Contemporary Ethnography – serie
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131 produkter
Precarious Lives
Waiting and Hope in Iran
Häftad, 2023
274 kr
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In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread …
Precarious Lives
Waiting and Hope in Iran
E-bok, 2017
367 kr
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In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread …
Fighting for Faith and Nation
Dialogues with Sikh Militants
E-bok, 2010
489 kr
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The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listening to the voices of people who experience political violence-either as victims or as perpetrators-gives new insights into both the sources of violent …
Imagined Geography
Sierra Leonean Muslims in America
E-bok, 2013
424 kr
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For more than a decade a vicious civil war has torn the fabric of society in the West African country of Sierra Leone, forcing thousands to flee their homes for refugee camps and others to seek peace and asylum abroad. Sierra Leoneans have established new communities around the world, in London, …
Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone
Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka
E-bok, 2011
479 kr
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Anthropologist Sandya Hewamanne spent time in a Sri Lankan free trade zone (FTZ) working and living among the workers to learn about their lives. "They were poor women from rural areas," Hewamanne writes, "who migrated to do garment work in transnational factories of a global assembly line. Their …
Gender on the Market
Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition
E-bok, 2010
489 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996Gender on the Market is a study of Moroccan women's expressive culture and the ways in which it both determines and responds to current transformations in gender roles. Beginning with women's emergence into what has been defined as …
Witching Culture
Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
E-bok, 2010
489 kr
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Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that …
Love and Honor in the Himalayas
Coming to Know Another Culture
E-bok, 2011
479 kr
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American anthropologist Ernestine McHugh arrived in the foothills of the Annapurna mountains in Nepal, and, surrounded by terraced fields, rushing streams, and rocky paths, she began one of several sojourns among the Gurung people whose ramro hawa-pani (good wind and water) not only describes the …
Fire in My Bones
Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel
Av Glenn Hinson
E-bok, 2010
554 kr
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Glenn Hinson focuses on a single gospel program and offers a major contribution to our understanding not just of gospel but of the nature of religious experience.A key feature of African American performance is the layering of performative voices and the constant shifting of performative focus. To …
Sensuous Scholarship
Av Paul Stoller
E-bok, 2010
424 kr
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Among the Songhay of Mali and Niger, who consider the stomach the seat of personality, learning is understood not in terms of mental activity but in bodily terms. Songhay bards study history by "eating the words of the ancestors," and sorcerers learn their art by ingesting particular substances, by …
Taste of Ethnographic Things
The Senses in Anthropology
Av Paul Stoller
E-bok, 2010
424 kr
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Anthropologists who have lost their senses write ethnographies that are often disconnected from the worlds they seek to portray. For most anthropologists, Stoller contends, tasteless theories are more important than the savory sauces of ethnographic life. That they have lost the smells, sounds, and …
Along an African Border
Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets
Av Sónia Silva
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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The divination baskets of south Central Africa are woven for a specific purpose. The baskets, known as lipele, contain sixty or so small articles, from seeds, claws, and minuscule horns to wooden carvings. Each article has its own name and symbolic meaning, and collectively they are known as …
Taste of Blood
Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble
Av Jim Wafer
E-bok, 2010
424 kr
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Enter the fascinating world of the Condomble regions of Brazil, where interaction between spirits and human is considered an everyday occurrence. Jim Wafer uncovers the social life, rituals, folklore, and engaging personalities of the villagers of Jacari, among whom trances, sorcery, and spirit …
Exile and Return Among the East Timorese
Av Amanda Wise
E-bok, 2011
978 kr
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East Timor, the world's newest nation, finally gained its independence in 2002, following half a millennium of Portuguese rule and 24 years of Indonesian occupation. That occupation produced a refugee diaspora spread between Portugal and Australia that has been integral in advancing East Timor's …
Experiencing Ritual
A New Interpretation of African Healing
Av Edith Turner
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Through her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings-the view of millions of Africans-that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power.
Creating Africa in America
Translocal Identity in an Emerging World City
E-bok, 2012
504 kr
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With a booming economy that afforded numerous opportunities for immigrants throughout the 1990s, the Twin Cities area has attracted people of African descent from throughout the United States and the world and is fast becoming a transnational metropolis. Minnesota's largest urban area, the region …
Knowing Dil Das
Stories of a Himalayan Hunter
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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Dil Das was a poor farmer-an untouchable-living near Mussoorie, a colonial hill station in the Himalayas. As a boy he became acquainted with a number of American missionary children attending a boarding school in town and, over the years, developed close friendships with them and, eventually, with …
Porta Palazzo
The Anthropology of an Italian Market
E-bok, 2012
479 kr
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Porta Palazzo, arguably Western Europe's largest open-air market, is a central economic, social, and cultural hub for Italians and migrants in the city of Turin. Open-air markets like Porta Palazzo have existed for centuries in Europe; although their function has changed over time-traditional …
Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels
Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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Swamiji, a Hindu holy man, is the central character of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels. He reclines in a deck chair in his modern apartment in western India, telling subtle and entertaining folk narratives to his assorted gatherings. Among the listeners is Kirin Narayan, who knew Swamiji when …
Healing Secular Life
Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey
E-bok, 2012
1206 kr
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In contemporary Turkey-a democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nation-the religious healer is a controversial figure. Attracting widespread condemnation, religious healers are derided as exploiters of the sick and vulnerable, discredited forms of Islamic and medical authority, and …
Body and Emotion
The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the …
Shelter Blues
Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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Desjarlais shows us not anonymous faces of the homeless but real people.While it is estimated that 25 percent or more of America's homeless are mentally ill, their lives are largely unknown to us. What must life be like for those who, in addition to living on the street, hear voices, suffer …
Matching Organs with Donors
Legality and Kinship in Transplants
E-bok, 2012
983 kr
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While the traffic in human organs stirs outrage and condemnation, donations of such material are perceived as highly ethical. In reality, the line between illicit trafficking and admirable donation is not so sharply drawn. Those entangled in the legal, social, and commercial dimensions of …
Past in Pieces
Belonging in the New Cyprus
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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On April 23, 2003, to the surprise of much of the world, the ceasefire line that divides Cyprus opened. The line had partitioned the island since 1974, and so international media heralded the opening of the checkpoints as a historic event that echoed the fall of the Berlin Wall. As in the moment of …
Young and Defiant in Tehran
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran is one of the world's most youthful nations. The Iranian state characterizes its youth population in two ways: as a homogeneous mass, "an army of twenty millions" devoted to the Revolution, and as alienated, inauthentic, Westernized …
Written Suburb
An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma
E-bok, 2012
424 kr
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Chadds Ford, an upscale suburb in southeastern Pennsylvania, devotes a lot of energy to creating a historical identity. Numerous institutions participate in this task, including museums, a land conservancy dedicated to the preservation of its historical landscape, and the Historical Society, which …
Daughters of Parvati
Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Av Sarah Pinto
E-bok, 2014
367 kr
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In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by …
Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya
E-bok, 2013
415 kr
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The Samburu of northern Kenya struggle to maintain their pastoral way of life as drought and the side effects of globalization threaten both their livestock and their livelihood. Mirroring this divide between survival and ruin are the lines between the self and the other, the living and the dead, …
Along the Bolivian Highway
Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class
E-bok, 2014
1180 kr
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Along the Bolivian Highway traces the emergence of a new middle class in Bolivia, a society commonly portrayed as the site of struggle between a superwealthy white minority and a destitute indigenous majority. Miriam Shakow shows how Bolivian middle classes have deeply shaped politics and social …
Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels
Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching
Häftad, 1989
332 kr
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Swamiji, a Hindu holy man, is the central character of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels. He reclines in a deck chair in his modern apartment in western India, telling subtle and entertaining folk narratives to his assorted gatherings. Among the listeners is Kirin Narayan, who knew Swamiji when …
