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    Ethiopia in theory : revolution and knowledge production, 1964-2016 (2020)
    Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-64259-341-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 281 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: Published in paperback
    Series Statement: Historical Materialism Book Series 201
    Keywords: Äthiopien Bildung ; Universität ; Intellektuelle ; Revolution ; Geschichte ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals. In these they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia. Ethiopia in Theory examines the literature of this student movement, together with the movement's afterlife in Ethiopian politics and society, in order to ask: what does it mean to write today about the appropriation and indigenisation of Marxist and mainstream social science ideas in an Ethiopian and African context; and, importantly, what does the archive of revolutionary thought in Africa teach us about the practice of critical theory more generally? (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword /Donald L. Donham -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on citations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Knowledge production and social change in Ethiopia -- 1. The Children of the Revolution: Toward an Alternative Method -- 2. Social Science Is a Battlefield: Rethinking the Historiography of the Ethiopian Revolution -- 3. Challenge: Social Science in the Literature of the Ethiopian Student Movement -- 4. When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict: Rethinking the 2005 Elections in Ethiopia -- 5. Passive Revolution: Living in the Aftermath of the 2005 Elections -- Part 2. Theory as memoir -- 6. The Problem of the Social Sciences in Africa --Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [257]-272"This book project began as a PhD dissertaion in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University (Toronto)" (Acknowledgements)
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    Ambiguous childhoods : peer socialisation, schooling and agency in a Zambian village (2019)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-351-6 , 978-1-78920-352-3/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 157 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.23096894
    Keywords: Sambia Ländliches Gebiet ; Kindheit ; Sozialisation ; Schule ; Bildung ; Soziales Leben ; Alltag ; Familie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozialer Wandel ; Globalisierung ; Neoliberalismus
    Abstract: Growing up with social and economic upheaval in the peripheries of global neoliberalism, children in rural Zambia are presented with diverging social and moral protocols across homes, classrooms, church halls, and the streets. Mostly unmonitored by adults, they explore the ambiguities of adult life in playful interactions with their siblings and kin across gender and age. Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of such interactions combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.
    Description / Table of Contents: Ambiguous Childhoods -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Growing up in Hang'ombe Village -- Chapter 1. Approaching Children's Perspectives -- Chapter 2. 'Know a Dead Man's Feet by His Child' -- Chapter 3. 'Is That How You Insult in Your House?' -- Chapter 4. The Distant Power of School -- Conclusion. Past and Future Perspectives -- References -- Index.
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    Cueva Blanca : social change in the Archaic of the Valley of Oaxaca (2019)
    Ann Arbor, Michigan : Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
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    ISBN: 978-0-915703-91-3 , 978-0-915703-94-4 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 208 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan 60
    Series Statement: Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca 60
    Keywords: Mexiko Archaikum ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: Cueva Blanca, a cave in the side of a volcanic tuff cliff in Oaxaca, Mexico, contains evidence of thousands of years of human use. Archaeologists Kent V. Flannery and Frank Hole excavated a series of Archaic sites in the Valley of Oaxaca, including Cueva Blanca, as part of a project on the prehistory and human ecology of this region of Mexico. This cave yielded artifacts from the Late Pleistocene through the Early Archaic to the Late Archaic.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1. Discovery and excavation -- Part 2. The artefacts -- Part 3. Environment ans subsistence -- Part 4. Analysis of the living floor -- Part 5. Summary and conclusions -- References
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 204-208Zusammenfassung in spanischer Sprache
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    A _death in the rainforest : how a language and a way of life came to an end in Papua New Guinea (2019)
    Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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    ISBN: 978-1-61620-904-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 274 Seiten
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Indigenität ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel ; Sprache ; Soziales Leben ; Alltag ; Kulturzerfall ; Sprache und Kultur ; Sprachwissenschaft ; Kultureinfluss ; Gesellschaft, westliche ; Gapun 〈Dord, Papua-Neuguinea〉
    Abstract: As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can`t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapunersone that went beyond the particulars and uses of their languagethat took full stock of their vanishing culture. This book takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But A Death in the Rainforest is also an illuminating look at the impact of white society on the farthest reaches of the globeand the story of why this anthropologist realized finally that he had to give up his study of this language and this village.An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that is on the verge of disappearing forever.
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    Refugees welcome? : difference and diversity in a changing Germany (2019)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-135-2 , 1-78920-135-7 , 1-78920-128-4 , 978-1-78920-128-4 , 978-1-78920-129-1 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 345 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Deutschland Flüchtling ; Politik ; Regierung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Multikulturalität ; Differenzierung ; Integration ; Migration
    Abstract: The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debate about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most major and contested social change since reunification. It combines in-depth studies based on anthropological fieldwork with analyses of the longer trajectories of migration and social change, and its original analyses have significance not only for Germany but also for the understanding of diversity and difference in a wider sense.
    Description / Table of Contents: Making germans and non-germans -- Language as battleground : "speaking" the nation, lingual citizenship and diversity management in postunification Germany / Uli Linke -- Diversity and unity : political and conceptual answers to experiences of differences and diversities in Germany / Friedrich Heckmann -- Jews, muslims and the ritual male circumcision debate : religious diversity and social inclusion in Germany / Gokce Yurdakul -- Potential for change -- Islam, vernacular culture and creativity in Stuttgart / Petra Kuppinger -- "Neukolln is where I live; it's now there I'm from" : children of migrants navigating belonging in a rapidly changing urban space in Berlin / Carola Tize and Ria Reis -- The post-migrant paradigm / Naika Foroutan -- Refugee encounters -- New year's eve, sexual violence and moral panics : ruptures and continuities in Germany's integration regime / Kira Kosnick -- Solidarity with refugees: negotiations of proximity and memory / Serhat Karakayali -- Negotiating cultural difference in Dresden's Pegida movement and Berlin's refugee church / Jan-Jonathan Bock -- New initiatives and directions -- Interstitial agents : negotiating migration and diversity in theatre / Jonas Tinius -- Articulating a noncitizen politics : nation-state pity versus democratic inclusion / Damani J. Partridge -- The refugees-welcome movement : a new form of political action / Werner Schiffauer -- Concluding reflection: refugee futures and the politics of belonging / Sharon Macdonald -- Index.
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    Tradierte kleinbäuerliche Landwirtschaft in Sri Lanka : Entwicklungsethnologische Analyse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des ökologischen Landbaus und Fairen Handels (2019)
    Berlin : regiospectra Verlag Berlin
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    ISBN: 978-3-947729-08-1 , 3-947729-08-1
    Language: German
    Pages: 323 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten, Tabellen
    Keywords: Sri Lanka Bauer ; Landwirtschaft ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Ökologie ; Fairer Handel ; Globalisierung ; Neoliberalismus ; Imperialismus ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Die globale ökonomische Vernetzung sorgt dafür, dass Menschen in aller Welt nicht nur eine dramatische Veränderung ihrer wirtschaftlichen, sondern auch ihrer kulturellen Existenz erfahren. Dabei öffnet sich zunehmend eine Schere zwischen den sogenannten Industrie- und den Entwicklungsländern. Die neoliberale Geisteshaltung, die dieser Politik zugrunde liegt, kann durchaus als `wirtschaftlicher Imperialismus` verstanden werden. Dementsprechend muss man sich fragen, ob man, wenn keine komplette Kehrtwende möglich sein sollte, dann doch zumindest ein Durchbrechen dieser Strukturen erreichen kann?Diese interdisziplinäre Länderstudie systematisiert in holistischer Weise die sozioökonomischen Aspekte der tradierten kleinbäuerlichen Landwirtschaft und arbeitet die wirtschaftsethnologischen und entwicklungspolitischen Grundlagen des Fairen Handels sowie der ökologischen Landwirtschaft am Beispiel der sogenannten Kandyan Homegardens in Sri Lanka heraus. Darüber hinaus beschäftigt sich die Studie mit den Themen Wirtschaftsentwicklung und Wirtschaftswachstum als kulturintegriertem Prozess. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird dann auch die Frage beantwortet, inwieweit Fairer Handel und ökologischer Landbau in Kombination mit tradierten landwirtschaftlichen Praktiken einen positiven Beitrag zur Entwicklung Sri Lankas sowie zur Nachhaltigkeit der Landwirtschaft beitragen können.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 291-323 , Dissertation, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 2017
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    La _question des échelles en sciences humaines et sociales (2019)
    Versailles : Éditions Quae, IRD Éditions
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    ISBN: 978-2-7592-2943-7 , 978-2-7592-2944-4
    ISSN: 1773-7923
    Language: French
    Pages: 160 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Update Sciences & Technologies
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaft Globalisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Forschung (Projekte) ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Methodologie ; Wirtschaft ; Ungleichheit ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Klima ; Umwelt ; Armut ; Völkerwanderung ; Migration ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche
    Abstract: La 4e de couv. indique : "Le double mouvement de globalisation et de localisation des phénomènes sociodémographiques a donné une acuité inédite à la question des échelles en sciences humaines et sociales, renouvelant les questions d`articulation entre les niveaux micro et macro. Dans le même temps, le décloisonnement des pratiques scientifiques n`a cessé d`encourager les chercheurs à revoir et à partager leurs échelles d`observation et d`analyse. Changer d`échelle, qu`elle soit spatiale, temporelle ou catégorielle, c`est adopter une autre optique sur un même objet de recherche mais cela ne se fait pas sans risques. Encore trop souvent reléguée à une dimension technique, il s`agit pourtant d`une question des plus fécondes pour sans cesse réinterroger collectivement les dynamiques des sociétés contemporaines. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage - géographes, sociologues, anthropologues, démographes - relèvent ces défis épistémologiques et méthodologiques à partir de leurs pratiques de recherche sur des terrains aussi variés que l`Afrique de l`Ouest et du Nord, le Moyen-Orient, l`Asie du Sud-Est, la Mélanésie ou encore l`Europe"
    Description / Table of Contents: P. 5. Introduction, Questionner et pratiquer les échelles en sciences humaines et sociales / Sébastien BoulayP. 23. Partie I, Valeur des échelles en sciences humaines et sociales, et enjeux de l'interdisciplinaritéP; 25. Chapitre 1, L'apport de l'interdisciplinarité et du croisement des échelles pour l'étude des mouvements forcés de population / Lama Kabbanji, Laurent DrapeauP. 42. Chapitre 2, L'enjeu des échelles dans la modélisation des systèmes de peuplement dans la longue durée / Lena SandersP. 55. Partie II, Politique des échelles et inégalités socialesP. 57. Chapitre 3, Gouvernance et rééquilibrage en Nouvelle-Calédonie : quelles échelles pour mesurer la pauvreté ? / Laura HadjP. 72. Chapitre 4, Jeux d'échelles et solidarités territoriales. Vers une gouvernance multiscalaire des aires protégées / Marie-Christine Cormier-SalemP. 91. Chapitre 5, La globalisation des laits et la fragmentation des luttes. Producteurs de lait européens et africains / Riccardo CiavolellaP. 109. Partie III, Échelles, réseaux et territoiresP. 111. Chapitre 6, Pluralité d'échelles et croisement de trajectoires migrantes à Nouadhibou, Nord mauritanien / Jocelyne Streiff-Fénart, Philippe PoutignatP. 123. Chapitre 7, Réseaux sociaux, nouveaux métiers et territoires au Sahara / Nadia BelalimatP. 141. Chapitre 8, Dynamiques multiscalaires des villages de métier au Vietnam : des clusters aux réseaux / Sylvie FanchetteP. 157. Conclusion / Sylvie Fanchette
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    "A _fire that does not die" - indigene Landrechte und wirtschaftliche Interessen in Honduras (2019)
    Frankfurt am Main
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    Language: German
    Pages: 35 Seiten
    Keywords: Honduras Landrecht ; Indigenität ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaft ; Hochschulschrift
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 31-35 , Bachelorarbeit, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 2019
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    The _Melanesian world (2019)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-69371-5 , 978-1-315-52969-1/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 577 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first published
    Series Statement: Routledge Worlds
    Keywords: Melanesien Ethnographie ; Subsistenzwirtschaft ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Gewalt ; Massenmedien ; Klimawandel ; Geopolitik ; Sprachwissenschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Politik ; Materielle Kultur ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Entwicklung ; Ressource ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The `Melanesian world' assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. Maps of the region and its language groups. 1 Introduction: the challenge of Melanesia - Eric Hirsch and Will Rollason. PART I: HISTORICAL CONTEXT. 2 The archaeology of Melanesia - Glenn Summerhayes. 3 Melanesia: a region and a history - Max Quanchi. 4 Missionaries in the Melanesian world - John Barker. PART II: GEO-POLITICAL, LINGUISTIC AND REGIONAL OVERVIEWS. 5 Geo-political overview of Melanesia - Stewart Firth. 6 Melanesia as a zone of language diversity - Alan Rumsey. 7 Regional overview: from diversity to multiple singularities - Jaap Timmer. PART III: ECONOMY AND LIVELIHOOD. 8 Subsistence food production in Melanesia - R.M. Bourke. 9 Class, labour and consumption in urban Melanesia - Lorena Gibson. 10 Money schemes in contemporary Melanesia - John Cox. 11 Cash crops and markets - Timothy L.M. Sharp and Mark Busse. 12 Searching for Melanesian urbanity - Michael Goddard. PART IV: GOVERNMENT, POLITICS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. 13 Sovereignty, civil conflict and ethnicity - Matthew G. Allen. 14 Local government and politics: forms and aspects of authority - Steffen Dalsgaard. 15 Security governance in Melanesia: police, prisons and crime - Sinclair Dinnen. 16 Gender relations and human rights in Melanesia - Martha Macintyre. 17 Health, institutions and governance in Melanesia - Alice Street. 18 Owning the law in Melanesia - Melissa Demian and Benedicta Rousseau. PART V: RELIGION, CHURCH, RITUAL AND EXCHANGE PRACTICES. 19 `Witchcraft' and `sorcery' in Melanesia - Knut Rio. 20 Charismatic churches, revivalism and new religious movements - Annelin Eriksen and Michelle MacCarthy. 21 Cargo cult post mortem - Lamont Lindstrom. 22 Big men, ceremonial exchange and life-cycle events - Keir Martin. 23 Interpreting initiation in Melanesia: past and present - Pascale Bonnemere. PART VI: ART, MATERIAL CULTURE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE. 24 Museums and cultural centres in Melanesia: a series of experiments - Lissant Bolton. 25 Creation and destruction in Melanesian material culture - Anna-Karina Hermkens. 26 Contemporary art in Melanesia: from grassroots to national identity? - Eva Ch. Raabe. 27 Melanesian worlds of music and dance - Michael Webb. 28 The Melanesian world of paradise tourism: reflections on time, travel and cultural performance - John P. Taylor. PART VII: DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES. 29 Places and paths in Melanesian landscapes - Borut Telban. 30 Extractive industries in Melanesia - Glenn Banks. 31 Climate change in the islands and the highlands: Melanesian manifestations, experiences and actions - Edvard Hviding and Camilla Borrevik. 32 Western conservation in Melanesia: biodiversity conservation - for whom, by whom, and according to whom? - Bridget M. Henning. 33 New media, new Melanesia? - Geoffrey Hobbis. 34 Afterword - Marilyn Strathern. Index
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    The _omnipresent past : historical anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora (2019)
    Moscow : LRC Publishing House
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    ISBN: 978-5-907117-76-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 391 Seiten
    Keywords: Afrika Diaspora ; Anthropologie, historische ; Gedächtnis ; Geschichte ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Postkolonialismus ; Sozialer Wandel
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    African markets and the Utu-Ubuntu business model : a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi (2019)
    Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds
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    ISBN: 978-1-928331-78-0 , 978-1-928331-80-3 , 978-1-928331-79-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 185 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.
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    From bullies to officers and gentlemen : how notions of professionalism and civility transformed the Ghana Armed Forces (2019)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-294-6 , 978-1-78920-295-3/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: Xi, 239 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Ghana Militär ; Krieger ; Soziales Verhalten ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozialisation ; Demokratisierung ; Modernisierung
    Abstract: Based on unprecedented access to the Ghanaian military barracks and inspired by the recent resurgence of coups in West Africa, Agyekum assesses why and how the Ghana Armed Forces were transformed from an organization that actively orchestrated coups into an institution that accepts the authority of the democratically elected civilian government. Focusing on the process of professionalization of the Ghanaian military, this ethnography based monograph examines both historical and contemporary themes, and assesses the shift in military personnel from 'Buga Buga' soldiers - uneducated, lower-class soldiers, human rights abusers - to a more 'modern' fighting force.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures; Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The Breakdown of Everydayness; Chapter 2. On Hierarchy and Trust: `Monkeys Play by Sizes`; Chapter 3. On discipline: Disciplining the Body and the Mind; Chapter 4. New Soldiers on the Block: From Buga-Buga Soldier to Disciplined Soldier Subjects; Chapter 5. Factors of Continual Subjection; Chapter 6. Transformation in Broad Perspective: Professionalism, Civility and Civil-Military Relations Conclusion Glossary; References; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 214-226
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    Femmes et réseaux marchands en Afrique de l`Ouest (2019)
    Paris : OCDE
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    ISBN: 978-92-64-52579-5
    Language: French
    Pages: 149 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Cahiers de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
    Keywords: Afrika Westafrika ; Frau ; Frau und wirtschaftliche Rolle ; Handel ; Kleingewerbe ; Unternehmen ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Les femmes contribuent largement à l`économie alimentaire de l`Afrique de l`Ouest, perpétuant une longue tradition de commerce et participant aux échanges frontaliers et au rayonnement régional. Ces activités se heurtent à de nombreux obstacles mais présentent de fortes opportunités, que le rapport souligne par une analyse relationnelle et spatiale inédite des réseaux sociaux. Celle-ci est conduite au niveau de la filière du riz dans la zone du Dendi (Bénin, Niger et Nigéria) et des réseaux de gouvernance régionaux promouvant l`entrepreneuriat féminin. Le rapport confirme l`effet attracteur du Nigéria porté par sa démographie et son urbanisation croissante. Il propose le développement de politiques publiques innovantes fondées sur le renforcement du capital social féminin et des options politiques pour une meilleure intégration des diverses initiatives entreprises par les États, les organisations internationales et non gouvernementales en matière d`autonomisation et de renforcement de la résilience des femmes.
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    The _act of living : street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5017-3513-4 , 978-1-5017-3553-0 , 978-1-5017-3512-7 , 1-5017-3512-8 , 978-1-5017-3626-1 , 1-5017-3626-4 , 978-1-5017-3513-4/weitere Ausgabe
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 246 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Afrika Äthiopien ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Arbeit ; Arbeit, informelle ; Armut ; Alltag ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Entwicklung ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Addis Abeba 〈Äthiopien〉
    Abstract: The Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Replete with richly depicted characters and multi-layered narratives on history, everyday life and visions of the future, Marco Di Nunzio's ethnography of hustling and street life is an investigation of what is to live, hope and act in the face of the failing promises of development and change. Di Nunzio follows the life trajectories of two men, "Haile" and "Ibrahim," as they grow up in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, enter street life to get by, and turn to the city's expanding economies of work and entrepreneurship to search for a better life. Apparently favourable circumstances of development have not helped them achieve social improvement. As their condition of marginality endures, the two men embark in restless attempts to transform living into a site for hope and possibility. By narrating Haile and Ibrahim's lives, The Act of Living explores how and why development continues to fail the poor, how marginality is understood and acted upon in a time of promise, and why poor people's claims for open-endedness can lead to better and more just alternative futures. Tying together anthropology, African studies, political science, and urban studies, Di Nunzio takes readers on a bold exploration of the meaning of existence, hope, marginality, and street life.
    Description / Table of Contents: Migrants, gentlemen and thugs -- A thug's life -- Donkeys with ashes -- Do not cross the red line -- Keep on hustlin' -- Life is a paradise -- The time of the bumpkins -- Embracing uncertainty
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    The _wealth of (some) nations : Imperialism and the mechanics of value transfer (2019)
    London : Pluto Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-7453-3885-9 , 978-0-7453-3886-6 , 978-1-7868-0418-1 / (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 260 Seiten
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    Keywords: Kapitalismus Imperialismus ; Ungleichheit ; Arbeit ; Wert, wirtschaftlicher ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: In this provocative new study, Zak Cope makes the case that capitalism is empirically inseparable from imperialism, historically and today. Using a rigourous political economic framework, he lays bare the vast ongoing transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest countries through the mechanisms of monopoly rent, unequal exchange and colonial tribute. The result is a polarised international class structure with a relatively rich Global North and an impoverished, exploited Global South. Cope makes the controversial claim that it is because of these conditions that workers in rich countries benefit from higher incomes and welfare systems with public health, education, pensions and social security. As a result, the internationalism of populations in the Global North is weakened and transnational solidarity is compromised. The only way forward, Cope argues, is through a renewed anti-imperialist politics rooted in a firm commitment to a radical labour internationalism.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: The Mechanics of Imperialism. 1. Value Transfer. 2. Colonial Tribute. 3. Monopoly Rent. 4. Unequal Exchange. Part II: The Econometrics of Imperialism. 5. Imperialism and its Denial. 6. Measuring Imperialist Value Transfer. 7. Measuring Colonial Value Transfer. 8. Comparing Value Transfer to Profits, Wages and Capital. Part III: Foundations of the Labour Aristocracy. 9. Anti-Imperialist Marxism and the Wages of Imperialism. 10. The Metropolitan Labour Aristocracy. 11. The Native Labour Aristocracy. Part IV: Social Imperialism Past and Present. 12. Social Imperialism before WWI. 13. Social Imperialism after WWI. 14. Social Imperialist Marxism. Conclusion: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Today
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    Chinese and African entrepreneurs : social impacts of interpersonal encounters (2019)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38680-8 , 978-90-04-38742-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 287 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Uniform Title: Entrepreneurs africains et chinois
    Keywords: Afrika China ; Beziehungen Afrika-Asien ; Globalisierung ; Unternehmen ; Arbeitsmigration ; Arbeit ; Mobilität ; Mobilität, soziale ; Sozialer Wandel ; Außenpolitik ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Tagungsbericht
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: From rejection to social change / Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel -- Part 1. Others in distant places: opportunities for social mobility -- Social mobility of Chinese migrants in Ghana: the making of Chinese entrepreneurs / Katy N. Lam -- The impact of migration of the Chinese women in Niamey on gender and family relations / Naima Topkiran -- African cultural brokers in South China / Gordon Mathews -- Early Chinese migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: contract labourers and traders / Yoon Jung Park -- Part 2. Encounters with the other, stimuli for social change -- Grassroots social change triggered by Africa-China encounters in urban China / Kelly Si Miao Liang -- Business partners and employers: Chinese traders as facilitators of grassroots social innovation in West Africa / Karsten Giese -- A transformative presence? Chinese migrants as agents of change in Ghana and Nigeria / Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan -- The Chinese factor in Senegal: changing entrepreneurial dynamics, and socio-economic restructuring / Amy Niang -- Part 3. The products of others: 'Made in China' as imaginary and opportunity -- This "Made in China" that gets africa moving: chinese motorcycles and entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso / Guive Khan-Mohammad -- "Made in China" and the African "China dream": an alternative to the West? / Laurence Marfaing -- Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods: negotiating imaginaries of authenticity in Accra's China trade / Alena Thiel.
    Note: "This volume was originally published by Karthala in 2017 under the title "Entrepreneurs africains et chinois. Les impacts sociaux d'une rencontre particulière". - Includes a selection of work by paticipants in a workshop held in Dakar in January 2013 ...
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    Conspicuous consumption in Africa (2019)
    Johannesburg : Wits University Press
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    ISBN: 1-77614-364-7 , 978-1-77614-364-1 , 978-1-77614-365-8 , 978-1-77614-366-5 , 978-1-77614-367-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 240 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 339.47
    Keywords: Afrika Konsum ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
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    Cultivating suspicion : an ethnography (2019)
    Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
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    ISBN: 9956-550-19-1 , 978-9956-550-19-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 160 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Südafrika Nachbarschaft ; Fremdenfeindlichkeit ; Soziale Kontrolle ; Kriminalität ; Massenmedien ; Soziale Medien ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Ethik ; Ethnographie ; Erlebnisbericht
    Abstract: At the heart of 21st century discourses are questions of whose lives may matter more than others. While the debates themselves are not new, the #hashtags they are linked to and the media through which concerns around moralities of living together are expressed allow for debates to reach large numbers of people in accelerated, individualised and accessible ways. The new media have been powerful in (re)igniting debates and (re)activating demands for social change. Yet, the focus of ubiquitous #hashtags on binary positions may render it easy to neglect their nuances and facets. In recognition of grey-zones, contradictions and ambiguities, this ethnography focuses on a suburb of Cape Town, Observatory, and its recently revived Neighbourhood Watch as an urban renewal project and attempt to decrease notions of vulnerability to crime and violence. In Observatory - considered to be liberal and bohemian by its inhabitants - the framing of topics within the Neighbourhood Watch group often take on an abstract, intellectualised form. Nevertheless, the group with its rather clashing ideals is grounded in and fuelled by recycled crime stories as well as snapshots of suspected criminals that continue to reappear via various social media channels. Individual experiences, stories and inner conflicts of local Neighbourhood Watch members are at the centre of this exploratory engagement with how fear becomes embodied, everyday practice and the ways in which desires for relationality and spatial exclusivity become entangled in a place where every life matters only in principle.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 145-150
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    Performing masculinity : body, self and identity in modern Fiji (2019)
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
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    ISBN: 978-1-350-04334-3 , 978-1-350-04335-0/(PDF eBook) , 978-1-350-04337-4/(ePub eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 195 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published in Great Britain
    DDC: 305.31099611
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    Keywords: Fidschi-Insel Männlichkeit ; Inder ; Ethnizität ; Körper ; Alkohol ; Konsum ; Sexualität ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: Geir Henning Presterudstuen provides an ethnographic account of how men in the multicultural urban centres of Fiji perceive, construct and perform masculinities in the context of rapid social change. Theoretically informed by critical feminist theories, postcolonialism, R.W. Connell's work on masculinities and a Bourdieuan conceptualization of the body, this book explores how notions of masculinity, manhood and the male body are shaped by the conflicting social forces of Fijian tradition, modernity, commercialization and urbanization. The book provides a timely intervention, from the grassroots level in the global south, into an ongoing discourse about men and masculinities that has long been dominated by voices from Europe and the US. Combining classic ethnography with innovative social analysis, Presterudstuen's book is suitable for students and academics with an interest in gender and social change, and for scholars across a variety of disciplines including anthropology, gender studies, sociology, pacific studies and international development.
    Description / Table of Contents: Modernities, masculinities and the Fijian body: connections and conceptualizations -- Performing masculinity through Christian devotion: methodism and manhood -- Living in hell: performing Indo-Fijian masculinities -- Making a living: land, labour, trade and tradition for modern Fijian men -- Drinking, hyper-masculinity and insolence -- Betting-men and bad money : modern masculinities and consumption -- Sex, sexualities and the modern body.
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    Economy and society : selected writings (2018)
    Medford, MA : Polity Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5095-2331-3 , 978-1-5095-2330-6 , 978-1-5095-2332-0 /eBook , 978-1-5095-2334-4 /epub
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 340 Seiten
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Finanzkrise Wirtschaftstheorie ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Sozialer Wandel ; Gesellschaft ; Demokratie ; Faschismus ; Marxismus ; Christentum ; Kapitalismus
    Abstract: Few figures are more crucial to understanding the upheavals of our contemporary era than Karl Polanyi. In a world riven by social and economic crises, from rising inequality to the decay of democratic institutions and profound technological disruption, Polanyi's path-breaking account of the dynamics of market capitalism and his defence of society and nature against the dangerous tendencies of the market capitalist system are more relevant than ever. This book brings together Polanyi's most important articles and essays to give a unique selection of his essential shorter writings, mixing classic texts with significant but previously little-known pieces. It highlights the coherence and richness of Polanyi's theoretical and political approach, making it indispensable for understanding his overarching intellectual contribution. The volume includes his interwar writings, which deal with the world economic crisis and the socialist alternative to conservative and fascist developments; his reflection on political theory and the international situation after the war; and his comparative studies of economic institutions. Polanyi's political writings are complemented and supported by the critique of economic determinism and what he termed 'our obsolete market mentality'. This book is an invaluable companion to Polanyi's masterpiece, The Great Transformation, and an essential resource for students and scholars of political economy, sociology, history and political philosophy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction by Michele Cangiani and Claus Thomasberger -- Part I Red Vienna. 1. On Freedom. 2. Some Reflections Concerning Our Theory and Practice. 3. The Functionalist Theory of Society and the Problem of Socialist Economic Calculability -- Part II The World Economic Crisis and the Rise of Fascism. 4. Economy and Democracy. 5. The Mechanism of the World Economic Crisis. 6. The Essence of Fascism. 7. The Fascist Virus -- Part III On Marx and the Christian Roots of Western Civilization. 8. Fascism and Marxism. 8.1 Fascism and Marxian Terminology. 8.2 Marxism Re-Stated. 9. Marx on Corporativism. 10. Community and Society. The Christian Criticism of our Social Order. 11. Christianity and Economic Life -- Part IV The Great Transformation, Political Philosophy and Democracy. 12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, or Is a Free Society Possible? 13. Common Man`s Masterplan. 14. The Meaning of Parliamentary Democracy. 15. Our Obsolete Market Mentality -- Part V Alignments on the International Stage. 16. Why Make Russia Run Amok? 17. British Labour and American New Dealers. 18. Universal Capitalism or Regional Planning? VI Toward a Comparative Study of Economic Institutions. 19. On Belief in Economic Determinism. 20. The Livelihood of Man, Introduction. 21. The Economistic Fallacy. 22. The Two Meanings of Economic. 23. The Economy Embedded in Society -- Postscript. 24. Hamlet
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    Cultural anthropology : asking questions about humanity (2018)
    New York : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-067902-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xxx, 460 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Second edition
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Ethnologie Kulturanthropologie ; Kultur ; Ethnographie ; Sprachwissenschaft ; Globalisierung ; Anthropologie, kulinarische ; Umwelt ; Wirtschaft ; Politik ; Ethnizität ; Soziale Klasse ; Verwandtschaft ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechterforschung ; Sexualität ; Heirat ; Familie ; Ehe ; Religion ; Körper ; Materielle Kultur ; Einführung ; Einführung ; Lehrbuch ; Lehrbuch
    Abstract: What is cultural anthropology, and how is it relevant in today`s world? Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco` Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity uses a questions-based approach to teach students how to think anthropologically, helping them view cultural issues and everyday experiences as an anthropologist might.Inspired by the common observation that 99 percent of a good answer is a good question, Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity combines a question-centered pedagogy with the topics typically covered in an introductory course. It emphasizes up front what the discipline of anthropology knows and which issues are in debate, and how a cultural perspective is relevant to understanding social, political, and economic dynamics in the contemporary world. Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity also represents an effort to close the gap between the realities of the discipline today and traditional views that are taught at the introductory level by bringing classic anthropological examples, cases, and analyses to bear on contemporary questions.
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    Cultures, identities, multiculturalism and beyond (2018)
    Jaipur : Rawat Publications
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    ISBN: 978-81-316-0914-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 272 Seiten
    Series Statement: Occasional INCAA Publication
    Keywords: Indien Indigenität ; Adivasi ; Naga ; Oraon ; Meithei ; Khasi ; Bengalen ; Gurkah ; Kultur und Gesellschaft ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Multikulturalität ; Führer, politischer ; Materielle Kultur ; Tradition ; Wirtschaft ; Gesundheitswesen ; Ernährung ; Integration
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    An _uncertain future : anticipating oil in Uganda (2018)
    Göttingen : Göttingen University Press
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    ISBN: 978-3-86395-360-7
    ISSN: 2199-5346
    Language: English
    Pages: 275 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology 11
    Keywords: Uganda Erdöl ; Ressource ; Ethnographie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel
    Abstract: The discovery of oil in Uganda in 2006 ushered in an oil-age era with new prospects of unforeseen riches. However, after an initial exploration boom developments stalled. Unlike other countries with major oil discoveries, Uganda has been slow in developing its oil. In fact, over ten years after the first discoveries, there is still no oil. During the time of the research for this book between 2012 and 2015, Uganda`s oil had not yet fully materialised but was becoming. The overarching characteristic of this research project was waiting for the big changes to come: a waiting characterised by indeterminacy. There is a timeline but every year it gets expanded and in 2018 having oil still seems to belong to an uncertain future. This book looks at the waiting period as a time of not-yet-ness and describes the practices of future- and resource-making in Uganda. How did Ugandans handle the new resource wealth and how did they imagine their future with oil to be? This ethnography is concerned with Uganda`s oil and the way Ugandans anticipated different futures with it: promising futures of wealth and development and disturbing futures of destruction and suffering. The book works out how uncertainty was an underlying feature of these anticipations and how risks and risk discourses shaped the imaginations of possible futures. Much of the talk around the oil involved the dichotomy of blessing or curse and it was not clear, which one the oil would be. Rather than adding another assessment of what the future with oil will be like, this book describes the predictions and prophesies as an essential part of how resources are being made. This ethnography shows how various actors in Uganda, from the state, the oil industry, the civil society, and the extractive communities, have tried to negotiate their position in the oil arena. Annika Witte argues in this book that by establishing their risks and using them as power resources actors can influence the becoming of oil as a resource and their own place in a petro-future. The book offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of Uganda`s oil and the negotiations that took place in an oil state to be.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Conceptual and Methodological Framework -- 3 The Risks and Uncertainties of Exploring for Oil -- 4 Oil as Risk: Anticipating the Resource Curse -- 5 Living with Uncertainty in the Oil Region -- 6 Challenging Standards: The Intricacies of National Content -- 7 Conclusion -- 8 References -- 9 Appendix . Table on History of Oil in Uganda. Transcript of the Documentary "Blessing or Curse?"
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229 - 257
    URL: https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2018-1090
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    Market Money : Handelsstrategien auf dem Tamale Central Market in Ghana zwischen lokalem Markt und globaler Ökonomie (2018)
    Berlin : Neofelis Verlag
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    ISBN: 978-3-95808-149-9 , 3-95808-149-5
    Language: German
    Pages: Illustrationen
    Keywords: Ghana Markt ; Handel ; Händler ; Marktfrau ; Wirtschaft ; Globalisierung, wirtschaftliche ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Finanzwesen ; Geld ; Selbstbestimmung
    Abstract: Manchmal scheint es, als sei die Wirtschaft von nicht greifbaren Kräften gelenkt: Währungen fallen und steigen, hier eine Inflation, dort eine Börsenblase, die platzt. Und inmitten des `ökonomischen Chaos` steht der Mensch mit seinem Geld. Auf dem Tamale Central Market in Ghana zeigt sich ein anderes Bild: Die vielen Händler*innen nehmen die Wirtschaft selbst in die Hand. Obwohl afrikanische Märkte häufig als informell beschrieben werden, sind sie an das globale Wirtschaftssystem angebunden. Aber durch die Handlungsweisen der Händler*innen reagieren die lokalen Netzwerke des Marktes, die 80 % der ghanaischen Wirtschaft ausmachen, flexibel und zugleich resolut auf Schwankungen. Dies führt dazu, dass die gesamte ghanaische Wirtschaft und damit die nationale Währung Cedi durch lokale Handelspraktiken stabilisiert werden.In Market Money wird der Tamale Central Market ethnographisch erkundet. Durch die Strategien der Händler*innen, die hier fokussiert werden, entsteht ein teilautonomes Finanzsystem, das vor allem die stark abgenutzten Cedi-Scheine (Market Money) repräsentieren. Das Geld zirkuliert - geleitet von sozialen Beziehungen, kaufmännischem Geschick und Pragmatismus - von Hand zu Hand und macht so die Prozesse des Marktes greifbar, der von den selbstbestimmt agierenden Händler*innen geprägt wird.
    Note: Dissertation, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 2017
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    What politics? : Youth and Political Engagement in Africa (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-32244-8 , 978-90-04-35636-8 /eBook
    ISSN: 2212-9383
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 346 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Youth in a Globalizing World 6
    Keywords: Afrika Politik und Gesellschaft ; Jugend ; Jugendlicher ; Politische Bewegung ; Moderne Kunst ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ägypten ; Tunesien ; Äthiopien ; Burkina Faso ; Kenia ; Uganda ; Benin ; Somalia ; Republik Niger ; Simbabwe ; Ghana ; Südafrika
    Abstract: What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today`s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions. The contributors represent several social science disciplines, and provide well-grounded qualitative analyses of young people`s everyday engagements by critically examining dominant discourses of youth, politics and ideology. Despite focusing on Africa, the book is a collective effort to better understand what it is like to be young today, and what the making of tomorrow`s yesterday means for them in personal and political terms.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Part 1. Envisioning -- Part 2. Entitlement -- Part 3. Embeddedness -- Index
    Note: Enthält 16 Beiträge , "[T]he Academy of Finland funded the research project Youth and Polical Engagement in Contemporary Africa (2012-2016), project nr 258235) under whose auspices this volume was compiled" (Preface)
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    Hunger Safety Net Programme : soziale Sicherung in Turkana County im Norden Kenias (2018)
    Duisburg : Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 40 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: AVE-Studie 10
    Keywords: Kenia Hunger ; Sozialer Prozess ; Sozialer Wandel ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
    Note: Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache
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    Sahara occidental : conflit oublié, population en mouvement (2018)
    Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
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    ISBN: 978-2-86906-688-5
    Language: French
    Pages: 424 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Civilisations Étrangères
    Keywords: Marokko Algerien ; Sahara ; Westsahara ; Konflikt ; Migration ; Dekolonisation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politik ; Massenmedien ; Geopolitik ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: La 4e de couv. indique : "Le conflit du Sahara Occidental reste peu connu et trop rarement documenté, en France en particulier. Pourtant, cette « dispute » territoriale remontant aux décennies 1960 et 1970 est essentielle à saisir aujourd'hui dans toute sa complexité car elle constitue toujours la principale pomme de discorde entre le Maroc et l'Algérie, et donc l'une des entraves à la construction du Maghreb politique et à la normalisation des relations euro-maghrébines. Cet ouvrage, qui rassemble historiens, juristes, politistes et anthropologues, offre de nouvelles clés de décryptage des racines, des principaux enjeux contemporains de cette décolonisation manquée et propose une analyse de ses retombées démographiques, sociales, politiques et culturelles sur des populations majoritairement en exil, victimes de violations des droits de l'homme et dépendantes de l'aide internationale. Loin du constat habituel d'un conflit dans l'impasse d'une irrésolution qui s'éternise, ce livre met au contraire l'accent sur les transformations sociales à l'oeuvre, les stratégies politiques des acteurs, le rôle des nouveaux médias dans l'évolution des rapports de pouvoir, ou encore les expressions artistiques très créatives que cette situation génère de part et d'autre du mur qui sépare le territoire en deux et marque la ligne de cessez-le-feu depuis 1991 entre le Maroc et le Front Polisario"
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [389]-424. - Issues du colloque organisé par le Laboratoire Cités, territoires, environnement et sociétés, Paris, 2-3 juin 2016. - Contient des communications traduites de l'anglais et de l'espagnol
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    Social currents in North Africa : culture and governance after the Arab Spring (2018)
    London : Hurst & Company
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    ISBN: 978-1-84904-827-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 253 Seiten
    Keywords: Nordafrika Maghreb ; Arabischer Frühling ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politik ; Konflikt ; Entwicklung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Islam und Politik ; Verhaltensnorm ; Islam ; Sprache ; Kultur und Gesellschaft ; Kultur und Religion
    Abstract: 'Social Currents in North Africa' presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of social phenomena unfolding in the Maghreb today. It explores some of the most salient institutional and cultural parameters at work, through topics ranging from the workings of religious belief in the public sphere to the moral economies of language instruction and cultural production. Abi-Mershed delivers critical comments on the genealogies of contemporary North African behavioural and ideological norms, and offers insights into the new rationalities of governance after 2011.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Social Currents in North Africa -- 2. Islamist Parties and Transformation in Tunisia and Morocco -- 3. Sufism and Salafism in the Maghreb: Political Implications -- 4. Labor Protest in Morocco: Strikes, Concessions, and the Arab Spring -- 5. The Amazigh Movement in a Changing North Africa -- 6. Thou Shalt Not Speak One Language: Self, Skill, and Politics in post-Arab Spring Morocco -- 7. The Politics of the Haratin Social Movement in Mauritania, 1978-2014 -- 8. Keeping Up With the Times: The Growth of Support from Non-State Actors for the Polisario Liberation Movement -- 9. Film and Cultural Dissent in Tunisia -- 10. "Curating the Mellah": Cultural Conservation, Jewish Heritage Tourism, and Normalization Debates in Morocco and Tunisia, 1960s-Present -- Notes -- Index.
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    Doing business in Cameroon : an anatomy of economic governance (2018)
    London : International African Institute
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-42899-6 , 978-1-108-68447-7 / eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 224 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: International African Library [56]
    Keywords: Kamerun Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaft ; Unternehmen ; Handel ; Handelsbeziehung ; Nichtregierungsorganisation
    Abstract: From the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, images of crisis and reform dominated talk of Cameroon's economy. Doing Business in Cameroon examines the aftermath of that period of turbulence and unpredictability in the northern city of Ngaoundéré. Taking the everyday encounters between business actors and state bureaucrats as its point of departure, the book vividly illustrates the backstage and interconnected dynamics of four different sectors (cattle trade, trucking, public contracting, and NGO work). Drawing on his training in law and social anthropology, the author is able to clarify intricate policy dynamics and abstruse legal developments for readers. A widespread picture emerges of actors grappling with the long-term implications of selective or suspended enforcement of legal rules. The book deftly illuminates a set of shifting configurations in which economic outcomes like monetary gains or the circulation of goods are achieved by foregoing the possibility of relying on or complying with the law.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Acronyms -- Introduction: doing business in Cameroon -- 1. Making a living in Ngaoundéré -- 2. The ordering of public things -- 3. 'Cattle saves the day' -- 4. On and off the road -- 5. Under 'the NGO label' -- Conclusion: letting pass, letting go -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Care across distance : ethnographic explorations of aging and migration (2018)
    New York : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 1-78533-800-5 , 978-1-78533-800-7 , 1-78533-801-3 /eBook , 978-1-78533-801-4 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: 194 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations 4
    Keywords: Migration Familie ; Alter ; Altenpflege ; Gesundheitswesen ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Verwandtschaftsstruktur ; Generationskonflikt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen
    Abstract: Worldwide migration has an unsettling effect on social structures, especially on aging populations and eldercare. This volume investigates how taken-from-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad. What it does show is that trans-nationalization of care produces unprecedented convergences of people, objects, and spaces that challenge our assumption about the who, how, and where of care.
    Note: "We would also like to thank Syracuse University's Aging Studies Institute [...] who supported [...] a book symposium and workshop at Syracuse University in September 2016" (Acknowledgements); Enthält 8 Beiträge, eine Einleitung und einen Epilog.
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    The _moral power of money : morality and economy in the life of the poor (2018)
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5036-0286-1 , 978-1-5036-0428-5 , 978-1-5036-0436-0/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 206 Seiten
    Series Statement: Culture and Economic Life
    Uniform Title: Las _sospechas del dinero
    Keywords: Argentinien Armut ; Geld ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Macht ; Moral ; Wirtschaft ; Finanzwesen ; Buenos Aires
    Abstract: Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people. Through vivid accounts of the stark realities of life in Villa Olimpia, Wilkis highlights the interplay of money, morality, and power. Drawing out the theoretical implications of these stories, he proposes a new concept of moral capital based on different kinds, or "pieces," of money. Each chapter covers a different "piece"-money earned from the informal and illegal economies, money lent through family and market relations, money donated with conditional cash transfers, political money that binds politicians and their supporters, sacrificed money offered to the church, and safeguarded money used to support people facing hardships. This book builds an original theory of the moral sociology of money, providing the tools for understanding the role money plays in social life today.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : money and moral capital -- Lent money -- Earned money -- Donated money -- Political money -- Sacrificed money -- Safeguarded money.
    Note: Originally published in 2013 in Spanish under the title: Las sospechas del dinero : moral y economía en el mundo popularLiteraturverzeichnis: Seite 185-196
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    Tribes, castes and development : scenario in three villages of Madhya Pradesh (2018)
    Jaipur : Rawat Publications
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    ISBN: 978-81-316-0979-8
    Language: English
    Pages: 216 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Indien Madhya Pradesh ; Indigenität ; Adivasi ; Kaste ; Kastenwesen ; Dorf ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Entwicklung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziales Leben ; Erziehung ; Gesundheitswesen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Politik
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    Religions as brands : new perspectives on the marketization of religion and spirituality (2018)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-4094-6755-7 , 978-1-1385-4624-0 , 978-1-3156-0508-1/ (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 256 Seiten , Diagramme
    Edition: first issued in paperback
    Series Statement: Ashgate AHRC\ESRC Religion and Society Series
    Keywords: Religion Spiritualität ; Markt ; Werbung ; Konsum ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Massenkommunikation ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: During the twentieth century, religion has gone on the market place. Churches and religious groups are forced to 'sell god' in order to be attractive to 'religious consumers'. More and more, religions are seen as 'brands' that have to be recognizable to their members and the general public. ; During the twentieth century, religion has gone on the market place. Churches and religious groups are forced to 'sell god' in order to be attractive to 'religious consumers'. More and more, religions are seen as 'brands' that have to be recognizable to their members and the general public. What does this do to religion? How do religious groups and believers react? What is the consequence for society as a whole? This book brings together some of the best international specialists from marketing, sociology and economics in order to answer these and similar questions. The interdisciplinary book treats new developments in three fields that have hitherto evolved rather independently: the commoditization of religion, the link between religion and consumer behavior, and the economics of religion. By combining and cross-fertilizing these three fields, the book shows just what happens when religions become brands.
    Description / Table of Contents: PART I: Introduction 1 Religions as Brands: New Perspectives on the Marketization of Religion and Spirituality Jrg Stolz and Jean-Claude Usunier 2 "9591": The Global Commoditization of Religions through GATS, WTO, and Marketing Practices Jean-Claude Usunier PART II: Marketing and Branding Religion and Spirituality 3 The International Christian Fellowship (ICF): A Sociological Analysis of Religious Event Management Olivier Favre 4 Branding, Music, and Religion: Standardization and Adaptation in the Experience of the "Hillsong Sound" Thomas Wagner 5 The Marketing of Spiritual Services and the Role of the Religious Entrepreneur Markus Hero 6 Non-fortuitous Limits to the Concept of Branding in the Popularizing of "Justly Balanced Islam" in France Jason Dean 7 Healing by Islam: Adoption of a Prophetic Rite-roqya-by Salafists in France and Belgium Hanifa Touag PART III: Religious and Spiritual Consuming 8 Adding Imaginative Value: Religion, Marketing, and the Commodification of Social Action Jochen Hirschle 9 Is There Such a Thing as Religious Brand Loyalty? Haytham Siala 10 How Religious Affiliation Grouping Influences Sustainable Consumer Behavior Findings Elizabeth Stickel-Minton PART IV: Economic Analyses of Religious Phenomena 11 Sources of Religious Pluralism: Revisiting the Relationship between Pluralism and Participation Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle 12 Authority and Freedom: Economics and Secularization Steve Bruce 13 The "Business Model" of the Temple of Jerusalem: Jewish Monotheism as a Unique Selling Proposition Philippe Simonnot
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    The _quest for the good life in precarious times : ethnographic perspectives on the domestic moral economy (2018)
    Canberra : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-76046-200-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 223 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Monographs in Anthropology Series
    Keywords: Indien Australien ; Ozeanien ; Ethnosoziologie ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Wirtschaft ; Landwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Moral ; Wertvorstellung ; Armut ; Globalisierung, wirtschaftliche
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Chris Gregory -- The Good Death? Paying Equal Respects in Fijian Funerals / Matti Era¨saari -- Changing Standards of Living: The Paradoxes of Building a Good Life in Rural Vanuatu / Rachel E. Smith -- 'According to Kastom and According to Law': 'Good Life' and 'Good Death' in Gilbert Camp, Solomon Islands / Rodolfo Maggio -- 'This Custom from the Past Is No Good': Grassroots, 'Big Shots' and a Contested Moral Economy in East New Britain / Keir Martin -- A Moral Economy of the Transnational Papua New Guinean Household: Solidarity and Estrangement While 'Working Other Gardens' / Karen Sykes -- Cycles of Integration and Fragmentation: Changing Yolngu-Balanda Sentiments of the 'Good Life' in Northern Australia / Fiona Magowan -- 'The Main Thing Is to Have Enough Food': Kuninjku Precarity and Neoliberal Reason / Jon Altman -- The Rise of the Poverty-Stricken Millionaire: The Quest for the Good Life in Sargipalpara / Chris Gregory.
    Note: "The chapters in this collection were among papers presented at a conference held at the University of Manchester, 24-26 March 2015, entitled 'The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times: Grassroots Perspectives on the Value Question in the 21st Century'. The conference marked the end of a UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)- funded project entitled 'Domestic Moral Economy: An Ethnographic Study of Value in the Asia-Pacific Region' ..."
    URL: https://press.anu.edu.au/node/4189/download
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    Global mountain regions : conversations towards the future (2018)
    Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-253-03685-8 , 978-0-253-03686-5 , 978-0-253-03689-6/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 380 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Framing the Global
    Keywords: Gebirge Gemeinschaft ; Diskriminierung ; Entwicklung ; Wirtschaft ; Naturschutz ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Ressource ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: "No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the growth of nations for centuries. They are perceived as remote and socially inferior backwaters on one hand while simultaneously seen as culturally rich and spiritually sacred spaces on the other. These contradictions become even more fraught as environmental changes and political strains place added pressure on these mountain communities. Shifting national borders and changes to watersheds, forests, and natural resources play an increasingly important role as nations respond to the needs of a global economy. The works in this volume consider multiple nations, languages, generations, and religions in their exploration of upland communities' responses to the unique challenges and opportunities they share. From paintings to digital mapping, environmental studies to poetry, land reclamation efforts to song lyrics, the collection provides a truly interdisciplinary and global study. The editors and authors offer a cross-cultural exploration of the many strategies that mountain communities are employing to face the concerns of the future."--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis 375-380 Seiten
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    Traditional India : structure and change (2018)
    Jaipur : Rawat Publications
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    ISBN: 978-81-316-0972-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIII, 356 Seiten
    Edition: reprinted
    Keywords: Indien Tradition ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kultur und Gesellschaft ; Soziale Organisation ; Brahmanismus ; Rajputs ; Handwerker ; Händler ; Genealogie ; Kastenwesen ; Theater ; Orale Tradition ; Toda
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    The _"glocalization" of mobile telephony in West and Central Africa : consumer appropriation and corporate acculturation ; a case study in Cameroon and Guinea-Conakry (2018)
    Mankon, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
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    ISBN: 978-9956-550-39-5 , 9956-550-39-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 150 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Afrika Westafrika ; Guinea ; Zentralafrika ; Kamerun ; Handy ; Telekommunikation ; Internet ; Innovation ; Konsum ; Kommunikationstechnologie ; Technologie ; Technologie, moderne ; Globalisierung ; Sozialer Wandel
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 137-150
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    India's ancient past (2018)
    New Delhi : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0-19-568785-X , 978-0-19-568785-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 387, [16] Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: thirty-first impression
    Series Statement: Oxford India Paperbacks
    Keywords: Indien Geschichte ; Prähistorie ; Neolithikum, Asien ; Chalkolithikum, Asien ; Altertum ; Indus-Kultur ; Religionsgeschichte ; Jainismus ; Buddhismus ; Kastenwesen ; Philosophie ; Sozialer Wandel
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [320] - 362
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    From itinerant trade to moneylending in the era of financial inclusion : households, debts and masculinity among Calon gypsies of Northeast Brazil (2018)
    Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
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    ISBN: 978-3-319-96408-9 , 978-3-319-96409-6/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 250 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Brasilien Sinti ; Nomade ; Handel ; Finanzwesen ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Geld ; Haushalt ; Kredit ; Männlichkeit ; Armut ; Arbeit ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Wirtschaft ; Globalisierung ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
    Abstract: This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to global financial transformations and shifted their economic practices from itinerant trade to moneylending. It also explores their role as ethnic credit providers, offering rare insight into the financial lives of poor and lower-middle-class Brazilians. More broadly, this volume examines how ethnic difference is created in a context where fixed and collective structures supporting ethnic identity are missing. It is important reading for economic anthropologists, cultural economists and all those interested in processes of financialisation from a local perspective, as well as those fascinated by informal economies, how exchange and debt relate to social and political marginality, and how financial credit becomes 'domesticated' by communities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Consolidation of the Cigano Moneylending Niche in the Early Twenty-first Century -- Part I: Settlements, Personhood and the Centrality of Households -- Chapter 2: 'There are Ciganos in the Town' -- Chapter 3: Household Fixity as a Process -- Chapter 4: Makers of their Futures -- Part II: Assimilation of the Local Economic Environment into Calon Sociality -- Chapter 5: Deferred Payments and the Expanding Moment of Caloninity -- Chapter 6: Lending Money to Jurons -- Chapter 7: Moneylending Niche as Householding -- Chapter 8: Epilogue: The Crisis, The Stranger, and The State.
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    Within the limits : moral boundaries of class and gender in urban India (2018)
    New Delhi : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-947742-5 , 0-19-947742-6
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 256 Seiten
    Edition: first published
    Keywords: Indien Telangana ; Mittelklasse ; Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Wertvorstellung ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Soziale Klasse ; Sozialer Status ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechterforschung ; Moral ; Kosmopolitismus ; Lebensstil ; Kastenwesen ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Neoliberalismus ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Hyderabad 〈Indien〉
    Abstract: Drawing on twelve months of fieldwork in suburban Hyderabad, India, this thesis contributes to emerging debates on the Indian new middle classes and postcolonial middle classes more generally. I challenge images of a homogenous middle class enjoying the benefits of liberalization by highlighting the diversity in wealth, lifestyle and access to opportunities within this class sector. Contrary to the pervasive image of a hedonistic and morally corrupt new middle class, I assert the centrality of moral discourses to the construction of middle-class identity in Hyderabad. Middle-class Hyderabadis engage in moral discourses of 'respectability' and 'open- mindedness' in relation to caste, consumption, education, and women's public and domestic roles. These discourses of morality are central to the reproduction of class and gender inequality as successfully balancing the demands of respectability and open-mindedness is particularly difficult for those with fewer resources such as the lower middle class and for women who are expected to embody authentic Indianness in their demure comportment, 'traditional' attire and commitment to 'Indian' family values, but are also liable to being judged 'backward' if their clothing and lack of education and paid employment are seen to be in conflict with fashion and open-mindedness. The focus on balance and compromise in middle-class Hyderabadis' narratives echoes other work on postcolonial middle classes that has emphasised people's efforts to adhere to local notions of respectable behaviour that are central to national identities while also attempting to align themselves with a 'modern' global consumer culture. In contrast to much of this literature, however, I challenge the notion that modernity and tradition, the local and the global are objects of desire in and of themselves and instead argue that they function as important reference points in discourses that legitimate the dominant position of men and those of upper class-caste status.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 206-226 , Thesis (Ph.D.), Oxford University, 2012
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    Anthropological perspectives on history, culture and museum : theoretical practice in Japan and China (2018)
    Osaka : National Museum of Ethnology Japan
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    ISBN: 978-4-906962-62-4
    ISSN: 0387-6004
    Language: English , Chinese
    Pages: 383 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Senri Ethnological Studies 97
    Keywords: Japan China ; Feldforschung ; Ethnie, Asien ; Mongolen ; Ethnohistorie ; Trommel ; Sozialer Wandel
    Note: This volume is also based on the international symposium "Theoretical renewal of anthropology and ethnology in China and the development of field work" jointly organized with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (IEA, CASS) on November 18-19, 2013 in Beijing."; , Enthält 19 Beiträge in chinesischer oder japanischer Sprache mit englischen Abstracts.
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    Hunger Safety Net Programme : soziale Sicherung in Turkana County im Norden Kenias (2018)
    Duisburg : Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (43 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: AVE-Studie 10
    Keywords: Kenia Hunger ; Sozialer Prozess ; Sozialer Wandel ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
    Note: Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache
    URL: https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/inef/ave10.pdf
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    Indian village revisited : Ranawaton-ki-Sadri (1955-2005) (2018)
    Jaipur : Rawat Publications
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    ISBN: 978-81-316-0926-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 234 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Indien Rajasthan ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Dorf ; Sozialer Wandel ; Entwicklung ; Ethnographie ; Soziologie ; Urbanisation ; Modernisierung ; Dezentralisation ; Ranawaton-ki-Sadri 〈Dorf, Indien〉
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    Migration in a globalizing world : perspectives from Ghana (2018)
    Legon-Accra : Sub-Saharan Publishers
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    ISBN: 9988-8829-1-2 , 978-9988-8829-1-4
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 259 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Migration Reader Series
    Series Statement: University of Ghana Readers
    Keywords: Afrika Ghana ; Migration ; Integration ; Globalisierung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische
    Abstract: Migration has assumed growing significance in the global development agenda as its potential for economic and social development is increasingly acknowledged. Within the Africa context, perceptions of migration as a negative phenomenon have shifted to recognition of its central role to Africa`s transformation. Despite this shift, emerging migration dynamics have not been adequately contextualized and conceptualized, making it difficult to integrate migration into development planning processes. This book attempts to fill the gaps in migration knowledge production, particularly from the perspectives of researchers in the global south and more specifically from Ghana. The chapters provide multi disciplinary perspectives in the contemporary migration landscape in Ghana and Africa. Rather than focus on migration as a problem to be solved, the chapters explore migration as an intrinsic part of the broader processes of structural change in Ghana, which could create opportunities for development if properly harnessed. This reader is an essential resource for migration and development researchers, students, policy makers, practitioners and others interested in the field of development.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Contributors - Introduction, Mariama Awumbila, Joseph Kofi Teye & Delali Margaret Badasu - Part 1. Migration Patterns and Trends in Africa and Implications for Migration Policy - Part 2. Migration, Return and Social Chance in Ghana: a Critical Review - Part 3. Migration, Transnationalism and Changing Family and Gender Relations -- Part 4. Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Migration Research
    Note: Enthält 13 Beiträge
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    Entrepreneurship in Africa : a historical approach (2018)
    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-253-03438-0 , 978-0-253-03260-7 , 978-0-253-03262-1 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 334 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Afrika Algerien ; Benin ; Äthiopien ; Ghana ; Kenia ; Republik Niger ; Nigeria ; Sahara ; Sahel ; Südafrika ; Tansania ; Turkana ; Uganda ; Diula ; Yoruba ; Geschichte ; Unternehmenskultur ; Heiler ; Sport ; Handel ; Frau und wirtschaftliche Rolle ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Dekolonisation ; Lagos 〈Nigeria〉
    Abstract: A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past. Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explore the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers, craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians, technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers featured in this volume show African models of entrepreneurship in action. As a whole, the essays consider the history of entrepreneurship in Africa, illustrating its multiple origins and showing how it differs from the Western capitalist experience. As they establish historical patterns of business creativity, these explorations open new avenues for understanding indigenous enterprise and homegrown commerce and their relationship to social, economic, and political debates in Africa today.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Mercantile and artisanal networks -- Part II. Female entrepreneurs and gendered innovation -- Part III. Entrepreneurship as political initiative -- Part IV. Unconventional entrepreneurs -- Part V. African enterprise in the shadow of colonization -- Epilogue : African entrepreneurship, past and present, Moses E. Ochonu -- Index
    Note: Enthält eine Introduction und 13 Beiträge
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    Palma Africana (2018)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-226-51594-6 , 978-0-226-51613-4 , 978-0-226-51627-1/ebook
    Language: English
    Pages: 258 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Kolumbien Ölpalme ; Industrie ; Umwelt ; Umweltbelastung ; Wirtschaft ; Klimawandel ; Menschenrecht ; Landnahme ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: "Palma africana represents the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the threat to life, human and nonhuman, that characterizes the contemporary moment. In Colombia, where Taussig has worked for decades, palm oil plantations are spreading in areas that were once cornucopias of animal, bird, and plant life. Deforestation and habitat loss are the first effects."--Provided by publisher."It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist's dream." So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the contemporary moment. But to what elixir does he refer? Palm oil. Saturating everything from potato chips to nail polish, palm oil has made its way into half of the packaged goods in our supermarkets. By 2020, world production will be double what it was in 2000. In Colombia, palm oil plantations are covering over one-time cornucopias of animal, bird, and plant life. Over time, they threaten indigenous livelihoods and give rise to abusive labor conditions and major human rights violations. The list of entwined horrors--climatic, biological, social--is long. But Taussig takes no comfort in our usual labels: "habitat loss," "human rights abuses," "climate change." The shock of these words has passed; nowadays it is all a blur. Hence, Taussig's keen attention to words and writing throughout this work. He takes cues from precursors' ruminations: Roland Barthes's suggestion that trees form an alphabet in which the palm tree is the loveliest; William Burroughs's retort to critics that for him words are alive like animals and don't like to be kept in pages--cut them and the words are let free. Steeped in a lifetime of philosophical and ethnographic exploration, Palma Africana undercuts the banality of the destruction taking place all around us and offers a penetrating vision of the global condition. Richly illustrated and written with experimental verve, this book is Taussig's Tristes Tropiques for the twenty-first century.
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    Juggling between two worlds : sociocultural change in Afghan immigrant women's identity in Germany (2018)
    Münster : LIT
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    ISBN: 978-3-643-90923-7
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 228 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Ethnologie 65
    Keywords: Deutschland Afghanistan ; Ethnie, Vorderasien ; Hazara ; Migration ; Frau ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Sozialer Wandel ; Beziehungen, interkulturelle ; Identität ; Ethnizität
    Abstract: Migration has been a life event for many Afghans during the past decades, with mass exoduses due to war, insecurity, and poverty. This book explores how Hazara migrant women reinterpret their narration of "self", ventilates opinions of their migratory lives and analyses ways Afghan immigrant women experience life in Germany. It presents an understanding how they experience sociocultural change as a consequence of their migratory experiences. It identifies contradictions in how Afghan immigrant women negotiate identity, belonging to and acquire status in the new society.
    Description / Table of Contents: Theoretical and conceptual framework -- Afghanistan social structure -- Destination: Germany -- Sociocultural change and power shift among Afghan families in Germany -- The experience of Afghan immigrant women in Germany: between social involvement and sense of belonging -- Conclusions -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 202 - 228 , Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Bremen, 2016
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    Power in the telling : Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and intertribal relations in the casino era (2018)
    Seattle : University of Washington Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-295-74335-6 , 978-0-295-74336-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 203 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Indigenous Confluences
    Keywords: USA Indianer, USA ; Oregon ; Glücksspiel ; Konflikt ; Wirtschaft ; Kolonialismus ; Konfliktmanagement
    Abstract: "From 1998 through 2013, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs sought to develop a casino in Cascade Locks, Oregon. This prompted objections from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who already operated a lucrative casino in the region. Brook Colley's in-depth case study unravels the history of this disagreement and challenges the way conventional media characterizes intertribal casino disputes in terms of corruption and greed. Instead, she locates these conflicts within historical, social, and political contexts of colonization. Through extensive interviews, Colley brings to the forefront Indigenous perspectives on intertribal conflict related to tribal gaming. She reveals how casino economies affect the relationship between gaming tribes and federal and state governments, and the repercussions for the tribes themselves. Ultimately, Colley's engaging examination explores strategies for reconciliation and cooperation, emphasizing narratives of resilience and tribal sovereignty"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface: They Tell Their Own Stories -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 At the Place Where the Cascades Fall -- CHAPTER 2 There Is Power in the Telling: Oregon Tribal Histories -- CHAPTER 3 Out of the Blue Someone Said, "Well, Let's Build a Casino" -- CHAPTER 4 Tribal Casino Discourse: "Who Tells the Story Is a Mighty Piece of Information" -- CHAPTER 5 A Risky and Uncertain Business: The Case of Cascade Locks -- CHAPTER 6 Intertribal Relations and Conflict in the Casino Era -- CHAPTER 7 At the Kitchen Table: Gathering across Difference -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 183-195
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    Sustainable energy in Kazakhstan : moving to cleaner energy in a resource-rich country (2018)
    London and New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 285 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Central Asia Research Forum
    Keywords: Kasachstan Erneuerbare Energien ; Ressource ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Technologie, moderne ; Innovation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Umwelt ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
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    Market as place and space of economic exchange : perspectives from archaeology and santhropology (2018)
    Oxford : Oxbow Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78570-893-0 , 978-1-78570-894-7
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 250 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Markt Handel ; Materielle Kultur ; Wirtschaft ; Tausch ; Altertum ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie ; Philosophie ; Mittelalter ; Neuzeit ; Geschichte ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: In the context of commodification, material culture has particular properties hitherto considered irrelevant or neglected. First, the market is a spatial structure, assigning special properties to the things offered: the goods and commodities. Secondly, the market defines a principle of dealing with things, including them in some contexts, excluding them from others. The contributions to Market as Place and Space address a variety of aspects of markets within the framework of archaeological and anthropological case studies and with a special focus on the indicators of practices attached to the commodities and their valuation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: markets as places : actors, structures and ideologies / Hans P. Hahn -- Of middens and markets : the phenomenology of the market place in the Bronze Age and beyond / Lorenz Rahmstorf -- Dealing with the foreign: the movement of artefacts and values in Bronze Age Europe / Lukas Wiggering -- Crates and crates of sigillata? : the supply of Italic terra sigillata to Roman military camps / Thomas Hahn -- Built space and consuming place : archaeological research on a medieval market in Tulln, Lower Austria / Ute Scholz -- The impact of the kula on archaeological interpretation : the case of Lapita shell ornaments / Katherine Szabó -- Markets in West Africa : Karl Polanyi, or what sort of social formation / Mahir Saul -- Market thinking : perspectives from Saharan and Atlantic West Africa / Ann B. Stahl -- An economy between the markets: the case of central market in Tamale, northern Ghana / Geraldine Schmitz -- The walking cartographies of the marketplaces of Surat / Nishpriha Thakur -- Direct sales in the Amazon : precariously mediating regimes of value / Jessica Chelekis -- Tourists on the Nasara : the ritual ground as a space for commodification in Vanuatu, southwest Pacific / Hugo DeBlock -- 'It was harder before; we lived by the market' : hopes and fears of a market-free future in East New Britain / Keir Martin.
    Note: This volume was initiated by a conference held in Frankfurt/Main (Germany), ath the Goethe University, and organized by the "Value and Equivalence" research training group. (Umschlagrückseite)
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    Breaking boundaries : varieties of liminality (2018)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78238-766-4 , 978-1-78533-749-9 , 978-1-78238-767-1/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 264 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Keywords: Ritual und Zeremonie Übergangsritual ; Anthropologie, philosophische ; Politik ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel
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    A _village goes mobile : telephony, mediation, and social change in rural India (2018)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-063028-7 , 978-0-19-063027-0
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 200 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Ländliches Gebiet ; Dorf ; Telekommunikation ; Handy ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Entwicklung
    Abstract: In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the smartphone. She here analyzes how mobile telephones emerged as multidimensional objects which, in addition to enabling telephone conversations, facilitated status aspirations, internet access, and entertainment practices. She explores how this multifaceted use of mobile phones has affected agency and power dynamics in economic, political, and social relationships, and how these new social constellations relate to culture and development. In eight chapters, Tenhunen asks such questions as: Who benefits from mobile telephony and how? Can people use mobile phones to change their lives, or does phone use merely amplify existing social patterns and power relationships? Can mobile telephony induce development? Going beyond the case of West Bengal, Tenhunen develops a framework to understand how new media mediates social processes within interrelated social spheres and local hierarchies by relating, media-saturated forms of interaction to pre-existing contexts.
    Description / Table of Contents: Theorizing phone use contexts and mediation -- Why mobile phones became ubiquitous : remediation and socialities -- Mobile telephony, economy and social logistics -- Mediating gender : mobile phones and women's agency -- Mediating conflict : mobile telephony and politics -- Smartphones, caste and intersectionalities.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 179-196
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    Wertobjekte und Gabentausch auf Palau (Ozeanien) : eine ethnologische Studie zu Transformationen von Geld und Prestige (2018)
    Berlin : Reimer
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    ISBN: 978-3-496-01602-1 , 3-496-01602-7
    Language: German
    Pages: 381 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Keywords: Ozeanien Mikronesien ; Palau Insel ; Ethnographie ; Gabe ; Tausch ; Perle ; Geld ; Geldverkehr ; Handel ; Lebenszyklus ; Soziale Beziehung ; Familie ; Verwandtschaftsstruktur ; Soziale Rolle ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Konsum ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: Der Gaben-, Geld- und Nahrungstausch auf den mikronesischen Inseln Palaus begleitet das Leben von der Geburt bis zum Tod und ist nach wie vor eine gelebte Tradition. Constanze Dupont untersucht diese Bräuche und geht der Frage nach, wie sich das Geldsystem Palaus unter dem Einfluss fremder Kulturen verändert hat.Im Laufe der Geschichte haben sich unzählige Geldformen aus unterschiedlichen Materialien wie Metallen, Federn, Glas, Gewürzen, Papier usw. gebildet. Welche Funktionen und Definitionen aber muss ein Objekt erfüllen, um als Geld bezeichnet werden zu können? Im Mittelpunkt der Studie steht der Gaben-, Geld- und Nahrungstausch auf den mikronesischen Inseln Palaus, der sich durch veränderte Lebensgewohnheiten, ökonomische Prioritäten und Konsumdenken verändert hat und an die Erfordernisse der Gegenwart angepasst wurde. Die Autorin geht auf die Arten des traditionellen Geldes ein und erläutert seinen vergangenen wie gegenwärtigen Gebrauch.
    Description / Table of Contents: Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Danksagung -- Vorbemerkungen und E inführung. Schreibweisen und Übersetzungen. Einleitung. Vorgehensweise. Aufbau der Arbeit -- Teil I: Verortung und Sozialstruktur. Die Inseln von Palau: Ein geographisch-historischer Überblick. Die ethnographische Erforschung Palaus von 1783 bis heute. Kapitän Henry Wilson (1740-1810) und George Keate (1729-1797). Karl Semper (1832-1893). Johann Stanislaus Kubary (1846-1896). Augustin Krämer (1865-1941) und Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow (1874-1945). Franz Hernsheim (1845-1909). Hijikata Hisakatsu (1900-1976). Robert Eugene Ritzenthaler (1911-1980). Bitang ma Bitang Soziale, politische und ökonomische Strukturen auf Palau -- Transformierung unter dem Einfluss von Moderne und Globalisierung -- Teil II: Wertgegenstände und Geldtheorien, Geldformen und Gabentausch. Wertgegenstände überseeischer Provenienz auf den palauischen Inseln. Custom - Tauschsysteme auf Palau-- Teil III: Ausblick. Die Integration von Gütern. Handel in der ethnologischen Theorie. Die Herkunft der Perlen des Udoud er Belau. Der Weg nach Palau - einst und heute. Material und Herstellung. Herstellung von Bachel auf den palauischen Inseln. Inventarisierung. New or Fake? Oder wirklich gefälscht? Erlassung eines Gesetzes zur Registrierung. Gerüchte -- Schlussbetrachtung -- Anhänge-- Wörterliste -- Anmerkungen -- Literaturverzeichnis
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 367 - 381 , Dissertation, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 2016
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    Urban Dreams : Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso (2018)
    Oxford : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-376-7 , 978-1-78533-377-4/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: [ix], 198 Seiten , Illustration, Karten
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    Keywords: Afrika Burkina Faso ; Zara ; Stadt ; Familie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Geschlechterforschung ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen ; Bobo-Dioulasso 〈Stadt, Burkina Faso〉
    Note: Ursprünglich meist in deutscher Sprache; "Chapters 1-5 and 9 were translated by Steven Parham. Chapters 6 and 10 were translated by Vanessa Brutsche. Chapters 7 and 8 were originally published in English.";Nachruf Claudia Roth: Seite 1 - 11; Literaturverzeichnis von Claudia Roth: Seite 190 - 194
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    Faith, power and family : Christianity and social change in French Cameroon (2018)
    Suffolk : James Currey
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    ISBN: 978-1-84701-182-4 , 978-1-84701-183-1 /Africa only paperback
    ISSN: 2398-8673
    Language: English
    Pages: 304 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: Religion in Transforming Africa 3
    Keywords: Kamerun Beti ; Bamileke ; Bassa ; Bamum ; Bulu ; Kolonie, französisch ; Glaube ; Christentum ; Mission, christliche ; Familie ; Heirat ; Männlichkeit ; Patriarchat ; Sozialpolitik ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: Between the two World Wars, the radical innovations of African Catholic and Protestant evangelists repurposed Christianity to challenge local and foreign governments operating in the French-administered League of Nations Mandate of Cameroon. This book explores how African believers transformed foreign missionary societies into profoundly local religious institutions with indigenous ecclesiastical hierarchies and devotional social and charitable networks, devising novel authority structures to control resources and govern social and cultural life.Throughout the interwar period in Cameroon, African Christian religious leaders transformed social and labor relations, contesting forced labor and authoritarian decentralized governance as threats to family stability and community integrity. Inspired by Catholic and Protestant doctrines on conjugal complementarity and social equilibrium, as well as by local spiritual and charismatic movements, African Christians re-evaluated and renovated family and community authority structures to address the devastating changes colonialism wrought in the private sphere. The history of these reform-minded believers reveals how family intimacies and kinship ties constituted the force of community resistance to oppression and also demonstrates the relevance of faith in the midst of a tumultuous series of forces arising out of the colonial situation peculiar to Cameroon.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Mariage at the nexus of faith, power and family -- Part 1 French rule, social politics, and new religious communities, 1914-1925. Christian transmission and colonial imposition. African catechists and charismatic activities. Evaluating marriage and forming a virtuous household. Faith. family, and the endurance of the lineage -- Part II Labor, economic transformation, and family life, 1925-1939. African church institutions in action. African agents of the church and state: male violence and productivity. Ethical Masculinity: the church and the patriarchal order. The Significance of African Christian communities beyond Cameroon -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 285 - 307; Basiert auf "Legal Revolutions and Evolutions: Law, Chiefs, and Colonial Order in Cameroon, 1914-1955", doctoral thesis, Yale University, Faculty of the Graduate School, 2009 von Charlotte Marie Elizabeth Walker
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    Africa rise up! : perspectives on African renewal (2018)
    Houghton, Johannesburg : Real African Publishers
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    ISBN: 978-1-928341-30-7
    Language: English
    Pages: 402 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Edition: first published
    Keywords: Afrika Entwicklung ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Demokratisierung ; Pan-Afrikanismus
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Bolstering pan-African Agency: From Africa Rising to Africa Rise Up!- Chris Landsberg -- Chapter 1: Africa's Renewal: The Challenges and Opportunities of Sustainability and Leadership - Paul Zeleza -- Chapter 2: Afrocentric Diplomacy: The Golden Decade 1998-2008 and pan-African Agency in World Affairs - Chris Landsberg -- Chapter 3: Can Democratic Developmental States Emerge in Africa? Revisiting the Afro-pessimists' and Afro-optimists' Debate - John Akokpari -- Chapter 4: Chalk and Cheese: Asia's Economic Miracle and Africa's Development Logjam - Adewale Aderemi -- Chapter 5: Good Governance and Poverty Reduction: Exploring the 'Dark Hole' - Lungile Bhengu and Malcolm Wallis -- Chapter 6: Civil Society Organisations and Sustainable Development: Some Lessons from Rural South Africa - Tidings P. Ndhlovu and Zifikile Phindile Shangase -- Chapter 7: Rural Women's Use of Underutilised Crops and Their Potential Role in Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa - Alfred Maroyi -- Chapter 8: Multilateralism, Regionalism, and the Effectiveness of Trade Policy in sub-Saharan Africa - Harrison Oluchukwu Okafor -- Chapter 9: The State, Regional Integration, and Economic Development in Africa: Rethinking the Neoliberal Paradigm - Samuel Oloruntoba -- Chapter 10: Industrialisation and Economic Growth Through the Diversification of Products and the Promotion of Trade Integration in Africa - Paul C. Bom Konde -- Chapter 11: Regional Integration and African Renaissance: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric - Vusi Gumede and Samuel Oloruntoba. Chapter 12: Political Economy of Process Innovations: Sustainability and Compliance of the Capability Maturity Model Index in a South African Context - Kosheek Sewchurran, Siphamandla Masuku, Keegan Steyn, Junaid Bedford, and Mehul Sangham -- Chapter 13: Nepad, the Power Game, and Africa's Development - Serges Djoyou Kamga -- Chapter 14: For an Appropriate and Effective Social System of Protection in Africa - Maty BB-Laye Diakhate -- Chapter 15: Women of Mano River Union: A Discourse on the Role of Civil Society in the Sustainability of Peace - Ferdinand O. Ottoh -- Chapter 16: The Paradox of pan-Africanism: Nato's Unilateral Exploits - Anton M. Pillay -- Chapter 17: Early Literature on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide: Facts, Evidence, and Interpretive Frameworks - Nompumelelo Motlafi -- Index.
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    Harvests, feasts, and graves : postcultural consciousness in contemporary Papua New Guinea (2018)
    Ithaca : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5017-1099-5 , 978-1-5017-1101-5/(eBook) , 978-1-5017-1102-2/(ePub)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 253 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first published
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Indigenität ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Wandel ; Gemeinschaft ; Identität ; Bewußtsein ; Geschichte ; Postkolonialismus ; Milne Bay Province 〈Papua Neuguinea〉
    Abstract: Ryan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, Feasts, and Graves. In this ethnographic investigation, Schram ponders how Auhelawa question the meaning of social forms and through this questioning seek paths to establish a new sense of their collective self. Harvests, Feasts, and Graves describes the ways in which Auhelawa people, and by extension many others, produce knowledge of themselves as historical subjects in the aftermath of diverse and incomplete encounters with Christianity, capitalism, and Western values. Using the contemporary setting of Papua New Guinea, Schram presents a new take on essential topics and foundational questions of social and cultural anthropology. If, as Marx writes, "the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," Harvests, Feasts, and Graves asks: Which history weighs the most? And how does the weight of history become salient as a ground for subjective consciousness? Taking cues from postcolonial theory and indigenous studies, Schram rethinks the "ontological turn" in anthropology and develops a new way to think about the nature of historical consciousness. Rather than seeing the present as either tragedy or farce, Schram argues that contemporary historical consciousness is produced through reflexive sociality. Like all societies, Auhelawa is located in an intercultural conjuncture, yet their contemporary life is not a story of worlds colliding, but a shattered mirror in which multiple Auhelawa subjectivities are possible.
    Description / Table of Contents: Natives and travelers -- You cannot eat your own blood -- Hunger and plenty -- Banks, books, and pots -- One mind -- The weight of tradition, the children of light.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 227-244
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    Island in the stream : an ethnographic history of Mayotte (2018)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4875-0391-8 , 978-1-4875-2299-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXI, 334 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.80096945
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    Keywords: Komoren Ethnographie ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Wandel ; Tausch ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Geschichte ; Mayotte 〈Komoren-Insel〉
    Abstract: Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full departement of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros. The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads, schools, electricity, or running water; today they are educated citizens of the EU who travel regularly to metropolitan France and beyond. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the future, acknowledged the past, and engaged and transformed local forms of sociality, exchange, and ritual performance. This is a unique account of the changing horizons and historical consciousness of an African community and an intimate portrait of the inhabitants and their concerns, as well as a glimpse into the changing perspective of the ethnographer.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures Foreword by Michael Jackson Note on Orthography Glossary Preface Part One: Prelude 1 Introduction: The Presence of History 2 Village Life: Kinship, Community, and Islam, 1975 and After 3 Founding the Villages, before 1975. Part Two: Exchange, Celebration, Ceremony, through 1995 4 Citizenship and Sociality: Practising Equality, 1975-1976 5 Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte: The Structure and Destructuring of a Cultural System, 1975-1985 6 Localizing Islamic Performances in Mayotte, 1975-1995. Part Three: Dancing to the Music of Time, through 2001 7 Choking on the Qur'an and Other Consuming Parables, 1975-1992 8 Nuriaty, the Saint, and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Postmodern Colony, to 1995 9 The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Diner-dansant, to 2001 10 On the Move, through 2001. Part Four: Contingent Conviviality, through 2015 11 Marriage and Moral Horizons, 2015 12 Present Horizons, 2015 13 Summation: Mariam's Mirror. Acknowledgments Notes References Credits Index
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    Cash transfers in context : an anthropological perspective (2018)
    New York : Berghahn
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    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 334 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Edition: first published
    DDC: 332/.0424091724
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    Keywords: Entwicklungsländer Armut ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Wirtschaft ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Geld ; Geldverkehr ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    The _rite of urban passage : the spatial ritualization of Iranian urban transformation (2018)
    New York : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-976-9 , 978-1-78533-977-6 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 182 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Articulating Journeys 2
    DDC: 297.3/6
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    Keywords: Iran Stadt ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Stadtplanung ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Wandel ; Islam ; Geschichte ; Urbanisation ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Soziologie ; Ritual, religiöses ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated a project of modernization in the 1920s. The Rite of Urban Passage investigates this process by focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions, a ritual that commemorates the tragic massacre of Hussein and his companions in 680 CE. In doing so, this volume offers not only an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, but also a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: The spatial manifestation of ritual -- Towards a framework for spatially studying a religious ritual -- The spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals -- The spatial organisation of ritual -- The traditional Muharram processions -- The rite of urban passage -- Entwining past and present in performed space -- Reinventing Muharram rites.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 165 - 176 , Thesis (Ph.D.), University of London, 2009 entitled "The rite of urban passage: the spatial dynamic of the Ashura ritual in Iranian cities during the modern transformation"
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    The _anthropology of climate change : an integrated critical perspective (2018)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    Language: English
    Pages: 256 Seiten
    Edition: second edition
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    DDC: 304.25
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    Keywords: Klimawandel Umweltbelastung ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel ; Kulturgeographie ; Anthropogeographie
    Abstract: In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the historic foundations for this work in the archaeology of climate change, and presents three alternative contemporary theoretical perspectives in the anthropology of climate change. This second edition is fully updated to include the most recent literature published since the first edition in 2014. It also examines a number of new topics, including an analysis of the 2014 American Anthropological Association's Global Climate Change Task Force report, a new case study on responses to climate change in developed societies, and reference to the stance of the Trump administration on climate change. Not only does this book provide a valuable overview of the field and the key literature, but it also gives researchers and students in Environmental Anthropology, Climate Change, Human Geography, Sociology, and Political Science a novel framework for understanding climate change that emphasizes human socioecological interactions.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction 1. Climate turmoil: introducing a socioecological model of human action, environmental impact, and mounting vulnerability 2. The emergence and maturation of the anthropology of climate change 3. The archaeology of climate change 4. Theoretical perspectives in the anthropology of climate change 5. Case studies in the anthropology of climate change 6. Applications of anthropological research on climate change 7. What are other social scientists saying about climate change 8. Conclusion: toward a critical integrated social science of climate change
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    The _cow in the elevator : an anthropology of wonder (2018)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8223-7079-6 , 978-0-8223-7064-2 , 978-0-8223-7192-2 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 269 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 294.5/4
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    Keywords: Indien Religion und Gesellschaft ; Hinduismus ; Ethik ; Wunder ; Sozialer Wandel ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Globalisierung, kulturelle ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Bangalore 〈Stadt, Indien〉
    Abstract: In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living in the hi-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder-a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. Offering a nuanced account of how the ruptures of modernity can be made normal, enrapturing, and even comical in a city swept up in globalization's tumult, Srinivas brings the visceral richness of wonder-apparent in creative ritual in and around Hindu temples-into the anthropological gaze. Broaching provocative philosophical themes like desire, complicity, loss, time, money, technology, and the imagination, Srinivas pursues an interrogation of wonder and the adventure of writing true to its experience. The Cow in the Elevator rethinks the study of ritual while reshaping our appreciation of wonder's transformative potential for scholarship and for life.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Wonder, creativity, and ethical life in Bangalore -- Adventures in modern dwelling -- Interlude: into the Abyss -- Passionate journeys: from aesthetics to ethics -- Interlude: Up in the sky -- In God we trust: economies of wonder and philosophies of debt -- Technologies of wonder -- Timeless imperatives, obsolescence, and salvage -- Conclusion: a place for radical hope -- Afterword: the tanacity of hope -- Notes -- References -- Index
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    Moral engines : exploring the ethical drives in human life (2018)
    New York : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-693-5
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 259 Seiten
    Series Statement: Wyse Series in Social Anthropology 5
    DDC: 170
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    Keywords: Philosophie Anthropologie ; Ethik ; Moral ; Emotion ; Sufismus ; Meinungsfreiheit ; Wertvorstellung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Anthropologie, philosophische ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary conversations between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life, addressing the question: What propels humans to act in light of ethical ideals
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    The _time of money (2018)
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5036-0626-5 , 978-1-5036-0710-1 , 978-1-5036-0711-8/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 228 Seiten
    Series Statement: Currencies
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Geld Finanzwesen ; Zeit ; Wirtschaft ; Kredit ; Wertvorstellung ; Kapitalismus ; Soziologie ; Sozialer Aspekt
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    Forging African communities : mobility, integration and belonging (2018)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan
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    ISBN: 978-1-137-58193-8
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 321 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Global Diversities
    DDC: 304.8096
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    Keywords: Afrika Migration ; Mobilität ; Integration ; Sozialer Wandel ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements. In doing so, it complements vibrant scholarly and political discussions of migrant integration globally with innovative, interdisciplinary perspectives focused on migration within Africa. It sheds new light on how human mobility redefines the meaning of home, community, citizenship and belonging. The authors ask how people's movements within the continent are forging novel forms of membership while catalysing social change within the communities and countries to which they move and which they have left behind. Original case studies from across Africa question the concepts, actors, and social trajectories dominant in the contemporary literature. Moreover, it speaks to and challenges sociological debates over the nature of migrant integration, debates largely shaped by research in the world's wealthy region
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    Street archives and city life : popular intellectuals in postcolonial Tanzania (2017)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8223-6984-4 , 978-0-8223-6991-2 , 978-0-8223-7232-5/Weitere Ausgabe
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 286 Seiten , Illustrationen; Karten
    Series Statement: Radical Perspectives
    DDC: 307.7609678/232
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    Keywords: Afrika Tansania ; Stadt ; Urbanisation ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kultur ; Lebensstil ; Intellektuelle ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Postkolonialismus ; Migration ; Dar es Salaam 〈Stadt, Tansania〉 ; Daressalam 〉 Dar es Salaam
    Abstract: In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of what Callaci calls street archives. These urban intellectuals neither supported nor contested the ruling party's anti-city philosophy; rather, they navigated the complexities of inhabiting unplanned African cities during economic crisis and social transformation through various forms of popular texts that included women's Christian advice literature, newspaper columns, self-published pulp fiction novellas, and song lyrics. Through these textual networks, Callaci shows how youth migrants and urban intellectuals in Dar es Salaam fashioned a collective ethos of postcolonial African citizenship. This spirit ushered in a revolution rooted in the city and its networksan urban revolution that arose in spite of the nation-state's pro-rural ideology.
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    Fieldwork in Timor-Leste : understanding social change through practice (2017)
    Copenhagen : NIAS Press
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    ISBN: 978-87-7694-209-0 , 978-87-7694-208-3
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 261 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: NIAS Studies in Asian Topics 59
    Series Statement: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Studies in Asian Topics 〉 NIAS Studies in Asian Topics 59
    DDC: 306.09
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    Keywords: Timor Osttimor ; Nationenbildung ; Feldforschung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Anthropologie, angewandte ; Ethnographie ; Indonesien ; Kolonie, portugiesisch ; Unabhängigkeitskampf ; Film, ethnographischer ; Kraras-Massaker (1983, Osttimor) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This is a must-have volume for scholars, other fieldworkers and policy-makers preparing to work in Timor-Leste, invaluable for those needing to understand the country from afar, and a fascinating read for anyone interested in the Timorese world. A ground-breaking exploration of research methodologies in Timor-Leste, the first of its kind, it brings together ten authors (veterans and early-career researchers) who have helped found Timor studies and broadly represent a range of fieldwork practices and challenges in what has been described as one of the most complex, contested, attractive and dangerous ethnographic field sites on the planet. Here, they present their experiences of conducting anthropological, historical and archival fieldwork in this new nation, spanning the period from colonial times to the present day. The volume further explores how researchers might examine processes of 'nation-making' without taking particular claims about what constitutes Timorese national identity for granted. Many of the chapters thereby engage critically with some of the preconceived understandings and ideas about what kind of place Timor-Leste is that have characterized both academic research and development debates, and which have been challenged through the ethnographic or historical research of the contributing authors. The volume thus reflects and highlights the contestations and deliberations symptomatic of the country's nation-building process. It is also timely, coming as Timor studies enter a productive new phase following the country's independence and at a critical moment in the debate about the future of area studies vis-a-vis the traditional disciplines.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Portuguese Timor -- Fieldwork in a new nation -- Spatiality and temporality -- Post-conflict fieldwork -- Positionality -- Index
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    Transnational aging and reconfigurations of kin work (2017)
    New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.] : Rutgers Univ. Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8135-8807-0 , 0-8135-8807-3 , 978-0-8135-8808-7 , 978-0-8135-8809-4/epub
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 231 Seiten
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Aging
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    Keywords: Europa Kanada ; Nicaragua ; China ; Hindu ; Australien ; Ghana ; Karibik ; Sozialer Wandel ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen ; Alter ; Verwandtschaft ; Arbeitsteilung ; Arbeit ; Migration ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationshipsthe work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.
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    A _decade of Ethiopia : politics, economy and society 2004-2016 (2017)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-34588-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 253 Seiten
    DDC: 963.07/2
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    Keywords: Äthiopien Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Geschichte ; Chronologie
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    Culture change and ex-change : syncretism and anti-syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea (2017)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-384-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 299 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific 6
    DDC: 305.899/12
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    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Melanesien ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel ; Soziales Leben ; Synkretismus ; Kulturanthropologie
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    Navigating the future : an ethnography of change in Papua New Guinea (2017)
    Acton : Australian National University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-76046-123-2 , 978-1-76046-124-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 298 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Series Statement: Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 11
    DDC: 305.899/12
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Kubor ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Ressource ; Reichtum ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ungleichheit
    Note: Avigating 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 projectthe 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 imagineand work to bring abouta radically different future for themselves while simultaneously reimagining their own past in ways that validate those endeavours.
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    Making money : how Taiwanese industrialists embraced the global economy (2017)
    Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5036-0427-8 , 978-0-8047-9219-6 , 978-1-5036-0445-2 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 299 Seiten , Karte
    Series Statement: Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
    Keywords: Taiwan Händler ; Massenware ; Unternehmenskultur ; Kapitalismus ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Handel ; Globalisierung, wirtschaftliche ; Globalisierung ; China ; Japan ; USA
    Abstract: Beginning in the 1950s, Tawian rapidly industrialized, becoming a tributary to an increasingly "borderless" East Asian economy. And though President Trump has called for the end of "American carnage"-the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs-domestic retailers and merchandisers still willingly ship production overseas, primarily to Taiwan. In this book, Gary G. Hamilton and Cheng-shu Kao show how Taiwanese businesspeople have played a tremendous, unsung role in their nation's continuing ascent. From prominent names like Pou Chen and Hon Hai to the owners of small and midsize firms, Taiwan's contract manufacturers have become the world's most sophisticated suppliers of consumer products the world over. Drawing on over 30 years of research and more than 800 interviews, Hamilton and Kao tell these industrialists' stories. The picture that emerges is one of agile neo-capitalists, caught in the flux of a rapidly changing landscape, who tirelessly endeavor to profit on it. Making Money reveals its subjects to be at once producers of economic globalization and its byproducts. While the future of Taiwanese business is uncertain, the durability of demand-led capitalism is not.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. The formation of a demand-responsive economy, 1965-1985. Sprouts of capitalism : bamboo in springtime -- America's retail revolution : the hidden dragon -- Demand-led industrialization : big buyers in Taiwan -- An economic way of life : the round table -- Big business, small firms : meat and soup -- Part II. Toward a new Asian economy, 1985-2016. The search for a new economy : the tipping point -- High technology industries in Taiwan : turning on a dime -- Consolidation in China : a new age of mass production -- Consolidation in China : computers and smartphones -- Greater Taiwan, circa 2016 : the end of an era? -- Epilogue : the future of demand-led capitalism -- Notes -- Index
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    Transformation des Rentierstaates Iran : zur Rolle des Energiesektors in der politischen Ökonomie (2017)
    Wiesbaden : Springer VS
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    ISBN: 3-658-15413-6 , 978-3-658-15413-4 , 978-3-658-15414-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 305 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1. Auflage 2017
    Series Statement: Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz
    Keywords: Iran Politische Ökonomie ; Ressource ; Wirtschaft ; Erdöl ; Kapitalismus
    Note: Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, 2016
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    Islam and cultural change in Papua New Guinea (2017)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-77635-7 , 1-138-77635-1 , 1-315-77324-4
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 184 Seiten
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy 19
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Islam ; Geschichte ; Sozialer Wandel
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    The _politics of reconstruction and development in Sri Lanka : Transnational commitments to social change (2017)
    London : Routledge
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    ISBN: 978-0-8153-7397-1 , 978-0-415-58229-2 , 978-1-315-77721-4 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 188 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    Series Statement: Routledge\Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
    Keywords: Sri Lanka Tamile ; Kaste ; Befreiungsbewegung ; Bürgerkrieg ; Krieg und Gesellschaft ; Wiederaufbau ; Konflikt, ethnischer ; Konfliktmanagement ; Geschichte ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ethnographie ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ; LTTE 〉 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
    Abstract: Sri Lanka's conflict and peace processes have gained global attention during recent years. This book presents a comprehensive insight into the politics of reconstruction and development in Sri Lanka, focussing on the ceasefire which was negotiated between the Government of Sri Lanka and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2002 and which lasted until 2006. Based on extensive empirical fieldwork, the book provides a unique ethnographic account of this specific historical period of peace. It explains how development was shaped by interplay and cooperation, but also by the disparities and conflicts between a variety of local and intervening actors, including local organizations and civil society, LTTE, Government of Sri Lanka, international development cooperation and the Tamil diaspora. Starting from an interdisciplinary viewpoint, the author integrates findings from development sociology with new perspectives on transnationalization and the migration-development-nexus. This provides a fine grained analysis of the emerging development visions and perspectives in relation to transnationalization and global interconnectedness. Making an innovative contribution by linking the analysis of local reconstruction with contemporary phenomena of transnationalization, diasporization, and globalization, this book will appeal to those with an interest in Sociology, Social Anthropology and Political Science
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Ethnic Conflict and the Politics of Development 3. Jaffna - A Tamil Homeland 4. Global Development Cooperation and Local Perspectives on Governance 5. Taking Possession of Development - Diaspora Engagement in Local Institutions 6. Diaspora Committment to Local Non-Governmental Organizations - New Scope for Brokerage 7. Diaspora-Circulation, Remittances, and Encounters with the `Other' 8. Reconstruction and Development: Ideas and Visions 9. Development Visions after the War
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    Masquerading politics : kinship, gender, and ethnicity in a Yoruba town (2017)
    Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-253-03144-0 , 978-0-253-03146-4 , 978-0-253-03145-7/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 198 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Expressive Cultures
    Keywords: Nigeria Yoruba ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Maske ; Tanz ; Tanz, ritueller ; Ahnenkult ; Kult ; Politik ; Verwandtschaft ; Geschlechterforschung ; Geschlechterrolle ; Ethnizität ; Sozialer Wandel ; Otta 〈Stadt, Nigeria〉
    Abstract: In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances, and the institutional structures in which masquerade was used to reveal ongoing changes in notions of gender, kinship, and ethnic identity. As Willis focuses on performers and spectators, he reveals a history of masquerade that is rich and complex. His research offers a more nuanced understanding of performance practices in Africa and their role in forging alliances, consolidating state power, incorporating immigrants, executing criminals, and projecting individual and group power on both sides of the Afro-Atlantic world.--Publisher's summary
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- The early history of Otta and the origins of Egungun and Gelede -- "Children" and "wives" in the politics of the Oyo empire during the era of the Atlantic slave trade -- The emergence of new warriors, wards, and masquerades : the Otta kingdom during the era of imperial collapse -- "A thing to govern the town" : gendered masquerades and the politics of the chiefs and the monarchy in the rebuilding of a town, 1848-1859 -- Wives, warriors, and masks: kinship, gender, and ethnicity in Otta, 1871-1928 -- Conclusion : Egungun and Gelede at Otta today.
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    An _ethnography of a Vodu shrine in southern Togo : of spirit, slave and sea (2017)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-34108-1 , 978-90-04-34125-8/Online
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 306 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Studies of Religion in Africa volume 46
    Keywords: Westafrika Togo ; Ewe ; Religion, traditionelle ; Gottheit ; Metaphysik ; Altar ; Voodoo ; Geist ; Besessenheit ; Sklaverei ; Fischerei ; Alltag ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte ; Politische Ökonomie
    Description / Table of Contents: Religion in millennial West Africa -- Of spirit, slave, and sea -- Dawn of the gods: history and power in Eweland -- Between the pipeline and the sea: the Gbedala community -- Ethnography of a shrine -- Gorovodu: a family of gods -- The shrine at Gbedala -- Performance in Gorovodu ceremony -- Fetatrotro: feast and festival -- The northern others: slavery and Islam in Gorovodu ceremonial performance -- Shrine ethnography and global Vodu
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    Hidden interests in credit and finance : power, ethics, and social capital across the last millennium (2017)
    Lanham : Lexington Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-4985-4578-5 , 1-4985-4578-5 , 978-1-4985-4579-2 , 978-1-4985-4579-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 313 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Kredit Finanzwesen ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Ethik ; Religion ; Geschichte
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Finance in the Middle Ages and the Scholastic Tradition ; Chapter 2: Credit and Faith in Medieval Iberia: The Road not Taken ; Chapter 3: Early European Finance 1050–1650 ; Chapter 4: Transcending Feudal Finance in Western Europe ; Chapter 5: Mercantile Credit and the Atlantic Slave Trade ; Chapter 6: Chayanov, Marx, and hidden interests in Rural Morocco ; Chapter 7: Ethnicity and Social Capital in 1970s Sefrou ; Chapter 8: Problematizing Modern Consumer Credit ; Chapter 9: An Anthropology of the 2008 Credit Crisis ; Conclusion: Hidden Interests and the Development of Finance
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    Afrika in Bewegung : Translokale Livelihoods und ländliche Entwicklung in Subsahara-Afrika (2017)
    Bielefeld : transcript
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    ISBN: 978-3-8394-3833-6 , 978-3-8376-3833-2
    Language: German
    Pages: 250 Seiten
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Entwicklung ; Migration ; Umsiedlung ; Netzwerkanalyse ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel
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    Offenes Erzählen : Experimente im zeitgenössischen indischen Dokumentarfilm (2017)
    Bielefeld : transcript
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    ISBN: 978-3-8376-3787-8 , 3-8376-3787-5 , 978-3-8394-3787-2 /ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff
    Language: German
    Pages: 204 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Film
    Keywords: Indien Dokumentarfilm ; Film ; Erzählung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel
    Note: Literaturhinweise Seite 189-198 , Dissertation, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
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    Conceiving the goddess : transformation and appropriation in Indic religions (2017)
    Clayton, Victoria : Monash Univ. Publishing
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    ISBN: 978-1-925377-30-9 , 1-925377-30-X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 290 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Süd-Asien Indien ; Gottheit ; Kult ; Religion ; Glaube ; Frau und Religion ; Hinduismus ; Adaption ; Jainismus ; Shivaismus ; Aneignung, kulturelle ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Religionsgeschichte
    Abstract: Conceiving the Goddess is an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia that embodies research on South Asian goddesses in various disciplines. The theme running through all the contributions, with their multiple approaches and points of view, is the concept of appropriation, whereby one religious group adopts a religious belief or practice not formerly its own. What is the motivation behind this? Are such actions attempts to dominate, or to resist the domination of others, or to adapt to changing social circumstances ? or perhaps simply to enrich the religious experience of a group's members? In examining these questions, Conceiving the Goddess considers a range of settings: a Jain goddess lurking in a Brahminical temple, the fraught relationship between the humble Camar caste and the river goddess Ganga, the mutual appropriation of disciple and goddess in the tantric exercises of Kashmiri Saivism, and the alarming self-decapitation of the fierce goddess Chinnamast?
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    From nomadic pastoralism to urban migration : transformation processes in a group of Fulbe Woodabe in Niger : narrative interviews and complementary material (2017)
    Halle (Saale) : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
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    ISSN: 2193-987X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 155 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Field Notes and Research Projects 20
    Keywords: Afrika Westafrika ; Republik Niger ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Fulbe ; Bororo ; Wodabe ; Geschichte ; Ethnographie ; Heirat ; Konfliktmanagement ; Nomade ; Weidewirtschaft ; Migration ; Arbeitsmigration ; Urbanisation ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Organisation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel ; Kanuri ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Witz und Humor ; Medizin ; Feldforschung
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Text 1: The Origin of the Wo?aa?e -- Text 2: Historic and more Recent Migrations -- Text 3: From the History of the Settlement of Tesker to Settlement in Ganatcha -- Text 4: A Childhood and Youth in the Pastoral Realm -- Text 5: Relations with Authorities -- Text 6: Alijam and Degereewol -- Text 7: The Particular Relations between Wo?aa?e Gojanko'en and Yaamanko'en -- Text 8: Interethnic Joking between Kanuri and Ful?e Wo?aa?e -- Text 9: Settlement of a Conflict about Crop Damages -- Text 10: Role and Perception of Pastoralists' Associations -- Text 11: A School Project -- Text 12: Urban Work Migration and Networks with Expatriates -- Text 13: History, Strategies and Conditions of Urban Work Migration -- Text 14: Rural-Urban Mobility, Work Migration and Relations to Western Expatriates -- Text 15: Ambulant Medicine Trade -- Text 16: Changing Marriage Customs and New Frameworks for Settling Conflicts about te'egal Marriage - Appendix: Genealogical chart. Glossary of Fulfulde Terms - Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 147 - 152; Interviews in Ful mit Übersetzung in die englische Sprache
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    Decade of Nigeria : Politics, economy and society 2004-2016 (2017)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-34697-0
    Language: English
    Pages: 315 Seiten
    Series Statement: A _Decade of ... Series
    Keywords: Nigeria Politik ; Demokratisierung ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Terrorismus ; Fundamentalismus, islamischer ; Gewalt ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Geschichte
    Note: "Based on chapters previously published in the Africa Yearbook. Politics, economy and society South of Sahara."
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    Commercialization of hinterland and dynamics of class, caste and gender in rural India (2017)
    Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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    ISBN: 978-1-4438-8647-5 , 1-4438-8647-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 148 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Keywords: Nord-Indien Indien ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Mobilität, soziale ; Landreform ; Kastenwesen ; Urbanisation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Klasse ; Soziale Schichtung ; Geschlechterforschung ; Globalisierung ; Lucknow 〈Stadt, Indien〉
    Abstract: This book explicates, from a sociological perspective, the effect of increasing land transactions on social mobility, based on a detailed study of selected villages in Lucknow, India. It argues that villages in modern India, particulary those close to cities, are no longer simple and integrated communities, but are, rather, more heterogeneous, complex and mobile, as a result of urban expansion and globalization.
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    Raisons et imaginaires de la planification (2017)
    Paris : Éditions Karthala
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    ISBN: 978-2-8111-1891-4
    ISSN: 0244-7827
    Language: French
    Pages: 232 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Afrika Politik ; Wirtschaft
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    The _new countryside and the pocket of the people : narratives of entrepreneurship, local development and social aspirations in Vietnam (2017)
    Halle/Saale : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
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    ISSN: 1615-4568
    Language: English
    Pages: 17 Seiten
    Series Statement: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 181
    Keywords: Vietnam Unternehmenskultur ; Landbevölkerung ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: Three decades after the economic reform that abandoned socialist central planning for a market economy, the Vietnamese state has been accelerating its modernising efforts. In 2009, a so-called New Countryside Programme was initiated to mobilise resources for developing a modern and `civilised` countryside. While it brought together various existing development schemes, the programme`s logics and practices indicate a new direction in rural development ideology. Although the state continues to practice political control and moral guidance, there is a shift away from direct intervention to enabling local people and communities to be responsible for their development. This paper uses narratives constructed from long-term ethnographic fieldwork with a migrant, waste-trading community in northern Vietnam to examine how the scheme works out in practice. They suggest that the state actively capitalises on people`s mobility and entrepreneurial capacity through long-standing tools of socialist mobilisation. Local people are sceptical of the state`s agenda, but find in it a social space in which to locate their social aspirations and the meanings of their actions. There are, however, limits to their strategies and aspirations, and thus to the goals of the New Countryside Programme itself, limits that are rooted in the uncertainties and anxieties of Vietnam`s political economy today.
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    The _mask and the flag : populism, citizensim and global protest (2017)
    London : Hurst & Company
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    ISBN: 978-1-84904-556-8
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 318 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Anarchie Soziale Bewegung ; Politische Bewegung ; Revolte ; Ideologie ; Aktivismus ; Populismus ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Krise ; Globalisierung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Interview
    Abstract: From Tahrir Square in Cairo to the indignados of Madrid and Barcelona, from Occupy Wall Street in New York to Gezi Park in Istanbul, contemporary protest bears the mark of anarcho-populism, a hybrid political culture where the Guy Fawkes mask of anarchism is donned and the national flag of democratic populism is waved. Addressing the citizenry impoverished by the 2008 financial crisis and disaffected with traditional politics, these movements have scaled up participatory practices previously confined to neo-anarchist countercultures. They have adopted a majoritarian discourse epitomised by references to the '99%', used social media as platforms for mass mobilisation and created hundreds of protest camps and assemblies the world over, often gaining widespread popular support.Gerbaudo argues that this populist turn has enabled protestors to break out of the activist ghetto and overcome the fragmentation of single-issue politics. However, fixation with leaderless and 'horizontal' organisation has forced these movements to a permanent state of infancy and made them vulnerable to police repression and internal exhaustion. Despite its evanescence the post-2011 protest wave has spawned a hopeful spirit of popular unity and solidarity, leading to new citizen initiatives and organisations that are reshaping politics across the planet.
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    Homo deus : eine Geschichte von Morgen (2017)
    München : C.H. Beck
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    ISBN: 978-3-406-70401-7 , 3-406-70401-8
    Language: German
    Pages: 576 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Edition: 5. Auflage
    Uniform Title: ha- _Historyah shel ha-mahar
    Keywords: Prognose Menschenbild ; Wissenschaft ; Technologie ; Zivilisation ; Evolution ; Entwicklung ; Sozialer Wandel
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    Curated stories : the uses and misuses of storytelling (2017)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-061804-9 , 978-0-19-061805-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 212 Seiten
    Series Statement: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    Keywords: Wissen Wissenssoziologie ; Erzählung ; Rhetorik ; Sprachwissenschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. These narratives are typically heartbreaking accounts of poverty, mistreatment, and struggle that often move us deeply. But what do they move us to? And what are the stakes in the crafting and use of storytelling?In Curated Stories, Sujatha Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies to argue that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams the globe and returns with stories from the Afghan Women's Writing Project, the domestic workers movement and the undocumented student Dreamer movement in the United States, and the Misi n Cultura project in Venezuela to show how the conditions under which the stories are told, the tropes through which they are narrated, and the ways in which they are responded to may actually disguise the deeper contexts of global inequality. Curated stories shift the focus away from structural problems and defuse the confrontational politics of social movements. Not just a critical examination of contemporary use of narrative and its wider impact on our collective understanding of pressing social issues, Curated Stories also explores how storytelling might be reclaimed to allow for the complexity of experience to be expressed in pursuit of transformative social change.
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    Die _Guaraní im Tiefland Südamerikas : Studien zu einer indigenen Minderheit (2017)
    Berlin : Reimer
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    ISBN: 3-496-01584-5 , 978-3-496-01584-0
    Language: German
    Pages: 382 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: [1. Auflage]
    Keywords: Südamerika Indianer, Südamerika ; Guarani ; Minorität ; Sozialer Wandel ; Grundeigentum ; Recht ; Soziales Leben ; Lied ; Modernisierung ; Ethnographie ; Geschichte
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    Young entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa (2017)
    London : Routledge
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-70493-0 , 978-1-315-73025-7 , 978-1-138-84459-9 , 978-1-315-73025-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XXI, 272 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published in paperback
    Series Statement: Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Afrika ; Unternehmen ; Kleingewerbe ; Jugend ; Arbeit ; Wirtschaft
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: youth entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa; PART I National studies of youth entrepreneurship; Introduction to Part I; 2 Youth entrepreneurship trends and policies in Uganda; 3 Youth entrepreneurship in Ghana: current trends and policies; 4 Measuring and promoting youth entrepreneurship in Zambia; Concluding comments to Part I; PART II Youth entrepreneurship in urban settlements; Introduction to Part II 5 Young entrepreneurs in Lusaka: overcoming constraints through ingenuity and social entrepreneurship6 Youth entrepreneurship in Kampala: managing scarce resources in a challenging environment; 7 Prospects and challenges of youth entrepreneurship in Nima-Maamobi, a low-income neighbourhood of Accra; Concluding comments to Part II; PART III Youth entrepreneurship in rural areas; Introduction to Part III; 8 Mobile rural youth in northern Ghana: combining near and distant opportunity spaces; 9 Rural youth entrepreneurship in eastern Uganda 10 Rural youth in northern Zambia: straddling the rural-urban divideConcluding comments to Part III; PART IV Youth entrepreneurship in specific sectors; Introduction to Part IV; 11 Young entrepreneurs in the mobile telephony sector in Ghana; 12 Youth entrepreneurship in a small-scale gold mining settlement in Ghana; 13 Young female entrepreneurs in Uganda: handicraft production as a livelihood strategy; 14 Employment in the tourism industry: a pathway to entrepreneurship for Ugandan youth; Concluding comments to Part IV; PART V Stimulating youth entrepreneurship; Introduction to Part V 15 Social capital among young entrepreneurs in Zambia16 Innovative approaches by Ugandan microfinance institutions to reach out to young entrepreneurs; 17 Entrepreneurship education in Uganda: impact on graduate intentions to set up a business; Concluding comments to Part V; Index
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    Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America : economic networks and cultural interactions (2017)
    London : Zed Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78699-078-5 , 978-1-78699-083-9/ebook , 978-1-78699-079-2/ PDF ebook
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 327 Seiten , Fotografien, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
    Keywords: Afrika Asien ; Lateinamerika ; Mobilität ; Migration ; Netzwerkanalyse ; Handel ; Wirtschaft ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Wissen ; Beziehungen Afrika-Asien ; Beziehungen Afrika-Amerika
    Abstract: Trade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries. Since the end of the Cold War, these connections have expanded and diversified dramatically, with emerging economies such as China, India, and Brazil becoming increasingly important both as sources of trade and as a destination for African migrants. But while these trends have attracted growing scholarly attention, there has so far been little appreciation of the sheer breadth and variety of this exchange, or of its deeper social impact.
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    Marriage without borders : transnational spouses in neoliberal Senegal (2017)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8122-4934-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 167 Seiten
    Series Statement: Contemporary Ethnography
    DDC: 306.84/5096630905
    RVK:
    MS 1930
    Keywords: Senegal Neoliberalismus ; Migration ; Heirat ; Verwandtschaftssystem ; Mobilität ; Globalisierung, wirtschaftliche ; Sozialer Wandel ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Europa
    Abstract: In popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues, a jabaaru immigré ("a migrant's wife") may be depicted as an opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a naïve dupe. Her migrant husband also faces multiple representations as profligate womanizer, conquering hero, heartless enslaver, and exploited workhorse. These depictions point to fluctuating understandings of gender, status, and power in Senegalese society and reflect an acute uneasiness within this coastal West African nation that has seen an exodus in the past thirty-five years, as more men and women migrate out of Senegal in hope of a better financial future. Marriage Without Borders is a multi-sited study of Senegalese migration and marriage that showcases contemporary changes in kinship practices across the globe engendered by the neoliberal demand for mobility and flexibility. Based on ten years of ethnographic research in both Europe and Senegal, the book examines a particular social outcome of economic globalization: transnational marriages between Senegalese migrant men living in Europe and women at home in Senegal. These marriages have grown exponentially among the Senegalese, as economic and social possibilities within the country have steadily declined. More and more, building successful social lives within Senegal seems to require reaching outside the country, through either migration or marriage to a migrant. New kinds of affective connection, and disconnection, arise as Senegalese men and women reshape existing conceptions of spousal responsibility, filial duty, Islamic piety, and familial care.Dinah Hannaford connects these Senegalese transnational marriages to the broader pattern of flexible kinship arrangements emerging across the global south, arguing that neoliberal globalization and its imperative for mobility extend deep into the family and the heart and stretch relationships across borders
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    Fragile conviction : changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan (2017)
    Ithaca : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5017-0513-7 , 978-1-5017-0514-4
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 213 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first published
    DDC: 200.95843
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    RVK:
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    RVK:
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    Keywords: Kirgisien Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Ideologie ; Religion ; Islam ; Pentecost ; Atheismus ; Heilbehandlung ; Spiritualität ; Schamanismus ; Nationalismus ; Neoliberalismus ; Sowjet-Union, ehemalige ; Postkommunismus ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: How do specific secular and religious ideologies - such as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanism-gain popularity and when do they lose traction? To answer these questions, Mathijs Pelkmans critically examines the trajectories of a range of ideologies as they move into the post-Soviet frontier in Central Asia. Ethnographically rooted in the everyday life of a former mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan, Fragile Conviction shows how residents have dealt with the existential and epistemic crises that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Residents became enchanted by the truths of Muslim and Christian missionaries, embraced the teachings of neoliberal and nationalist ideologues, and were riveted by the visions of shamanic healers. But no matter how much enthusiasm and hope these ideas first engendered, the commitment to any of them rarely lasted very long.Pelkmans finds that there is an inverse relationship between the tenacity and the effervescence of collective ideas, between their strength to persist and their ability to trigger committed action. Introducing the concept of pulsation, he argues in Fragile Conviction that ideational power must be understood in relation to three aspects: the voicing of the idea, its tension with everyday reality, and its reverberation within groups of listeners. The conclusion that the power of conviction is rooted in the instability of sociocultural contexts is a message that has relevance far beyond urban Central Asia.
    Description / Table of Contents: Condition of uncertainty : life in an industrial wasteland -- What happened to Soviet atheism? -- Walking the truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat -- Pentecostal miracle truth on the frontier -- The tenacity of spiritual healing and seeing -- Conclusion : pulsation : dynamics of conviction
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    Seeking out wise old men : Six decades of Ethiopian Studies at the Frobenius Institute revisited (2017)
    Berlin : Reimer
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    ISBN: 3-496-01588-8 , 978-3-496-01588-8
    Language: English
    Pages: 319 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Studien zur Kulturkunde 131
    Keywords: Äthiopien Süd-Äthiopien ; Forschung (Projekte) ; Forschungsreise ; Kultur ; Vielfalt ; Mission ; Mission, christliche ; Geschichte ; Kulturgeschichte ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ethnographie ; Konso ; Wolayta ; Sidama ; Kritik ; Frobenius-Institut 〈Frankfurt am Main〉
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    Mary Douglas : understanding social thought and conflict (2017)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-561-7 , 978-1-78533-422-1 , 978-1-78533-423-8
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 241 Seiten , 1 Diagramm
    DDC: 301.092
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    Keywords: Konfliktmanagement Konflikt, sozialer ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Denken ; Sozialphilosophie ; Durkheim, Émile [Leben und Werk] ; Douglas, Mary [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: Mary Douglas's innovative explanations for styles of human thought and for the dynamics of institutional change have furnished a distinctive and powerful theory of how conflicts are managed, yet her work remains astonishingly poorly appreciated in social science disciplines. This volume introduces Douglas's theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the future of the social sciences. Mary Douglas: Explaining Human Thought and Conflict shows how Douglas laid out the agenda for revitalizing social science by reworking Durkheim's legacy for today, and reviews the growing body of research across the social sciences which has used, tested or developed her approach.
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    Germans on the Kenyan coast : land, charity, and romance (2017)
    Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-253-02424-4 , 978-0-253-02430-5
    Language: English
    Pages: 268 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 967.6200431
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Kenia Gesellschaft ; Deutschland ; Europa ; Wirtschaft ; Migration ; Tourismus ; Eigentum ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen Afrika-Europa ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Diani 〈Stadt, Kenia〉
    Abstract: Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships between Kenyans and European immigrants and tourists. Nina Berman looks carefully at the repercussions that these economic and social interactions have brought to life on the Kenyan coast. She explores what happens when poorer and less powerful members of a community are forced to give way to profit-based real estate development, what it means when most of Diani's schools and water resources are supplied by funds from immigrants, and what the impact of mixed marriages is on notions of kinship and belonging as well as the economy. This unique story about a small Kenyan town also recounts a wider tale of opportunity, oppression, resilience, exploitation, domination, and accommodation in a world of economic, political, and social change.
    Description / Table of Contents: Multitudinal coastal entanglements : Pwani si Kenya--pwani ni Kenya--pwani ni Ujerumani (na Italia na kadhalika) -- Land -- Charity -- Romance -- Epilogue : Je, vitaturudia? Will they return to us?
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    Economies of favour after socialism (2017)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0-19-968741-2 , 978-0-19-968741-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 239 Seiten
    Edition: First edition
    DDC: 330
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Ost-Europa Sowjet-Union, ehemalige ; Mongolei ; China ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Tausch ; Handel ; Finanzwesen ; Sozialismus ; Postkommunismus ; Neoliberalismus ; Ethik ; Politische Ökonomie ; Soziologie ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Korruption ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Tagungsbericht ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Fallstudie ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Fallstudie ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Fallstudie ; Konferenzschrift 2012
    Abstract: Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led to their re-engagement with fundamental anthropological categories of economic analysis, such as barter, debt, and the gift. Focusing on favours, and the paradoxes of action, meaning, and significance they engender, this volume advocates for their addition to this list of economic universals. It presents a critical re-interrogation of the conceptual relationships between gratuitous and instrumental behaviour, and raises novel questions about the intersection of economic actions with the ethical and expressive aspects of human life. Scholars of post-socialist politics and society have often used 'favour' as a by-word for corruption and clientelism. The contributors to this volume treat favours, and the doing of favours, as a distinct mode of acting, rather than as a form of 'masked' economic exchange or simply an expression of goodwill. Casting their comparative net from post-socialist Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe; to the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, and post-Maoist China, the contributors to this volume show how gratuitous behaviour shapes a plethora of different actions, practices, and judgements across religious and political life, imaginative practices, and local moral economies. They show that favours do not operate 'outside' or 'beyond' the economic sphere. Rather, they constitute a distinct mode of action which has economic consequences, without being fully explicable in terms of transactional cost-benefit analyses.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction, re-imagining economies (after socialism): ethics, favours and moral sentiments / Nicolette Makovicky and David Henig -- 2 The ambivalence of favour: paradoxes of Russia's economy of favours / Alena Ledeneva -- 3 A new look at favours: the case of post-socialist higher education / Caroline Humphrey -- 4 Giving, taking and getting by: help and indifference in Moscow's temorary housing market / Madeleine Reeves -- 5 The anti-favour: ideasthesia, aesthtics and obligation in Southwest China / Katherine Swancutt -- 6 The human economy of Pa´linka in Hungary: a case study in Longue Dure´e lubrication / Chris Hann -- 7 Making history, making politics: socialist and post-socialist elite economies of favour in Bulgaria and Ukraine / Deema Kaneff -- 8 Interior spectacles: the art of the informal among the bootleg miners in Walbrzych, Poland / Tomasz Rakowski -- 9 A good deal is not a crime: moral cosmologies of favours in Muslim Bosnia / David Henig -- 10 The 'shadows' of informality in rural Poland / Nicolette Makovicky -- 11 Afterword: the social warmth of paradox / Martin Holbraad.
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    Small countries : structures and sensibilities (2017)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8122-4893-7
    Language: English
    Pages: 346 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    RVK:
    LB 52000
    Keywords: Staat Identität ; Kulturvergleich ; Sozialer Wandel ; Entwicklungsländer ; Globalisierung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: What is a small country? Is a country small because of the size of its territory or its population? Can smallness be relative, based on the subjective perception of a country's inhabitants or in comparison with one's neighbors? How does smallness, however it is defined, shape a country and its relations with other countries? Answers to these questions, among others, can be found in Small Countries, the first and only anthropological study of smallness as a defining variable. In terms of population size, some two thirds of the countries of the world can now be considered small countries, and they can be found in all world regions except North America and East Asia. They exhibit great diversity with regard to culture, history, and institutional arrangements, so there can be no model of any "typical" small country. Yet the essays collected by Ulf Hannerz and Andre Gingrich identify a range of family resemblances in such areas as internal connectivity and sensibilities of identity. Contributors describe a number of similar problems with which small countries must cope, on domestic levels as well as in their transnational and global encounters. For some small countries, challenges such as media organization and branding have a negative impact on real or perceived vulnerability, while for others, the same challenges facilitate success stories. Comparative case studies cover a diverse set of regions, including the Caribbean, Middle East, Africa, and Europe, and employ diverse anthropological approaches. Tacit assumptions about scale, identities, and networks in everyday social life are best revealed through close, interpretive effort. At times a sense of shared belonging comes to the fore with particular events, such as a national crisis or an unexpected success in international sports, offering scope for situational analyses. In showing how small countries confront globalization, Small Countries reveals how the sense of scale intensifies when the world as a whole shrinks.
    Description / Table of Contents: "100 percent pure New Zealand" : national branding and the paradoxes of scale / Cris Shore -- After 22 July 2011 : Norwegians together / Thomas Hylland Ericksen -- The Scandinavian cluster : small countries with big egos / Orvar Lo¨fgren -- Red dot on the map : Singapore, size and the problems of success / Goh Beng Lan -- "Li likkle but wi tallawah" : soft power and smallness in Jamaica / Don Robotham -- On chutzpah countries and "shitty little countries" / Virginia R. Dominguez -- Portugal and the dynamics of smallness / Joa~o de Pina-Cabral -- Two countries in the Alps : Austrian and Swiss presentations of self for internal and global consumption / Regina F. Bendix -- Serbia and the surplus of history : being small, large, and small again / Aleksandar Boskovic -- Blood and other precious resources : vulnerability and social cohesion on the Maldives / Eva-Maria Knoll -- Belize : a country but not a nation / Richard Wilk -- A war and after : Sierra Leone reconnects, within itself and with the world / Jacqueline Kno¨rr -- An emirate goes global : the cultural making of Abu Dubai / Sulayman Khalaf -- Smiles and smallness : jokes in Yemen and in Palestine / Andre Gingrich, with Zulfokar Al-Dubai and Noura Kamal -- Greater than its size : Ireland in literature and life / Helena Wulff -- Swedish encounters : end notes of a native son / Ulf Hannerz.
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    South Africa after Apartheid : policies and challenges of the democratic transition (2016)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-32559-3 , 978-90-04-32673-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 265 Seiten
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 17
    DDC: 968.07
    RVK:
    LB 49585
    RVK:
    MI 65030
    Keywords: Südafrika Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Landnahme ; Landreform ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Apartheid ; Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
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