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  • 1
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    Guest People : Hakka Identity in China and Abroad (2014)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Washington Press
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    ISBN: 9780295805450
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 p.)
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China
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    Mapping Shangrila : Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (2014)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Washington Press
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    ISBN: 9780295805023
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (348 p.)
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila�a place that previously had existed only in fiction�had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism development and nature conservation, which have in turn attracted throngs of backpackers, environmentalists, and entrepreneurs who seek to experience, protect, and profit from the region�s landscapes.Mapping Shangrila advances a view of landscapes as media of governance, representation, and resistance, examining how they are reshaping cultural economies, political ecologies of resource use, subjectivities, and interethnic relations. Chapters illuminate topics such as the role of Han and Tibetan literary representations of border landscapes in the formation of ethnic identities; the remaking of Chinese national geographic imaginaries through tourism in the Yading Nature Reserve; the role of The Nature Conservancy and other transnational environmental organizations in struggles over culture and environmental governance; the way in which matsutake mushroom and caterpillar fungus commodity chains are reshaping montane landscapes; and contestations over the changing roles of mountain deities and their mediums as both interact with increasingly intensive nature conservation and state-sponsored capitalism.In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila � a place that previously had existed only in fiction � had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism development and nature conservation, which have in turn attracted throngs of backpackers, environmentalists, and entrepreneurs who seek to experience, protect, and profit from the region�s landscapes.Mapping Shangrila advances a view of landscapes as media of governance, representation, and resistance, examining how they are reshaping cultural economies, political ecologies of resource use, subjectivities, and interethnic relations. Chapters illuminate topics such as the role of Han and Tibetan literary representations of border landscapes in the formation of ethnic identities; the remaking of Chinese national geographic imaginaries through tourism in the Yading Nature Reserve; the role of The Nature Conservancy and other transnational environmental organizations in struggles over culture and environmental governance; the way in which matsutake mushroom and caterpillar fungus commodity chains are reshaping montane landscapes; and contestations over the changing roles of mountain deities and their mediums as both interact with increasingly intensive nature conservation and state-sponsored capitalism
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    Coded Territories : Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art (2014)
    Calgary : University of Calgary Press
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    ISBN: 9781552387887
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 p.)
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; The arts
    Abstract: This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches to new media from a distinctly Indigenous perspective. Through discourse and narrative analysis, the writers discuss a number of topics ranging from how Indigenous worldviews inform unique approaches to new media arts practice to their own work and specific contemporary works. Contributors include: Archer Pechawis, Jackson 2Bears, Jason Edward Lewis, Steven Foster, Candice Hopkins, and Cheryl L'Hirondelle
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    Le travail du mythe : La construction du héros en Mélanésie (2014)
    Paris : Société des Océanistes
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    ISBN: 9782854301151 , 9782854300345
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 p.)
    Series Statement: Publications de la SdO
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Cet ouvrage posthume de Bernard Juillerat élève le mythe au rang d'« "objet transitionnel" entre l'inconscient individuel et la société » et permet de repenser encore une fois des questions dont l'intérêt excède évidemment le domaine mélanésien, notamment la sexualité, la procréation, la parentalité, la filiation, l'émergence du social ou la mort. À partir de l'analyse comparative d'un corpus de mythes mélanésiens, essentiellement néo-guinéens, Bernard Juillerat en dégage la logique sémantique globale, en repérant les thèmes disséminés à travers les récits de multiples sociétés qui prennent sens comme autant d'éléments de configurations inconscientes universelles. La transmission orale des mythes, qui véhicule ce sens, contribue surtout à le produire à travers les transformations que leur répétition induit inévitablement au cours du temps. Ainsi, comme il l'écrit, le « sens n'est pas préétabli avant même que le mythe n'existe socialement : il se constitue dans une poussée de la pensée qui, par la médiation du récit, passe dans la parole et devient un bien culturel transmissible ». Au cœur des mythes réside la question des conflits permanents entre la jouissance individuelle et la construction du social qui travaille à sa domestication, le mythe parlant des « concessions que le sujet doit concéder au social pour maîtriser sa part "naturelle" ». Ainsi la pensée mythique fait-elle resurgir ce que la société a refoulé comme non socialisable. Dans la première partie, l'auteur traite des héros phalliques, personnalités solitaires, narcissiques et pulsionnelles qui défient l'ordre social et auxquelles appartiennent notamment les figures répandues des changeurs de peau. La deuxième partie porte sur les héros œdipiens, personnages disposant d'un accès privilégié à l'abondance - qu'elle se dise en termes de richesses matérielles ou de femmes. Ces types de héros vécurent sous le règne du principe de plaisir avant qu'une transgression individuelle n'y mette fin en provoquant l'apparition du principe de réalité qui régit désormais la vie de la société. La troisième et dernière partie concerne l'intrication mythique des thèmes de l'amour, de la mort et de l'abondance. L'analyse se termine sur l'observation qu'une structure ternaire apparaît commune à la presque totalité des récits. Écrit de façon claire et avec la sobriété qui était coutumière à l'auteur, ce livre offre un large panorama de mythes dans lesquels les ethnologues de la Nouvelle-Guinée en particulier retrouveront des échos familiers des récits qu'ils connaissent. L'interprétation qu'en livre Bernard Juillerat ici entend mettre en évidence les récurrences thématiques qui se font jour entre eux, sans chercher à les contextualiser de façon spécifique. Il n'est donc fait référence, par exemple, ni aux rites susceptibles d'être associés à ces mythes et de les éclairer, ni aux modalités sociales de leur énonciation
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    Africa's world trade : Informal economies and globalization from below (2014)
    Uppsala; London : The Nordic Africa Institute and Zed Books (Bloomsbury)
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    ISBN: 9781350218253 , 9781780323527 , 9781780323503 , 9781780323510 , 9781780323534 , 9781780323541
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (166 p.)
    Series Statement: Africa Now
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Economic geography ; Africa
    Abstract: Are Africa's world markets really contributing to development across the continent for individuals, nations and regions? This is the key question posed by Margaret Lee in this provocative book, in which she argues that all too often the voices of African traders are obscured amid a blizzard of statistical analysis. However, it is these very voices - from those operating on the ground as formal or informal traders - that must be listened to in order to form a true understanding of the impact trade regimes have on these individuals and their communities. Featuring a wealth of oral histories from across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, including Africans in China, Africa's World Trade offers a unique insight into how the complexity of international trade agreements can shape the everyday lives of ordinary Africans
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    Ljudska religioznost v Kanalski dolini : O umiti in v prt zaviti lobanji (2014)
    Ljubljana : ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
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    ISBN: 9789610503439 , 9789612547097
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (111 p.)
    Series Statement: Studia Mythologica Slavica Supplementa Supplementum 9
    Keywords: Italy ; Slovenian ; Ancient religions & mythologies ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: The monograph illustrates the festive year of Slovenes in the Canale Valley from the perspective of current ritualistic practices (still in use today). The identifying elements of the Slovenian linguistic community are recognizable in the implementation of various (popular) religious practices by the local population. The author presents the rituals (with selected prayer formulas), described as an integral part of their life by Slovenian-speaking informants - all of whom are indigenous, native people of the Canale Valley - that was described, from the point of view of experts in the fields (e.g. Kuret 1989) as typical of the Slovenian community in general
    Abstract: Monografija prinaša pregled ljudskega obredja prebivalstva Kanalske doline, ki ga avtorica prepoznava kot pomemben identifikacijski element tamkajšnje slovenske jezikovne skupnosti. Posebna pozornost je namenjena še v poznih 90. letih 20. stoletja živemu obrednemu »umivanju lobanje pokojnika«, o katerega razširjenosti med Slovenci so v preteklosti pisali že E. Gasparini (1952), M. Matičetov (1955) in H. Maister (1975), zapisi o prisotnosti tovrstnega obrednega umivanja v Srbiji in Makedoniji (E. Schneeweis 1935) pa namigujejo na morebitno vezanost obredja na širši južnoslovanski prostor. Knjiga je izšla ob finančni podpori Gorske skupnosti za Guminsko, Železno in Kanalsko dolino
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    Ambivalence terena (2014)
    Ljubljana : ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
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    ISBN: 9789612546946
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (87 p.)
    Series Statement: Opera ethnologica Slovenica
    Keywords: Slovenia ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: This text about the ambivalence of fieldwork, rituals, actors, and stories thematizes the relationship between the researcher and his informants and interlocutors (usually also the performers of a cultural practice), and it reveals dynamic processes at the same time. In the chapter "Texts and Realities" the author uses the carnival tradition known as škoromatija to decode a palimpsest structure and syncretic understanding of reality. The second chapter focuses on the production of local identity: a motif that is characteristic for today's production of ritual practices and cultural heritage. The chapter "Illusions of Harmony" thematizes discourse on the relationship between the views and conceptions of the researcher and performer, whereby the author especially problematizes the search for and repeated discovery of golden eras. "The Timing of Verbalization" is a narrative about time as one of the most important categories of structuring a narrative. The researcher problematizes the perception of time and the horizon, compares different timing of the past for himself and his interlocutor, and teases out caesurae in the structuring of time. In the last and partly self-ethnographic chapter on the ambivalence of fieldwork, the writer focuses on stories of "capturing" the reality, and stories about changing the approach to fieldwork and about the changed configurations of relations among actors
    Abstract: Besedilo o ambivalencah terena, o ritualih, akterjih in pripovedi tematizira razmerje med raziskovalcem in njegovim informatorjem, sogovornikom, navadno tudi izvajalcem kulturne prakse, in hkrati odkriva dinamične procese. V poglavju Besedila in resničnosti avtor na primeru pustovanja (škoromatije) razbira palimpsestne strukture in sinkretično dojemanje resničnosti. V drugem poglavju se osredotoča na produkcijo lokalne identitete~motiv, značilen za današnjo produkcijo ritualnih praks in kulturne dediščine. Poglavje Iluzije harmonije tematizira diskurze o razmerju med pogledi in dojemanji raziskovalca in izvajalca, pri čemer avtor posebej problematizira iskanje in najdevanje zlatih časov. Časenje upovedovanja je pripoved o času kot eni najpomembnejših kategorij strukturiranja pripovedi. Raziskovalec problematizira percepcijo časa in horizonta, primerja različno časenje preteklosti pri sebi in sogovorniku ter razbira cezure v strukturiranju časa. V zadnjem, deloma avtoetnografskem poglavju o ambivalencah terena se pisec osredotoča na zgodbe o »zajemanju« resničnosti, zgodbe o spreminjanju dostopa do terena in o spremenjenih konfiguracijah razmerja med akterji
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    Life Interrupted : Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States (2014)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9780822356332
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Human rights ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Gender studies: women
    Abstract: Life Interrupted introduces us to survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to get by and make homes for themselves in the United States. Having spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. At once scholarly and accessible, her book links these firsthand accounts to global economic inequities and under-regulated and unprotected workplaces that routinely exploit migrant laborers in the United States. Brennan contends that today's punitive immigration policies undermine efforts to fight trafficking. While many believe trafficking happens only in the sex trade, Brennan shows that across low-wage labor sectors—in fields, in factories, and on construction sites—widespread exploitation can lead to and conceal forced labor. Life Interrupted is a riveting account of life in and after trafficking and a forceful call for meaningful immigration and labor reform.All royalties from this book will be donated to the nonprofit Survivor Leadership Training Fund administered through the Freedom Network
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    A Landscape of Travel : The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China (2014)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Washington Press
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    ISBN: 9780295805061
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Ngapartji Ngapartji : In turn, in turn: Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia (2014)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781925021738 , 9781925021721
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Biography: general ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Indigenous peoples
    Abstract: In this innovative collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia and Europe reflect on how their life histories have impacted on their research in Indigenous Australian Studies
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    Carnival in Tel Aviv : Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism (2014)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Academic Studies Press
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    ISBN: 9781644693285 , 9781618113511
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Israel: Society, Culture, and History
    Keywords: Religious groups: social & cultural aspects ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Middle Eastern history
    Abstract: The Tel Aviv annual Purim celebrations were the largest public events in British Palestine, and they played a key role in the development of the urban Jewish experience in the Promised Land. Carnival in Tel-Aviv presents a historical-anthropological analysis of this mass public event and explores the ethnographic dimension of Zionism. This study sheds new light on the ideological world of urban Zionism, the capitalistic aspects of Zionist culture, and the urban nature of the Zionist project, which sought to create a nation of warriors and farmers, but in fact nationalized the urban space and constructed it as its main public sphere
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    A Good Life : Human rights and encounters with modernity (2013)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781922144676 , 9781922144669
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Ethics & moral philosophy ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: This book is a story. It’s a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It’s about times of turbulent and violent social upheaval and rupture with the past. It’s about modern times. It’s also about being human; what it is to be human in a modernising and globalising world; how, in responding to the circumstances of their times, different groups define, redefine, and attempt to put into practice their understandings of the good and of what constitutes a good life. And it’s about how human rights have come to be not abstract universal principles but a practical source of consciousness and practice for real people. Drawing on the author’s experience as an anthropologist, the book examines different groups over the last three decades of the twentieth century and the first years of the twenty-first: Thai factory workers over a period of two coups in the 1970s; Spanish nuns in the 1980s, in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council and the end of the Franco dictatorship; Aboriginal people in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia dealing with the impact of late colonialism and moves towards self-determination, from the 1980s to the present. Each of these groups has its own stories, illuminating ways in which, despite the assault of modernisation on deeply held traditional beliefs and practices, particular cultural understandings and practices continue to shape people’s responses to their novel circumstances. The very diversity of the studies presented in the book raises some of the most compelling moral and social questions of our time and invites the reader, both academic and lay, to focus on what it is that makes us human; whether there are human universals as well as cultural particularities; whether human rights provide universal norms and practices; what unites as well as divides us; and where morality, and understandings of a good life, can be sourced in a secular modern world. “This is a book about hope, the hope that we have ways to live together in a rapidly changing world which will enable us to ‘live a good life in the modern world.’” Hon. Fred Chaney AO
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    L'art de tatouer : La pratique d'un métier créatif (2013)
    Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
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    ISBN: 9782735118038 , 9782735116157
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (389-[48] p.)
    Series Statement: Ethnologie de la France
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Depuis une vingtaine d'années, le tatouage est devenu omniprésent dans les sociétés occidentales : il décore les peaux, défraie la chronique, préoccupe les chercheurs. Or les études de ces derniers font la part belle aux significations que les personnes tatouées attribuent à leur modification corporelle sans jamais se pencher sur le pendant professionnel de cet engouement, pourtant visible à travers l'efflorescence des studios de tatouage. Qui sont les tatoueurs ? Des artistes ? Des artisans ? Leur travail répond toujours à une double nécessité : satisfaire les désirs d'une clientèle désormais majoritairement profane tout en réalisant les « plus beaux » tatouages. Mais quels critères, notamment esthétiques, guident la réalisation et l'exécution d'une image encrée ? Comment les professionnels de l'encrage négocient-ils avec les hommes et les femmes qui viennent leur soumettre leur projet ? En examinant les processus de production des tatouages, cet ouvrage met au jour la manière dont s'apprend, se reproduit et se renouvelle cet univers visuel. Il dévoile les qualités dont doivent faire preuve les aspirants pour gagner leur place dans ce monde et y construire une réputation d'« artiste-tatoueur »
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    Émotions patrimoniales (2013)
    Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
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    ISBN: 9782735117987 , 9782735116294
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (409 p.)
    Series Statement: Ethnologie de la France
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Sur le terrain, le bon ethnographe s'attache à ce qui empêche ses interlocuteurs de dormir tranquilles, à ce qui les passionne, les fait débattre à l'infini, les met en joie ou en larmes, les émeut... En France et en Europe, il y a à peine un demi-siècle que le patrimoine fait pleinement partie de ces causes pour lesquelles individus et collectifs se mettent en mouvement. Le présent ouvrage analyse cette révolution discrète mais profonde. Il la saisit dans la diversité concrète des mobilisations. Les unes sobres, les autres expansives. Certaines canalisées par le savoir-faire administratif, quelques-unes débordant tous les cadres et s'épanchant en résistance inattendue, spectaculaire, radicale. Une question anthropologique court dans cette enquête : comment est-on sorti du « temps des monuments », au cours duquel ces derniers incarnaient de façon très persuasive la patrie, grande ou petite, pour entrer dans le « temps du patrimoine » où se forge un tout autre rapport sensible au passé et où s'inventent des engagements inédits ? Ce nouveau régime patrimonial, plus ou moins promu à l'échelle du monde, se heurte un peu partout à des réactions politiques puissantes que la comparaison ethnologique nous aide à identifier
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    Biological Relatives : IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship (2013)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9780822378259
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (374 p.)
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed how both technology and biology are understood. Drawing on anthropology, feminist theory, and science studies, Franklin charts the evolution of IVF from an experimental research technique into a global technological platform used for a wide variety of applications, including genetic diagnosis, livestock breeding, cloning, and stem cell research. She contends that despite its ubiquity, IVF remains a highly paradoxical technology that confirms the relative and contingent nature of biology while creating new biological relatives. Using IVF as a lens, Franklin presents a bold and lucid thesis linking technologies of gender and sex to reproductive biomedicine, contemporary bioinnovation, and the future of kinship
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    (Ne)gibanje in vzpostavljanje kraja (2013)
    Ljubljana : ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
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    ISBN: 9789612544836
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (89 p.)
    Series Statement: Prostor, kraj, čas 2
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Movement and mobility, in its various modes, have strong implications for social, political and cultural dimensions of peoples' daily lives and their broader social realities. The book addresses individual experiences of movement, focusing on spatial and temporal implications of movement and mobility. The core idea is that mobility and movement engender moving places - places the location of which is not geographically fixed but relative. Places such as home and homeland appear to be fixed and immobile, but in practice they are always contested and depend on practices, imaginaries and politics of movement. They are continuously redefined through given social, political, historical and economic contingencies. The book explores the interrelatedness between spatial configuration and practices and politics of movement, mobility and immobility. Ethnographically, the book explores the specificities of given regions, addressing two basic topics of place-making linked through movement. The first one is relationality, i.e. relations between centres and peripheries as well as relations between people and places as they are generated through movement. Both topics are explored ethnographically and comparatively, enriching theoretical discussion on movement, mobility, immobility and place making
    Abstract: Knjiga obravnava posameznikove izkušnje gibanj in se sprašuje o njegovih družbenih, prostorskih ter časovnih posledicah: gibanje posameznikov povzroča tudi gibanje krajev. Kraji in njihove lokacije niso geografsko statični, temveč so relativni in odnosni. Kraji, kot so dom in domovina, za katere se pogosto zdi, da so sorazmeroma stabilni in nepremakljivi, so pravzaprav nenehno pogojeni in na nek način ujeti v prakse, imaginarije in politike gibanj. So odnosi in relacije, katerih pomen in lokacija sta odvisna od določenega družbenega, ekonomskega, zgodovinskega in naključnega konteksta. Knjiga združuje prispevke, ki izhajajoč iz etnografske perspektive naslavljajo gibanja in raziskujejo vzpostavljanje odnosov med ljudmi in kraji ter ustvarjanje relativnih lokacij v različnih, a med seboj povezanih območjih v Sloveniji, Albaniji in Argentini. Njihove diskusije naslavljajo dve med seboj prepleteni tematiki. Prva se nanaša na odnosnost med centrom in periferijo, kot tudi med ljudmi in kraji, ki se ustvarjajo skozi gibanje. Druga tematika omenjenega sklopa, pa povezuje koncept korenin in vračanja, ki je opredeljen kot fizično ali simbolno premikanje v določenem kraju in lokaciji
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    Claiming the Aboriginal Body in Tasmania : An Anthropological Study of Repatriation and Redress (2013)
    Ljubljana : ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
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    ISBN: 9789612544867
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (111 p.)
    Series Statement: Prostor, kraj, čas 3
    Keywords: Tasmania ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: How do contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginals think of the body? How do they think of the dead body and of their human remains? This work examines the intersection of different cultural, biological and legal concepts of authenticity and belonging as these concepts come into focus as the stake of disputes over Aboriginal remains. In claiming remains, Tasmanians engage a complex set of discursive practices in which the aboriginal body is denoted, performed and negotiated in various ways as the sign of ancestral rights. Petrović-Šteger attends particularly to the language in which Tasmanian human remains are accounted for, appropriated and resignified in the context of the British policy on repatriation. Her work examines naturalist interpretations of both Tasmanian Aboriginal and Western ideas of biology, ancestry and kinship. Attending to a number of recalcitrant concepts-including those of the authority of science, purity of indigenous peoples and exclusive rights of descendants-Petrović-Šteger considers questions arising from contemporary data collection processes as they image and measure remains, and subject them to DNA and isotopic analysis. The collection also broaches the question of how contemporary understandings of Tasmanian indigeneity and ancestral rights are constituted and promoted through the use of various scientific, museological and representational technologies
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    Folkloristični portreti iz 20. stoletja : Do konstituiranja slovenske slovstvene folkloristike (2013)
    Ljubljana : ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
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    ISBN: 9789612546649
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (508 p.)
    Keywords: Slovenia ; Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who) ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: The monograph ('Folkloristic Portraits from 20th Century. Till the constitution Slovenian folkloristics') is chronical and logical continuation of the first book Folk portraits of three centuries. The author deals with 14 personalities who were active in the first half of the 20th century, ie. till the constitution of Slovenian folkloristics: J. Polivka, M. Murko, I. Koštial, I. Grafenauer, F. Kotnik, J. Kelemina, J. Glonar, F. Stele, J. Glazer, P. Zablatnik, V. Möderndorfer, L. Zupanc, J. Dolenc, M. Matičetov
    Abstract: Folkloristični portreti iz dvajsetega stoletja se omejujejo na obdobje konstituiranja slovstvene folkloristike kot samostojne interdisciplinarne vede. V njej je predstavljenih štirinajst osebnosti, ki so se zavestno vključile v proces njenega osamosvajanja in ga še posebej zaznamuje stališče do mitološke teorije. To so: Jiři Polívka, Jakob Kelemina, Matija Murko, Ivan Koštiál, Ivan Grafenauer, France Kotnik, Joža Glonar, France Stelè, Janko Glazer, Pavle Zablatnik, Vinko Möderndorfer, Lojze Zupanc, Janez Dolenc in Milko Matičetov
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    Tradicija v sodobnosti : Janče - zeleni prag Ljubljane (2013)
    Ljubljana : ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
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    ISBN: 9789612546588
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (196 p.)
    Series Statement: Ethnologica - Dissertationes 4
    Keywords: Slovenia ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: The book ('Tradition in the Contemporary World. Janče: the Green Threshold of Ljubljana') deals with dimensions of tradition in modernity, as reflected in the half-urbanized environment on the northeastern outskirts of Ljubljana - at Janče with its surroundings. The author analyzes the concept of tradition, which is one of the core in ethnology and folklore studies, and presents its concretizations in the ethnographic field, especially its role in local festivals. She mainly focuses on peasant work and its ritual dimensions as well as on other types of heritage/tradition of rural environment. Heritage is not only positively valued by local inhabitants, but also represented in the idealistic form, thus creating rural idyll, attractive for tourists. Having a special value, it has become the means of invoking and preserving identifications with certain communities and the area itself, and is at the same time also used as an argument in general and sustainable development of the area
    Abstract: Knjiga obravnava razsežnosti tradicije v sodobnosti, kot se kažejo v polurbaniziranem okolju na severovzhodnem obrobju Ljubljane - na Jančah z okolico. V njej avtorica analizira koncept tradicije, ki je eden od osrednjih v etnologiji in folkloristiki, in razčlenjuje njene konkretizacije na etnografskem terenu. Pri tem se osredinja predvsem na kmečko delo in njegove ritualne dimenzije, delno pa tudi na drugo dediščino, tradicijo kmečkega okolja. To domačini ne le pozitivno vrednotijo, pač pa tudi prikazujejo v idealnotipskih podobah, s čimer pripomorejo k ustvarjanju t. i. podeželske idile, mikavne za turiste. Kot vrednota je (p)ostala sredstvo zbujanja in ohranjanja pripadnosti določenim skupnostim in območju samemu, uporablja pa se tudi kot argument v splošnem in vzdržnem razvoju območja
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    Tracing the Melanesian Person : Emotions and Relationships in Lihir (2013)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Adelaide Press
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    ISBN: 9781922064448 , 9781922064455
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Through this engaging ethnographic account of connections, conflicts and loss in Lihir, Hemer’s own fieldwork journey of making relationships, experiencing disputes and finally leaving the field, is mirrored. Structured into three parts, the book works through the complexities of creating and sustaining relationships, the evaluation of conduct as moral and the practices of conflict, and the experiences and transformations of death and grief
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    Feeding the City : Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas (2013)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Open Book Publishers
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    ISBN: 9781909254022 , 9781909254008
    Language: Undetermined
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    Keywords: Agriculture & related industries ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world: only one lunch in six million goes astray. Feeding the City is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai's dabbawalas. Cultural anthropologist Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the various dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where the preparation and consumption of food is pervaded with religious and cultural significance. Developing the idea of "gastrosemantics" – a language with which to discuss the broader implications of cooking and eating – Roncaglia's study helps us to rethink our relationship to food at a local and global level. The publication of this book is financed by the generous support of interested readers and organisations, who made donations using the crowd-funding website unglue.it
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    Théonymie celtique, cultes, interpretatio - Keltische Theonymie, Kulte, Interpretatio (2013)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
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    ISBN: 9783700175452 , 9783700173694
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    Series Statement: Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission
    Keywords: Social & cultural history ; Other non-Christian religions ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Diese zehnte Buchpublikation im Rahmen des ÖAW-Projekts "Fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum“ vertieft verschiedene Aspekte der religiösen Überlieferung keltischsprechender Bevölkerungen, von Britannien und der Iberischen Halbinsel über Gallien und Germanien bis hin zum alten Italien und Dakien.Es werden Vorurteile bezüglich der Ikonographie beseitigt (G. BAUCHHENSS), eine astronomische Struktur in Segeda kontextualisiert (F. BURILLO MOZOTA, J. A. ARENAS ESTEBAN, M. P. BURILLO CUADRADO), der Pfeiler der nautae Parisiaci auf eine neue hermeneutische Basis gestellt (P. SCHERRER) und Keltischsprecher im europäischen Osten ausfindig gemacht (N. GAVRILOVIC). Es werden teils revidierte Lesungen etlicher Votivinschriften und Götternamen präsentiert (J. GORROCHATEGUI; M. C. GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ; P. LAJOYE) und theonymische Beinamen auf verschiedene Weisen durchleuchtet (P. Y. LAMBERT; B. RÉMY; X. DELAMARRE), das Verhältnis zwischen Gottheiten und Ethnika hinterfragt (N. BECK), das Werden eines Provinzialpantheons von den Inschriften in keltischer Sprache bis hin zur Römerzeit analysiert (P. DE BERNARDO STEMPEL), die Kontinuität zwischen vorrömischer und romanokeltischer Religion in Frage gestellt (W. SPICKERMANN) und eine altkeltische und später synkretistische Gottheit bis in die historische Überlieferung der Kaiserzeit verfolgt (A. HOFENEDER). Die vielfältigen synkretistischen Phänomene im Rahmen der sogenannten interpretatio werden im Hinblick auf ihre geographische Diversität untersucht (F. MARCO SIMÓN) und finden eine neuartige Systematisierung mithilfe von zahlreichen leichtverständlichen Graphiken (M. HAINZMANN, P. DE BERNARDO STEMPEL)
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    Folkloristični portreti iz treh stoletij : Od baroka do moderne (2012)
    Ljubljana : ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
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    ISBN: 9789612544065
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (424 p.)
    Keywords: Slovenia ; Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who) ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: This book ('Folkloristic Portraits from three Centuries. From baroque to modernism') preseints 18 profiled personalities from the Slovenian spiritual, cultural history and linguistics from 17th Century (J. V. Valvasor, J. Svetokriški, and 18th Century (M. Pohlin, U. Jarnik) up to most of them in the 19th Century (P. Danjko, A. M. Slomšek, M. Ravnikar-Poženčan, A. Murko, S. Vraz, E. Korytko, J. Trdina, M. Valjavec. V. Urbas, G. Krek, S. Škrabec, G. Križnik, S. Rutar) to K. Štrekelj. The personalities are illuminated from folkloristic view, following the prehistory this profession
    Abstract: Avtorica si v knjigi prizadeva predstaviti markantne osebnosti, ki so najbolj zaslužne, da se je v nad tristoletnem obdobju, od baroka do moderne ohranila slovenska slovstvena dediščina ali so obravnavani avtorji o njej zapisali prve komentarje. Knjiga prikazuje osemnajst osebnosti iz slovenske slovstvene in kulturne zgodovine v novi luči, kar pomeni, da nekaterim uveljavljenim (Karel Štrekelj, Janez V. Valvazor, Stanko Vraz), zapostavljenim (Peter Dajnko, Anton Murko, Avgust Pavel, Matevž Ravnikar-Poženčan) ali docela prezrtim (Gregor Krek, Gašper Križnik, Viljem Urbas) daje novo ceno. Delo je za bralca primerno dostopno, saj je snov pregledno in iz poglavja v poglavje dosledno enako razvrščena, da deluje kot nekakšen kronološki leksikon, čeprav avtorica tudi tokrat ustvarja novo terminologijo. Z monografijo odpravlja zastaran dolg slovenske filologije, etnologije in kulturne zgodovine s številnimi, doslej neopaženimi odkritji, ki utrjujejo njeno tezo o pomenu slovstvene folklore za slovensko narodno identiteto
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    Fairground Attractions : A Genealogy of the Pleasure Ground (2012)
    London : Bloomsbury Academic
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    ISBN: 9781849666718 , 9781849666671 , 9781849666664
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 p.)
    DDC: 809.933579
    Keywords: Myth & legend told as fiction ; Museology & heritage studies ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Cultural studies ; Biografie
    Abstract: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of popular pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary theme park. Deborah Philips identifies the literary genres, including fairy tale, gothic horror, Egyptiana and the Western which are common to carnival sites, tracing their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.Though the bricolage of narratives and imagery found in the contemporary leisure zone has been read by many as emblematic of postmodern culture, the author argues that the clash of genres and stories is less a consequence of postmodern pastiche than it is the result of a history and popular tradition of conventionalised iconography
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    Gender and Sustainability : Lessons from Asia and Latin America (2012)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Arizona Press
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    ISBN: 9780816548439
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    Keywords: Society & culture: general ; Gender studies, gender groups ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: This is one of the first books to address how gender plays a role in helping to achieve the sustainable use of natural resources. The contributions collected here deal with the struggles of women and men to negotiate such forces as global environmental change, economic development pressures, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women and men, and diminishing access to natural resources-not in the abstract but in everyday life. Contributors are concerned with the lived complexities of the relationship between gender and sustainability. Bringing together case studies from Asia and Latin America, this valuable collection adds new knowledge to our understanding of the interplay between local and global processes. Organized broadly by three major issues-forests, water, and fisheries-the scholarship ranges widely: the gender dimensions of the illegal trade in wildlife in Vietnam; women and development issues along the Ganges River; the role of gender in sustainable fishing in the Philippines; women's inclusion in community forestry in India; gender-based confrontations and resistance in Mexican fisheries; environmentalism and gender in Ecuador; and women's roles in managing water scarcity in Bolivia and addressing sustainability in shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta. Together these chapters show why gender issues are important for understanding how communities and populations deal daily with the challenges of globalization and environmental change. Through their rich ethnographic research, the contributors demonstrate that gender analysis offers useful insights into how a more sustainable world can be negotiated-one household and one community at a time. Contributors: Stephanie Buechler María Luz Cruz-Torres Linda D'Amico Georgina Drew James Eder Lisa L. Gezon Pamela McElwee Neera Singh Hong Anh Vu Amber Wutich
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    Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (2012)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Washington Press
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    ISBN: 9780295804071
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 p.)
    DDC: 305.80095138
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations among local communities, focusing on the Nuosu (classified as Yi by the Chinese government), Prmi, Naze, and Han. It argues that even within the same regional social system, ethnic identity is formulated, perceived, and promoted differently by different communities at different times.Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China exemplifies a model in which ethnic consciousness and ethnic relations consist of drawing boundaries between one�s own group and others, crossing those boundaries, and promoting internal unity within a group. Leaders and members of ethnic groups use commonalties and differences in history, culture, and kinship to promote internal unity and to strengthen or cross external boundaries. Superimposed on the structure of competing and cooperating local groups is a state system of ethnic classification and administration; members and leaders of local groups incorporate this system into their own ethnic consciousness, co-opting or resisting it situationally.The heart of the book consists of detailed case studies of three Nuosu village communities, along with studies of Prmi and Naze communities, smaller groups such as the Yala and Nasu, and Han Chinese who live in minority areas. These are followed by a synthesis that compares different configurations of ethnic identity in different communities and discusses the implications of these examples for our understanding of ethnicity and for the near future of China. This lively description and analysis of the region�s complex ethnic identities and relationships constitutes an original and important contribution to the study of ethnic identity.Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China will be of interest to social scientists concerned with issues of ethnicity and state-building
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    Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers (2011)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Washington Press
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    ISBN: 9780295804088
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (388 p.)
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, with other minority ethnic groups (minzu), and with non-Chinese, but identification of distinct groups and analysis of their history and relationship to others still are problematic.Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers provides rich material for the comparative study of colonialism and imperialism and for the study of Chinese nation-building. It represents some of the first scholarship on ethnic minorities in China based on direct research since before World War II. This, combined with increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations, makes it an especially timely book. It will be of interest to anthopologists, historians, and political scientists, as well as to sinologists.China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, with other minority ethnic groups (minzu), and with non-Chinese, but identification of distinct groups and analysis of their history and relationship to others still are problematic.Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers provides rich material for the comparative study of colonialism and imperialism and for the study of Chinese nation-building. It represents some of the first scholarship on ethnic minorities in China based on direct research since before World War II. This, combined with increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations, makes it an especially timely book. It will be of interest to anthopologists, historians, and political scientists, as well as to sinologists
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    En son jardin : Une ethnologie du fleurissement (2011)
    Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
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    ISBN: 9782735117994 , 9782735113248
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401-[16] p.)
    Series Statement: Ethnologie de la France
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Prenant pour cadre les villages du Lot, l'auteur a étudié avec finesse la mise en scène des fleurs plantées dans les jardins privés et les espaces publics. Elle en soulève ici les enjeux sociaux - mais aussi économiques, symboliques, affectifs, imaginaires -, et met en évidence que, quel que soit le contexte - « jardin paysan », « jardin fleuri » ou « jardin « au naturel » -, le fleurissement reflète des façons de s'inscrire dans un territoire et de dialoguer avec l'autre. En son jardin certes, mais pour mieux signifier aux passants ou aux voisins une manière, individuelle ou collective, de voir et d'organiser le monde. Comment, alors, interpréter l'évolution des modalités du fleurissement selon les époques ? En quoi ces changements rendent-ils compte de manières de penser et de sentir différentes ? Comment ces questions croisent-elles à leur tour l'histoire des concours de fleurissement, qui apparaissent comme des outils normatifs destinés à établir de l'ordre et à organiser du lien ? Quelles convergences ces concours encouragent-ils entre la mise en fleurs des espaces publics et celle des espaces privés ? Ce contexte permet-il de mieux saisir le succès actuel de certains thèmes comme la biodiversité ?... Répondant à ces questions, Martine Bergues offre ici une analyse aussi éclairante qu'alerte de notre société au miroir de son décor végétal
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    Le patrimoine culturel immatériel : Enjeux d'une nouvelle catégorie (2011)
    Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
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    ISBN: 9782735118182 , 9782735114177
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 p.)
    Series Statement: Ethnologie de la France
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Qu'est-ce que le patrimoine culturel immatériel ? Pourquoi inventer une nouvelle catégorie de patrimoine dans un monde déjà obsédé par la conservation des traces du passé ? Peut-on protéger des expressions culturelles vivantes sans les figer ? À qui revient la charge de le faire ? À qui appartient ce patrimoine ? À travers une analyse des politiques culturelles récemment engagées par les États à la suite de la Convention de l'Unesco pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel (2003), cet ouvrage propose des premières réponses à ces questions. En effet, cette catégorie patri­moniale, qui suscite des attentes et un engouement croissants parmi les acteurs sociaux et politiques à l'échelle planétaire, est à l'origine de vives controverses entre acteurs ins­titutionnels et scientifiques. Modelée sur une acception anthropologique de la culture, cette notion ne peut que retenir l'attention des ethnolo­gues, qu'ils choisissent de s'investir dans le chantier d'élaboration de ce patrimoine, ou d'observer à distance l'« effet Unesco » sur des objets tels que la samba de roda ou les fêtes de la Tarasque. Au cœur du débat anthropologique contemporain, l'institution du patrimoine immatériel est trop récente pour avoir déjà fait ses preuves. Mais les difficultés qu'elle pose, aux acteurs sociaux et aux institutions, en France comme à l'étranger, montrent que, loin de simplement élargir le champ patrimonial, elle implique des changements profonds. Les contributions ici réunies en analysent certaines des limites et des potentialités
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    Literarjenje, kronopisje in rokopisje v teoriji in praksi (2011)
    Ljubljana : ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
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    ISBN: 9789610503033 , 9789612542535
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (578 p.)
    Keywords: Slovenia ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Quasi-literature, chronicling and occasional writings are new terms~in the vertical classification of literary culture they define literary phenomena in between literary folklore and literature. The introduction chapter of the book ('Quasi-literature, Chronicling and occasional Writings in Theory and Practice') presents each ot the three mentioned (conditionally aestethic) categories in theoretical terms: based on terminology development, definition, form and subject. This is followed by empirical examples vhere both the diachronous and synchronous aspects of analysis are applied: place, education, occupation, world and aesthetic view, disadvantaged life (disabled and blind persons)
    Abstract: Rokopisje, kronopisje in literarjenje so novi pojmi, ki v vertikalni klasifikaciji slovstvene kulture opredeljujejo slovstvene pojave v vmesnem območju med slovstveno folkloro in literaturo. Uvodno poglavje vsako od treh omenjenih pogojno estetskih kategorij predstavi teoretično: glede na terminologizacijo, definicijo, oblike in snov. To delo najprej te pojme predstavi in utemelji na teoretični ravni, nato pa predstavi njihovo fenomenologijo s konkretnimi zgledi teh vrst ubesedovanja
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    Ecstatic Encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real (2011)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press
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    ISBN: 9789048513963 , 9789089642981
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Society & culture: general ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: For over a hundred years, writers, artists, anthropologists and tourists have travelled to Bahia, Brazil, in search of the spirit possession cult called Candomblé. Thus, successive generations of cultists have seen a long, steady stream of curious outsiders coming to their temples with notebooks and cameras, questions and inquisitive gazes, or ogling eyes and the hope of inclusion. This study asks what seduced these outsiders to seek access to the Afro-Brazilian religious universe and, conversely, how did cultists respond to the overwhelming interest in their creed and to becoming an object of the outsiders' imaginations. "Thriving in the gap between the sensuous fullness of life and the impossibility of its cultural representation, Ecstatic Encounters opens mind-blowing vistas for 'writing culture' in anthropology today."- Birgit Meyer, Free University of Amsterdam
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    Ethnography & the Production of Anthropological Knowledge : Essays in honour of Nicolas Peterson (2011)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666971 , 9781921666964
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Indigenous peoples
    Abstract: Professor Nicolas Peterson is a central figure in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia. This volume honours his anthropological body of work, his commitment to ethnographic fieldwork as a source of knowledge, his exemplary mentorship of generations of younger scholars and his generosity in facilitating the progress of others. The diverse collection produced by former students, current colleagues and long-term peers provides reflections on his legacy as well as fresh anthropological insights from Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. Inspired by Nicolas Peterson's work in Aboriginal Australia and his broad ranging contributions to anthropology over several decades, the contributors to this volume celebrate the variety of his ethnographic interests. Individual chapters address, revisit, expand on, and ethnographically re-examine his work about ritual, material culture, the moral domestic economy, land and ecology. The volume also pays homage to Nicolas Peterson's ability to provide focused research with long-term impact, exemplified by a series of papers engaging with his work on demand sharing and the applied policy domain
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    Lessons in Being Chinese : Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China (2011)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Washington Press
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    ISBN: 9780295804125
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Two very different ethnic minority communities-the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the Tai (Dai) of Sipsong Panna (Xishuangbanna), along Yunnan's border with Burma and Laos-are featured in this comparative study of the implementation and reception of state minority education policy in the People's Republic of China. Based on field research and historical sources, Lessons in Being Chinese argues that state policy, which is intended to be applied uniformly across all minority regions, in fact is much more successful in some than in others.In Lijiang, elite members of the Naxi ethnic group (minzu) have a centuries-old connection with Chinese state educational systems as avenues to social mobility, and have continued this tradition under Communist rule. They participate enthusiastically in the present system, using education to gain official and professional positions. In contrast to the Lijiang area, Sipsong Panna functioned in many ways as a separate kingdom until 1950, with its own script and a separate educational system centered in Theravada Buddhist monasteries. Today, many Tai in that area still prefer monastic education for their sons, and most parents are indifferent to state education.This study finds that standardized, homogenizing state education is in itself incapable of instilling in students an identification with the Chinese state, ironically often increasing ethnic identity. Lessons in Being Chinese enhances our understanding of how state policy toward minorities works in many areas of life, and its conclusions can be extended well beyond the sphere of education. It will be of interest to both anthropologists and educators
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    Le Moyen Âge en jeu (2010)
    Pessac : Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux
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    ISBN: 9791030008166 , 9782903440862
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 p.)
    Series Statement: Eidôlon
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: À la fin du Moyen Âge, la noblesse jouait déjà à imiter les chevaliers de la Table Ronde. Aujourd'hui encore, notre rapport à l'époque médiévale reste intimement lié à l'esprit du jeu, des déguisements enfantins aux jeux vidéo, du spectacle vivant aux grands et petits écrans, des univers de Fantasy et autres jeux littéraires aux reconstitutions historiques. Quand l'érudition rencontre l'imagination, la re-création d'un Moyen Âge récréatif tient-elle d'un plaisir puéril ou d'une démarche esthé­tique, d'une fascination nostalgique ou d'une démocrati­sation des savoirs historiques ? Pour mieux comprendre l'inflation considérable des jeux médiévalisants du XIXe au XXIe siècle, ce volume réunit les travaux de chercheurs en sciences humaines et de praticiens, professionnels de la conservation ou de la médiation du patrimoine, scénaristes, musiciens... et joueurs à l'occasion. Cette perspective interdisciplinaire offre des rapprochements féconds sur des sujets encore peu abordés : pratiques proprement ludiques, mais aussi arts du spectacle et fictions populaires
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    Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone : Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses (2010)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Waxmann Verlag
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    ISBN: 9783830973751 , 9783830923756
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)
    Series Statement: Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship 2
    Keywords: Literary theory ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Slavery – the subjection of some human beings to a state of bondage by other, more powerful, people – has been an accepted social institution since ancient times. It is less well known that slavery has also produced cultural contact zones in forcing members of different cultures into sharing the same places – whether in private households, on plantations, in mines and quarries, or indeed the same imaginative sites in works of art and public memory. The recent commemorations of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade by Britain (1807) and the United States (1808), as well as the rise of Black Atlantic Studies as a new academic field, have drawn new attention to this topic. In spite of these recent trends and the prominent position of slavery studies in British and American historiography, slavery’s implications for the study of cultural encounters remain a scholarly desideratum. This volume seeks to contribute to a better understanding of different forms of human bondage in cultural contact zones. The essays in this collection represent a wide spectrum of the scholarship on slavery, as well as illustrating the vast range of conceptual approaches to the topic. They bring together research from several different disciplines and critical angles addressing, for example, archaeological reconstructions of labor camps in ancient Palestine, the moral significance of early Christian slavery, the ambivalent aestheticization of black bodies within the colonial culture of taste, Enlightenment discourses about black revolution, the significance of mythical narratives in African-American slave culture, the musical mourning for lynching victims, and the blindness toward the presence of slave laborers in Nazi Germany. Most essays collected here are concerned with the cultural and human aspects of slavery as well as with establishing an understanding for the stark differences between various forms of slavery throughout history, stretching from antiquity into the twentieth century
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    Un juego de engaños : Movilidad, nombres y apellidos en los siglos xv a xviii (2010)
    Madrid : Casa de Velázquez
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    ISBN: 9788490963067 , 9788496820418
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII-393 p.)
    Series Statement: Collection de la Casa de Velázquez
    Keywords: European history ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Los grandes acontecimientos del periodo moderno crearon numerosas ocasiones para cambiar de nombre y, a la vez, fijar identidades colectivas nuevas mediante la creación de un patrimonio onomástico. La movilidad espacial y social se encuentra con frecuencia en el corazón de los mecanismos de estos cambios. A través de los lazos existentes entre movilidad y antroponimia, este libro propone nuevas vías y numerosos instrumentos de análisis para estudiar la historia de los nombres. La situación de diversas regiones de Europa (Italia del norte, Mallorca, Navarra o Extremadura), el juego de los cambios onomásticos entre numerosos grupos de emigrantes (castellanos que han partido a las Indias, catalanes en Italia, irlandeses en Francia o en España), los efectos de la expansión europea sobre el dominio colonial (nombres del Inca, nombres de indígenas y de esclavos, nombres de soldados coloniales) son los principales temas examinados en el presente libro
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    My Life as a Night Elf Priest : An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (2010)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472900435 , 9780472070985
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Society & culture: general ; Popular culture ; Virtual worlds ; Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: "Ever since the creators of the animated television show South Park turned their lovingly sardonic gaze on the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft for an entire episode, WoW's status as an icon of digital culture has been secure. My Life as a Night Elf Priest digs deep beneath the surface of that icon to explore the rich particulars of the World of Warcraft player's experience." -Julian Dibbell, Wired "World of Warcraft is the best representative of a significant new technology, art form, and sector of society: the theme-oriented virtual world. Bonnie Nardi's pioneering transnational ethnography explores this game both sensitively and systematically using the methods of cultural anthropology and aesthetics with intensive personal experience as a guild member, media teacher, and magical quest Elf." -William Sims Bainbridge, author of The Warcraft Civilization and editor of Online Worlds "Nardi skillfully covers all of the hot button issues that come to mind when people think of video games like World of Warcraft such as game addiction, sexism, and violence. What gives this book its value are its unexpected gems of rare and beautifully detailed research on less sensationalized topics of interest such as the World of Warcraft player community in China, game modding, the increasingly blurred line between play and work, and the rich and fascinating lives of players and player cultures. Nardi brings World of Warcraft down to earth for non-players and ties it to social and cultural theory for scholars. . . . the best ethnography of a single virtual world produced so far." -Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois World of Warcraft rapidly became one of the most popular online world games on the planet, amassing 11.5 million subscribers-officially making it an online community of gamers that had more inhabitants than the state of Ohio and was almost twice as populous as Scotland. It's a massively multiplayer online game, or MMO in gamer jargon, where each person controls a single character inside a virtual world, interacting with other people's characters and computer-controlled monsters, quest-givers, and merchants. In My Life as a Night Elf Priest, Bonnie Nardi, a well-known ethnographer who has published extensively on how theories of what we do intersect with how we adopt and use technology, compiles more than three years of participatory research in Warcraft play and culture in the United States and China into this field study of player behavior and activity. She introduces us to her research strategy and the history, structure, and culture of Warcraft; argues for applying activity theory and theories of aesthetic experience to the study of gaming and play; and educates us on issues of gender, culture, and addiction as part of the play experience. Nardi paints a compelling portrait of what drives online gamers both in this country and in China, where she spent a month studying players in Internet cafes. Bonnie Nardi has given us a fresh look not only at World of Warcraft but at the field of game studies as a whole. One of the first in-depth studies of a game that has become an icon of digital culture, My Life as a Night Elf Priest will capture the interest of both the gamer and the ethnographer. Bonnie A. Nardi is an anthropologist by training and a professor in the Department of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focus is the social implications of digital technologies. She is the author of A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing and the coauthor of Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart and Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design. Cover art by Jessica Damsky
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    Gunnar Landtman in Papua : 1910 to 1912 (2010)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666131 , 9781921666124
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Abstract: Despite poverty and neglect the coastal Kiwai of the northern Torres Strait and Fly estuary are a strong and vibrant people with a long tradition of work in the marine industries of the Torres Strait. Regrettably their current social, economic and political problems are marginal to both Papua New Guinea and Australia. Gunnar Landtman's research, undertaken between 1910 and 1912, is still a foundation stone for understanding the position of the Kiwai today. In those two years in Papua, Landtman managed to record a large collection of valuable legends and stories, many of which are still told today. He travelled widely throughout the Torres Strait, the southwest coast of Papua and the Fly estuary and even to the Gulf District. He made a comprehensive collection of Kiwai material culture now housed in the Museum of Cultures in Helsinki and a second, duplicate set for the Cambridge Museum. He also collected some of the earliest examples of Gogodala material culture available for research. In 1913, he published, Nya Guinea färden [New Guinea expedition], a detailed travelogue of his work and life among the Kiwai and, while he wrote a substantial corpus of work on the Kiwai in English, Swedish and Finnish over the next twenty years, this personal account in Swedish has not been translated into English before. It forms a crucial link between Landtman's serious academic works and his intimate personal journey of discovery. The aim of this book is to bring the personal face of the serious anthropologist to greater attention. David Lawrence began studying the Gunnar Landtman collections held by the National Museum of Finland when he was researching customary exchange across the Torres Strait for his doctorate at James Cook University. He was also fortunate to be able to spend two years of fieldwork in the Fly estuary region and visited nearly all the communities described by Landtman. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Resource Management in Asia/Pacific program of The Australian National University and has published works on Kakadu National Park and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
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