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    Being young, male and Muslim in Luton (2019)
    London : UCL Press, University College London
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    ISBN: 978-1-78735-134-9 (PDF) , 978-1-78735-137-0 (epub) , 978-1-78735-138-7 (mobi) , 978-1-78735-139-4 (html) , 978-1-78735-136-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-1-78735-135-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 118 Seiten)
    Edition: First published
    Edition: Being-Young-Male-and-Muslim-in-Luton.pdf
    Series Statement: Spotlights
    Keywords: England Islam ; Muslime ; Mann ; Städtisches Gebiet ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Soziologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: What is it like to be a young Muslim man in post-7/7 Britain, and what impact do wider political factors have on the multifaceted identities of young Muslim men? Drawn from the author`s ethnographic research of British-born Muslim men in the English town of Luton, Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton explores the everyday lives of the young men and, in particular, how their identity as Muslims has shaped the way they interact with each other, the local community and the wider world.Through a study of religious values, the pressures of masculinity, the complexities of family and social life, and attitudes towards work and leisure, Ashraf Hoque argues that young Muslims in Luton are subverting what it means to be `British` through consciously prioritising and re-articulating self-confessed `Muslim identities` in novel and dynamic ways that suit their experiences as a post-colonial diaspora. Employing extensive participant observation and rich interview content, Hoque paints a detailed picture of young Muslims living in a town consistently associated in the popular media with terrorist activity and as a hotbed for radicalisation. He challenges widely held assumptions about cultural segregation, gender relations and personal liberty in Muslim communities, and gives voice to an emerging generation of Muslims who view Britain as their home and are very much invested in the long-term future of the country and their permanent place within it.This short and accessible book will be of interest to students seeking grounding in Islam and Muslim communities in diaspora, and scholars from an array of social science and humanities backgrounds including Anthropology, Sociology of Religion, Political Science, Urban Studies and Cultural Studies. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Discussion -- 1. Luton -- 2. Family -- 3. Friends -- 4. Religion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 104-113 , [Doctoral thesis, SOAS London, 2011, entitled Hoque, Ashraf-ul: Generation terrorised : Muslim youth, being British and not so British]
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    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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    Undocumented migration : borders, immigration enforcement, and belonging (2019)
    Cambridge : polity
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    ISBN: 978-1-5095-3180-6/(pbk.) , 978-1-5095-0694-1/(hbk.) , 978-1-5095-0698-9/(e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 203 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Immigration and Society
    Keywords: Migration Migration, illegale ; Flucht ; Umsiedlung ; Grenze ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Soziale Bedingungen ; USA ; Europa ; Mobilität, soziale
    Abstract: Undocumented migration is a global and yet elusive phenomenon. Despite contemporary efforts to patrol national borders and mass deportation programs, it remains firmly placed at the top of the political agenda in many countries where it receives hostile media coverage and generates fierce debate. However, as this much-needed book makes clear, unauthorized movement should not be confused or crudely assimilated with the social reality of growing numbers of large, settled populations lacking full citizenship and experiencing precarious lives.From the journeys migrants take to the lives they seek on arrival and beyond, Undocumented Migration provides a comparative view of how this phenomenon plays out, looking in particular at the United States and Europe. Drawing on their extensive expertise, the authors breathe life into the various issues and debates surrounding migration, including the experiences and voices of migrants themselves, to offer a critical analysis of a hidden and too often misrepresented population.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 168-194
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    General labour history of Africa : workers, employers and governments, 20th-21st centuries (2019)
    Suffolk : James Currey
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    ISBN: 978-1-84701-210-4 , 978-1-84701-218-0 , 978-92-2-133111-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 761 S. , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Afrika Arbeit ; Geschichte ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Arbeit, informelle ; Lohnarbeit ; Zwangsarbeit ; Arbeitsverhältnis ; Arbeitsmigration ; Industrie ; Landwirtschaft ; Bergbau ; Unternehmen ; International Labour Organisation
    Abstract: Co-published with the International Labour Organization on the centenary of its founding in 1919, the General Labour History of Africa is a landmark in the study of labour history. It brings, for the first time, an African perspective within a global context to the study of labour and labour relations. The volume analyses key developments in the 20th century, such as the emergence of free wage labour; the transformation in labour relations; the role of capital and employers; labour agency and movements; the growing diversity of formal and informal or precarious labour; the meaning of work; and the impact of gender and age on the workplace. The contributors - eminent historians, anthropologists and social scientists from Africa, Europe and the United States - examine African labour in the context of labour and social issues worldwide: mobility and colonial and postcolonial migration, child and forced labour, security, the growth of entrepreneurial labour, the informal sector and self-employment, and the impact of trade unionism, welfare and state relations. The book discusses key sectors such as mining, agriculture, industry, transport, domestic work, and sport, tourism and entertainment, as well as the international dimension and the history and impact of the International Labour Organization itself. This authoritative and comprehensive work will be an invaluable resource for historians of labour, social relations and African history. In association with the ILO Regional Office for Africa Stefano Bellucci is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and lecturer in African History and Economy at Leiden University, the Netherlands; Andreas Eckert is Director of the International Research Centre for Work and the Human Life Cycle in Global History and professor of African history at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction - Andreas Eckert Foreword: Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, ILO Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Africa Introduction: The 'Labour Question' in Africanist Historiography - Stefano Bellucci and Andreas Eckert Part I: Free and Unfree Labour Wage labour - Andreas Eckert Precarious and Informal Labour - Franco Barchiesi Forced Labour - Babacar Fall and Richard L. Roberts Part II: Key Sectors Agriculture - Julia Tischler Mining - Carolyn A. Brown Industry and Manufacturing - Patrick Neveling Transport - Stefano Bellucci Part III: International Dimensions and Mobility The International Labour Organization - Luca Puddu and Daniel Roger Maul and Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani Labour Migration - Helena Perez-Nino Part IV Varieties of Work Domestic Work - Deborah Fahy Bryceson Military and Pollice - Michelle R. Moyd and Joel Glasman Crime and Illegal Work - Laurent Fourchard White-Collar Workers - Dmitri van den Bersselaar Sport, Tourism and Entertainment - Andreas Admasie Part V: Entrepreneurs and Self-Employment Capitalists and Labour in Africa - Gareth Austin Entrepreneurial Labour - Sara S. Berry Professionals and Executives - Rory Pilossof Part VI: The State, Unions and Welfare Labour and the State - Akua O. Britwum and Leyla Dakhli Trade Unions - Bill Freund Social Welfare - Ben Scully and Rana Jawad Mutualism and Cooperative Work - Samuel A. Nyanchoga Part VII: Conclusions The Labour Question in Africa and the World - Frederick Cooper Select Bibliography
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    Divided peoples : policy, activism, and indigenous identities on the U.S.-Mexico border (2019)
    Tucson : University of Arizona Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8165-3700-6 , 978-0-8165-4055-6 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 223 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
    Keywords: Mexiko USA ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Indianer, Mexiko ; Yaqui ; Cocopa ; Apache ; Tiwa ; Kickapoo ; Grenze ; Migration ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Umweltbelastung ; Soziales Leben ; Recht ; Politik ; Soziale Schichtung
    Abstract: The border region of the Sonoran Desert, which spans southern Arizona in the United States and northern Sonora, Mexico, has attracted national and international attention. But what is less discussed in national discourses is the impact of current border policies on the Native peoples of the region. There are twenty-six tribal nations recognized by the U.S. federal government in the southern border region and approximately eight groups of Indigenous peoples in the United States with historical ties to Mexico - the Yaqui, the O'odham, the Cocopah, the Kumeyaay, the Pai, the Apaches, the Tiwa (Tigua), and the Kickapoo.Divided Peoples addresses the impact border policies have on traditional lands and the peoples who live there&;whether environmental degradation, border patrol harassment, or the disruption of traditional ceremonies. Anthropologist Christina Leza shows how such policies affect the traditional cultural survival of Indigenous peoples along the border. The author examines local interpretations and uses of international rights tools by Native activists, counterdiscourse on the U.S.-Mexico border, and challenges faced by Indigenous border activists when communicating their issues to a broader public.Through ethnographic research with grassroots Indigenous activists in the region, the author reveals several layers of division - the division of Indigenous peoples by the physical U.S.-Mexico border, the divisions that exist between Indigenous perspectives and mainstream U.S. perspectives regarding the border, and the traditionalist/nontraditionalist split among Indigenous nations within the United States. Divided Peoples asks us to consider the possibilities for challenging settler colonialism both in sociopolitical movements and in scholarship about Indigenous peoples and lands.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. The Binational Yoeme (Yaqui) Nation -- 2. The "Desert People" On Militarized Desert Lands -- 3. An Indigenous Alliance on the Border -- 4. Domestic and International Border Crossing Policy -- 5. Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border -- 6. The Border in Indigenous Activist Counter-Discourse -- Conclusion: Maintaining, Creating and Re-Creating Ties -- Appendix A: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Appendix B: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- Appendix C: International Labor Organization (ILO) Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention
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    African women in the Atlantic world : property, vulnerability & mobility, 1660-1880 (2019)
    London : James Currey
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    ISBN: 978-1-84701-213-5 , 978-1-84701-215-9 , 978-1-7874-4430-0 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 290 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Western Africa Series
    Keywords: Atlantischer Raum Brasilien ; Westafrika ; Angola ; Senegal ; Sierra Leone ; Ghana ; Afrikaner ; Sozialgeschichte ; Sklavenhandel, atlantischer ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte ; Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Heirat ; Grundeigentum ; Eigentum ; Malinke ; Akan ; Welthandel ; Migration ; Booker, Hope [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together scholars from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show, for the first time, the ways in which African women participated in economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies. Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions; consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to impose on women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility, both spatially and socially; and women's economic power and its curtailment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements - List of illustrations - Contributors -- Introduction - Mariana P. Candido and Adam Jones - Part One: Property -- 1. Adaptation in the Aftermath of Slavery: Women, Trade and Property in Sierra Leone, c. 1790-1812 - Suzanne Schwarz -- 2. Women, Land and Power in the Lower Gambia River Region - Assan Sarr - 3. Women and Food Production: Agriculture, Demography and Access to Land in Late Eighteenth-century Catumbela - Esteban A. Salas - 4. Women's Material World In Nineteenth-Century Benguela - Mariana P. Candido - Part Two: Vulnerability - 5. Prostitution, Polyandry or Rape? On the Ambiguity of European Sources for the West African Coast, 1660-1860 - Adam Jones - 6. Parrying Palavers: Coastal Akan Women and the Search for Security in the Eighteenth Century - Natalie Everts - 7. To be Female and Free: Mapping Mobility and Emancipation in Lagos, Badagry and Abeokuta 1853-1865 - Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi - 8. Gendered Authority, Gendered Violence: Household and Identity in the Life and Death of a Brazilian Freed Woman in Lagos - Kristin Mann - Part Three: Mobility - 9. From Child Slave to Madam Esperance: One Woman's Career in the Anglo-African World c. 1675-1707 - Colleen E Kriger - 10. Writing the History of the Trans-African Woman in the Revolutionary French Atlantic - Lorelle Semley - 11. Spouses and Commercial Partners: Immigrant Men and Locally Born Women in Luanda 1831-1859 - Vanessa S. Oliveira - 12. Women, Family and Daily Life in Senegal's Nineteenth-century Atlantic Towns - Hilary Jones - Bibliography - Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 248 - 278 , Enthält eine Einführung und 12 Beiträge
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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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    What are exhibitions for? : an anthropological approach (2019)
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
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    ISBN: 978-1-350-06535-2
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 231 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: reprinted
    Keywords: Ausstellung Sammler und Sammlung ; Museum ; Museumskunde ; Kommunikation ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Kunst ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: Why do people go to exhibitions, and what do they hope to gain from the experience? What would happen if people were encouraged to move freely through exhibition spaces, take photographs and be playful? In this book, Inge Daniels explores what might happen if people and objects were freed from the regulations currently associated with going to an exhibition. Traditional understandings of exhibitions place the viewers in a one-way communication form, where the exhibition and those behind its creation inform their audiences. However, motivations behind exhibition-going are multiple and complex and frequently the intentions of curators do not match the expectations of their visitors. Based on an in-depth ethnographic examination of the processes involved in the making and reception of one particular exhibition-experiment as well as a study that follows 'freed' objects into their new homes, this publication will not only shed light on what exhibitions are, but also what they could become in the future. Featuring over 175 colour illustrations and using practical examples, this is an important contribution for students and scholars of anthropology, museum studies, photography, design and architecture
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: What Are Exhibitions For? SPREAD 1: The AHJ booklet: A practical tool to study exhibition visitors. Chapter 1. Representational and Performative Knowledge SPREAD 2: Mike - 'There is a connecting memory in my feet' Chapter 2. Photography, Exhibition Design and Atmosphere SPREAD 3: Sue - 'Photography students have been very surprised to learn that what appears to be an actual window is in fact an illusion' Chapter 3. Similarities and Stereotypes SPREAD 4: Jen - 'I was very interested in anime and manga' Chapter 4. To Learn or Not to Learn SPREAD 5: Natasha - 'And I have been putting them in the dishwasher' SPREAD 6: Natalia - 'It's in our shower because it's very useful; Molly - 'It is something I found and can't give away' Chapter 5. Photography, Performance and Play SPREAD 7: Ali - 'I never found England a very interesting place' Conclusion: Exhibitions as Technologies of the Imagination? Notes References
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 215-223
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    Inviting happiness : Food sharing in post-communist Mongolia ; text revised and expanded (2019)
    Boston : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-40965-1 (hbk) , 978-90-04-41063-3 (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVI, 288 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Inner Asia Book Series 11
    Keywords: Mongolei Essen ; Eßgewohnheit ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: "For Mongols, sharing food is more than just eating meals. Through a process of "opening" and "closing", on a daily basis or at events, in the family circle or with visitors, sharing food guarantees the proper order of social relations. It also ensures the course of the seasons and the cycle of human life. Through food sharing, humans thus invite happiness to their families and herds. Sandrine Ruhlmann has lived long months, since 2000, in the Mongolian steppe and in the city. She describes and analyzes in detail the contemporary food system and recognizes intertwined ideas and values inherited from shamanism, Buddhism and communist ideology. Through meat-on-the-bone, creamy milk skin, dumplings or sole-shaped cakes, she highlights a whole way of thinking and living"
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Transcription of Mongolian Terms -- Prologue -- 1 Techniques and Material Culture: Details and Design -- 2 Food Practices -- 3 The Structuring Role of Food Sharing -- 4 Food and Political or Religious Authorities -- Part 1 Ordinary Food Practices: Restric ted Sharing -- Chapter 1 The Space -- 1 The Steppe -- 2 The Encampment -- 3 The Yurt -- 4 The Stove -- 5 Kitchen Utensils -- Chapter 2 The Fundamental Pattern of the Meal -- 1 A Three-Meal-a-Day System -- 2 (Meat-Based) Soup, the Elementary Dish -- 3 Meat, the "Nourishing" Food -- Chapter 3 From Animal to Meat Product -- 1 Animal Herding -- 2 Slaughtering -- 3 Skinning -- 4 Butchering: Processing the Meat and Bones -- 5 Preserving and Storing -- 6 Processing the Blood and the Viscera -- Chapter 4 Basic Culinary Techniques -- 1 Cutting Techniques -- 2 The Share -- 3 The Pieces -- Chapter 5 Cooking Modes -- 1 An Aversion to Raw Food -- 2 The Essential Boiled Mode of Cooking -- 3 The Other Modes of Cooking or Processing -- Chapter 6 Distribution and Consumption of Meals -- 1 Offering of the First Part -- 2 Presentation, Service and Etiquette -- 3 Consuming Shares and Pieces -- 4 Sorting and Processing the Leftovers and Waste -- Chapter 7 Food Sharing and Hospitality -- 1 Closed/Open Restricted Sharing -- 2 The Visitor and the Host: the Rule of Hospitality -- 3 The Sequences of Different Visits -- 4 The Different Kinds of Visits -- 5 Hospitality Dishes, Festive Features -- 6 The Alcohols of Hospitality: between Danger and Feast -- 7 From Suspicion to Identification of the Visitor -- 8 Restricted Sharing and the "Stock of Visitors" -- 9 Sharing Happiness -- Part 2 Extra-Ordinary Food Practices: Extended Sharing -- Chapter 8 Extended Food Sharing -- 1 Extending Sharing Thanks to the "Stock of Visitors" -- 2 Specializing the Dishes.
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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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    Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa (2019)
    New York : Basic Books
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    Language: English
    Pages: 537 Seiten , Karten, Illustrationen
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Zentralafrika ; Kongo-Becken ; Entdeckung ; Entdeckungsgeschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Umweltbelastung ; Ökologie ; Widerstandsbewegung ; Regenwald ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Globalisierung
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 473-522
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    Medicine women : the story of the first Native American nursing school (2019)
    Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8263-6067-0 , 082636067X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 396 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Keywords: USA Arizona ; Navaho ; Heilbehandlung ; Frau ; Ausbildung ; Mission, christliche ; Medizin, westliche ; Medizin, traditionelle
    Abstract: After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado Mission in the Navajo country of northern Arizona, a group of missionaries and doctors--who cared less about saving souls and more about saving lives--chose a different way and persuaded the local parents and medicine men to allow them to educate their daughters as nurses. The young women struggled to step into the worlds of modern medicine, but they knew they might become nurses who build a bridge between the old ways and the new. Many doctors said "red women" could not wear the white uniform of a nurse. The Wild West doctors decided to settle the question at Ganado Mission, with the medicine women.In this detailed history Jim Kristofic traces the story of Ganado Mission on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Ghosts in the Graveyard -- Prologue: The Last Night -- Chapter 1. Peace Time on Bad Soil -- Chapter 2. The Red House Man -- Chapter 3. Greenhorn Clergymen -- Chapter 4. Like Real Men -- Chapter 5. Mechanical Tendencies of Mind -- Chapter 6. The House with the Pointed Top -- Chapter 7. The Walking Doctor -- Chapter 8. Into a Large Place -- Chapter 9. Water from the Rock -- Chapter 10. These Dark-Minded Indians -- Chapter 11. A Miracle in Five Million Pounds of Gray Stone -- Chapter 12. Practicing Medicine in the Desert -- Chapter 13. Red Women in White -- Chapter 14. The Flying Lady -- Chapter 15. The Indian Child Is Not Capable -- Chapter 16. East Slipping Away -- Chapter 17. No Longer Feel Suspicion -- Chapter 18. Both Feet Out of the Grave -- Chapter 19. We Can Begin Yesterday Afternoon -- Chapter 20. A Nest of Stars -- Chapter 21. An Oasis in the Desert -- Chapter 22. Teenagers First, Navajos Second, Indians Incidentally -- Chapter 23. Adventurous, Challenging, and Enchanting -- Chapter 24. English Only -- Chapter 25. The Waste Places -- Chapter 26. Work With Them Day to Day -- Chapter 27. When She Leaves It the Task Is Done -- Chapter 28. A Slave Camp -- Chapter 29. A Flower of Our Civilization -- Chapter 30. Out Into the Country -- Chapter 31. This Situation Has Run the Length of Its Course -- Chapter 32. The Ganado Mission High School -- Chapter 33. The Had No Other Choice -- Chapter 34. We Have Reached a Critical Point -- Chapter 35. A Colorful Eroded Desert Place -- Epilogue: Chusk'eh Daa'-At the Bank's Edge -- Appendix: School of Nursing Graduates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 381-384
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    Mobile Africa : Human trafficking and the digital divide (2019)
    Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
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    ISBN: 978-9956-551-13-2 , 9956-551-13-9 , 978-9956-551-61-3 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 739 Seiten
    Series Statement: Connected and Mobile 3
    Keywords: Afrika Information ; Technologie, moderne ; Kommunikationstechnologie ; Massenmedien ; Digitale Medien ; Ungleichheit ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Migration
    Abstract: What happens at the nexus of the digital divide and human trafficking? This book examines the impact of the introduction of new digital information and communication technology (ICT) - as well as lack of access to digital connectivity - on human trafficking. The different studies presented in the chapters show the realities for people moving along the Central Mediterranean route from the Horn of Africa through Libya to Europe. The authors warn against an over-optimistic view of innovation as a solution and highlight the relationship between technology and the crimes committed against vulnerable people in search of protection. In this volume, the third in a four-part series 'Connected and Mobile: Migration and Human Trafficking in Africa', relevant new theories are proposed as tools to understand the dynamics that appear in mobile Africa. Most importantly, the editors identify critical ethical issues in relation to both technology and human trafficking and the nexus between them, helping explore the dimensions of new responsibilities that need to be defined. The chapters in this book represent a collection of well-documented empirical investigations by a young and diverse group of researchers, addressing critical issues in relation to innovation and the perils of our time.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface by Chief Fortune Charumbira -- Acknowledgement -- A Word on the Review Procedure -- Acronyms -- Preamble -- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 1 - Black Holes in the Global Digital Landscape: The Fuelling of Human Trafficking on the African Continent -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The knowledge society -- Architecture of the information network -- The geographic misrepresentation of Africa and its effect on latency -- Black holes in the global digital landscape -- Stuck with this legacy -- Digitalisation of human trafficking for ransom -- Some empirical evidence -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 - Network Gatekeepers in Human Trafficking: Profiting from the Misery of Eritreans in the Digital Era -- Introduction -- Network gatekeepers -- The uneven digitally-connected world -- Methodology -- The relationship between the gated and the gatekeepers -- Alternative information sources -- Ability to produce and distribute information -- Relationship between the gated and the gatekeepers -- Political power -- The dependence of Eritrean refugees on human traffickers -- Alternatives to migration to Europe -- Alternative migration routes or options -- Autonomy to choose human smugglers and traffickers -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 - Bound Together in the Digital Era: Poverty, Migration and Human Trafficking -- Introduction -- The relationship between human trafficking and mixed migration -- Poverty, the main driver of mixed migration -- The cycle of poverty and human trafficking -- Deliberate poverty -- Trafficking in a digital age -- Slavery and trafficking for ransom: A profitable industry -- An African perspective on combatting human trafficking through the eradication of poverty -- Conclusion -- References.
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    Savu : history and oral tradition on an island of Indonesia (2019)
    Singapore : NUS Press
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    ISBN: 978-981-4722-75-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, [7 ungezählte], 720 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: reprint
    Keywords: Indonesien Ost-Indonesien ; Orale Geschichte ; Orale Tradition ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziales Leben ; Entwicklung ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Sawuinseln 〈Inselgruppe, Indonesien〉
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    Majoritarian state : how Hindu nationalism is changing India (2019)
    London : Hurst & Company
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    ISBN: 978-93-5302-845-9 , 978-93-5302-846-6 (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 537 Seiten
    Edition: First published in the United Kingdom
    Keywords: Indien Nationalismus ; Politik ; Politische Partei ; Staat ; Religion und Politik ; Kommunalismus ; Demokratie ; Hinduismus ; Hindu ; Hegemonie ; Unberührbarer ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Jammu und Kaschmir ; Außenpolitik ; Diskriminierung ; Minorität ; Frau ; Gewalt ; Muslime ; Geschlechterrolle ; Terrorismus ; Anthropologie, politische ; Modi, Narendra [Leben und Werk] ; Bharatiya Janata Party ; Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh
    Abstract: Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its agenda is also pursued beyond the formal branches of government, as the new dispensation portrays conventional social hierarchies as intrinsic to Indian culture while condoning communal and caste- and gender-based violence. The contributors explore how Hindutva ideology has permeated the state apparatus and formal institutions, and how Hindutva activists exert control over civil society via vigilante groups, cultural policing and violence.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements - List of acronyms - Introduction -- Part I. Majoritarianism as democracy - Part II. Debates on hegemony -- Part III. The Sangh Parivar : a new deep state? -- Part IV. Economic policies and "Modinomics" -- Part V. The othered 40 per cent: the Hindu nation and its margins -- Part VI. Diplomacy and global aspiration -- Part VII. What rule of law? - Part VIII. Gender and nation -- Notes -- Biographical briefs for editors and authors -- Index
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    Warrior women : contested understandings of violence and gender in Highland Mexico (2019)
    Edinburgh : University of Edinburgh
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 293 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Mexiko Hochland ; Frau ; Frau und Politik ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Kulturkonflikt ; Soziale Organisation ; Indigenität ; Feminismus ; Frauenrecht ; Gewalt ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in Milpa Alta, a rural, southern municipality of Mexico City, this thesis focuses on local understandings and contestations surrounding "violence against Indigenous women", while questioning the meaning of "violence", "Indigeneity", and "femininity," and the relationship between these concepts. I argue for rethinking violence, as present interventions in Milpa Alta may contribute more to perpetuating than alleviating it. Newly circulating discourses of human rights and women`s rights, and high numbers of femicide and sexual trafficking victims in the region, have made Milpaltenses aware of the issue of violence against women. Paradoxically, many acknowledged it to be widespread, while insisting that women and men are equally powerful: Local ideologies of work and love emphasise complementarity and interdependency in marriage. In practice, interdependent work and love contain within themselves potential for violence. Instead of directly discussing "violence", Milpaltenses often spoke of "order" and "chaos": They interpreted certain acts as maintaining or changing embodied states and the social order. Violence was also often likened to love, as one may find expression in the other, and both engender transformation. Instead of viewing women as "victims", a pejorative epithet, they were frequently lionized as "strong women", "hard workers", "strugglers", and "warriors", protecting their families and communities from all kinds of harm. Historically, women have fought alongside their men in the communal struggle to defend the local forest against the interests of mining companies and paper factories. In sum, my analysis of local discourse, life history interviews, historical and mythic narratives, religious practice, and gendered work shows that violence against Milpaltense women can neither be understood in terms of "culturally legitimate violence", nor in terms of patriarchal oppression alone. Thus, anti-violence strategies promoting an individualist notion of women`s rights are not only inefficient, but also risk socially isolating the women accepting this approach. I conclude that intervening to save women from "cultural violence" and imposing a particular understanding of violence, is ineffective. Development initiatives would be more likely to meet women`s needs if they built on local understandings, which link love and violence, rather than oppose these. (Abstract)
    Description / Table of Contents: Declaration -- Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- Lay Summary -- Table of Figures -- Introduction. Leona`s paradox. Anthropological perspectives. Methodology, ethics, and positionalit. Thesis overview -- 1. Milpa Alta. A brief overview. Mountain people. Contested identities. Conclusions -- 2. Awkward Relationships. Beyond the global and the local. Inmujeres. The cunning of collaboration. Conclusions -- 3. Contested Cosmologies. (Dis)ordering violence. Creative violence and femininity. Rethinking violence. Conclusions -- 4. Warrior Wome. Weaving the warrior. Guerreras. Gendering power. Conclusions -- 5. Dangerous Love. Magdalena`s story. Two kinds of love. Sacrificing (for) love. Conclusions -- 6. Feasts of Loving Violence. La mayordomía de Chalma. La Matanza de las Reses. The (a)symmetry of sacrifice. Conclusions -- Conclusions. Ethnographic summary. Key arguments. Interweaving women`s worlds -- Bibliography -- Appendix. Key interlocutors
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 259-289 , Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Edinburgh, Social Anthropology, 2019
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    Faithful fighters : identity and power in the British Indian Army (2019)
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5036-1002-6 , 978-1-5036-1074-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 307 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: South Asia in Motion
    Keywords: Großbritannien Inder ; Indien ; Militär ; Religion ; Religion und Politik ; Krieger ; Christentum ; Muslime ; Sikhismus ; Rajputs ; Paschtune ; Gurkah ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Nationalismus ; Identität ; Gewalt ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Rassismus ; Dekolonisation
    Abstract: During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, known as the "Martial Races," including British Christians, Hindustani Muslims, Punjabi Sikhs, Hindu Rajputs, Pathans from northwestern India, and "Gurkhas" from Nepal. As anti-colonial activism intensified, military officials incorporated some soldiers' religious traditions into the army to keep them disciplined and loyal. They facilitated acts such as the fast of Ramadan for Muslim soldiers and allowed religious swords among Sikhs to recruit men from communities where anti-colonial sentiment grew stronger. Consequently, Indian nationalists and anti-colonial activists charged the army with fomenting racial and religious divisions. In Faithful Fighters, Kate Imy explores how military culture created unintended dialogues between soldiers and civilians, including Hindu nationalists, Sikh revivalists, and pan-Islamic activists. By the 1920s and '30s, the army constructed military schools and academies to isolate soldiers from anti-colonial activism. While this carefully managed military segregation crumbled under the pressure of the Second World War, Imy argues that the army militarized racial and religious difference, creating lasting legacies for the violent partition and independence of India, and the endemic warfare and violence of the post-colonial world. --- provided by the publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Spiritual swords and martial violence -- Borders, boundaries, and belonging -- Purifying the soldier -- The government's salt from fast to famine -- A nation at odds with nationalism -- Martial masculinity in the fascist utopia.
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    Impersonations : the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance (2019)
    Oakland, California : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-520-30166-5 (paperback) , 978-0-520-97223-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 225 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Indien Süd-Indien ; Andhra Pradesh ; Tanz ; Tanz und Gesellschaft ; Brahmanismus ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Identität, sexuelle ; Männlichkeit ; Darstellende Kunst ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Impersonations centers on an insular community of Smarta brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who don stri-vesam (woman`s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance limited to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries - village to urban to transnational, brahmin to non-brahmin, hegemonic to nonnormative - to explore the artifice of brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Taking Center Stage: The Poet-Saint and the Impersonator of Kuchipudi Dance History -- 2. "I am Satyabhama": Constructing Hegemonic Brahmin Masculinity in the Kuchipudi Village -- 3. Constructing Artifice, Interrogating Impersonation: Madhavi as Vidusaka in Village Bhamakalapam Performance -- 4. Bhamakalapam beyond the Village: Transgressing Norms of Gender and Sexuality in Urban and Transnational Kuchipudi Dance -- 5. Longing to Dance: Stories of Kuchipudi Brahmin Women -- Conclusion: Rewriting the Script for Kuchipudi Dance-- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Muslims at crossroads : changing face of 'Lived Islam' in India (2019)
    Lucknow : New Royal Book Company
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    ISBN: 978-81-936349-2-9
    Language: English
    Pages: 153 Seiten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Indien Islam ; Muslime ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Alltag ; Soziales Leben ; Beziehungen, interreligiös
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    Spirit on the move : Black women and pentecostalism in Africa and the diaspora (2019)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4780-0013-6 , 978-1-4780-0032-7
    Language: English
    Pages: 238 Seiten
    Series Statement: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
    Keywords: Afrika Afrikaner ; Frau ; Schwarze ; Pentecost ; Diaspora
    Abstract: The contributors to Spirit on the Move examine Pentecostalism's appeal to black women worldwide and the ways it provides them with a source of community, access to power, and way to challenge social inequalities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Saving Race -- 1 - Voices of God: Blackness and Gender in a Brazilian Black Gospel Music Scene -- 2 - Race, Gender, and Christian Diaspora: New Pentecostal Intersectionalities and Haiti -- Part II: Scrutinizing and Sanctifying the Body -- 3 - Women and the Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal War in Mozambique -- 4 - "Dressed as Becometh Holiness": Gender, Race, and the Body in a Storefront Sanctified Church -- Part III: Sonic Power -- 5 - West African and Caribbean Women Evangelists: The Wailing Women Worldwide Intercessors -- 6 - "The Kingdom in the Midst": Sounding Bodies, Aesthetic Labor, and the End Times -- Part IV: Modeling the State -- 7 - A Critical Approach to Concepts of "Power" and "Agency" in Ghana's Charismatic (or Neo-Pentecostal) Churches -- 8 - Bless Us with Children: Pregnancy, Prosperity, and Pragmatism in Nigeria's Christ Apostolic Church -- References -- Contributors -- Index
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    Mein Zimmer im Haus des Krieges : 351 Tage gefangen in Syrien (2019)
    München : Piper
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    ISBN: 978-3-492-05940-4 , 978-3-492-99349-4
    Language: German
    Pages: 335 Seiten
    Keywords: Syrien Krieg und Gesellschaft ; Presse ; Frau ; Erlebnisbericht ; Gefangener ; Radikalisierung ; Jihad ; Deutschland ; Islam und Politik
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    Incarcerated stories : indigenous women migrants and violence in the settler-capitalist state (2019)
    Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4696-5311-2 (cloth) , 978-1-4696-5312-9 (pbk) , 978-1-4696-5313-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 163 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Critical Indigeneities
    Keywords: USA Mexiko ; Mittelamerika ; Indianer, Mexiko ; Indianer, Mittel-Amerika ; Migration ; Frau ; Gewalt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Armut ; Recht ; Neoliberalismus
    Abstract: "Incarcerated stories uses ethnography and oral history to document and assess the plight of indigenous women migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Their harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration parallel the worst stories we hear about immigrants' journeys; but as Speed argues, the circumstances for indigenous women are especially devastating against the backdrop of neoliberal economic and political reforms that have taken hold in Latin America as well as the U.S. First these women were promised greater autonomy and economic opportunity under reforms meant to promote indigenous rights at home, but the attention given to indigenous recognition veiled policies that furthered the economic disruption for women"--
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    Land tenure security : state-peasant relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia (2019)
    Rochester, NY : James Currey
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    ISBN: 978-1-84701-224-1 , 1-84701-224-8
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 186 Seiten , 1 Karte
    Edition: First published in hardback
    Series Statement: Eastern Africa Series
    Keywords: Äthiopien Amhara ; Landnahme ; Reform ; Landnutzung ; Landrecht ; Landwirtschaft ; Bauer ; Bauerntum ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik
    Abstract: An alternative analysis of the impact of the 1975 land reforms on peasant land rights, rural inequality and development in Ethiopia's Amhara highlands; essential reading for those engaged in research and policymaking in peasant studies, land and agriculture.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Svein Ege -- Peasant land tenure: a critical review / Svein Ege -- The Dersha system: rethinking land tenure under the Därg / Svein Ege -- Land tenure in Gojam under the Därg / Yigremew Adal and Svein Ege -- Land tenure in Baba Säat, North Wälo / Harald Aspen -- Rural land and urban aspirations: future orientation in a time of change / Harald Aspen -- An unstable land tenure system / Svein Ege -- Conclusion / Harald Aspen.
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    Investing in the homeland : migration, social ties, and foreign firms (2019)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-472-13115-0 , 0-472-13115-X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 257 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Michigan Studies in International Political Economy Series
    Keywords: Georgien Philippinen ; Diaspora ; Migration ; Heimat ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Unternehmen ; Finanzwesen ; Geldverkehr ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Netzwerkanalyse
    Abstract: Once viewed as a "brain drain" migrants are increasingly viewed as a resource for promoting economic development back in their home countries. In Investing in the Homeland, Benjamin Graham finds that diasporans migrants and their descendants play a critical role in linking foreign firms to social networks in developing countries, allowing firms to flourish even in challenging political environments most foreign investors shun.Graham's analysis draws on new data from face-to-face interviews with the managers of over 450 foreign firms operating in two developing countries: Georgia and the Philippines. Diaspora-owned and diaspora-managed firms are better connected than other foreign firms and they use social ties to resolve disputes and influence government policy. At the same time, Graham shows that diaspora-affiliated firms are no more socially responsible than their purely foreign peers&;at root, they are profit-seeking enterprises, not development NGOs. Graham identifies implications for policymakers seeking to capture the development potential of diaspora investment and for managers of multinational firms who want to harness diasporans as a source of sustained competitive advantage.
    Description / Table of Contents: Diasporans as transnational brokers : a theory of homeland investment -- Research design and new firm-level data -- Measuring firms? : social connectedness -- How do diaspora-affiliated firms use social networks? -- The development impact of diaspora-affiliated firms
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    The _impact of development on the environment and human rights : a study of three Indian projects (2019)
    Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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    ISBN: 978-1-5275-3132-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 163 Seiten , Karten
    Keywords: Indien Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umwelt ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Menschenrecht
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; Prologue; Introduction; Development, Environment and Human Rights -- I; Development, Environment and Human Rights -- II; Towards Sustainable Development in India; Coda; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Bibliography
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    The _secret lives of anthropologists : lessons from the field (2019)
    London : Routledge
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-50185-0 , 978-1-138-50186-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 280 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Ethnologe Feldforschung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Gesundheit ; Umwelt ; Tabu ; Theorie ; Methodologie ; Risiko ; Adaption
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: pulling back the curtain -- A few secrets I wish I'd known -- Paths into the field -- Gendered relations and other challenges in the field -- The observer and the observed: the metamorphosis of research, methods, and the researcher -- Dangerous fields -- Ethics, advocacy, and other everyday moral dilemmas of research -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I -- Paths into the field -- 1 Learning fields -- The long walk into the field -- Learning from the field -- Concluding remarks -- Questions for reflection -- Note -- References -- 2 Stumbling around the sacred: some personal observations -- Introduction -- Why I might study religion -- Luck, fast and dumb -- Studying the sacred -- On qualifications and authenticity -- Relax, it's only sacred -- My rebirth -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Questions for reflection -- Notes -- References -- 3 From the Orinoco to Sorority Row: searching for a field site as an evolutionary anthropologist -- Questions for reflection -- Notes -- References -- Part II -- Gendered relations and other challenges in the field -- 4 Doing ethnomusicological research as a white woman in Cameroon and the Central African Republic -- Being a woman in the field -- Doing a man's job -- Questions for reflection -- Notes -- References -- 5 A boss, a mother, a red antelope, and all the things in between -- Introduction -- Am I really a woman? -- To be "patron" and becoming "ma fille" -- The ethnomusicologist and the xylophone mother bar -- White girl, mother, grandmother, and novice in Gabon -- My Gabon modus vivendi -- "La blanche" and the bishop -- Mother Hélène's daughter -- The novice and the Myene people -- Conclusion.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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    No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus prison (2019)
    Toronto : Anansi International
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    ISBN: 978-1-4870-0683-9 , 978-1-4870-0684-6 , 978-1-4870-0685-3
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 398 Seiten
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Gefängnis ; Flüchtling ; Migration ; Menschenrecht ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Erlebnisbericht ; Biographie ; Kurde ; Iran ; Presse ; Manus 〈Insel, Papua-Neuguinea〉
    Abstract: "Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains. In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile. Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains?"--Publisher's summary.
    Note: "Includes a foreword by Richard Flanagan, plus translator's note and essay"--back cover. Translated from the Farsi
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    Privilege at play : class, race, gender, and golf in Mexico (2019)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-093160-5/ (hardback) , 978-0-19-093161-2/ (pbk.) , 978-0-19-093162-9/ (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 217 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Global and Comparative Ethnography
    Keywords: Nordamerika Mexiko ; Elite, politische ; Reichtum ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sport ; Diskriminierung ; Soziale Klasse ; Ungleichheit ; Golf von Mexiko 〈Region,
    Abstract: While most research on inequality focuses on impoverished communities, it often ignores how powerful communities and elites monopolize resources at the top of the social hierarchy. In Privilege at Play, Hugo Ceron-Anaya offers an intersectional analysis of Mexican elites to examine the ways affluent groups perpetuate dynamics of domination and subordination. Using ethnographic research conducted inside three exclusive golf clubs and in-depth interviews with upper-middle and upper-class golfers, as well as working-class employees, Ceron-Anaya focuses on the class, racial, and gender dynamics that underpin privilege in contemporary Mexico. His detailed analysis of social life and the organization of physical space further considers how the legacy of imperialism continues to determine practices of exclusion and how social hierarchies are subtlety reproduced through distinctions such as fashion and humor, in addition to the traditional indicators of wealth and class. Adding another dimension to the complex nature of social exclusion, Privilege at Play shows how elite social relations and spaces allow for the resource hoarding and monopolization that helps create and maintain poverty.
    Description / Table of Contents: The history of golf in Mexico -- Invisibility and hyper-visibility -- Inside the community -- An ostensibly raceless nation -- The racialization of space -- Gender on the golf course.
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    Water, life, and profit : fluid economies and cultures of Niamey, Niger (2019)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78920-337-0 , 1-78920-337-6 , 978-1-78920-338-7 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 178 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Republik Niger Wasser ; Trinken ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Industrie ; Unternehmen ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. Why water? Why now? -- Situating water in the 21st century -- Historical urban development in Niamey -- Accessing water in Niamey -- Water delivery vendors in Niamey -- "Pure water" in Niamey -- Fluid materialism in Niamey -- Conclusion.
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    Tourism in Iran : challenges, development and issues (2019)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-50512-4 , 978-1-351-37977-9 / (e-book) , 978-1-351-37978-6 / (e-book) , 978-1-351-37976-2 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 247 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Keywords: Iran Tourismus ; Wallfahrt ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Frau ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Kulturanthropologie ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: Iran has long been regarded as an international pariah state in some parts of the international community. However, its negative image in many countries disguises its history of tourism and rich cultural and natural heritage. Following the July 2015 nuclear deal and the reduction in sanctions, Iran is focusing on international tourism as a means to generate economic growth in addition to its substantial domestic tourism market. Given the significance of tourism in the Middle East and in international politics, as well as restrictions on international mobility, this volume brings together the first contemporary collection of research on tourism in Iran. Written by experts based both within and outside of Iran, the chapters engage with a number of crucial issues including the importance of religion, the role of women in society, sustaining Iran's cultural heritage, Iran's image and the resistive economy to provide a benchmark assessment of tourism and its potential future in a troubled political environment. The book will undoubtedly be of interest not only to those readers who focus specifically on Iran but also those who seek a wider understanding of Iran's role in the region and how tourism is utilised as part of national and regional economic development policies.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, tables, boxes, contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Part I Context -- 1 Tourism in Iran: an introduction / Siamak Seyfi and C. Michael Hall -- 2 Domestic tourism in Iran: development, directions and issues / Siamak Seyfi, Adel Nikjoo & Mohammad Sharifi-Tehrani -- 3 Sanctions, the 2015 agreement and Iran`s tourism industry / Zahed Ghaderi, Sahar Soltani, Joan Henderson and Afsaneh Zareei -- Part II Pilgrimage and religious tourism -- 4 Pilgrimage Tourism in Iran / Mahmood Ziaei & Somayeh Amiri -- Chapter 5 The Mutual Relationship Between Women`s Pilgrimage Tourism and the Religious City: A Case Study of Mashhad, Iran / Nina Khamsy and Fatemeh Vossughi -- 6 Mass faith tourism and life satisfaction of residents: evidence from Mashhad, Iran / Hossein G. T. Olya -- Part III Heritage and tourism -- 7 Cultural heritage management and heritage tourism development in Iran: opportunities and challenges for the future / Fabio Carbone, Anahita Malek & Anahita Lohrasbi -- 8 Residents` perceptions towards heritage tourism development: the case of the historical city of Kashan, Iran / S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh and Hamid Ataeishad -- 9 The role of socio-cultural events in rebuilding Iran`s image / Bardia Shabani and Hazel Tucker -- 10 Food and tourism in Iran / Amir Sayadabdi and Saman Hassibi -- Part IV Emerging tourisms -- 11 Tourism and the empowerment of women in Iran / Banafsheh Farahani and Hamideh Dabbaghi -- 12 Participatory tourism development in Iran: implementing community based tourism within a migrating nomadic tribe / Fereshteh Fazel Bakhsheshi and Najmeh Hassanali -- 13 Effects of perceived quality and trust on behavioural intentions: an empirical study of health tourists in Mashhad, Iran / Shiva Hashemi, Masoumeh Tavangar, Azizan Marzuki, Moji Shahvali -- 14 The future(s) of tourism in Iran / C. Michael Hall and Siamak Seyfi -- Index
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    Alltagskulturen in den Slums von Nairobi : eine geographiedidaktische Studie zum kritisch-reflexiven Umgang mit Raumbildern (2019)
    Bielefeld : transcript
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    ISBN: 978-3-8376-4774-7 , 978-3-8394-4774-1
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (356 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie 30
    Keywords: Kenia Elendsviertel ; Afrika-Bild ; Alltag ; Stadt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Geographie ; Kulturgeographie ; Raum ; Deutschland ; Schule ; Lehre und Didaktik ; Jugend ; Photographie ; Nairobi 〈Stadt, Kenia〉
    Abstract: Mittels der Methode »reflexive Fotografie« stellt Andreas Eberth Alltagskulturen von Jugendlichen dar, die in den Slums von Nairobi geboren wurden, dort aufgewachsen sind und noch immer dort leben. Darauf basierend entwickelt er ein Konzept für den Geographieunterricht, das durch die Schulung einer kritisch-reflexiven Bildkompetenz dazu beiträgt, die Perspektiven auf das Leben im kenianischen Slum zu differenzieren. Mit diesem exemplarischen Raumbeispiel werden Ansätze aufgezeigt, wie es gelingen kann, im Schulunterricht ein differenzierteres »Afrika«-Bild zu vermitteln und Vorurteile abzubauen.
    Description / Table of Contents: Frontmatter --Inhalt --1. Einleitung --2. Theoretischer Rahmen: Raumdiskurse, Raumkonzepte und die Bedeutung von Reflexivität --3. Empirie I: Charakterisierung des Untersuchungsgebiets Korogocho in Nairobi --4. Empirie I: Grundlagen und Anwendung der Methode reflexive Fotografie mit Jugendlichen in Korogocho --5. Empirie I: Ergebnisse und Erkenntnisse zu Alltagskulturen von Jugendlichen in Korogocho --6. Geographiedidaktische Einordnung von Empirie II: Aspekte Subsahara-Afrikas im Geographieunterricht --7. Empirie II: Grundlagen einer Interventionsstudie zur Analyse der Wirkung von Bildern sowie der Konzepte space und place im Geographieunterricht auf Basis der Daten von Empirie I --8. Empirie II: Ergebnisse und Erkenntnisse zur Reflexion von Bildern zum Leben in den Slums von Nairobi --9. Fazit und Ausblick --Literatur --Anhang --Dank
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    Women freedom fighters of India (2019)
    Delhi : Ankit Publications
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    ISBN: 978-93-81234-85-3
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    Pages: 163 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Indien Unabhängigkeit ; Unabhängigkeitskampf ; Frau ; Frau und Politik ; Freiheit ; Politische Bewegung ; Revolution ; Biographie ; Bano, Abadi [Leben und Werk] ; Cherian, Accamma ; Das, Amalprava ; Swaminathan, Ammu ; Maharana, Annapurna ; Besant, Annie ; Asaf Ali, Aruna ; Anakkara Vadakkathu, Kuttimalu Amma ; Bai, Azizan ; Mahal, Hazrat ; Cama, Bhikaiji Rustom ; Holkar, Bhima Bai ; Saikiani, Chandraprava ; Deshmukh, Durgabai ; Devi, Durgawati ; Kaur, Gulab ; Mehta, Hansa Jivraj ; Gandhi, Indira ; Nahappan, Janaky Athi ; Bajaj, Janaki Devi ; Datta, Kalpana ; Kaul Nehru, Kamala ; Gandhi, Kasturba ; Chennama, Kittur ; Jagannathan, Krishnammal ; Sabat, Kuntala Kumari ; Sahgal, Lakshmi ; Kaur, Jind ; Patel, Maniben ; Hazra, Matangini ; Mirabehn ; Alfassa, Mirra ; Mati, Mool ; Devi, Nanibala ; Senguptan, Nellie ; Giri, Parbati ; Waddedar, Pritilata ; Kaur, Rajkumari Amrit ; Choudhury, Ramadevi ; Gaidinliu, Rani ; Lakshmibai, Rani ; Lashmipathi, Rukmini ; Behn, Sarla ; Devi, Sarla ; Chaudhurani, Sarlara Devi ; Naidu, Sarojini ; Nivedita, Sister ; Kriplani, Sucheta ; Ganguly, Suhasini ; Srivastava, Tara Rani ; Sinha, Tarkeshwari ; Devi, Uda ; Kundapur, Umabai ; Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi ; Dasappa, Yashodhara
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    Hshouma : corps et sexualité au Maroc (2019)
    [Paris] : Massot éditions
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    ISBN: 979-10-97160-92-0 , 9791097160920
    Language: French
    Pages: 106 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Marokko Sexualität ; Verhalten, sexuelles ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Nacktheit ; Körper ; Frau ; Gewalt ; Religion ; Recht ; Comic
    Abstract: Hshouma, signifie " honte " en dialecte marocain. Plus précisément, ce mot désigne l'ensemble des sujets tabous que l'on ne doit pas aborder en société ou en famille. Mi-projet artistique, mi-initiative éducative, cette bande dessinée se veut une tentative d'ébrécher les tabous liés au genre, à l'éducation sexuelle, aux violences faites aux femmes. Les femmes dessinées par Zainab Fasiki peuvent sembler provocantes et fatales, parfois même sarcastiques. Nues, en lingerie ou portant le voile, en ville ou au hammam, elles se moquent d'un masculisme hypocrite et effrayé par les corps, faisant ainsi fi des canons de beauté imposés par les autres. Ces dessins sont ainsi autant de manières de célébrer les corps et leur beauté, mettant à mal un des piliers sur lequel repose nos sociétés patriarcales, autant au Maroc qu'en Europe. Outre la beauté du trait, Hshouma est un livre important, qui milite pour la libération de la femme dans le monde arabe.
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    Theravada traditions : Buddhist ritual cultures in contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka (2019)
    Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8248-6780-5
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 391 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: paperback edition
    Keywords: Südostasien Laos ; Thailand ; Burma ; Kambodscha ; Sri Lanka ; Buddhismus ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschlechterrolle ; Sexualität ; Alltag ; Identität, sexuelle ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: Theravada Traditions offers a unique comparative approach to understanding Buddhism: it examines popular rituals of central importance in the predominantly Theravada Buddhist cultures of Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Instead of focusing on how religious ideas have impacted the ideals of government or ethical practice, author John Holt tries to ascertain how important changes, or shifts, in the trajectories of the political economies of societies have impacted the character of religious cultures. Each of the five chapters focuses on a particular rite and provides detailed historical, political, or social context: Holt shows how worship of the Phra Bang Buddha image in the annual pi mai or New Year's rites in Luang Phrabang, Laos, has changed dramatically since the 1975 communist revolution and the subsequent opening up of the country to tourism; he describes how, in the face of insurrections and a prolonged civil war, the annual asala perahara processions in Kandy, Sri Lanka, have come to reflect a robust assertion of a Sinhala Buddhist nationalist identity; how ordination rites among Thai Buddhists reflect the manner in which Thai culture has been ever more "commodified" in the context of its dramatically developing economy; and how in tightly controlled Myanmar the kathina rite, the act of giving new robes to members of the sangha after the completion of the rain-retreat season, transformed into a season of campaigning for gift-giving and merit-making; finally, he demonstrates how, in light of the devastating losses inflicted by the Khmer Rouge, pchum ben, the annual rite of caring ritually for one's deceased kin, became the most popular and perhaps most emotionally observed of all rites in the Khmer calendar year. In short, Theravada Traditions illustrates how popular, public ritual performance, far from being static, clearly indexes patterns of social and political change. Broad but deep, rigorous yet accessible, this rich, innovative volume provides a provocative introduction to the practice of Theravada Buddhism and the nature of social change in contemporary Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.
    Description / Table of Contents: Phra Bang : venerating the Buddha image in Lao religious culture -- Asala Perahara : powers of the Buddha's tooth-relic in Sri Lanka -- Upasampada and pabbajja : ordination in Thai Buddhist contexts -- Kathina : making merit in modern Myanmar (Burma) -- Pchum Ben : caring for the dead ritually in Cambodia -- Appendixes. 1. The Dalada sirita ; 2. Randoli Perahara ; 3. Wat Phnom ; 4. The Feast of the Offering to the Dead.
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    Women in Kararau : gendered lives, works, and knowledge in a Middle Sepik Village, Papua New Guinea (2019)
    Göttingen : Universitätsverlag
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    ISBN: 978-3-86395-422-2
    ISSN: 2199-5346
    Language: English
    Pages: 392 Seiten, 2 Faltblätter , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology volume 16
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Sepik ; Iatmul ; Frau ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Lebenszyklus ; Initiation ; Heirat ; Geburt ; Ritual ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Mythos ; Geschlechterforschung
    Abstract: The book offers a glimpse back in time to a Middle Sepik society, the Iatmul, first investigated by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the late 1920s while the feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead worked on sex roles among the neighbouring Tchambuli (Chambri) people. The author lived in the Iatmul village of Kararau in 1972/3 where she studied women's lives, works, and knowledge in detail. She revisited the Sepik in 2015 and 2017. The book, the translation of a 1977 publication in German, is complemented by two chapters dealing with the life of the Iatmul in the 2010s. It presents rich quantitative and qualitative data on subsistence economy, marriage, and women's knowledge concerning myths and rituals. Besides, life histories and in-depth interviews convey deep insights into women's experiences and feelings, especially regarding their varied relationships with men in the early 1970s. Since then, Iatmul culture has changed in many respects, especially as far as the economy, religion, knowledge, and the relationship between men and women are concerned. In her afterword, the anthropologist Christiane Falck highlights some of the major topics raised in the book from a 2018 perspective, based on her own fieldwork which she commenced in 2012. Thus, the book provides the reader with detailed information about gendered lives in this riverine village of the 1970s and an understanding of the cultural processes and dynamics that have taken place since. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements --1 Introduction: After Almost 50 Years. 1.1 The Middle Sepik and previous anthropological studies. 1.2 A documentation of the past, and new studies. 1.3 A comparative glimpse back -- Part One: Women and Subsistence Economy -- 2 The Village -- 3 Sources of Subsistence. 3.1 Fishing. 3.2 Fish survey. 3.3 Overview of the most important trade relations with other villages. 3.4 Sago and the sago market with Gaikorobi. 3.5 Significance of the market with Gaikorobi for Kararau's subsistence. 3.6 Kararau's further trade relations. 3.7 Cultivation. 3.8 Hunting and animal husbandry -- Part Two: Women in Love and Marriage -- 4 Getting Married. 4.1 Run-up to marriage. 4.2 Ideal marriage relationships. 4.3 Marriage rules and actual marital relations in comparison. 4.4 Bridewealth. 4.5 The relationship between wife givers and wife takers. 4.6 Marriage as described in a myth. 4.7 Duties and rules of conduct after marriage. 4.8 The relationship between brother and sister and between husband and wife. 4.9 Spatial division of the house -- 5 Conception, Pregnancy and Birth: Concepts and Practices. 5.1 The significance of birth in Iatmul thought. 5.2 The post-partum period -- 6 The Relationship Between Husband and Wife. 6.1 Polygyny. 6.2 Divorce. 6.3 Changes in the course of a woman's life -- Part Three: Women, the Realm of Men, and the World Beyond -- 7 Sorcery and Witchcraft -- 8 Women and the Realm of Male Rituals -- 9 Familiarity with Kinship Terminology -- 10 Women and Headhunting -- 11 Women in Myths and the Mythologeme of the Inverted World -- 12 Women Who Became Initiated by Men. 12.1 Initiation as a mark of excellence. 12.2 Initiation as a means of stigmatization. 12.3 Memories of an earlier women's initiation. 12.4 Imitating male initiation scarification -- Part Four: Self-Portrayals -- 13 Life Histories of Women and Men. 13.1 Life histories of women. 13.2 Life histories of men. 13.3 Comparing the life histories of women and men -- Part Five: The Relationship Between Men and Women in Myths -- 14 Gender Relationships as Described in Myths and the Way in Which ese Are Narrated by Men and Women. 14.1 Findings from the myth analysis -- Concluding Summary (revised) -- Afterword -- "Cultural Change in the Sepik" by Christiane Falck -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Appendix: Kinship Terminology Chart
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 371-378 "translating my PhD thesis into English" (Acknowledgements, Seite 12) , PhD Thesis, Philosophisch-historische Fakultät, Universität Basel, 1975, entitled Frauen in Kararau: zur Rolle der Frau bei den Iatmul am Mittelsepik, Papua New Guinea
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    Fada : boredom and belonging in Niger (2019)
    Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-226-62434-1 , 978-0-226-62420-4 /Hb. , 978-0-226-62448-8 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: 264 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Republik Niger Mann ; Jugendlicher ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziales Leben ; Städtisches Gebiet ; Männlichkeit ; Diskriminierung ; Identität
    Abstract: Niger most often comes into the public eye as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men trying, against all odds, to find jobs and fill their time with meaningful occupations. At the heart of Adeline Masquelier`s groundbreaking book is the fada—a space where men gather to escape boredom by talking, playing cards, listening to music, and drinking tea. As a place in which new forms of sociability and belonging are forged outside the unattainable arena of work, the fada has become an integral part of Niger`s urban landscape. By considering the fada as a site of experimentation, Masquelier offers a nuanced depiction of how young men in urban Niger engage in the quest for recognition and reinvent their own masculinity in the absence of conventional avenues to self-realization. In an era when fledgling and advanced economies alike are struggling to support meaningful forms of employment, this book offers a timely glimpse into how to create spaces of stability, respect, and creativity in the face of diminished opportunities and precarity. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Waiting for tea -- The writing on the walls: ma(r)king the place of youth -- Snapshots: bringing (invisible) women into view -- Hip-hop, truth, and Islam -- Keeping watch: bodywork, street ethics, and masculinity -- Dress and the time of youth -- Zigzag politics: tea, ballots, and agency -- Conclusion.
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    Countless blessings : a history of childbirth and reproduction in the Sahel (2019)
    Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press
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    ISBN: 9780253042019 , 9780253042002
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 345 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cooper, Barbara MacGowan, author Countless blessings
    DDC: 392.1/20966
    Keywords: Childbirth ; Childbirth ; Childbirth Social aspects ; Childbirth Social aspects ; Fertility, Human ; Fertility, Human ; Birth customs ; Birth customs ; Reproductive health ; Reproductive health ; Women, Hausa Social conditions ; Hausa (African people) Social life and customs ; Sahel ; Niger ; Hausa ; Fertilität ; Geburtenentwicklung ; Frau
    Abstract: How do women in Hausa-speaking Niger think about pregnancy and childbirth differently from women in the United States or Europe? Barbara M. Cooper sets out to answer this question to understand how childbirth has been experienced in the history of the African Sahel, a place that has the world's highest fertility rates, but also one of the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality. Cooper presents a history of what it is like for many rural women to bear children in Niger. She sketches out the influence of geography, ethnicity, social status, and religion to come to a deeper understanding of reproduction and the practices of fertility and maternal well-being from colonialism to today. Cooper unveils a complex landscape of religious and family life where women who have no children may be shunned, where competition between wives for fertility may be intense, and where access to medicine may be improvised. In this patriarchal society where women are poorly educated a culture of sorrow and shame develops among them. Cooper suggests that in this volatile environment it is little wonder that pregnancy and birth are tremendously dangerous practices
    Abstract: Introduction -- Environment, seduction, and fertility -- Tensions in the wake of conquest : gender and reproduction after abolition -- Personhood, socialization, and shame -- Colonial accounting -- Perils of pregnancy and childbirth -- Producing healthy babies and healthy laborers -- Feminists, Islamists, and demographers -- Let's talk about bastards -- Contemporary sexuality and childbirth -- Conclusion: Traveling companions and entrustments in contemporary Niger
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Changing rural Ethiopia : community transformations (2018)
    Los Angeles : Tsehai
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    Language: English
    Pages: 556 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Äthiopien Ländliches Gebiet ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Urbanisation ; Arbeitsmigration ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Unternehmen ; Frau ; Gesundheitswesen
    Abstract: This book documents transformation in twenty rural communities in Ethiopia, that have changed almost beyond recognition, in complex ways with different implications for various people--men and women, adults and youth, rich and poor. The communities have become less rural through urbanisation and more outward-looking, including through labour migration. The local economies have become more diversified, offering opportunities for entrepreneurial individuals and greater participation of women. At the same time inequalities have risen and young people's aspirations have grown with more educational opportunities. However, youth face increased challenges in improving their livelihoods and transitioning to adulthood. The expansion in health care is important, particularly for young women, mothers and babies, though girls still face a range of risks in growing up, and poverty and remoteness affect the wellbeing of mothers and infants. This book will appeal to policymakers, practitioners, donors and academics seeking to understand Ethiopia today through the experiences of the majority of its people who still live beyond the major conurbations; and the ways their lives have evolved over the last twenty years.
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    The _social faces of humour : practices and issues (2018)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-39019-5 , 978-1-138-39018-8 , 1-85742-269-4 , 978-0-429-42347-5 7 (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 357 Seiten
    Edition: reissued
    Series Statement: Popular Cultural Studies 11
    Keywords: Humor Witz ; Comic ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Familie ; Beruf ; Geschichte ; Großbritannien ; Australien
    Abstract: First published in 1996, this volume is a sequel to Humour in Society: Resistance and Control which was edited by George E.C. Paton and Chris Powell. Now, seven years later, the culturally central nature of humour seems greater than ever.This collection of original essays critically assesses the practices of humour in various role relationships in a number of social contexts, for example, in the workplace and between family members. A feature of this new volume is the critical analysis of socio-linguistic practices, including the use of jokes and cartoons, to manage tensions in social relationships at the micro- and macro-sociological levels of human interaction. Wider social and cultural issues area also examined by other contributors concerned with alternative comedy and sitcoms in British and Australian society, for example, which along with humour practices are situated by the editors in their introduction to substantiate the value of studying and researching the sociology of humour.
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    The _black social economy in the Americas : exploring diverse dommunity-based markets (2018)
    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
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    ISBN: 978-1-137-60278-7 , 978-1-137-60047-9
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    Pages: XXXV, 230 Seiten , Karte
    Series Statement: Perspectives from Social Economics
    Keywords: Amerika Argentinien ; Brasilien ; Kanada ; Kolumbien ; Guyana ; Haiti ; Jamaika ; USA ; Afro-Amerikaner ; Diaspora ; Schwarze ; Frau ; Selbsthilfe ; Gemeinschaft ; Alternativbewegung ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Rassismus ; Sklaverei ; Kolonialismus ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term "Black social economy," a self-help sector that remains autonomous from the state and business sectors. With the Western Hemisphere`s ignoble history of enslavement and violence towards African peoples, and the strong anti-black racism that still pervades society, the African diaspora in the Americas has turned to alternative practices of socio-economic organization. Conscientious and collective organizing is thus a means of creating meaningful livelihoods. In this volume, fourteen scholars explore the concept of the "Black social economy," bringing together innovative research on the lived experience of Afro-descendants in business and society in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, and the United States. The case studies in this book feature horrific legacies of enslavement, colonization, and racism, and they recount the myriad ways that persons of African heritage have built humane alternatives to the dominant market economy that excludes them. Together, they shed necessary light on the ways in which the Black race has been overlooked in the social economy literature.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Daring to Conceptualize the Black Social Economy. - 2. Revisiting Ideas and Ideologies in African American Social Economy: From the Past Forward. - 3. Drawing on the Lived Experience of African Canadians: Using Money Pools to Combat Social and Business Exclusion. - 4. The Social Economy in a Jamaican Perspective. - 5. Building Economic Solidarity: Caribbean ROSCAs in Jamaica, Guyana and Haiti. - 6. The Everyday Social Economy of Afro-descendants in the Chocó, Colombia. - 7. The Social Economy of Afro-Argentines and African Descendants in Buenos Aires. - 8. Commerce, Culture, and Community: African Brazilian Women Negotiating Their Social Economies. - 9. The Quilombolas` Refuge in Brazil: Social Economy, Communal Space and Shared Identity. - 10. Conclusion: Black life in the Americas: Economic resources, cultural endowment, and communal solidarity.
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    The _comedy studies reader (2018)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4773-1599-6 , 978-1-4773-1600-9 , 978-1-4773-1601-6 / (e-book) , 978-1-4773-1602-3 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 313 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: USA Komödie ; Satire ; Humor ; Ironie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Popular Culture ; Fernsehen ; Film ; Digitale Medien ; Anthropologie, visuelle
    Abstract: From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy Studies Reader.This anthology brings together classic articles, more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of themes and approaches for studying comedic media—the carnivalesque, comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization. The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two parallel trends in the evolution of the field—first, comedy`s development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a tendency that has led many popular commentators to characterize the present as a "comedy zeitgeist"; and second, comedy studies` new focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in "serious" discursive realms, including politics, economics, race, gender, and cultural power.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Volume Introduction: Comedy as Theory, Industry, and Academic Discipline -- 1. The Carnivalesque -- Introduction: The Naked Gun -- 2. Comedy Mechanics & Absurdity -- Introduction: Man Seeking Woman -- 3. Psychoanalyzing Comedy -- Introduction: Archer -- 4. Irony -- Introduction: Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents` Association Dinner 2006 -- 5. Genre --Introduction: 22 Jump Street -- 6. Race & Ethnicity -- Introduction: Key and Peele -- 7. Gender & Sexuality --Introduction: Inside Amy Schumer -- 8. Nation & Globalization -- Introduction / Peter Kragh Jensen and Matt Sienkiewicz -- Contributors -- Index
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    Power and progress on the prairie : governing people on Rosebud reservation (2018)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5179-0082-3 , 978-1-5179-0083-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XXI, 360 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Nordamerika USA ; South Dakota ; Dakota ; Sioux ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Indianerpolitik ; Indianerreservation ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Liberalismus ; Wahl ; Macht
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    Reclaiming the women of Britain's first mission to West Africa : three lives lost and found (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38711-9 , 978-90-04-38744-7/Online
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 448 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies of Religion in Africa 47
    Keywords: Westafrika Sierra Leone ; Mission, christliche ; Frau ; Kolonie, britisch ; Missionsgeschichte ; Abolition ; Sklavenhandel ; Biographie ; Winsor, Sarah [Leben und Werk] ; Richards, Elizabeth [Leben und Werk] ; Klein, Suzanna [Leben und Werk]
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    Eurasia and India : regional perspectives (2018)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-04800-3 , 978-1-315-17045-9 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 162 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Central Asia Research Forum
    Keywords: Eurasien Sibirien ; Russland ; Kasachstan ; Indien ; Politik ; Weltgeschichte ; Außenpolitik ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Schamanismus ; Maitreya-Bewegung ; Kult ; Veda
    Abstract: "Eurasia has assumed importance in the post-Soviet period and the peoples of Siberia have distinctive historico-cultural similarities with the Indian Himalayas due to common traditions and Buddhist culture. The Eurasianism of Russia brings it closer to India in historico-cultural, political and economic terms. Another important player in Eurasia is Kazakhstan, which has been highlighting the importance of Eurasianism. These relations provide an opportunity for India to engage in collaborative endeavours with the Eurasian countries. This book provides detailed analyses on the historico-cultural linkages between Eurasia (Buryatia, Khakassia ,Tuva and Altai Republics of Russian Fediferation) and India through history. It also examines the process of the revival of indigenous traditions in the region in the post-Soviet period, the importance of the Eurasian vector in Russian and Kazakhstan's foreign policy and the development of the Eurasian Economic Union and the implications this will have for India. Eminent academics and area specialists from Buryatia, Altai, Khakassia, Moscow, Kazakhstan and India have contributed to this book which provides a first hand view of the linkages between India and the Siberian region of India. Eurasia and India also includes rare photographs of the traces of Indian culture in Siberia. Offering a new undiferstanding of the significant and strategic Indian ties to Eurasian states, this book will be of interest to academics studying Eurasian and Central Asian society and geopolitics, International Relations and South and Central Asian Studies."--Provided by publisher.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Devendra Kaushik -- Historical and cultural role of Indian Mitra & Maitreya cults in the uniting process of Eurasia / Sergey Lepekhov -- The Vedic constants of historical and cultural kinship of the peoples of Siberia and India / I.A. Zhernosenko -- Eurasia and India: historical-cultural linkages / K. Warikoo -- Cultural links of southern Siberia and India: fine arts and music / M. V. Dorina -- Indian Buddhist heritage in central Asia and Eurasia / Baatr U. Kitinov -- Nikolai Roerich and Eurasia: the ambivalent horizon line / Rashmi Doraiswamy -- Shamanism in central Asia / V. N. Tuguzhekova -- Eurasian factor in Russian foreign policy: implications for India / Tatiana Shaumyan -- Eurasian vector of Kazakhstan's policy: relevance for India / Fatima Kukeyeva -- Eurasianism and Kazakhstan's foreign policy / Angira Sen Sarma -- International transport corridors of Eurasia: history, problems and perspectives / M. Baldano -- Eurasian regional economic cooperation: opportunities and challenges / Gatikrushna Mahanta
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 156-159
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    Ernährungssicherung : eine entwicklungspolitische Bewertung ausgewählter Handlungsfelder (2018)
    Duisburg : Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 74 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: AVE-Studie 8
    Keywords: Landbevölkerung Nahrungsmittelversorgung ; Hunger ; Landnutzung ; Agrarreform ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
    Abstract: Obwohl die Landwirtschaft soviel produziert wie nie zuvor, hungern noch immer mindestens 815 Millionen Menschen. Dieser Herausforderung widmen sich auch zahlreiche Entwicklungsprojekte auf ganz unterschiedliche Art und Weise. Die Studie von Anika Mahla et al. legt zunächst auf theoretischer Ebene die Ursachen von Ernährungsunsicherheit dar und gibt einen Überblick über die agrarentwicklungspolitischen Konzepte der letzten Dekaden. Abschließend werden wichtige Maßnahmen, wie die Förderung von Geschlechtergerechtigkeit oder Landzugang im Kampf gegen Unterernährung beleuchtet. Auch Kontroversen, wie jene um die Förderung einer kleinbäuerlichen oder industrialisierten Landwirtschaft, werden thematisiert.
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    At home in the Okavango : white Batswana narratives of emplacement and belonging (2018)
    New York : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78238-773-2 , 978-1-78533-753-6
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 244 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition published in 2018
    Keywords: Botswana Okavango Delta ; Weiße ; Rassenkonflikt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Tourismus
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [219]-230
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    Islam in the West : perceptions and reactions (2018)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-948711-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 304 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Islam Muslime ; Gesellschaft, westliche ; Amerika ; Europa ; Australien ; Multikulturalität ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wahrnehmung ; Fremdwahrnehmung ; Islamophobie ; Beziehungen Christentum-Islam ; Migration
    Abstract: This book focuses on the way Muslims and mainstream societies in the West, especially in America, Australia, and Europe, perceive each other. It focuses on the meaning of being a Muslim in a multicultural, multi-religious, and technologically developed world. The essays in the volume explore the socio-political, cultural, and historical differences between the two groups, Muslims and Western societies, while attempting to reconcile some of these differences in creative ways by initiating constructive dialogues between them. It also takes into account the tensions, challenges, and complexities between these communities across various contexts, including, schools, universities, media, government, private, and public institutions. This volume thus explores this interplay between perceptions and misperceptions by delving into the societal structures of Western host and immigrant communities.
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    Pilgrimage and political economy : translating the sacred (2018)
    New York : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-942-4
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 197 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Wallfahrt Das Heilige ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Politische Ökonomie ; Religion ; Sakraler Ort ; Japan ; Indien ; Pakistan ; Usbekistan ; Bosnien und Herzegowina ; Frankreich ; Mexiko ; Brasilien
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    Transfers of belonging : child fostering in West Africa in the 20th century (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-365980-2 , 978-90-04-36041-9 /eBook
    ISSN: 1574-6925
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 269 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 19
    Uniform Title: Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel
    Keywords: Westafrika Benin ; Borgu ; Elternschaft ; Kindheit ; Familie ; Familienrecht ; Verwandtschaft ; Adoption ; Pflegekindschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Vater-Kind ; Beziehungen Mutter-Kind ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen
    Abstract: In Transfers of Belonging, Erdmute Alber traces the history of child fostering in northern Benin from the pre-colonial past to the present by pointing out the embeddedness of child foster practices and norms in a wider political process of change. Child fostering was, for a long time, not just one way of raising children, but seen as the appropriate way of doing so. This changed profoundly with the arrival of European ideas about birth parents being the `right` parents, but also with the introduction of schooling and the differentiation of life chances. Besides providing deep historical and ethnographical insights, Transfers of Belonging offers a new theoretical frame for conceptualizing parenting.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Glossary 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Child Fostering -- 2. Parenthood in Rural Borgu -- 3. Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix -- References -- Index of persons -- Index
    Note: "Revised and tightened version" of Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel: Kindheit, Verwandtschaft und Zugehorigkeit in Westafrika by Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2013.
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    Work and livelihoods : history, ethnography and models in times of crisis (2018)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-81398-4 , 978-1-315-74780-4 , 978-1-315-74780-4/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XIC, 223 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Anthropology 35
    Keywords: Industrie Arbeit ; Arbeiterklasse ; Arbeitsverhältnis ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Krise ; Finanzkrise ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Subalternität ; Armut ; Soziologie ; Ethnographie ; Polen ; Argentinien ; Brasilien ; Italien ; Deutschland ; Großbritannien ; Griechenland ; Slowakei ; USA ; Spanien
    Abstract: Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017 This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social processes and devise ideological, political, and economic responses to them. It shows how the reorganization and re-signification of work, notably shifts in the perception and valorization of work, affect domestic and community arrangements and shape the conditions of life of workers and their families.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Work and Livelihoods: an Introduction Victoria Goddard Section I - Past, Present and Future: Generations in Times of Crisis 2. Lost Generations? Unemployment, Migration and New Knowledge Regimes in Post EU Poland Frances Pine 3. Credentialism and Recommendations: The Bases of the Reproduction of the Metallurgical Working Class in Contemporary Argentina Laura Perelman and Patricia Vargas 4. Continuity and Disruption: the Experiences of Work and Employment Across Three Generations of Steelworkers in Volta Redonda Gonzalo Diaz CrovettoSection II - Continuities and Discontinuities5. Postfordist Work Organization and Daily Life from a Gender Perspective: the Case of FIAT-SATA in Melfi Fulvia D'Aloisio6. Profession, Masculinity, and Identity: Biographical Crisis of British and German Steelworkers in Comparison Vera Trappmann 7. Employment Precariousness and Social Reproduction in the Shipbuilding Industry of Piraeus Manos Spyridakis Section III - Lives of Worth 8. Regimes of Value and Worthlessness: How Two Subaltern Stories Speak Don Kalb 9. Post-industrial Landscape. Space and Place in the Personal Experiences of Residents of the Former Working-class Estate of Ksawera in Bedzin Kazimiera Wodz and Monika GnieciakSection IV - The Politics of Resistance 10. Workers and Populism in Slovakia Juraj Buzalka and Michaela Ferencova 11. `A Trojan Horse in our Midst': The Saturn Plant and the Disorganization of Autoworkers in the US Sharryn Kasmir 12. Getting by Beyond Work, or the Intertwining of Production and Reproduction among Heavy Industry Workers and their Families in Ferrol, Spain Irene Sabate MurielAfterword - Making Difference: Concluding Comments on Work and Livelihoods Susana Narotzky
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    Den Verlauf kontrollieren : eine Ethnographie der waterscape von Gilgit, Pakistan ; Ressourcen - Gemeinschaften - Überwachung (2018)
    Bielefeld : transcript
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    ISBN: 978-338376-4235-3
    Language: German
    Pages: 456 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Kultur und Soziale Praxis
    Keywords: Pakistan Wasserwirtschaft ; Ressource ; Urbanisation ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: In der pakistanischen Hochgebirgswüste müssen die ökonomischen sowie instiutionellen Ressourcen zur Gewinnung von Wasser über gemeinschaftliche Anstrengungen erschlossen werden. In ihrer Untersuchung im zunehmend urbanen Gilgit zeichnet Anna Grieser nach, wie diese gemeinschaftlichen Beziehungen u.a. auf der Basis islamischer Konfessionen mobilisiert werden. Dies prägt die waterscape und das Leben in Gilgit, produziert Sicherheit für manche - und Unsicherheit und Ungewissheit für andere.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 421-456 , Dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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    History of caste in India : evidence of the laws of Manu on the social conditions in India during the third century A. D. : interpreted and examined : with an appendix on radical defects of ethnology (2018)
    Jaipur : Rawat Publications
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    ISBN: 978-81-316-0974-3
    Language: English
    Pages: 214 Seiten
    Edition: reprinted
    Keywords: Indien Kaste ; Kastenwesen ; Kulturgeschichte ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Recht, hinduistisches ; Rein-Unrein ; Diskriminierung ; Dharma ; Ethik ; Verhaltensnorm ; Altertum
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    Sketches in the theory of culture (2018)
    Cambridge : Polity Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5095-2830-1 , 978-1-5095-2829-5 , 978-1-5095-2833-2 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xxv, 289 Seiten
    Edition: English edition
    Uniform Title: Szkice z teorii kultury
    Keywords: Philosophie Kulturanthropologie ; Kultur ; Semiotik ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Soziale Organisation ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Abstract: Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures. Written by Zygmunt Bauman when he was still a professor in Poland and originally intended for publication in 1968, it was suppressed by the Polish government in the wave of repression following the protests in March of that year. For decades it was thought to be lost. Astonishingly, it survived in the form of an uncorrected set of proofs which were recently discovered and which are the basis of this edition.Now published in English for the first time, this book sheds new light on Bauman`s work prior to his emigration and illuminates the intellectual climate of Poland in the late 1960s. Bauman`s pursuit of a semiotic theory of culture includes a discussion of processes of individualization and the intensification of global ties, anticipating themes that became central to his later work. Though this book stands as a testament to an historical moment, it also transcends it. "We live in an age that seems, for the first time in human history, to acknowledge cultural multiplicity as an innate and fixed feature of the world, one which gives rise to new forms of identity that are at ease with plurality, like a fish in water," writes Bauman— a statement that is as true today as it was when Bauman penned it in the 1960s.Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a strikingly prescient reflection on culture and society by one of the most influential social thinkers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities and to the many readers of Bauman`s work.
    Description / Table of Contents: A Message in a Bottle. On the Recovered Work of Zygmunt Bauman - Dariusz Brzezinski -- From the Author. Part I. Sign and Culture. 1. The origins of the semiotic theory of culture, or the crisis of cultural anthropology. 2. Towards a semiotic theory of culture. 3. Man and sign. 4. The problem of universals and the semiotic theory of culture. 5. Some research problems in the semiotic theory of culture -- Part II. Culture and Social Structure. 1. Cultural and extra-cultural organization of society. 2. Economics, culture, and typologies of societies. 3. Cultural determinants of the research process. 4. Three observations about problems of contemporary education. 5. Masses, classes, elites: semiotics and the re-imagination of the sociological function of culture -- Afterword - Zygmunt Bauman, 2016 -- Notes -- Index
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    Africans and the exiled life : migration, culture, and globalization (2018)
    Lanham : Lexington Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-4985-5088-8 , 978-1-4985-5089-5/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XXI, 332 Seiten
    Keywords: Afrikaner Migration ; Globalisierung ; Diaspora ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
    Abstract: Since their early beginning in Africa as foragers, hunters and gatherers, humans have been on the move. In modern times, their movements have been compelled by geographical, economic, political, cultural, social and personal reasons. However, beginning in the second-half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century their reasons for and pattern of migration have been largely influenced by globalization. Globalization, by its very nature, cuts across virtually every aspect of the human life and human society. And especially in the United States, African immigrants are subject to the undercurrents of globalization - particularly in the areas of culture, religion, interpersonal relationships, and the assimilation and acculturation process. Relying on the vast theoretical and practical experience of academics and public intellectuals across three continents, this book succinctly interrogates some of the pull/push factors of migration, the challenges of globalizing forces, and the daily reality of relocation. The everyday reality and experiences of blacks in the diaspora (Latin America, Caribbean, and Europe) are also part of the discourse and the subject matters are approached from different perspectives and paradigms. Africans and the Exiled Life, therefore, is a compelling and rich addition to the ongoing global debate and understanding of migration and exile.
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    Defiant indigeneity : the politics of Hawaiian performance (2018)
    Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4696-4055-6 , 978-1-4696-4054-9 , 978-1-4696-4056-3 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 220 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Critical Indigeneities
    Keywords: Hawaii Polynesien ; Polynesier ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Ethnizität ; Identität ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
    Abstract: "Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For Kanaka Maoli people, the concept of "aloha" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the form of things like the "hula girl" of popular culture. Considering the way aloha is embodied, performed, and interpreted in Native Hawaiian literature, music, plays, dance, drag performance, and even ghost tours from the twentieth century to the present, Stephanie Nohelani Teves shows that misunderstanding of the concept by non-Native audiences has not prevented the Kanaka Maoli from using it to create and empower community and articulate its distinct Indigenous meaning.While Native Hawaiian artists, activists, scholars, and other performers have labored to educate diverse publics about the complexity of Indigenous Hawaiian identity, ongoing acts of violence against Indigenous communities have undermined these efforts. In this multidisciplinary work, Teves argues that Indigenous peoples must continue to embrace the performance of their identities in the face of this violence in order to challenge settler-colonialism and its efforts to contain and commodify Hawaiian Indigeneity.
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    Personal autonomy in plural societies : a principle and its paradoxes (2018)
    London : Routledge
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-22021-8
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 302 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Law and Anthropology
    Keywords: Menschenrecht Minorität ; Religion ; Vielfalt ; Differenzierung ; Recht ; Gesetzgebung ; Selbstbestimmung ; Sozialer Aspekt
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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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    Challenges and opportunities for inclusive development in Ethiopia : proceedings of conferences held in 2017 (2018)
    Addis Ababa : Forum for Social Studies (FSS)
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    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 252 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Äthiopien Entwicklung ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Frau ; Jugendlicher ; Administration ; Migration ; Arbeit ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: As part of its on-going public dialogue program on progress in Ethiopia`s development and public policy the Forum for Social Studies is undertaking a project of research and public dialogue on a number of selected topics on the theme of 'Prospects and Challenges for Inclusive and Participatory Development in Ethiopia'. The aim is to enable researchers and professionals to present evidence-based papers to stimulate debate and reflection. This first book in the program looks at the impact of development or lack of it, on specific social groups, namely women, young people and vulnerable groups that should be entitled to decent social care.
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    Mutual impact : conflict, tension and cooperation in Opole Silesia (2018)
    Wroclaw : University of Wroclaw. Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences. Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
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    ISBN: 978-83-939353-8-3
    Language: English
    Pages: 201, [1] Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Polen Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Konflikt
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    Dreamers : how young Indians are changing the world (2018)
    London & Company : Hurst
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    ISBN: 978-1-78738-154-4
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 257 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Jugendlicher ; Erwachsener ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Vision
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: 'There is no Plan B' -- 1. The Click-Baiter -- 2. The English Man -- 3. The Fixer -- Part II: 'I am Ready for a Fight' -- 4. The Angry Young Men -- 5. The Angry Young Woman -- Part III: 'Nothing is What it Looks Like' -- 6. The Star -- 7. The Scammer -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements.
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    New geospatial approaches to the anthropological sciences (2018)
    Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-8263-5967-4 , 978-0-8263-5968-1 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 290 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [122]
    Keywords: Ethnographie Anthropologie ; Paläoanthropologie ; Soziologie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Methodologie
    Abstract: Spatial analysis reaches across all the subdisciplines of anthropology. A cultural anthropologist, for example, can use such analysis to trace the extent of distinctive cultural practices; an archaeologist can use it to understand the organization of ancient irrigation systems; a primatologist to quantify the density of primate nesting sites; a paleoanthropologist to explore vast fossil-bearing landscapes.Arguing that geospatial analysis holds great promise for much anthropological inquiry, the contributors have designed this volume to show how the powerful tools of GIScience can be used to benefit a variety of research programs. This volume brings together scholars who are currently applying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and methods of geographical information sciences (GIScience) to diverse data sets of anthropological interest. Their questions crosscut the typical "silos" that so often limit scholarly communication among anthropologists and instead recognize a deep structural similarity between the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, the data they collect, and the analytical models and paradigms they each use. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Chapter One. Geospatial Anthropology: Integrating Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Sciences into Anthropological Fieldwork and Analysis, Robert L. Anemone and Glenn C. Conroy -- Chapter Two. Ongoing Developments in Geospatial Data, Software, and Hardware with Prospects for Anthropological Applications, Charles W. Emerson and Robert L. Anemone -- Chapter Three. Geospatial Approaches to Hominid Paleontology in Africa: What`s Old, What`s New, and What Doesn`t Change, Leslea J. Hlusko -- Chapter Four. Assessing Unsupervised Image Classification as an Aid in Paleoanthropological Explorations, Glenn C. Conroy, Amy Chew, Kenneth D. Rose, Thomas M. Bown, Robert L. Anemone, and Gregg F. Gunnell -- Chapter Five. Taking Virtual Anthropology to the Field: Building Three-Dimensional Digital Outcrop Models of Fossil Localities, Robert L. Anemone, Charles W. Emerson, Tyler W. Jones, Junshan Liu, and Cory Henderson -- Chapter Six. Tooth Surface Topography: A Scale-Sensitive Approach with Implications for Inferring Dental Adaptation and Diet, Peter S. Ungar -- Chapter Seven. Classifying Land Cover on Very High Resolution Drone-Acquired Orthomosaics, Serge A. Wich, Lian Pin Koh, and Zoltan Szantoi -- Chapter Eight. Understanding the Ecological Decision-Making of Tiwanaku Pastoralists through Geospatial Agent-Based Models, Benjamin Vining and Sara Burns -- Chapter Nine. Pastoralist Participation (PastPart): A Model of Mobility and Connectivity across the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor, Michael D. Frachetti, C. Evan Smith, and Cody Copp -- Chapter Ten. Modeling Archaeological Landscape Transformations in Early Andean Empires, Patrick Ryan Williams, Ana Cristina Londoño, and Megan Hart -- Chapter Eleven. PaleoCore: An Open-Source Platform for Geospatial Data Integration in Paleoanthropology, Denné N. Reed, W. Andrew Barr, and John Kappelman -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 225-271"School for Advanced Research advanced seminar New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences, [...] March 6-10, 2016" (Seite 272)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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    Transfers of belonging : child fostering in West Africa in the 20th century (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-36041-9 /eBook , 978-90-04-365980-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 269 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 19
    Uniform Title: Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel
    Keywords: Westafrika Benin ; Borgu ; Elternschaft ; Kindheit ; Familie ; Familienrecht ; Verwandtschaft ; Adoption ; Pflegekindschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Vater-Kind ; Beziehungen Mutter-Kind ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen
    Abstract: In Transfers of Belonging, Erdmute Alber traces the history of child fostering in northern Benin from the pre-colonial past to the present by pointing out the embeddedness of child foster practices and norms in a wider political process of change. Child fostering was, for a long time, not just one way of raising children, but seen as the appropriate way of doing so. This changed profoundly with the arrival of European ideas about birth parents being the `right` parents, but also with the introduction of schooling and the differentiation of life chances. Besides providing deep historical and ethnographical insights, Transfers of Belonging offers a new theoretical frame for conceptualizing parenting.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Glossary 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Child Fostering -- 2. Parenthood in Rural Borgu -- 3. Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix -- References -- Index of persons -- Index
    Note: "Revised and tightened version" of Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel: Kindheit, Verwandtschaft und Zugehorigkeit in Westafrika by Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2013.
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    No alternative : childbirth, citizenship, and indigenous culture in Mexico (2018)
    Austin : University of Texas Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4773-1677-1 (paperback) , 978-1-4773-1676-4 (cloth) , 978-1-4773-1678-8 (library e-book) , 978-1-4773-1679-5 (non-library e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 238 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Louann Atkins Temple Women and Culture Series book 44
    Keywords: Mexiko Indianer, Mexiko ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Ethnomedizin ; Gesundheit ; Gesundheitswesen ; Diskriminierung ; Geburt ; Geburtshilfe ; Hebamme ; Anthropologie, medizinische ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Recent anthropological scholarship on "new midwifery" centers on how professional midwives in various countries are helping women reconnect with "nature," teaching them to trust in their bodies, respecting women`s "choices," and fighting for women`s right to birth as naturally as possible. In No Alternative, Rosalynn A. Vega uses ethnographic accounts of natural birth practices in Mexico to complicate these narratives about new midwifery and illuminate larger questions of female empowerment, citizenship, and the commodification of indigenous culture, by showing how alternative birth actually reinscribes traditional racial and gender hierarchies.Vega contrasts the vastly different birthing experiences of upper-class and indigenous Mexican women. Upper-class women often travel to birthing centers to be delivered by professional midwives whose methods are adopted from and represented as indigenous culture, while indigenous women from those same cultures are often forced by lack of resources to use government hospitals regardless of their preferred birthing method. Vega demonstrates that women`s empowerment, having a "choice," is a privilege of those capable of paying for private medical services—albeit a dubious privilege, as it puts the burden of correctly producing future members of society on women`s shoulders. Vega`s research thus also reveals the limits of citizenship in a neoliberal world, as indigeneity becomes an object of consumption within a transnational racialized economy. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Commodifying Indigeneity: Politics of Representation -- 2. Humanized Birth: Unforeseen Politics of Parenting -- 3. Intersectionality: A Contextual and Dialogical Framework --- 4. A Cartography of "Race" and Obstetric Violence -- 5. (Ethno)Medical (Im)Mobilities -- Conclusion: Destination Birth - Time and Space Travel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 209-219
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    Caste system in contemporary India : issues and implications (2018)
    New Delhi : Mittal Publications / in collaboration with Sanskruti and Sanskriti, Guwahati
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    ISBN: 978-81-8324-896-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 440 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Indien Kaste ; Kastenwesen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Ungleichheit ; Indigenität ; Adivasi ; Unberührbarer ; Gesellschaft, moderne
    Note: "Institute of Dravidian Culture and Research (Sanskruti), the anthropological research wing of SVD - Society of the Divine Word (India), Hyderabad conducted its 4th National Seminar on Caste System in Contemporary India: Issues and Implications on January 27-28, 2017 at the Institute's Arnold Bhavan central campus located at Ravindranagar Colony, Habsiguda, Hyderabad
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    The _line becomes a river (2018)
    New York : Riverhead Books
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    ISBN: 978-0-525-53625-3 (International edition) , 978-0-7352-1771-3 (hardback) , 978-0-7352-1772-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 250 Seiten
    Keywords: USA Mexiko ; Grenze ; Migration ; Migration, illegale ; Autobiographie ; Bevölkerungsbewegung ; Bevölkerungspolitik ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Demographie
    Abstract: For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood. His mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line. (Verlagsangabe)
    Note: Titelzusatz auf dem Umschlag: Dispatches from the border"Some of the material in this book originally appeared, in different form, in Edible Baja Arizona, Guernica, Orion, Ploughshares, J Journal: New Writing on Justince, and South Loop Review." (Rückseite Titelblatt)Parallelausgabe in spanischer Sprache erschien unter dem Titel: La línea se convierte en río. Una crónica de la frontera
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    Religion and gender in the developing world : faith-based organizations and feminism in India (2018)
    London : I.B. Tauris
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    ISBN: 978-1-78831-269-1 , 978-1-84885-427-7 , 1-84885-427-7 , 978-1-78672-947-7 / (e-book) , 978-0-85771-918-8 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 274 Seiten
    Edition: New paperback edition
    Series Statement: Library of Development Studies 2
    Keywords: Indien Rajasthan ; Frau ; Frau und Religion ; Feminismus ; Frauenforschung ; Geschlechterforschung ; Ungleichheit ; Religion ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Entwicklungsländer ; Entwicklung, soziale ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Entwicklungsethnologie
    Abstract: Faith-based development organizations have become a central part of the lives of the women of rural Rajasthan, and have come to represent important providers of social development. And yet, religious teachings continue to be used to exclude women from public decision making forums and render them vulnerable to increasing levels of domestic violence. In a multi-disciplinary approach, combining a range of subjects, Tamsin Bradley provides a unique study of the role of secular and faith organizations in the lives of women in rural Rajasthan. Religion and Gender in the Developing World shows how many religious spaces exist which afford women opportunities to interact with one another and create an identity for themselves. However, faith proves not just to be a positive sphere in which women are able to assert themselves. Its ambiguity becomes clear as the author explains that religious women often find their visions of social justice and equality marginalised by the dominance of male leadership. Nevertheless, Bradley also looks at how religious women challenge male dominance, drawing on their beliefs and practices in creative and innovative ways. Thus a complex picture emerges, and by including insights from gender studies and anthropology, Bradley argues that religion can both empower and disempower local communities, and the women who live within them. By analysing development through a prism of different disciplines, Bradley highlights the complex nature of power relations that are at the very heart of development agendas and organizations and offers an invaluable contribution to the analysis of varied disciplines in the analysis of women and religion in Rajasthan. This book will be of interest to students, reseachers and policy makers involved in various fields, including those of Development Studies, Religion, Gender Studies and Social Anthropology. --Book Jacket.
    Description / Table of Contents: Reviewing the links between religion, gender and development -- Understanding global development through religion and gender -- Gender, mothering and development: case studies of three Hindu transnational movements -- What is a faith-based organization? -- Can compassion bring results? Reflections on the work of an intermediary FBO -- Competing visions of development: the story of a faith-based partnership -- Gender, Gandhi and community organizations -- Physical religious spaces in the lives of Rajasthani village women -- Positioning religion in research and activism to end domestic violence in Rajasthan -- Puja as an approach to health care.
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    In defense of Wyam : Native-white alliances & the struggle for Celilo Village (2018)
    Seattle : University of Washington Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-295-74357-8 , 978-0-295-74357-8 / (falsche ISBN) , 978-0-295-74359-2 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 294 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
    Keywords: Nordamerika USA ; Oregon ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Grundeigentum ; Regierung ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Indianerpolitik ; Umsiedlung ; Frau ; Biographie ; Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße ; Geschichte ; McKeown, Martha Ferguson [Leben und Werk] ; Thompson, Flora Cushinway [Leben und Werk] ; Columbia River 〈USA〉 ; Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- A Note on Terminology and Sources -- Acknowledgments -- ONE Homelands in Transition -- TWO Maintaining/Making Home -- THREE Growing Up -- FOUR Converging Paths of Leadership -- FIVE Protecting Home -- SIX New Narratives in an Ancient Land -- SEVEN Aftermath -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Flexible capitalism : exchange and ambiguity at work (2018)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78238-615-5 , 978-1-78920-073-7 , 978-1-78238-616-2 (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 287 Seiten
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Series Statement: EASA Series 25
    Keywords: Arbeitsverhältnis Arbeit ; Kapitalismus ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
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    The _middle class in Mozambique : the state and the politics of transformation in southern Africa (2018)
    New York, NY : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-47288-3 , 978-1-108-46071-2 , 1-108-47288-5 , 1-108-46071-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 174 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: International African Library 57
    Keywords: Mosambik Mittelklasse ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Lebensstil ; Unabhängigkeitskampf ; Befreiungsbewegung ; Bürgerkrieg ; Politischer Wandel ; Demokratisierung ; Wirtschaft ; Jugendlicher
    Abstract: In recent years, the growth of a middle class has been a key feature of the 'Africa Rising' narrative. Here, Jason Sumich explores the formation of this middle class in Mozambique, answering questions about the basis of the class system and the social order that gives rise to it. Drawing extensively on his fieldwork, Sumich argues that power and status in dominant party states like Mozambique derives more from the ability to access resources, rather than from direct control of the means of production. By considering the role of the state, he shows how the Mozambican middle class can both be bound to a system they benefit from and alienated from it at the same time, as well as exploring the ways in which the middle classe attempts to reproduce its positions of privilege and highlighting the deeply uncertain future that it faces. --- Book description
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Origins -- Ascendance, 1974-83 -- Collapse, 1983-92 -- Democratisation, 1992-2004 -- Decay, 2005-15 -- Concluding thoughts, 2016
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    Ernährungssicherung : eine entwicklungspolitische Bewertung ausgewählter Handlungsfelder (2018)
    Duisburg : Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (74 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: AVE-Studie 8
    Keywords: Landbevölkerung Nahrungsmittelversorgung ; Hunger ; Landnutzung ; Agrarreform ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
    Abstract: Obwohl die Landwirtschaft soviel produziert wie nie zuvor, hungern noch immer mindestens 815 Millionen Menschen. Dieser Herausforderung widmen sich auch zahlreiche Entwicklungsprojekte auf ganz unterschiedliche Art und Weise. Die Studie von Anika Mahla et al. legt zunächst auf theoretischer Ebene die Ursachen von Ernährungsunsicherheit dar und gibt einen Überblick über die agrarentwicklungspolitischen Konzepte der letzten Dekaden. Abschließend werden wichtige Maßnahmen, wie die Förderung von Geschlechtergerechtigkeit oder Landzugang im Kampf gegen Unterernährung beleuchtet. Auch Kontroversen, wie jene um die Förderung einer kleinbäuerlichen oder industrialisierten Landwirtschaft, werden thematisiert.
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    In search of gender justice : rights and relationships in matrilineal Malawi (2018)
    London : International African Institute
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-47370-5 , 978-1-108-56303-1 / eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 197 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published, Reprinted
    Series Statement: International African Library 58
    Keywords: Malawi Matrilinealität ; Frau ; Recht ; Frauenrecht ; Heirat ; Liebe ; Geschlechterforschung ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Gewalt
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 176-195
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    The _promise of infrastructure (2018)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-4780-0018-1 , 978-1-4780-0003-7 /Hb. , 978-1-4780-0203-1 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 256 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [123]
    Keywords: Anthropologie, soziale Ethnologie ; Infrastruktur ; Technologie, moderne ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint`s poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure / Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta -- Part I. Time -- 1. Infrastructural Time / Hannah Appel -- 2. The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta -- 3. Infrastructures in and out of Time: The Promise of Roads in Contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey -- 4. The Current Never Stops: Intimacies of Energy Infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel --Part II. Politics -- 5. Infrastructure, Apartheid Technopolitics, and Temporalities of "Transition" / Antina von Schnitzler -- 6. A Public Matter: Water, Hydraulics, Biopolitics / Nikhil Anand -- Part III Promise -- 7. Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure / Brian Larkin -- 8. Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker -- 9. Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution / Dominic Boyer -- Contributors -- Index
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 9 Beiträge
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    Culture in the domains of law (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-316-61513-3 , 978-1-107-16333-1 , 978-1-316-68106-0 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 437 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Keywords: Kultur Recht ; Recht, westliches ; Recht, traditionelles ; Soziologie ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Großbritannien ; Scheidung ; Frau und Islam ; Beschneidung ; Frankreich ; Kolonie, französisch ; Differenzierung ; Recht, koloniales ; Frau ; Kanada ; Indianer, Kanada ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; USA ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Hopi ; Ruanda (Staat) ; Sierra Leone ; Kannibalismus
    Abstract: "What does it mean for courts and other legal institutions to be culturally sensitive? What are the institutional implications and consequences of such an aspiration? To what extent is legal discourse capable of accommodating multiple cultural narratives without losing its claim to normative specificity? And how are we to understand meetings of law and culture in the context of formal and informal legal processes, when demands are made to accommodate cultural difference? The encounter of law and culture is a polycentric relation, but these questions draw our attention to law and legal institutions as one site of encounter warranting further investigation, to map out the place of culture in the domains of law by relying on the insights of law, anthropology, politics, and philosophy. Culture in the Domains of Law seeks to examine and answer these questions resulting in a richer outlook on both law and culture"--What does it mean for courts and other legal institutions to be culturally sensitive? What are the institutional implications and consequences of such an aspiration? To what extent is legal discourse capable of accommodating multiple cultural narratives without losing its claim to normative specificity? And how are we to understand meetings of law and culture in the context of formal and informal legal processes, when demands are made to accommodate cultural difference? The encounter of law and culture is a polycentric relation, but these questions draw our attention to law and legal institutions as one site of encounter warranting further investigation, to map out the place of culture in the domains of law by relying on the insights of law, anthropology, politics, and philosophy. Culture in the Domains of Law seeks to examine and answer these questions, resulting in a richer outlook on both law and culture.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 369 - 419; Enthält 13 Beiträge
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    Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine (2018)
    Oxford : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78238-554-7 , 978-1-78920-059-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 302 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Series Statement: Epistemologies of Healing volume 15
    Keywords: Südafrika Ethnomedizin ; Heilbehandlung ; Medizin, traditionelle ; Wissen, lokales ; Pharmakologie ; Anthropologie, medizinische ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Rausch- und Genußmittel
    Abstract: "Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like "medicine," thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This 'natural' remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical -- from the "open air" to controlled environments -- learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing."--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: tracing the preclinical trial of an indigenous plant. Knowing umhloyane/Artemisia afra. Engaging in medicine. Tracing medicine/wayfaring. Imagining indigeneity. Healing the nation. Dreams, ancestors and sound healing. Weaving molecules in lifeConclusion--imagining the clinical trial.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 258-275
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    Tourism and ethnodevelopment : inclusion, empowerment and self-determination (2018)
    London : Routledge
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    ISBN: 978-0-415-78844-1 , 978-1-315-22528-9 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 297 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Tourism and Anthropology
    Keywords: Tourismus Entwicklungsländer ; Anthropologie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Entwicklungsethnologie ; Südostasien ; Thai ; Karen ; Laos ; Indonesien ; Südamerika ; Brasilien ; Chile ; Ecuador ; Indianer, Brasilien ; Ethnie, Europa ; Samen ; Kulturwandel ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Minorität ; Selbstbestimmung ; Selbstverwaltung ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
    Abstract: Ethnodevelopment is a well-established concept in the field of development studies. Despite its relevance to tourism initiatives and processes in the Global South, it continues to be an underutilised concept in the field. This book bridges this gap, presenting an original conceptual framework to study the relationship between tourism and ethnodevelopment. It focuses on the processes of inclusion, empowerment, self-expression and self-determination to explore the effects of tourism initiatives on the identities, cultural resilience, livelihoods and economic opportunities of ethnic minority communities. Chapters explore a range of concepts and issues such as gender, authenticity, indigenous knowledge, tradition, the commodification of culture, community-based tourism, local entrepreneurship, cultural heritage, and tourism and the environment. Drawing on rich primary research conducted across South East Asia and South and Central America the book offers detailed evaluations of the successes and failures of various tourism policies and practices. This book makes a valuable contribution for students, scholars, practitioners and policy-makers alike interested in tourism, development studies, geography and anthropology.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures - List of tables - Notes on contributors - List of abbreviations - Introduction -- Part 1: Institutionalized Ethnic Tourism and Advances in Ethnodevelopment: Policies, Communities, Organizations -- Part 2: Ethnic entrepreneurship, Tourism and Ethnodevelopment -- Part 3: Empowerment approaches in Ethnic Tourism: Issues of Authenticity, Cultural Commodification and Environment, Gender -Conclusion -- Index
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    The _owners of kinship : asymmetrical relations in indigenous Amazonia (2018)
    Chicago : HAU Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-912808-15-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (305 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: The _Malinowski Monographs Series
    Keywords: Brasilien Amazonas-Gebiet ; Indianer, Amazonas-Gebiet ; Indianer, Brasilien ; Tukuna ; Ernährung ; Eßgewohnheit ; Verwandtschaft ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziale Beziehung ; Eigentum
    Abstract: The Owners of Kinship investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmetrical relation between an "owner" and his or her dependents. Through a comprehensive ethnography of the Kanamari, Luiz Costa shows how this relationship is centered around the bond created between the feeder and the fed. Building on anthropological studies of the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of food and its role in establishing relations of asymmetrical mutuality and kinship, this book breaks theoretical ground for studies in Amazonia and beyond. By investigating how the feeding relation traverses Kanamari society from the relation between women and the pets they raise, shaman and familiar spirit, mother and child, chiefs and followers, to those between the Brazilian state and the Kanamari The Owners of Kinship reveals how the mutuality of kinship is determined by the asymmetry of ownership.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on orthography -- Foreword / Janet Carsten -- Introduction -- Chapter one. Making need -- Chapter two. Mastering agency -- Chapter three. On the child's blood -- Chapter four. Tripartite history -- Chapter five. Old jaguars -- Conclusion -- References cited -- Indexes
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [235]-261"This book is based on research carried out for my doctoral thesis, presented at the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (National Museum, UFRJ, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), in 2007." (Acknowledgements)
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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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    Unjust conditions : women's work and the hidden cost of cash transfer programs (2018)
    Oakland, California : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-520-29699-2 (paperback) , 978-0-520-96952-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 192 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Lateinamerika Peru ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Armut ; Frau ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Ethnographie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Weltbank
    Abstract: Unjust Conditions follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and the World Bank, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are praised as efficient mechanisms for changing poor people's behavior. While rooted in good intentions and dripping with the rhetoric of social inclusion, CCT programs' successes ring hollow, based solely on metrics for children's attendance at school and health appointments. Looking beyond these statistics reveals a host of hidden costs for the mothers who meet the conditions. With a poignant voice and keen focus on ethnographic research, Tara Patricia Cookson turns the reader's gaze to women's care work in landscapes of grossly inadequate state investment, cleverly drawing out the tensions between social inclusion and conditionality. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Peru -- Introduction: making aid conditional -- Setting the conditions -- The ironic conditions of clinics and schools -- Rural women walking and waiting -- Paid and unpaid labor on the frontline state -- Shadow conditions and the immeasurable burden of improvement -- Conclusion: toward a caring society -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 173-186
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    Elasticity in domesticity : white women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-37056-2 , 978-90-04-38112-4/e-book
    ISSN: 1568-1777
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 227 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series volume 38
    Keywords: Simbabwe Rhodesien ; Weiße ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In Elasticity in Domesticity: White women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 Ushehwedu Kufakurinani examines the colonial experiences of white women in what was later called Rhodesia. He demonstrates the extent to which the state and society appropriated white women`s labour power and the workings of the domestic ideology in shaping white women`s experiences. The author also discusses how and to what extent white women appropriated and deployed the domestic ideology. Institutional as well as personal archives were consulted which include official correspondence, diaries, personal letters, newsletters, magazines, commissions of inquiry, among other sources. (Umschalagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: White women and the unfolding Rhodesian society -- Domesticity, constructions of whiteness, and white femininity in Southern Rhodesia -- White women and the domestic space: housewifery in the Rhodesian context -- Emerging out of the sheaths of domesticity? White women in formal wage employment, c. 1914-1980 -- White women and wage employment -- Mothering the empire: overview of White women's organisations -- White women's organisations and settler society, 1920s-1970s -- Encounter with Africans, 1920s-1980 -- White women and the homecraft movement.
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    Marriage, love, caste and kinship support : lived experiences of the urban poor in India (2018)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-01933-1 , 978-0-203-73282-3/ebook
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVII, 236 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: revised edition
    Keywords: Indien Heirat ; Heiratsvermittlung ; Kaste ; Liebe ; Ehe ; Familie ; Verwandtschaft ; Städtisches Gebiet ; Frau ; Armut ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Alltag ; Unberührbarer ; Recht, traditionelles ; Konfliktmanagement ; Delhi 〈Stadt, Indien〉
    Abstract: This book makes use of interesting case studies and photographs to describe everyday life in a squatter settlement in Delhi. The book helps to understand the marital experiences of these people most of whom belong to the Scheduled Caste and live in one identified geographical space. The author describes the shifts within their marriages, remarriages and other kinds of unions and their striking diversities, which have been described with care. Shalini Grover also examines the close ties of married women with their mothers and natal families. An important contribution of the book lies in the unfolding of the role of women-led informal courts, Mahila Panchayats and their influence in conflict resolution. This takes place in a distinctly different mode of community-based arbitration against the backdrop of mainstream legal structures and male-dominated caste associations. The book will be of interest to students of sociology and social anthropology, gender studies, development studies, law and psychology. Activists and family counsellors will also find the book useful.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword by Professor Patricia Uberoi 1. Mapping the Debate on Marriage 2. Revisiting Arranged Marriages: Marital Roles, Conflict and Kinship Support 3. Courtships and Love Marriages 4. Secondary Unions and Other Conjugal Arrangements 5. Informal Dispute Settlement: The Mahila Panchayats 6. Towards the Democratization of Marriage and Relationships: Conclusion
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 220-231
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    Styling South Asian youth cultures : fashion, media & society (2018)
    London : I.B. Tauris
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    ISBN: 978-1-78453-917-7 , 1-78453-917-1 , 987-1-78672-562-2 / (e-book) , 987-1-78673-562-1 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 232 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Dress Cultures
    Keywords: Asien Süd-Asien ; Indien ; Afghanistan ; Bangladesh ; Bhutan ; Malediven ; Nepal ; Pakistan ; Sri Lanka ; Mode ; Design ; Konsum ; Jugendkultur ; Jugendlicher ; Geschlechterforschung ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Abstract: For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have all, in related and distinctive ways, been producing confident young fashion consumers, who are proving to be an important market for fashion.This book explores South Asian youth cultures and fashion across the countries of this region and their diasporas from a transnational perspective. Through visual and textual analysis of film, photography and digital cultures, as well as ethnographic fieldwork, the expert contributors look at how gender, sexuality, class, the media and faith intersect with and style youth cultures. By establishing the heterogeneous nature of South Asia and its youth cultures, they also dismantle grand western narratives that tend to understand the region's diverse cultural modernity through the lens of homogeneity.
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsList of ImagesContributorsIntroduction: Styling South Asian Youth Cultures - By Lipi Begum and Rohit K DasguptaChapter One: Street Style vs. Style on the Street? : Two Interpretations of Indian Street Fashion - By Arti SandhuChapter Two: Style-ish Girls and Local Boys: Young Women and Fashion in Chennai - By Sneha KrishnanChapter Three: Rituparno Ghosh, Sartorial Codes and the Queer Bengali Youth - By Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K DasguptaChapter Four: In/visible Space: Reflections on the Realm of Dimensional Affect, Space and the Queer Racialised Self - By Raisa KabirChapter Five: Faces of Subversion: Queer Looks of India - By Sunil Gupta and Charan SinghChapter Six: Designing for 'Zippies' and the Madness of Bhootsavaar On Commercially Inflected Artistic Nationalism and Branded 'Subcultures' - By Tereza KuldovaChapter Seven: Emergent Collaborative Practices of Sustainable Design and Craft in Bangladesh - By Lynne Hammond and Tara Boath MooneyChapter Eight: Trouser Wearing Women: Changing Landscape of Fashion among Free Trade Zone Factory Workers and Contemporary Political Tensions in Sri Lanka - By Sandya HewamanneChapter Nine: Changing Fashions of Bhutanese Youth, Impacts on Cultural and Individual Identity - By Paul StricklandChapter Ten: Matching Clothes and Matching Couples: The Role of Dress in Arranged Marriages in Kathmandu - By Sarah Shepherd-ManandharChapter Eleven: 'Of Course It's Beautiful, But I Can't Wear It!' Constructions of Hindu Style Among Young Hindustani Women in Amsterdam - By Priya SwamyChapter Twelve: Bras are not for Burning: the Bra and Young Urban Women in Delhi and Bombay - By Lipi BegumAfterword: Locating the Style Cultures of South Asian Youth - By Reina LewisIndex
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    Wer sind die Ärmsten im Dorf? : Mit dem ID-Poor-Ansatz werden die Armen in Kambodscha partizipativ und transparent identifiziert (2018)
    Duisburg : Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (74 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: AVE-Studie 9
    Keywords: Kambodscha Landbevölkerung ; Armut ; Hunger ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Demographie ; Statistik
    Abstract: Die Identifikation (Targeting) der (extrem) Armen ist ein Muss für eine gezielte und effiziente Unterstützung vor allem im Rahmen von sozialen Sicherungssystemen. Die Vermeidung von Inklusions- und Exklusionsfehlern stellt dabei eine Herausforderung da, zudem wird nur allzuhäufig Targeting in zu großen zeitlichen Abständen durchgeführt. Mit dem System ID Poor wurde in Kambodscha ein Verfahren entwickelt, das durch Partizipation an der Basis und Transparenz relativ wenige Inklusions- und Exklusionsfehler aufweist. Zudem erfolgt der Targeting-Prozess regelmäßig, bisher landesweit alle drei Jahre, und wie dieser INEF-Bericht zeigt, ist seit 2018 auch eine Nachidentifikation bisher nicht berücksichtigter armer Personen zwischen den Gesamterhebungen möglich.
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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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    Translation revisited : contesting the sense of African social realities (2018)
    Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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    ISBN: 978-1-5275-1413-3 , 1-5275-1413-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiv, 527 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Afrika Sambia ; Sahara ; Westafrika, A.O.F. ; Ghana ; Togo ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Senegal ; Uganda ; Gabun ; Kamerun ; Nigeria ; Igbo ; Sprache und Kultur ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Exegese ; Menschenrecht ; Kolonialismus ; Postkolonialismus ; Mission, christliche ; Pan-Afrikanismus ; Macht ; Sprachwissenschaft ; Bibel ; Diaspora ; Kapitalismus ; Humanismus ; Virtueller Raum ; Mudimbe, Valentin Y. [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: How realistic is it to expect translation to render the world intelligible in a context shaped by different historical trajectories and experiences? Can we rely on human universals to translate through the unique and specific webs of meaning that languages represent? If knowledge production is a kind of translation, then it is fair to assume that the possibility of translation has largely rested on the idea that Western experience is the repository of these human universals against the background of which different human experiences can be rendered intelligible. The problem with this assumption, however, is that there are limits to Western claims to universalism, mainly because these claims were at the service of the desire to justify imperial expansion. This book addresses issues arising from these claims to universalism in the process of producing knowledge about diverse African social realities. It shows that the idea of knowledge production as translation can be usefully deployed to inquire into how knowledge of Africa translates into an imperial attempt at changing local norms, institutions and spiritual values. Translation, in this sense, is the normalization of meanings issuing from a local historical experience claiming to be universal. The task of producing knowledge of African social realities cannot be adequately addressed without a prior critical engagement with how translation has come to shape our ways of rendering Africa intelligible.
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    Global Nepalis : religion, culture, and community in a new and old diaspora (2018)
    New Delhi : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-948192-7 , 0-19-948192-X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 580 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Nepal Ethnizität ; Migration ; Ausländer ; Diaspora ; Religion ; Kultur ; Gemeinschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt
    Abstract: Migration has always been a feature of Nepali society. Waves of Khas, Brahmans, and associated service castes were already moving south and east through the Himalayan foothills a millennium ago. As the population expanded, Nepalis from all backgrounds have continually moved onwards in search of new farmland and new opportunities, often encouraged to do so by local communities, local headmen, and the state. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that process continued eastwards from present-day Nepal into the north-east of India and beyond. Over the last thirty years international labour migration, as well as migration consequent on tertiary education, has radically changed the patterns of settlement of Nepalis outside their homeland. The present volume covers the many different contexts-from the USA to the Gulf, from India to Burma and Singapore-where large numbers of Nepalis are settled or working long-term. Taken together, and organized by region of settlement, the contributions in this book provide a comprehensive overview of Nepali diaspora populations around the world in their contemporary contexts. The common theme binding this volume is the exploration of the process of 'ethnogenesis' or the emergence of strong ethnic identities in which the contributors analyse how such identities strengthen more easily in the diaspora with a large population, than in the homeland.
    Description / Table of Contents: Partial contents The old diaspora: South Asia, southeast Asia, and beyond -- The new diaspora 1: transnational urban migrants in Singapore, the Gulf, and the USA -- The new diaspora 2: ethnicity, caste, and religion in the UK -- Uniting the diaspora and having an impact in the homeland
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    Empirical anthropology : issues of academic friends and friends in the field : felicitation volume in honour of Prof. Deepak Kumar Behera (2018)
    New Delhi : Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
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    ISBN: 978-93-86682-36-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxii, 271 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Indien Feldforschung ; Indigenität ; Adivasi ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Gesundheit ; Hygiene ; Sprache ; Jugend ; Freundschaft
    Note: "The present volume has been written in honour of Professor Deepak Kumar Behera by his friends and colleagues of the past decades"--Preface
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    Coastal Sierra Leone : materiality and the unseen in maritime West Africa (2018)
    London : International African Institute
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-47116-9 , 978-1-108-45468-1 , 978-1-108-55564-7 / eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 234 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: International African Library 55
    Keywords: Sierra Leone Fischerei ; Meer ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
    Abstract: A rich ethnographic account of young West African fisherfolk navigating a precarious social and economic environment shaped by ecological crisis, war, and secrecy.Against the backdrop of a threadbare post-war state and a global marine ecology in treacherous decline, Jennifer Diggins offers a dynamic account of post-war Sierra Leone, through the examination of a precarious frontier economy and those who depend on it. The book traces how understandings of intimacy, interdependence, and exploitation have been shaped through a history of indentured labour, violence, and gendered migration; and how these relationships are being renegotiated once more in a context of deepening economic uncertainty. At its core, this is about the material substance of human relationships. One can go a long way towards mapping the town's shifting networks of friendship, love, and obligation simply by watching the vast daily traffic in gifts of fish exchanging hands on the wharf. However, these mundane social and economic strategies are often inflected through a cultural dynamic of 'secrecy', and a shared sense of the unseen forces understood to inhabit the material world.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction; 2 Context, history, methods; 3 Economic runaways; 4 Plantain Island sirens; 5 'Potato rope' families; 6 Occult economies and hidden topographies; 7 Material words; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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    Translocal connections across the Indian Ocean : Swahili speaking networks on the move (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-35407-4 , 978-90-04-36598-8 /eBook
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 322 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series volume 37
    Keywords: Kenia Tansania ; Somalia ; Mosambik ; Sansibar ; Tanganjika ; Indischer Ozean ; Europa ; USA ; Suaheli ; Migration ; Flüchtling ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sufismus ; Islam ; Poesie ; Frau ; Sklavenhandel ; Soziale Medien ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude.
    Description / Table of Contents: Transliteration, Orthography and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors - Introduction -- Translocality in the Past -- Vectors (Carriers) of Translocality --Reflections (Representations) of Translocal Connections -- Experiencing Translocality: Translocality from the Bottom - Translocality in Daily Experience -- Index
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 11 Beiträge
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    Shaping the future on Haida Gwaii (2018)
    Vancouver : UBC Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-7748-3758-3 , 978-0-7748-3760-6 , 978-0-7748-3761-3/ePub
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 230 Seiten
    Keywords: Kanada British Columbia ; Haida ; Indianer, Kanada ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziales Leben ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Zeit ; Mobilität ; Führer, politischer ; Postkolonialismus ; Prognose
    Abstract: "Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society. This book asserts quite the opposite: Indigenous peoples are not in any sense "out of time" in our contemporary world. Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii shows how Indigenous peoples not only continue to have a future, but are at work building many different futures--for themselves and for their nonIndigenous neighbours. Through the experiences of the Haida First Nation, this book explores these possible futures in detail, demonstrating how Haida ways of thinking about time, mobility, and political leadership are at the heart of contemporary strategies for addressing the dilemmas that come with life under settler colonialism."--Back cover.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Pasts and Futures. 1 An Introduction to Haida Future-Making in Old Massett. 2 The Everyday Temporalities of Life on Haida Gwaii. Part 2: Home. 3 Coming Home to Haida Gwaii: Haida Departures and Returns in the Future Perfect. 4 Of Hippies and Haida: Fantasy, Future-Making, and the Allure of Haida Gwaii. Part 3: Care. 5 Leading "from the Bottom of the Pole": Care and Governance in the Haida World. 6 Precarious Authority: Endangerment and the Political Promise to Protect Haida Gwaii. Conclusion: Unsettling Futures. Notes; References; Index
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    Standing Rock : greed, oil and the Lakota's struggle for justice (2018)
    London : Zed Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78699-282-6 , 978-1-78699-283-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 216 Seiten
    Keywords: Nordamerika Indianer, Nordamerika ; Indianer, Prärie und Plains ; Lakota ; Erdöl ; Landnahme ; Grundeigentum ; Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Indianerreservation ; Recht ; Widerstandsbewegung ; Unruhen
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue Before we Begin… 1. The Resistance 2. Seventh Generation 3. The Black Snake 4. Showdown at Standing Rock Epilogue Author's Note
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    The _rise and fall of the Amazon rubber industry : an historical anthropology (2018)
    London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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    ISBN: 978-1-138-89402-0 , 978-1-138-89403-7 , 978-1-315-17997-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 207 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Amazonas-Gebiet Kautschuk ; Industrie ; Ressource ; Rohstoff ; Handel ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte
    Abstract: In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America, emphasizing the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. Through a critical examination focused on the rubber industry, Nugent addresses myths that continue to influence perceptions of Amazonia. The book challenges widely held assumptions about the hyper-naturalism of the `lost world' of the Amazon where `the challenge of the tropics' is still to be faced and the `frontiers of development' are still to be settled. It is relevant for students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, history, political ecology, geography and development studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: reface: The Amazon Rubber Boom, Tapping into the Past 1. Requiem for the Amazon Rubber Boom 2. This Substance Called Rubber: Hevea and Its Relations 3. Anthropological Rubber in the Amazon 4. Postcards from El Dorado: an overview of historical accounts of the rubber industry 5. Embedded Tropes and the Shift of Time 6. Failure as a Stage of Modernization, Part one: Narratives of failure 7. Failure as a Stage of Modernization, Part two: Modernity redux, the failure of Fordlandia 8. After the Wild Frontier 9. The Melancholy and the Modern 10. Rubber in London 11. Concluding Comments
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    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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    Stategraphy : toward a relational anthropology of the state (2018)
    New York : Berghahn
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-699-7 , 978-1-78533-700-0 , 978-1-78533-701-7/eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: 163 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Studies in Social Analysis 4
    Keywords: Anthropologie, politische Staat ; Sicherheit ; Politik ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Politischer Wandel ; Ethnographie ; Kulturvergleich ; Netzwerkanalyse
    Note: "Originally published as a special issue of Social Analysis, volume 58, issue 3"
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    Zwei Schwestern : im Bann des Dschihad (2018)
    Bonn : Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
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    ISBN: 978-3-7425-0195-0 , 978-3-0369-5774-6
    Language: German
    Pages: 525 Seiten
    Edition: Sonderausgabe für die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
    Series Statement: Schriftenreihe. Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung 10195
    Uniform Title: To søstre
    Keywords: Syrien Islamische Staaten ; Jihad ; Jugendlicher ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Radikalisierung ; Erlebnisbericht
    Abstract: Die Schwestern Ayan, 19, und Leila 16, Norwegerinnen somalischer Herkunft, beschließen eines Tages, nach Syrien zu reisen und in den Dschihad zu ziehen. Das Umfeld der Schwestern ist ratlos, für die Eltern bricht eine Welt zusammen - der Vater macht sich auf nach Syrien, um seine Töchter zu finden und zurückzuholen. Die Frage, die alle umtreibt, ist: Wie haben sich die beiden Schwestern, die keineswegs streng religiös erzogen wurden und gut integriert schienen, radikalisiert? Åsne Seierstad dokumentiert die Geschichte von Ayan und Leila und ihrer Familie. Sie zeichnet den Weg der Schwestern in den Dschihad nach und schildert den Kampf der Familie nach dem Verschwinden der beiden. Seierstad liefert eine vielschichtige Erzählung über die norwegische Migrationsgesellschaft, die Mechanismen der Radikalisierung junger Menschen und die Absurditäten des von den Schwestern praktizierten religiösen Fanatismus im Spannungsfeld zwischen absoluter moralischer Rigorosität und alterstypischen Interessen und Hoffnungen.
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    Hidden histories : religion and reform in South Asia (2018)
    Delhi : Primus Books
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    ISBN: 978-93-86552-84-6 , 978-93-86552-85-3
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 306 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Süd-Asien Religion ; Reform ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Islam ; Kultur ; Geschichte ; Literatur ; Pakistan ; Indien
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    The _protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Africa : international, regional and national perspectives (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-316-62586-6 , 978-1-107-17365-1 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 583 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Südafrika ; Kenia ; Angola ; Mosambik ; Senegal ; Äthiopien ; Uganda ; Ghana ; Nigeria ; Kamerun ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Kind ; Alter ; Behinderung ; Menschenrecht ; Recht ; Recht, internationales ; Rechtsethnologie ; Gerichtsbarkeit ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa critiques the three main models of constitutionally protecting economic, social and cultural rights in Africa - direct, indirect and hybrid models. It examines the choices that states have made, how the models have worked, whether they have been tested in litigation and the jurisprudence that has arisen. The book analyses the protection of the economic, social and cultural rights in a range of African countries: Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Leading legal academics explore how these rights feature at the regional and sub-regional levels, as well as the link between domestic and international mechanisms of enforcement.
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on contributors -- Foreword by Kate O'Regan -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction -- Part II. International Protection -- Part III. African Regional and Sub-Regional Protection -- Part IV. Domestic Constitutional Protection Models and Jurisprudence -- Index
    Note: Enthält 19 Beiträge
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    The _Horn of Africa and Italy : colonial, postcolonial and transnational cultural encounters (2018)
    Oxford : Peter Lang
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    ISBN: 978-1-78707-993-9 , 1-78707-993-7 , 978-1-78707-994-6 /ePDF , 978-1-78707-995-3 /ePub , 978-1-78707-996-0 /mobi
    ISSN: 2235-1809
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 326 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New Comparative Criticism 6
    Keywords: Osthorn Äthiopien ; Eritrea ; Somalia ; Italien ; Postkolonialismus ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonie, italienisch ; Recht ; Literatur, afrikanische ; Held ; Widerstandsbewegung ; Migration ; Sport ; Photographie ; Film, ethnographischer ; Diaspora ; Grenze ; Libyen ; Nationalismus ; Rassismus ; Frau ; Mohammed Abdulle Hassan [Leben und Werk] ; Omar al-Mukhtar [Leben und Werk] ; Mengiste, Maaza [Leben und Werk] ; Scego, Igiaba [Leben und Werk] ; Mohamed, Nadifa [Leben und Werk] ; Addis Abeba 〈Äthiopien〉 ; Mogadischu 〈Stadt, Somalia〉 ; AFIS 〉 Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia ; Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia
    Abstract: This multidisciplinary volume analyses key themes and topics related to the cultural encounters between Italy and its former colonies in the Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia). The multi-faceted relations between the Horn of Africa and Italy were initiated during the colonial period but have also been shaped more recently through migration. In eleven chapters by experts in comparative literature, cultural studies, history, migration studies, political philosophy and postcolonial theory, the volume highlights how the legacy of colonialism permeates Italian society as well as influencing the construction of national identities in the Horn of Africa. The analysis of this transnational encounter opens up new possibilities for comparative research and critical synergies in Italian studies, African studies and beyond.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- a note on the text -- Introduction -- Part 1. Colonialism -- Part 2. Post-colonialism -- Part 3. Transnationalism -- Notes on contributors -- Index
    Note: Enthält ein Einführung und 11 Beiträge
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    A _Creole nation : national integration in Guinea-Bissau (2018)
    New York : Berghahn Books
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    ISBN: 978-1-78533-424-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 235 Seiten , 8 Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Guinea Bissau Kreole, Af ; Ethnizität ; Postkolonialismus ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [201]-228
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    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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    Wer sind die Ärmsten im Dorf? : Mit dem ID-Poor-Ansatz werden die Armen in Kambodscha partizipativ und transparent identifiziert (2018)
    Duisburg : Universität Duisburg-Essen, Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 74 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: AVE-Studie 9
    Keywords: Kambodscha Landbevölkerung ; Armut ; Hunger ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Demographie ; Statistik
    Abstract: Die Identifikation (Targeting) der (extrem) Armen ist ein Muss für eine gezielte und effiziente Unterstützung vor allem im Rahmen von sozialen Sicherungssystemen. Die Vermeidung von Inklusions- und Exklusionsfehlern stellt dabei eine Herausforderung da, zudem wird nur allzuhäufig Targeting in zu großen zeitlichen Abständen durchgeführt. Mit dem System ID Poor wurde in Kambodscha ein Verfahren entwickelt, das durch Partizipation an der Basis und Transparenz relativ wenige Inklusions- und Exklusionsfehler aufweist. Zudem erfolgt der Targeting-Prozess regelmäßig, bisher landesweit alle drei Jahre, und wie dieser INEF-Bericht zeigt, ist seit 2018 auch eine Nachidentifikation bisher nicht berücksichtigter armer Personen zwischen den Gesamterhebungen möglich.
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