ISBN:
9781782388906
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
186 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
Events are "generative moments" in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic studies from around the world-varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and management-this volume analyzes generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations. These events-including the Ashura ritual in Bahrain, social cleavages in South Africa, a Buddhist cave in Nepal, drought in Burkina Faso, an earthquake in Pakistan, the cartoon crisis in Denmark, corporate management at Bang & Olufsen, protest meetings in Europe, and flooding and urban citizenship in Mozambique-are not simply destructive disasters, crises, and conflicts, but also generative and constitutive of the social.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: In the Event-toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments -- Bruce Kapferer -- Chapter 1. 'Ashura in Bahrain: Analyses of an Analytical Event -- Thomas Fibiger -- Chapter 2. 'Burying the ANC': Post-apartheid Ambiguities at the University of Limpopo, South Africa -- Bjarke Oxlund -- Chapter 3. A Topographic Event: A Buddhist Lama's Perception of a Pilgrimage Cave -- Jesper Oestergaard -- Chapter 4. The Outburst: Climate Change, Gender Relations, and Situational Analysis -- Jonas Østergaard Nielsen -- Chapter 5. Events and Effects: Intensive Transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark -- Mikkel Rytter -- Chapter 6. The Cartoon Controversy: Creating Muslims in a Danish Setting -- Anja Kublitz -- Chapter 7. Values at Work: Ambivalent Situations and Human Resource Embarrassment -- Jakob Krause-Jensen -- Chapter 8. Figurations of the Future: On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe -- Stine Krøijer -- Chapter 9. Mimesis of the State: From Natural Disaster to Urban Citizenship on the Outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique -- Morten Nielsen -- About the Editors -- Index --
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