykonsums aus? Wie greift die Selbstidentifikation über den Konsum? Welche kulturelle Bedeutung kommt dem Whiskykonsum für Konsumenten und Produzenten zu? Frau Schiefer argumentiert, dass die Faszination des Whiskys nicht alleine aus einer diskursiven Perspektive heraus verständlich ist, sondern einer multisensorischen Analyse bedarf, da alle fünf Sinne durch den Konsum von Whisky mobilisiert und angesprochen werden. Des Weiteren zeigt sie, dass die Whiskykonsum-Kultur durch die Betonung von Subjektivität, Individualismus und Tradition sowie durch das gehobene Preissegment ein bestimmtes Publikum anspricht, das sich als Genussmenschen versteht und sich von gängigen Formen des Alkoholkonsums und anderen Gesellschaftsschichten abgrenzt. Schließlich belegt die Studie von Frau Schiefer, dass der globalisierte Whiskykonsums mit der Verbreitung stereotyper Vorstellungen von Schottland einhergeht und schottische Destillerien zunehmend von internationalen Großkonzernen aufgekauft werden. Beides wird von den in der Whiskyproduktion arbeitenden Personen akzeptiert, da sie die steigende globale Nachfrage nach schottischem Whisky als Stärkung des Industriezweigs und der nationalen Identität Schottlands erfahren.Indem Frau Schiefer in ihrer Untersuchung der sinnlichen Erfahrung und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung des Whiskykonsums beispielhaft theoretische und methodische Zugänge verbindet, leistet sie einen wichtigen Beitrag zur sensorischen Ethnographie sowie zur Tourismusethnologie. (Verlagsangaben)
    Note: Master Thesis, Universität zu Köln, Institut für Ethnologie, 2019
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    Edinburgh : University of Edinburgh
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 293 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Mexiko Hochland ; Frau ; Frau und Politik ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Kulturkonflikt ; Soziale Organisation ; Indigenität ; Feminismus ; Frauenrecht ; Gewalt ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in Milpa Alta, a rural, southern municipality of Mexico City, this thesis focuses on local understandings and contestations surrounding "violence against Indigenous women", while questioning the meaning of "violence", "Indigeneity", and "femininity," and the relationship between these concepts. I argue for rethinking violence, as present interventions in Milpa Alta may contribute more to perpetuating than alleviating it. Newly circulating discourses of human rights and women`s rights, and high numbers of femicide and sexual trafficking victims in the region, have made Milpaltenses aware of the issue of violence against women. Paradoxically, many acknowledged it to be widespread, while insisting that women and men are equally powerful: Local ideologies of work and love emphasise complementarity and interdependency in marriage. In practice, interdependent work and love contain within themselves potential for violence. Instead of directly discussing "violence", Milpaltenses often spoke of "order" and "chaos": They interpreted certain acts as maintaining or changing embodied states and the social order. Violence was also often likened to love, as one may find expression in the other, and both engender transformation. Instead of viewing women as "victims", a pejorative epithet, they were frequently lionized as "strong women", "hard workers", "strugglers", and "warriors", protecting their families and communities from all kinds of harm. Historically, women have fought alongside their men in the communal struggle to defend the local forest against the interests of mining companies and paper factories. In sum, my analysis of local discourse, life history interviews, historical and mythic narratives, religious practice, and gendered work shows that violence against Milpaltense women can neither be understood in terms of "culturally legitimate violence", nor in terms of patriarchal oppression alone. Thus, anti-violence strategies promoting an individualist notion of women`s rights are not only inefficient, but also risk socially isolating the women accepting this approach. I conclude that intervening to save women from "cultural violence" and imposing a particular understanding of violence, is ineffective. Development initiatives would be more likely to meet women`s needs if they built on local understandings, which link love and violence, rather than oppose these. (Abstract)
    Description / Table of Contents: Declaration -- Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- Lay Summary -- Table of Figures -- Introduction. Leona`s paradox. Anthropological perspectives. Methodology, ethics, and positionalit. Thesis overview -- 1. Milpa Alta. A brief overview. Mountain people. Contested identities. Conclusions -- 2. Awkward Relationships. Beyond the global and the local. Inmujeres. The cunning of collaboration. Conclusions -- 3. Contested Cosmologies. (Dis)ordering violence. Creative violence and femininity. Rethinking violence. Conclusions -- 4. Warrior Wome. Weaving the warrior. Guerreras. Gendering power. Conclusions -- 5. Dangerous Love. Magdalena`s story. Two kinds of love. Sacrificing (for) love. Conclusions -- 6. Feasts of Loving Violence. La mayordomía de Chalma. La Matanza de las Reses. The (a)symmetry of sacrifice. Conclusions -- Conclusions. Ethnographic summary. Key arguments. Interweaving women`s worlds -- Bibliography -- Appendix. Key interlocutors
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 259-289 , Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Edinburgh, Social Anthropology, 2019
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    ISBN: 978-1-928331-79-7 (eBook) , 978-1-928331-80-3 (ePub) , 978-1-928331-78-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Afrika Markt ; Handel ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Stadt ; Entwicklung ; Unternehmen ; Handwerk ; Handwerker ; Unternehmenskultur ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Nairobi 〈Stadt, Kenia〉
    Abstract: The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approaches to be identified to integrate them into global urban models and cultures.Using the utu-ubuntu model to understand the activities of traders and artisans in Nairobi`s markets, this book explores how, despite being consistently excluded and disadvantaged, they shape urban spaces in and around the city, and contribute to its development as a whole. With immense resilience, and without discarding their own socio-cultural or economic values, informal traders and artisans have created a territorial complex that can be described as the African metropolis.African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model sheds light on the ethics and values that underpin the work of traders and artisans in Nairobi, as well as their resilience and positive impact on urbanisation. This book makes an important contribution to the discourse on urban economics and planning in African cities.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part One: Traders, artisans and urban planning -- 2 Traders and artisans in global economic thinking -- 3 Urban planning and economic informality in Nairobi -- 4 Urban theory and the `African metropolis` -- Part Two: The making of an African city -- 5 The indigenisation of Nairobi -- 6 The `African metropolis` in Nairobi -- Part Three: Utu-ubuntu enhancing urban resilience -- 7 The utu-ubuntu business model -- 8 Utu-ubuntu nests, bonds and associations -- 9 Towards the formation of autonomous communities -- 10 Cultural villages -- Notes -- References -- About the author
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 176-184
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    ISBN: 978-1-76046-331-1 (online) , 1-76046-331-0 (online) , 978-1-76046-330-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 1-76046-330-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 508 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Pläne, Karten
    Series Statement: Terra Australis 52
    Keywords: Australien Lapita ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Archäologie ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: This volume comprises 23 chapters that focus on the archaeology of Lapita, a cultural horizon associated with the founding populations who first colonised much of the south west Pacific some 3000 years ago. The Lapita culture has been most clearly defined by its distinctive dentate-stamped decorated pottery and the design system represented on it and on further incised pots. Modern research now encompasses a whole range of aspects associated with Lapita and this is reflected in this volume. The broad overlapping themes of the volume—Lapita distribution and chronology, society and subsistence—relate to research questions that have long been debated in relation to Lapita.
    Description / Table of Contents: Debating Lapita. 1. Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence / Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs, David V. Burley, Christophe Sand, Peter Sheppard and Glenn R. Summerhayes -- Distribution and chronology. 2. The ceramic trail: Evaluating the Marianas and Lapita West Pacific connection / Geoffrey R. Clark and Olaf Winter ; 3. Moiapu : Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland / Bruno David, Ken Aplin, Helene Peck, Robert Skelly, Matthew Leavesley, Jerome Mialanes, Katherine Szabó, Brent Koppel, Fiona Petchey, Thomas Richards, Sean Ulm, Ian J. McNiven, Cassandra Rowe, Samantha J. Aird, Patrick Faulkner and Anne Ford ; 4. Kamgot at the lagoon's edge: Site position and resource use of an Early Lapita site in Near Oceania / Glenn R. Summerhayes, Katherine Szabó, Matthew Leavesley and Dylan Gaffney ; 5. Lapita: The Australian connection / Ian Lilley ; 6. A Lapita presence on Arop/Long Island, Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea? / Dylan Gaffney, Glenn R. Summerhayes and Mary Mennis ; 7. Early Lapita colonisation of Remote Oceania: An update on the leapfrog hypothesis / Peter Sheppard ; 8. Small islands, strategic locales and the configuration of first Lapita settlement of Vanua Levu, northern Fiji / David V. Burley, Travis Freeland and Jone Balenaivalu ; 9. New dates for the Makekur (FOH) Lapita pottery site, Arawe Islands, New Britain, Papua New Guinea / Jim Specht and Chris Gosden -- Society. 10. A new assessment of site WKO013A of Xapeta'a (Lapita), New Caledonia / Christophe Sand, Stéphanie Domergue, Louis Lagarde, Jacques Bole, André-John Ouetcho and David Baret ; 11. Lapita pottery from the small islands of north-east Malakula, Vanuatu: A brief overview and implications / Stuart Bedford ; 12. Plaited textile expression in Lapita ceramic ornamentation / Wallace Ambrose ; 13. The hat makes the man: Masks, headdresses and skullcaps in Lapita iconography / Matthew Spriggs ; 14. A view from the west: A structural approach to analysing Lapita design in the Eastern Lapita Province / Kathleen LeBlanc, Stuart Bedford and Christophe Sand ; 15. Measuring social distances with shared Lapita motifs: Current results and challenges / Scarlett Chiu ; 16. Along the roads of the Lapita people: Designs, groups and travels / Arnaud Noury ; 17. Lapita to Post-Lapita transition: Insights from the chemical analysis of pottery from the sites of Teouma, Mangaasi, Vao and Chachara, Vanuatu / Mathieu Leclerc -- Subsistence. 18. Early Lapita subsistence: The evidence from Kamgot, Anir Islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea / Glenn R. Summerhayes, Katherine Szabó, Andrew Fairbairn, Mark Horrocks, Sheryl McPherson and Alison Crowther ; 19. Green desert or 'all you can eat'? How diverse and edible was the flora of Vanuatu before human introductions? / Vincent Lebot and Chanel Sam ; 20. Lapita maritime adaptations and the development of fishing technology: A view from Vanuatu / Rintaro Ono, Stuart Hawkins and Stuart Bedford ; 21. Lapita colonisation and avian extinctions in Oceania / Stuart Hawkins and Trevor H. Worthy -- Beyond. 22. Connecting with Lapita in Vanuatu: Festivals, sporting events and contemporary themes / Richard Shing and Edson Willie ; 23. Five decades of Lapita archaeology: A personal retrospective / Patrick V. Kirch -- Appendix: Papers and posters presented at the Eighth International Lapita Conference, Port Vila, 6-10 July 2015.
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    Kailua, HI : Center for a Public Anthropology
    ISBN: 978-1-7322241-3-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 347 Seiten, 7,9 MB) , Illustrationen
    Edition: an-anthropology-of-anthropology.pdf
    Series Statement: Public Anthropology
    Keywords: Anthropologie Kulturanthropologie ; Kulturanthropologie, Rezeption ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Methodologie ; Ethnomethodologie
    Abstract: An Anthropology of Anthropology uses anthropological methods and insights to study the practice of anthropology as an academic discipline. It considers the contexts that shape the discipline, especially its beliefs, its publications, and the degree to which what it produces is of value to others. The book calls for a paradigm shift away from the publication treadmill - of assessing intellectual competence by how many books are produced in what period of time - toward a more profile-raising paradigm that focuses on addressing a broad array of social concerns in meaningful ways. Drawing on an anthropological dictum relating to exogamy - to marry out or die out - the book suggests anthropology needs to engage more effectively with problems of the broader world. The alternative is to turn in on itself, diminishing its public importance and funding. (Verlagsangaben)
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press
    ISBN: 978-0-520-30166-5 (paperback) , 978-0-520-97223-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 225 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Indien Süd-Indien ; Andhra Pradesh ; Tanz ; Tanz und Gesellschaft ; Brahmanismus ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Identität, sexuelle ; Männlichkeit ; Darstellende Kunst ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Impersonations centers on an insular community of Smarta brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who don stri-vesam (woman`s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance limited to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries - village to urban to transnational, brahmin to non-brahmin, hegemonic to nonnormative - to explore the artifice of brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Taking Center Stage: The Poet-Saint and the Impersonator of Kuchipudi Dance History -- 2. "I am Satyabhama": Constructing Hegemonic Brahmin Masculinity in the Kuchipudi Village -- 3. Constructing Artifice, Interrogating Impersonation: Madhavi as Vidusaka in Village Bhamakalapam Performance -- 4. Bhamakalapam beyond the Village: Transgressing Norms of Gender and Sexuality in Urban and Transnational Kuchipudi Dance -- 5. Longing to Dance: Stories of Kuchipudi Brahmin Women -- Conclusion: Rewriting the Script for Kuchipudi Dance-- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 193-218
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    Halle (Saale) : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (60 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 196
    Keywords: Ethnologie Anthropologie, soziale ; Identität ; Geschichte der Ethnologie ; Semantik
    Abstract: Existing histories of the concept of identity are too narrowly conceived and neglect the methods of lexical semantics and Begriffsgeschichte. Rather than focusing on Erik Erikson, this paper analyzes occurrences of `identity` and equivalent expressions in over 700 texts published in English, German, and French since 1700. In the first phase of the study, all occurrences of `identity` in the sample, including all senses in which the word is used, are analyzed to determine when semantic innovations occurred and how they spread. The focus in the second phase is on other expressions (e.g., `character`) that correspond roughly to selected senses of `identity`, insofar as they co-occur in texts with the same adjectives and verbs and fulfill a comparable semantic function. Finally, it can be shown that these other expressions were replaced by `identity` in the late twentieth century. Three key senses of the word emerge from the fundamental meaning of `sameness`: personal identity, since about 1700; collective identity (of a category or group of people), since the early 1800s; and social-psychological identity (of the individual), since the 1940s. Beginning in about 1840, Americanist ethnologists played a key role in formulating the concept of collective identity. (Abstract im Band)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 43-60
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    ISBN: 978-9974-0-1675-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (130 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: Taks-Alzugaray-Anthropological contributions for sustainable
    Keywords: Südamerika Indianer, Südamerika ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Menschenrecht ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Humanökologie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, medizinische ; Rechtsethnologie
    Abstract: This compilation of essays, based on papers presented by young anthropologists at the Trilateral Workshop "How anthropology can contribute to affirmative action in South America in the fields of human rights, gender equity and environmental sustainability", held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in February 2017, wants to leave a trace in the process of building up a world anthropological community. The workshop helped to establish a new generation of anthropological researchers from nine different countries, with experience of fieldwork in the Latin-American region, leading in the longer term to future collaborative projects. The publication wants to give testimony of a rich conversation that took place between researchers, civil society's organizations, workers, and policy makers in Montevideo's metropolitan area. lt shows what are the issues that concerned young anthropologists in their practices as researchers, lecturers and activists in the fields of sustainability, gender, human rights and the constitution of knowledge, in the second decade of the 21 st Century. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents-- Introduction --Chapter Gender -- Chapter Human Rights -- Chapter Sustainability -- Chapter Knowledge, Affects and Care
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-035-5 , 978-1-78920-034-8 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 294 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies on Civil Society volume 10
    Keywords: Schweden Migration ; Integration ; Prostitution ; Europa ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Notwithstanding its many successes since 1945, the project of European integration currently faces major difficulties, from financial crises and mass immigration to the impending departure of the UK from the European Union. At the same time, these challenges have spurred civil society organizations within and across Europe, revealing a shared public sphere in which citizens can mobilize around refugee rights, opposition to austerity policies, and other issues. Europeanization in Sweden assembles new empirical research on how these processes have played out in one of the continent`s wealthiest nations, providing insights into whether, and how, the "Swedish model" can guide European integration. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables -- Preface / Carlo Ruzza -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction : Europeanization, civil society, and the Swedish welfare state / Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino -- Europeanization of and by civil society : towards an analytical framework / Kerstin Jacobsson and Hakan Johansson -- The dual role of EU civil society organizations : between EU institutions and domestic civil societies / Hakan Johansson and Sara Kalm -- Europeanization of Swedish civil society : motives, activities, and perceived consequences / Roberto Scaramuzzino and Magnus Wennerhag -- Factors explaining Swedish CSOS' Europeanization / Roberto Scaramuzzino and Magnus Wennerhag -- Access to the EU and the role of domestic embeddedness / Elsa Hedling and Anna Meeuwisse -- Europeanization through funding / Matteo Di Placido and Roberto Scaramuzzino -- From popular movements to social businesses : social entrepreneurship as discursive Europeanization / Ulrika Levander -- Varying degrees of Europeanization in Swedish women's organizations / Ylva Stubbergaard -- Questioning the Swedish model or exporting it? Identity Europeanization in the prostitution policy field / Gabriella Scaramuzzino and Roberto Scaramuzzino -- Promoting consumer rights in Sweden by lobbying and awareness-raising abroad / Anna Meeuwisse and Andreas Vilhelmsson -- The crisis of the EU : opportunity or graveyard for a European civil society? / Lars Tragardh -- Concluding remarks / Anna Meeuwisse and Roberto Scaramuzzino -- Appendix A: The Survey Study -- Appendix B: Civil Society Organizations Types -- Appendix C: Survey Question Wordings and Response Alternatives -- Index
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    ISBN: 978-951-858-134-8 , 978-951-858-126-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff) , 978-951-858-125-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 Seiten) , Illustrationen, 1 Karte
    Series Statement: Studia Fennica. Ethnologica 17
    Keywords: Migration Sozialer Wandel ; Tod ; Bestattung ; Repatriierung ; Globalisierung ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: With so much of the global population living on the move, away from their homelands, and in diasporic communities, death and mourning practices are inevitably impacted. Transnational Death brings together eleven cutting-edge articles from the emerging field of transnational death studies. By highlighting European, Asian, North American, and Middle Eastern perspectives, the collection provides timely and fresh analysis and reflection on people's changing experiences with death in the context of migration over time. First beginning with a thematic assessment of the field of transnational death studies, readers then have the opportunity to delve into case studies that examine experiences with death and mourning at a distance from the viewpoints of Family, Community, and Commemoration. The chapters highlight complicated issues confronting migrants, their families, and communities, including: negotiations of burial preferences and challenges of corpse repatriation; the financial costs of providing end-of-life care, travel at times of death, and arranging culturally appropriate funerals and religious services; as well as the emotional and sociocultural weight of mourning and commemoration from afar. Overall, Transnational Death provides new insights on identity and belonging, community reciprocity, transnational communication, and spaces of mourning and commemoration. (Abstract)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introductory essay -- I Families -- II Communities -- III Commemoration -- List of Authors -- Abstract
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    ISBN: 978-1-912808-38-0 , 978-1-912808-28-1 /Pbk.
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 266 Seiten)
    Series Statement: The _Malinowski Monographs Series
    Keywords: England Obdachlosigkeit ; Armut ; Wohnform ; Raum ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements are deemed less than fully human as they struggle to find a place where they can symbolically and physically exist. Written by an anthropologist who accidentally found herself homeless, The Ethics of Space is an unprecedented account of what happens when homeless people organize to occupy abandoned properties.Set against the backdrop of economic crisis, austerity, and a disintegrating British state, Steph Grohmann tells the story of a flourishing squatter community in the city of Bristol and how it was eventually outlawed by the state. The first ethnography of homelessness done by a researcher who was formally homeless throughout fieldwork, this volume explores the intersection between spatial existence, subjectivity, and ethics. The result is a book that rethinks how ethical views are shaped and constructed through our own spatial existences. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Of life and fieldwork: The "field" as morally neutral zone -- Chapter 2. Shelter: An attack on one is an attack on all -- Chapter 3. Hope: Becoming at home -- Chapter 4. Codes of honor and protection: Of apes and anarchists -- Chapter 5. Total places: The Big Society strikes back -- Chapter 6. The enemy within: The return of the savage noble -- Chapter 7. Fragments: Death and sanctions -- Chapter 8. Circle the wagons: Extinction -- Epilogue -- Index -- Reference List -- Ethnographic Vignettes: Trolley Problem. Refugee. Spell. Through the Looking Glass. Clash. Dispatch
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 245-266
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    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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    Köln : Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Köln
    ISSN: 1864-7766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (70 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: KAE-07_Krause2018_Delta Methods.pdf
    Series Statement: Kölner Arbeitspapiere zur Ethnologie 7
    Keywords: Geographie Fluß ; Hydrologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: What ethnographic tools may serve to capture and understand the worlds of people inhabiting riverbanks, coast and deltas? What is specific about fluvial, coastal and deltaic lifeworlds that needs specific fieldwork methods? This working paper brings together contributions from eight researchers whose empirical work is set in watery environments, characterized by socially and ecologically uncertain transformations and what we call `hydrosocial` relations. The term `hydrosocial` points to the recognition that social and hydrological relations often closely correspond, in that water flows may mirror political and economic power, and human subjectivities may be shaped by the qualities, quantities and timings of water. Discussing past and current research endeavours, challenges and attempted solutions, the contributions share some of the researchers` experiences in exploring hydrosocial lifeworlds. Three crosscutting themes may be identified: (1) The fractal geography of watercourses and their inhabitants requires a multi-scalar research approach that compliments fine-grained ethnographic fieldwork with zooming out spatially and temporally. (2) In order to understand local hydrosocial life, we must pay specific attention to the social and material flows that move in and out of these places, including waters, ideas, sediments, practices, people and fish. (3) Moving along with our interlocutors - e.g. on walks or boat rides - is essential for finding out about things that would not be part of sit-down conversations, for learning about their situated practices, and for understanding the flexibility that often makes life possible in volatile hydrosocial contexts.
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    ISBN: 978-3-8394-4133-6 (PDF) , 3-8376-4133-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-3-8376-4133-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (319 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Kultur und Soziale Praxis
    Keywords: Schweiz Indien ; Migration ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Rassismus ; Globalisierung ; Kapitalismus ; Postkolonialismus ; Kosmopolitismus
    Abstract: Aufgewachsen zwischen Schweizer Überfremdungsangst und diasporischer Nostalgie: »Inder_innen der zweiten Generation« verfügten als Kinder kaum über Narrative für ihre Erfahrung der Mehrfachzugehörigkeit. Rohit Jain zeichnet nach, wie diese »unmöglichen« Subjekte inmitten von assimilatorischem Rassismus und warenförmiger Anerkennung in der Schweiz sowie in den diasporischen Räumen eines liberalisierten Indiens neue Lebensentwürfe erfinden. Die transnationale Ethnographie zeigt, wie an der postkolonialen Schnittstelle von dezentralem Kapitalismus, flexibler Staatszugehörigkeit und globaler Populärkultur kosmopolitische Selbstsorge im Widerspruch von Freiheit, Anerkennung und Ausschluss ausgehandelt wird.How do members of the »second generation« in the post-colonial era develop their own life plans between racism, exoticism and diaspora?
    Note: Dissertation, Universität Zürich, 2014
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    Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
    Language: English
    Pages: 14
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 6
    Keywords: Georgien Grenze ; Markt ; Handel ; Wirtschaft, informelle
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    Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
    Language: English
    Pages: 26 Seiten
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 5
    Keywords: Armenien Markt ; Handel ; Wirtschaft, informelle
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    Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
    Language: English
    Pages: 20 Seiten
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 8
    Keywords: Armenien Markt ; Handel ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Arbeit ; Arbeit, informelle ; Sowjet-Union
    Abstract: This paper gives an account of the unmaking of Soviet workers at the Vernissage in Armenia. I argue that the unmaking of Soviet workers, first, is the irrelevance of Soviet workers as workers once they lost their jobs after the collapse of the Soviet Union and came to the Vernissage to trade. During the Soviet period, private trade was forbidden, and the Soviet government persecuted people who dared to engage in it. Consequently, many people grew up thinking of trade as a criminal activity that was non-productive and parasitic, as opposed to productive work that facilitated the modernization of the USSR. After the dissolution of the USSR, when trade was liberalized and many former Soviet workers were pushed into trade as they lost their jobs, it still retained its quality of not being "real" work, to borrow Roberman`s (2013) wording. Even 25 years after the dissolution of the USSR, former Soviet workers at the Vernissage still want to be identified with their former Soviet occupations and not with trade. However, now engaged in trade, former Soviet workers came up with a "new" way of establishing identity and hierarchy—through production. I describe this "new" way as "the identification game"; employing it, I demonstrate how former Soviet workers at the Vernissage identify and represent themselves as masters, whose work is productive and intellectual. In doing so, they single out resellers, people who resell the work of other masters, by implying that their work is parasitic and selfish. However, this "identification game" is reified only by the older generation of traders, former Soviet workers. The younger generation of traders at the Vernissage, which does not have any experience of being Soviet workers, is disengaged from it, thus undermining the Soviet view of trade as not "real" work and making it irrelevant in the postsocialist era. Thus, I contend that the unmaking of Soviet workers consists in, first, their irrelevance as workers in a postsocialist period, and second, the irrelevance of their ideas about trade as not "real" work. Furthermore, to support my depiction of a master who engages in "the identification game" and a younger-generation trader who is disengaged from it, I give two ethnographic portraits of traders at the Vernissage. I assert that the disengagement of a younger generation of traders at the Vernissage signals a change in the perception of trade as "real" work and runs parallel to the unmaking of Soviet workers.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 19-20
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    ISSN: 1611-4531
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (78 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: Heft51_Ziegler.pdf
    Series Statement: Kölner Ethnologische Beiträge 51
    Keywords: Deutschland Schule ; Ausländer ; Migration ; Identität ; Beziehungen, interethnische
    Abstract: Alina Ziegler bearbeitet in ihrer MA Arbeit, die von Prof. Michael Bollig betreut wurde, ein Thema, das in der deutschen Ethnologie bislang wenig behandelt wurde: die Konstruktion und Inszenierung sozialer Identitäten in einer (Kölner) Schule, in der 95 Prozent der Schüler einen migrantischen Hintergrund haben. Während derartige Arbeiten in der interkulturellen Pädagogik, teilweise auch in der Soziologie, bislang einen (begrenzten) Platz hatten, stellt Ziegler eindrucksvoll unter Beweis, dass eine spezifisch ethnologische Herangehensweise an die Thematik neue Perspektiven eröffnet. Ziegler greift dabei auf ein klassisches "Instrument" ethnologischer Forschung zurück, die teilnehmende Beobachtung: über zwei Jahre hat sie an selbiger Schule die Nachmittagsbetreuung und Hausaufgabenaufsicht koordiniert, hat vielfältige Schulaktivitäten mit Schülern (vor allem Fünft- und Sechstklässlern) unternommen und sich in anderweitigen schulischen Angelegenheiten eingebracht. Aufbauend auf diese lange Zeit der unmittelbaren Teilhabe am Schulgeschehen hat sie verschiedene Verfahren angewendet. Einige wenige Interviews hat sie mit Lehrern und Schulleitung durchgeführt. Die Informationen zu den Innensichten der Kinder hat sie durchgehend aus unmittelbarer Beobachtung oder aus eigens für die Forschung entworfenen Spielen gewonnen. Auf beeindruckende Art und Weise gelingt es Ziegler so den Kindern eine Stimme zu geben. Ihre Ansichten über Identitäten, Eingrenzung und Ausgrenzung werden authentisch kolportiert und nachvollziehbar analysiert. Zentrales Ergebnis der Arbeit Zieglers ist, dass die Kinder ihr "Ausländer-Sein" sehr gezielt und prononciert inszenieren. "Nicht-deutsch" zu sein verleiht Identität und stiftet Gemeinschaft. Die Schüler distanzieren sich explizit von einer deutschen Identität, obwohl viele von ihnen deutsche Staatsbürger sind oder über eine doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft verfügen. Dabei werden vor allem äußere morphologische Merkmale (Hautfarbe, Haar- und Augenfarbe), Religion aber auch die Kontaktintensität mit dem Herkunftsland der Eltern (oft auch der Großeltern) hervorgehoben. Bestimmte Verhaltensweisen werden plakativ als "Nicht-Deutsch" konstruiert. Die Kinder wollen keineswegs eine hybride Identität sondern eine eindeutige. Identität, hier vor allem nationale Identität, wird hier essentialisiert, auch wenn objektive Gegebenheiten genügend Anlass geben würden, den konstruierten, situativen Charakter von Identität herauszustreichen.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 72 - 78 , Masterarbeit, Universität Köln, Philosophische Fakultät, 2018
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (27 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Arbeitspapiere. Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien 179
    Keywords: Beziehungen Mensch-Tier Kind ; Kindheit ; Fauna ; Identität
    Abstract: Menschenkinder, die für eine gewisse Zeit ausschließlich unter Tieren aufgewachsen sind, werden als Wolfskinder bezeichnet. Es gibt viele Mythen über sie, aber auch einige nachgewiesene Fälle, denen ich in meiner Arbeit nachgehe. Kamala aus Indien, Marcos aus Spanien und Oxana aus der Ukraine lebten jeweils mehrere Jahre in der Obhut von Wölfen bzw. Hunden und haben sich fast vollständig an deren Lebensweise angepasst. Der Versuch, sie in die menschliche Gesellschaft zu resozialisieren zeigt, wie tiefgreifend die tierische Sozialisierung war. Vor allem Kommunikation und Körperkontakt mit den jeweiligen Tieren waren wesentlich für ihre Entwicklung und Prägung. Die spätere Identität der Wolfskinder führte zurück auf den tiefgreifenden Einfluss ihrer nicht-menschlichen Eltern. Die Erkenntnis, man wird zu dem, der einen umgibt, zeigt, dass ein Großteil der eigenen Wesenszüge nicht genetisch sondern durch die Umgebung bedingt ist. Das Phänomen der Wolfskinder sugge-riert, dass diese Eigenschaften austauschbar sind. Die Existenz von Wolfskindern hinterfragt die Grenze zwischen menschlichen und nichtmenschlichen Tieren und fordert eine Neubetrachtung unserer einzigartigen Positi-on im Tierreich.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [28-31]
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    Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
    Language: English
    Pages: 22 Seiten
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 9
    Keywords: Kasachstan Markt ; Handel ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Pflanzennutzung ; Heilpflanze
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 19-22
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    Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
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    Pages: 15 Seiten
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 7
    Keywords: Kasachstan Markt ; Handel ; Wirtschaft, informelle
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 14-15
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (332 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Namibia Geschichte, nachkoloniale ; Jugendlicher ; Identität ; Soziales Verhalten ; Männlichkeit ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Rassismus ; Ethnographie ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Arbeit, informelle ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Politische Ökonomie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Biographische Methode ; Swakopmund (Stadt, Namibia)
    Abstract: THIS PRESENT THESIS concerns the lives of young men living in Swakopmund, Namibia: the 'uranium capital of the world'. The price of uranium on the international market depends in many ways on emotion and global sentiment - the way that geographically distant persons feel about nuclear things has an impact on the price-per-barrel of this radioactive sand. As such, changes in international regard for uranium and its associated industries - for example nuclear weapons or energy - have a deep impact at a local level, in places of extraction such as Swakopmund. This work is a study of men's relationships with others in the context of uranium mining; the geology of uranium inspires a deeper understanding of men's actions and feelings whilst also priming the notion of uranium as an actor itself. It is the first such work to explore a Namibian city located outside of the north of the country. It is focussed primarily on men, and especially on issues of relatedness and intimacy, questioning the forms that these take in Swakopmund as a city in which financial imbalance is exceptionally pronounced and also highly racialised, skewed in favour of European (white) settlers. Everyone in Swakopmund comes from elsewhere - with the exception of a very small minority - leaving behind the direct influence of the extended family. Away from extended kinship networks persons are, more-or-less, able to build the relationships that they want to, rather than following the wishes of their families. At the time of the fieldwork that this thesis is based on, the global price of uranium was significantly low, meaning that locally there were few full-time contracts available, with employment - when present - occurring largely on a temporary or short-term basis. As such, this dissertation places conceptions of relatedness and intimacy into the context of these global fluctuations, especially in terms of insecurity and risk. Rather than reinforce a notion of male hegemony, this work demonstrates that men are often subject to power structures which are not their own and that they are - more often than might be thought - scared, vulnerable and afraid. More than that, however, uranium is conceptualised as a monster, with various tentacles that reach out in order to grasp, influence and change parts of Namibian society in order to maintain its control over them. Each chapter is an exploration of one such tentacle, following the lines of different relationship types and situations in terms of the uranium industry itself, the home and family, formal and informal work, and friendship. In conclusion I point out that whilst geographical - and indeed, cultural - distance often hints at an intrinsic incommensurability between those who are 'here' and those who are 'there', the relationships formed by persons in Swakopmund are often not so geographically bound. A person's involvement in such an international market as that of uranium is clear evidence of that; uranium connects Swakopmund with those outside. Yet aside from working in industry, men also seek to make a multitude of new kin-connections, some of which remain local and some of which do not. By following the interpersonal and the intersubjective, this work sheds light on the new forms of intimacy and relatedness that manifest in Swakopmund and beyond. (Summary)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 238-259 , Dissertation, KU Leuven, 2018
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    ISBN: 978-3-86395-361-4
    ISSN: 2512-6881
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology 12
    Keywords: Inder Tamile ; Diaspora ; Identität ; Deutschland ; Trinidad ; Tobago ; Fidschi-Insel ; Mauritius ; Kanada ; Sansibar ; Arbeitsmigration ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Postkolonialismus ; Bürgerrecht ; Rassismus ; Sozialer Status ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Nationenbildung
    Abstract: People`s transnational mobilities, their activities to build homes in their countries of residence and their connectivities have resulted in multiplicities of belonging to encountered, imagined and represented communities operating within various political contexts. Migrants and their descendants labor to form and transform relations with their country of origin and of residence. People who see their origins in India but are now living elsewhere are a case in point. They have been establishing worldwide home places, whose growing number and vibrancy invite reconsideration of Indian diasporic communities and contexts in terms of `India(s) beyond India.` Issues of belonging in Indian diasporas include questions of membership not only in the nation of previous and present residence and/or the nation of origin, but also in other communities and networks in political, economic, religious and social realms at local, regional or global levels. Yet, belonging - and especially simultaneous belonging - to various formations is rarely unambiguous. Rather, belonging in all its modes may entail dilemmas that arise from inclusions and exclusions. Bearing in mind such processes, the contributions to this volume endeavor to provide answers to the question of what kinds of difficulties members of Indian communities abroad encounter in connection with their identifications with and participation in specific collectivities. The underlying argument of all the essays collected is that members of Indian diasporas develop strategies to cope with the dilemmas they face in connection with their sense of belonging to particular communities, while they are subjected to specific power relationships. Thus, the volume sheds light on the ways in which dilemmas of belonging are being negotiated in intercultural fields.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dilemmas of Belonging in Indian Diasporas, Elfriede Hermann and Antonie Fuhse -- Part I: Belonging in Transnational Space -- Part II: Belonging and Nation Building -- Part III: Politics of Belonging and Violence -- Notes on contributors
    Note: Enthält 10 Beiträge
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    ISSN: 1438-5244 , 2199-7942
    Language: English
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    Edition: EthnoScript 2018 Tradition.pdf
    Keywords: Europa Großbritannien ; Österreich ; Bosnien und Herzegowina ; Fest ; Identität
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    Series Statement: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Field Notes and Research Projects 21
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Äthiopien ; Afar ; Feldforschung ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Note: Full text (PDF-File, 5,3 MB)Glynn Flood's Archive I: Glynn Flood's Journal and Letters 1973 - 1975 (PDF-File, 159 MB)Glynn Flood's Archive II: Glynn Flood's Field Notes and Writings 1973 - 1975 (PDF-File, 230 MB)
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    ISSN: 2192-2365
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (29 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity 18-01
    Keywords: Migration Mobilität ; Alter ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The world is moving towards significantly older populations with the number of older persons aged 60 years or over expected to more than double from 901 million in 2015 to over 2 billion in 2050 globally. Meanwhile, migration and mobility continue to be a fundamental part of human experience in all regions of the world. The Max Planck Research Group `Ageing in a Time of Mobility` is a global and interdisciplinary project that investigates the interconnections between ageing populations and global migration and mobility and how they jointly bring about new social transformations. The project will explore the different ways through which older persons are actively embedded in global networks and how they engage with new forms of socio-cultural diversity. It focuses on the migration and mobility of older populations in and from the rapidly ageing regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. This working paper sets out the agenda of the research group, which runs from 2018 - 2023 and funded by the Max Planck Society.
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press
    ISBN: 978-0-520-29173-7 (paperback) , 978-0-520-96539-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 210 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Mexiko Grundwasser ; Wasser ; Wasserversorgung ; Wasserrecht ; Gesundheit ; Hygiene ; Trinken ; Mineral ; Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturanthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Mexiko 〈Stadt〉
    Abstract: Virtuous Waters is the first study of mineral waters and bathing in Mexico. It traces the evolving ideas about these waters, from European contact to the present, in order to shed new light on human-environment relations in the modern world. Our relation to water is among the most urgent of global issues, as increasing scarcity and pollution threaten food shortages, deteriorating public health, and the collapse of aquatic ecosystems. Drawing on ideas from political ecology, the author brings together an analysis of the shifts in the concept of water and a material history of environments, infrastructures, and bathing. The book analyzes a range of issues concerning complex "water cultures" that have formed around Mexican groundwaters over time and suggests that this understanding might also help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty-first century. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Waters/Cultures -- 2 Bathing and Domination in the Early Modern Atlantic World 153 Policing Waters and Baths in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City -- 4 Enlightenment Science of Mineral Springs -- 5 Groundwater and Hydraulic Opulence in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 6 Chemistry, Biology, and the Heterogeneity of Modern Waters -- 7 Dispossession and Bottling after the Revolution -- 8 Spa Tourism in Twentieth-Century Mexico -- 9 Virtuous Waters in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181-199
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    ISBN: 978-3-86395-377-5
    ISSN: 2512-6881
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (125 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology 13
    Keywords: Uganda Afrika, Subsahara ; Kindheit ; Jugendlicher ; Soziologie ; Krieger ; Konfliktmanagement ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Lange vor "IS" und "Boko Haram" galt die messianisch-christliche "Lord`s Resistance Army" (LRA) in Uganda als die vielleicht brutalste Rebellengruppe Afrikas oder der Welt - und als eine, die sich sehr klar auf die Entführung, "Rekrutierung" und den Einsatz Minderjähriger als KämpferInnen spezialisiert hat. Dieses Buch zeigt die Erkenntnisse eines Forschungsprojekts über ehemalige KindersoldatInnen in Norduganda und ihre "Reintegration" in den gesellschaftlichen und familialen Alltag nach ihrer Rückkehr ins zivile Leben. Biographische Verläufe von Ex-KindersoldatInnen vor, während und nach der Zeit ihrer Entführung werden vorgestellt. Die AutorInnen untersuchen, wie sie ins zivile Leben zurückfanden, welche Beziehungsstrukturen oder sozialen Figurationen sich danach zwischen ihnen und den ZivilistInnen sowie insbesondere ihren Herkunftsfamilien beobachten lassen und welche alltagsweltlichen Bedingungen einen Übergang ins zivile Leben erleichtern oder erschweren.
    Description / Table of Contents: Vorwort, Dieter Neuber -- 1. Einleitung, Artur Bogner & Gabriele Rosenthal -- 2. Prozesse der Annäherung und Distanzierung: ZivilistInnen und Ex-RebellInnen der Lord`s Resistance Army, Artur Bogner, Gabriele Rosenthal & Katharina Teutenberg -- 3. Familien- und Lebensgeschichten von Ex-RebellInnen der Lord`s Resistance Army, Artur Bogner, Gabriele Rosenthal & Josephine Schmiereck -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Transkriptionszeichen
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 119-125
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    Chicago : HAU Books
    ISBN: 978-0-9973675-2-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (146 Seiten)
    Series Statement: The _Malinowski Monographs Series
    Keywords: Soziale Beziehung Soziales Netzwerk ; Soziales Verhalten ; Kommunikation ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Sozialpsychologie ; Vertrauen ; Toleranz ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, psychologische ; Marokko ; Feldforschung
    Abstract: Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and virtuous, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and generating prosperity. It allows for complex political systems, permits human communication, underpins financial instruments and economic institutions, and generally holds society together. Against these overwhelmingly laudable qualities, mistrust often goes unnoticed as a positive social phenomenon, treated as little more than a corrosive absence, a mere negative of trust itself. With this book, Matthew Carey proposes an ethnographic and conceptual exploration of mistrust that raises it up as legitimate stance in its own right. While mistrust can quickly ruin relationships and even dissolve extensive social ties, Carey shows that it might have other values. Drawing on fieldwork in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains as well as comparative material from regions stretching from Eastern Europe to Melanesia, he examines the impact of mistrust on practices of conversation and communication, friendship and society, and politics and cooperation. In doing so, he demonstrates that trust is not the only basis for organizing human society and cooperating with others. The result is a provocative but enlightening work that makes us rethink social issues such as suspicion, doubt, and uncertainty.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction: Te apotheosis of trust -- chapter 1 Lying and obfuscation: Te uncertain ground of speech -- chapter 2 Trust or tolerance? On the treachery of friends -- chapter 3 The triumph of contingency: Anarchism as Realpolitik -- chapter 4 Conspiracy, witchcraft and theft: Manifestations of the mistrusting imagination -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [111]-124
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press
    ISBN: 978-0-520-29699-2 (paperback) , 978-0-520-96952-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 192 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Lateinamerika Peru ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Armut ; Frau ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Ethnographie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Weltbank
    Abstract: Unjust Conditions follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and the World Bank, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are praised as efficient mechanisms for changing poor people's behavior. While rooted in good intentions and dripping with the rhetoric of social inclusion, CCT programs' successes ring hollow, based solely on metrics for children's attendance at school and health appointments. Looking beyond these statistics reveals a host of hidden costs for the mothers who meet the conditions. With a poignant voice and keen focus on ethnographic research, Tara Patricia Cookson turns the reader's gaze to women's care work in landscapes of grossly inadequate state investment, cleverly drawing out the tensions between social inclusion and conditionality. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Peru -- Introduction: making aid conditional -- Setting the conditions -- The ironic conditions of clinics and schools -- Rural women walking and waiting -- Paid and unpaid labor on the frontline state -- Shadow conditions and the immeasurable burden of improvement -- Conclusion: toward a caring society -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 173-186
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    ISBN: 9048533384 , 9789048533381 , 9462983291 , 9789462983298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
    Series Statement: Asian history
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Keywords: East India Company ; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie ; Colonial companies History ; Colonial companies History ; East India Company ; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie ; East India Company ; Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie ; Handel ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Exports & Imports ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; International ; General ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; International ; Marketing ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; International Relations ; Trade & Tariffs ; HISTORY ; General ; Colonial companies ; Diplomatie ; Kolonie ; Macht ; Wirtschaft ; Asia ; Asien ; History
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Table of Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgements --Introduction The Companies in Asia /Clulow, Adam / Mostert, Tristan --Part 1 Diplomacy --1. Scramble for the spices /Mostert, Tristan --2. Diplomacy in a provincial setting /Meersbergen, Guido van --3. Contacting Japan /Matsukata, Fuyuko --Part 2 Trade --4. Surat and Bombay /Chaiklin, Martha --5. The English and Dutch East India Companies and Indian merchants in Surat in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries /Nadri, Ghulam A. --Part 3 Violence --6. Empire by Treaty? /Ittersum, Martine van --7. 'Great help from Japan' /Clulow, Adam --8. The East India Company and the foundation of Persian Naval Power in the Gulf under Nader Shah, 1734-47 /Good, Peter --Epilog. 9. The Dutch East India Company in global history /Andrade, Tonio --Index.
    Abstract: The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organisations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, raise armies and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without resistance. Early modern Asia stood at the center of the global economy and was home to powerful states and sprawling commercial networks. The companies may have been global enterprises but they operated in a globalised region in which they encountered a range of formidable competitors who frequently outmaneuvered or outfought their representatives. This groundbreaking collection of essays explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers, and brokers. With contributions from the most innovative historians in the field, this book presents new ways to understand these organisations by focusing on their diplomatic, commercial, and military interactions with Asia
    Note: "This volume grew out of a 2015 conference held at the International Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg at the University of Heidelberg."--Page 11 , Includes bibliographical references and index , In English
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    Manchester : Manchester University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-5261-0511-0 , 978-1-5261-0513-4
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Theory for a Global Age
    Keywords: Postkolonialismus Gesellschaft, moderne ; Kolonialismus ; Unberührbarer ; Kunst, asiatische ; Identität ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity. Crucially, it understands these antinomies not as errors, but as constitutive elements of modern worlds. The book questions routine portrayals of homogeneous time and antinomian blueprints of cultural space, while acknowledging the production of time and space by social subjects. Instead of assuming a straightforward, singular trajectory for the phenomena, it views modernity as involving checkered, contingent and contended processes of meaning and power, which have found heterogeneous historical elaborations over the past five centuries. Bringing together past and present, theory and narrative, it sows the historical, ethnographic and methodological deep into its critical procedures, offering an innovative understanding of cultural identities and imaginatively exploring the relationship between history and anthropology.
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    Göttingen : Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung Multireligiöser und Multiethnischer Gesellschaften
    ISSN: 2192-2365
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (36 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity 17-02
    Keywords: China Ethnie, Asien ; Hmong ; Diaspora ; Südostasien ; Film, ethnographischer ; Identität
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    ISSN: 1862-3603
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (11 Seiten)
    Edition: web-afrika-2017-03_0.pdf
    Series Statement: GIGA Focus. Afrika 2017/03
    Keywords: Afrika Europa ; Handelsbeziehung ; Außenpolitik ; Handel ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Migration ; Migration, illegale ; Schmuggel
    Abstract: Als Reaktion auf den Anstieg der Flüchtlingszahlen seit dem Jahr 2015 verabschiedete die EU eine Vielzahl an Maßnahmen. Ziel ist, das Migrationsmanagement in Afrika zu stärken, den Menschenschmuggel zu bekämpfen und die Lebensbedingungen vor Ort zu verbessern. De facto liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Blockade von Fluchtrouten, u.a. durch den Aufbau einer Küstenwache in Libyen und den Einsatz von Milizen gegen Flüchtlinge im Sudan.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 239 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: China Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen Afrika-Asien ; Familienrecht ; Heirat ; Chinese ; Afrikaner ; Diskriminierung ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Identität ; Guangzhou 〈Stadt, China〉
    Abstract: Guangzhou, as a long-time center of business, attracts diverse African migrants that widely influence culture, religious practices, language as well as foreign policy and administration. A noticeable feature of this migration pattern is the emergence of Chinese-African marriages and partnerships and their resulting children. These families face constraints under the `Exit and Entry Administration Law`, the hukou (household registration) system and other administrative measures, which can lead to an irregular or second-class status of Chinese-African couples and their children. This thesis provides insights into Chinese-African couples` personal lives; marriage or partnership choices; economic conditions and employment; cultural, value and gender differences within families; different opinions on child-rearing; and positive and negative aspects of relationships with in-laws, relatives, and friends. Furthermore, the thesis explores Chinese traders`, co-workers`, and neighbors` attitudes towards Africans and Africans` attitudes towards Chinese. The study deals with the obstacles to legal status and social belonging that Chinese-African couples encounter and reviews the role of cultural and religious differences in their social relationships. Even if Chinese partners have lived in Guangzhou for several years, as members of the floating population (liudongrenkou), they are not granted equal rights or official residency under the hukou system, and their extended family members in rural villages or towns are not able to give them financial or social support. These Chinese partners are outsiders in Guangzhou, where they live and work, as well as outsiders in the hometowns where they have no desire to return to. Their African partners are considered part of the foreign `floating population` by the Guangzhou administration. They face difficulties with regularizing their stay, and as non-citizens have limited or no access to social security. Chinese partners have to find ways to help African partners to deal with status issues and cultural differences so as to adapt to Chinese society. In cases where Chinese-African couples have children, the latter often find it hardto build self-confidence under conditions of prejudice. Children whose Chinese and African parents are not married are not eligible for hukou status, and will have difficulties attending school. However, Chinese and African partners try to find support from religious groups, business communities or other Chinese-African families in order to gain a sense of belonging and to help their children. It can be seen that the majority of Chinese-African couples do not attain their shared goal of socioeconomic upward mobility. (Verlagsangaben)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 200-239 , Dissertation, Philosophische Fakultät der Universität zu Köln, 2017
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    Halle (Saale) : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 178 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Field Notes and Research Projects 19
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Kasachstan ; Kirgisien ; Usbekistan ; Tadschikistan ; Mongolei ; Anthropologie, kulinarische ; Nahrungszubereitung ; Ernährung ; Identität ; Ferghanatal 〈Zentral-Asien〉
    Note: Enthält 13 Beiträge
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    ISSN: 1862-3603
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (14 Seiten)
    Edition: gf_afrika_1701.pdf
    Series Statement: GIGA Focus. Afrika 2017/01
    Keywords: Afrika Europa ; Handelsbeziehung ; Außenpolitik ; Handel ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
    Abstract: Das Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) hat ein neues Afrikakonzept vorgelegt. Es ist rhetorisch stark, gut und öffentlichkeitswirksam inszeniert, aber dennoch bleiben Fragen offen. Das BMZ möchte die weitere Marginalisierung Afrikas durch inklusives und nachhaltiges Wachstum bremsen. Auf dem G20-Gipfel in Hamburg im Juli 2017 wird die Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel ihre neue Afrikapolitik begründen und versuchen, die anderen G20-Mitglieder für eine fokussierte Kooperation mit Afrika zu gewinnen.
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    New York : Berghahn Books
    ISBN: 978-1-78533-606-5 , 978-1-78533-400-9 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: The _Human Economy volume 4
    Keywords: Europa Italien ; Korruption ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Sizilien
    Abstract: From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives operating on land confiscated from mafiosi in Sicily, a project that the state hails as arguably the greatest symbolic victory over the mafia in Italian history. Rakopoulos's ethnographic focus is on access to resources, divisions of labor, ideologies of community and food, and the material changes that cooperatives bring to people's lives in terms of kinship, work and land management. The book contributes to broader debates about cooperativism, how labor might be salvaged from market fundamentalism, and to emergent discourses about the 'human' economy. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Problems with Cooperatives -- Chapter 2. The Anthropology of Co-ops, the Mafia and the Sicilian Lens -- Chapter 3. Cooperatives and the Historical Anti-mafia Movement -- Chapter 4. Worldviews of Labour: Legality and Food Ideologies -- Chapter 5. The Limits of 'Bad Kinship': Sicilian Anti-mafia Families -- Chapter 6. The Use of Gossip: Setting Cooperative Boundaries -- Chapter 7. 'Wage Is Male-But Land Is a Woman' -- Chapter 8. Community Troubles: Cooperative Conundrum -- Chapter 9. Divided by Land: Mafia and Anti-mafia Proximity -- Conclusion: The Private Life of Political Cooperativism -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Göttingen : Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung Multireligiöser und Multiethnischer Gesellschaften
    ISSN: 2192-2365
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (34 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity 17-10
    Keywords: Belgien Spanien ; Soziologie ; Recht, modernes ; Frau und Islam ; Bekleidung ; Anthropologie, soziale
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    ISSN: 1862-3603
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (12 Seiten)
    Edition: gf_afrika_1702_de_5.pdf
    Series Statement: GIGA Focus. Afrika 2017/02
    Keywords: Afrika Europa ; Handelsbeziehung ; Außenpolitik ; Handel ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
    Abstract: Ein Schlüsselelement der Partnerschaft zwischen den G20-Staaten und den Staaten Afrikas ist der Compact with Africa (CWA) mit dem Ziel der Förderung von Privatinvestitionen und von Investitionen in die Infrastruktur. Auf der Afrika-Partnerschaftskonferenz der G20 in Berlin im Juni 2017 wurden Entwürfe für solche Vereinbarungen mit fünf afrikanischen Staaten vorgestellt.
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    Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
    Language: English
    Pages: 12 Seiten
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 4
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Markt ; Unternehmen ; Handel ; Wirtschaft, informelle
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 8-10
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    Acton, ACT : Australian National University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-76046-124-9 , 978-1-76046-123-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 298 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karte
    Series Statement: Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 11
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Kubor ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Ressource ; Reichtum ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ungleichheit ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Navigating the Future draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Kubo people and their neighbours, in a remote area of Papua New Guinea, to explore how worlds are reconfigured as people become increasingly conscious of, and seek to draw into their own lives, wealth and power that had previously lain beyond their horizons. In the context of a major resource extraction project - the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas (PNG LNG) Project - taking shape in the mountains to the north, the people in this area are actively reimagining their social world. This book describes changes in practice that result, tracing shifts in the ways people relate to the land, to each other and to outsiders, and the histories of engagement that frame those changes. Inequalities are emerging between individuals in access to paid work, between groups in potential for claiming future royalties, and between generations in access to information. As people at the village of Suabi strive to make themselves visible to the state and to petroleum companies, as legal entities entitled to receive benefits from the PNG LNG Project, they are drawing new boundaries around sets of people and around land and declaring hierarchical relationships between groups that did not exist before. They are struggling to make sense of a bureaucracy that is foreign to them, in a place where the state currently has minimal presence. A primary concern of Navigating the Future is with the processes through which these changes have emerged, as people seek to imagine - and work to bring about - a radically different future for themselves while simultaneously reimagining their own past in ways that validate those endeavours. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Caveats -- Tables -- Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gwaimasi: 1986-99 -- 3. Timelines -- 4. Suabi: 2011-14 -- 5. Navigating the Future -- 6. Navigating the Past -- 7. The Giving Environment -- 8. The Things of the World -- References
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-298
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    Halle (Saale) : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department "Integration and Conflict"
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 137 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Field Notes and Research Projects 15
    Keywords: Republik Niger Ethnie, Afrika ; Wodabe ; Nomade ; Nomadismus ; Migration ; Identität ; Behausung ; Behausung, mobile ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Urbanisation ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Krisenbewältigung ; Feldforschung
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 131-135
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    ISSN: 1862-3603
    Language: English
    Pages: 10 S.
    Edition: gf_afrika_1603_en.pdf
    Series Statement: GIGA Focus. Afrika 2016/03
    Keywords: Afrika Großbritannien ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Wirtschaft ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Politik ; Handel
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 Seiten
    Edition: Working_Paper_2.pdf
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 2
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Kaukasus ; Arbeit, informelle ; Wirtschaft ; Markt ; Handel ; Wirtschaft, informelle
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    ISBN: 978-3-86395-286-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 Seiten, 2,2 MB)
    Series Statement: Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology Volume 8
    Uniform Title: Etablierte und Außenseiter zugleich
    Keywords: Israel Naher Osten ; Jordanien ; Palästina ; Selbstbild ; Fremdwahrnehmung ; Identität ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Westjordanland ; Westbank ; Bethlehem ; Ramallah ; Haifa ; Jaffa
    Abstract: Palestinians frequently present a harmonizing and homogenizing we-image of their own national we-group, as a way of counteracting Israeli attempts to sow divisions among them, whether through Israeli politics or through the dominant public discourse in Israel. However, a closer look reveals the fragility of this homogenizing we-image which masks a variety of internal tensions and conflicts. By applying methods and concepts from biographical research and figurational sociology, the articles in this volume offer an analysis of the Middle East conflict that goes beyond the polar opposition between "Israelis" and "Palestinians". On the basis of case studies from five urban regions in Palestine and Israel (Bethlehem, Ramallah, East Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa), the authors explore the importance of belonging, collective self-images and different forms of social differentiation within Palestinian communities. For each region this is bound up with an analysis of the relevant social and socio-political contexts, and family and life histories. The analysis of (locally) different figurations means focusing on the perspective of Palestinians as members of different religious, socio-economic, political or generational groupings and local group constellations - for instance between Christians and Muslims or between long-time residents and refugees. (Verlagsangaben)
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    Pages: 12 Seiten (Ausdruck einer Online-Ressource)
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 2
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Kaukasus ; Arbeit, informelle ; Wirtschaft ; Markt ; Handel ; Wirtschaft, informelle
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-30734-6 , 978-90-04-30735-3
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 377 Seiten) , Karten
    Edition: Ethnicity and the colonial state.pdf
    Series Statement: Studies in Global Social History 22
    Keywords: Afrika Westafrika ; Wolof ; Ewe ; Temne ; Ethnizität ; Identität ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Dekolonisation
    Abstract: Ethnicity and the Colonial State analyses, through a comparison of three West African communities (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), the ways in which ethnic labels and arguments are used (or omitted) in dealings with colonial administrations. It follows these strategies and choices over more than a century, between the conquest periods and independence. Where state structures were weak as a factor of group cohesion, ethnic arguments were especially likely to come into play. The analysis discusses internal fissures and conflicting interests within the communities as other incentives for ethnic coalition-building. The observations made in this book are put into the context of a global historical perspective, for which "ethnicity" has so far remained a badly defined concept.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Group identifications : African and global categories -- Wolof and Wolofisation : statehood, colonial rule, and identification in Senegal -- Fragmentation and the Temne : from war raids into ethnic civil wars -- 'Ethnic identity' as an anti-colonial weapon? Ewe mobilisation from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s -- Conclusion.
    Note: "An earlier version of this monograph was accepted as habilitation thesis by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Berne, Switzerland, in 2010."
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    Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
    Language: English
    Pages: 13 Seiten
    Series Statement: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade No. 1
    Keywords: Kaukasus Zentral-Asien ; Handel ; Markt ; Globalisierung ; Arbeit, informelle ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Forschung (Projekte)
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    Hamburg : GIGA, German Institute of Global and Area Studies
    ISSN: 1862-3603
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Edition: gf_afrika_1607.pdf
    Series Statement: GIGA Focus. Afrika 2016/07
    Keywords: Afrika Europa ; Handelsbeziehung ; Außenpolitik ; Handel ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
    Abstract: In der mitunter emotional aufgeheizten und mit harten Bandagen geführten Debatte um die Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der Europäischen Union (EU) und fünf Ländergruppen Subsahara-Afrikas (SSA) bleiben die Auswirkungen einer wechselseitigen Handelsöffnung heftig umstritten. Klar ist, dass die Abkommen sowohl Chancen als auch Risiken bergen. Fraglich ist, ob der Nutzen den Schaden überwiegen kann.Fazit: Die afrikanischen Länder sind gefordert, ihre Exportsektoren zu diversifizieren sowie kapazitätsbezogene und infrastrukturelle Probleme anzugehen. Die EU hingegen sollte ihr vages Versprechen einer gleichsamen Handels- und Entwicklungsförderung in klare Unterstützungsmaßnahmen übertragen. Nur dann kann es gelingen, von der wechselseitigen Handelsöffnung zu profitieren und negative Auswirkungen abzufedern.
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    Chicago : HAU Books
    ISBN: 978-1-912808-23-6
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 343 Seiten) , Karten
    Edition: Enlarged edition
    Uniform Title: Jouer, une étude anthropologique
    Keywords: Spiel Theorie, ethnologische ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sibirien ; Mongolei ; Kulturvergleich ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, psychologische
    Abstract: Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play's many dimensions, she offers an insightful look at why play has become so ubiquitous across human cultures. Hamayon begins by zeroing in on Mongolia and Siberia, where communities host national holiday games similar to the Olympics. Within these events Hamayon explores the performance of ethical values and local identity, and then she draws her analysis into larger ideas examinations of the spectrum of play activities as they can exist in any culture. She explores facets of play such as learning, interaction, emotion, strategy, luck, and belief, and she emphasizes the crucial ambiguity between fiction and reality that is at the heart of play as a phenomenon. Revealing how consistent and coherent play is, she ultimately shows it as a unique modality of action that serves an invaluable role in the human experience. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Foreword: In praise of play / by Michael Puett -- Map -- Introduction: "Playing" -- Part One: From games to play -- Chapter One: Can play be an object of research? -- Chapter Two: Play in the West -- Chapter Three: Play defined in negative terms -- Chapter Four: Buryat play -- Chapter Five: Lively rhythmical movements creating a fictional frame -- Part Two: Play and its multiple dimensions -- Chapter Six: Bodily involvement and the creation of other dimensions -- Chapter Seven: Imitation -- Chapter Eight: Foreshadowing -- Chapter Nine: The cognitive process -- Chapter Ten: Interaction -- Chapter Eleven: Dramatization -- Chapter Twelve: Involving psyche -- Chapter Thirteen: Indeterminacy -- Chapter Fourteen: Strategy -- Chapter Fifteen: The social and political repercussions -- Chapter Sixteen: The privilege of virility -- Chapter Seventeen: Taking advantage of the gap -- In Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of names
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [303]-338
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (33 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology No. 171
    Keywords: Republik Niger Fulbe ; Wodabe ; Heirat ; Klan ; Integration ; Konflikt ; Identität
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    Halle/Saale : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    ISSN: 1615-4568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (28 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 162
    Keywords: Sierra Leone Beziehungen, interethnische ; Grenze ; Migration ; Ethnizität ; Identität
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-28711-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 111 Seiten) , Karten
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 80
    Uniform Title: Van isolatie naar integratie
    Keywords: Indonesien Maroon ; Surinam ; Integration ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kulturanthropologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- I. Introduction - II. The office of postholder among the Djukas (1845-1863) - III. The postholders' actlvities -- IV. Migratory movements of the Djukas -- Concluding remarks - Notes -- List of literature referred to -- Documents
    Note: "originally published under the titel Van isolatie naar integratie in this same sieres in 1963 [...] For the resultant English version the Dutch text has moreover been supplemented and revised." (Preface)
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