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Queer and Trans Life
Anthropological Futures
Av Silvia Posocco, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1921 kr
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Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments for the future. It examines the challenges and pleasures in marginal everyday experiences of gender and sexual dissidence and the labours of …
Policy Worlds
Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
Av Cris Shore, Susan Wright m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of …
Going First Class?
New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement
Av Vered Amit
Häftad, 2011
444 kr
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"The publication of this book...is timely...Interesting and accessibly written, Going First Class? offers not only ethnographically rich reflections on the subject of privileged travel, but...it provides valuable critical insights on the nature of places and the methodological issues surrounding …
Postsocialist Europe
Anthropological Perspectives from Home
Av László Kürti, Peter Skalník
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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The major contribution of the volume lays in its rethinking of the postsocialist paradigm from an insider's perspective. By taking a longue duree perspective on their societies, contributors explore cultural, political, and economic transformations, revealing the complex interactions between global …
Ethnographic Practice in the Present
Av Marit Melhuus, Jon P. Mitchell m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the …
Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class
Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe
Av Don Kalb, Gábor Halmai
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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Since 1989 neo-nationalism has grown as a volatile political force in almost all European societies in tandem with the formation of a neoliberal European Union and wider capitalist globalizations. Focusing on working classes situated in long-run localized processes of social change, including …
Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices
Anthropological Reflections
Av Anna Fedele, Ruy Llera Blanes
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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Social scientists and philosophers confronted with religious phenomena have always been challenged to find a proper way to describe the spiritual experiences of the social group they were studying. The influence of the Cartesian dualism of body and mind (or soul) led to a distinction between …
Policy Worlds
Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
Av Cris Shore, Susan Wright m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
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454 kr
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There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of …
Caring for the 'Holy Land'
Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly. The case of Israel is unique in that the country has a special significance as the ‘Holy Land’ for the predominantly …
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
An Anthropology of Everyday Religion
Av Samuli Schielke, Liza Debevec
Inbunden, 2012
1921 kr
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Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a …
Culture Wars
Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts
Av Deborah James, Evelyn Plaice m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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an important and very interesting contribution to, first of all, critical and reflexive anthropology...Every chapter offers fresh insights into a key area of critical anthropology. Undoubtedly, the volume is very well organized, thoroughly substantiated, and interestingly written. I believe that …
Landscapes Beyond Land
Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives
Av Arnar Árnason, Nicolas Ellison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1921 kr
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Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to …
Cyberidentities At War
The Moluccan Conflict on the Internet
Inbunden, 2013
2077 kr
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Conflicting parties worldwide increasingly use the Internet in a strategic way, and struggles carried out on a local level achieve a new dimension. This new kind of medialization results in a conflict’s expansion into global cyberspace. Based on ethnographic research on the online activities of …
Family Upheaval
Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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Pakistani migrant families in Denmark find themselves in a specific ethno-national, post-9/11 environment where Muslim immigrants are subjected to processes of non-recognition, exclusion and securitization. This ethnographic study explores how, why, and at what costs notions of relatedness, …
Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology
Av Dorle Dracklé, Iain R. Edgar m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1936 kr
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Aimed at professional anthropologists, their students and academic policy-makers, the contributions to this volume provide an unprecedented array of insights into the current teaching and learning of social anthropology across Europe. With case-studies from eighteen different countries this volume …
Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education
Av Dorle Dracklé, Iain R. Edgar
Inbunden, 2004
1827 kr
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As Europe becomes more integrated at the economic and political level, attempts are being made to harmonize education policies as well. This volume offers an important contribution in that the authors examine, for the first time,the politics and practices of social anthropology education across …
Fracturing Resemblances
Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West
Inbunden, 2006
1921 kr
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Western societies draw crucially on concepts of the 'individual' in constructing their images of the ethnic group and nation and define these in terms of difference. This study explores the implications of these constructs for Western understanding of social order and ethnic conflicts. Comparing …
Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education
Av Dorle Dracklé, Iain R. Edgar
Häftad, 2004
527 kr
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As Europe becomes more integrated at the economic and political level, attempts are being made to harmonize education policies as well. This volume offers an important contribution in that the authors examine, for the first time,the politics and practices of social anthropology education across …
Grammars of Identity / Alterity
A Structural Approach
Av Gerd Baumann, Andre Gingrich
Inbunden, 2005
1921 kr
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Issues of the construction of Self and Other, normally in the context of social exclusion of those perceived as different, have assumed a new urgency. This collection offers a fresh perspective on the ongoing debates on these questions in the social sciences and the humanities by focusing …
Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology
Av Dorle Dracklé, Iain R. Edgar m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
527 kr
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Aimed at professional anthropologists, their students and academic policy-makers, the contributions to this volume provide an unprecedented array of insights into the current teaching and learning of social anthropology across Europe. With case-studies from eighteen different countries this volume …
Peripheral Vision
Politics, Technology, and Surveillance
Inbunden, 2013
1861 kr
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In Portugal between 2005 and 2010, “modernization through technology” was the major political motto used to develop and improve the country’s peripheral and backward condition. This study reflects on one of the resulting, specific aspects of this trend—the implementation of public video …
Being Human, Being Migrant
Senses of Self and Well-Being
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant's movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living "in between" or on the …
Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia
Inbunden, 2014
1880 kr
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The highland region of the republic of Georgia, one of the former Soviet Socialist Republics, has long been legendary for its beauty. It is often assumed that the state has only made partial inroads into this region, and is mostly perceived as alien. Taking a fresh look at the Georgian highlands …
Flexible Capitalism
Exchange and Ambiguity at Work
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Approaching “work” as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows how the …
Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe
Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Pagan and Native Faith movements have sprung up across Europe in recent decades, yet little has been published about them compared with their British and American counterparts. Though all such movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners’ …
Figuration Work
Student Participation, Democracy and University Reform in a Global Knowledge Economy
Inbunden, 2015
1808 kr
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What role should students take in shaping their education, their university, and the wider society? These questions have assumed new importance in recent years as universities are reformed to become more competitive in the “global knowledge economy.” With Denmark as the prism, this book shows how …
Landscapes Beyond Land
Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives
Av Arnar Árnason, Nicolas Ellison m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
516 kr
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Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to …
World Heritage on the Ground
Ethnographic Perspectives
Av Christoph Brumann, David Berliner
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, …
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
An Anthropology of Everyday Religion
Av Samuli Schielke, Liza Debevec
Häftad, 2016
444 kr
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Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a …
Being Human, Being Migrant
Senses of Self and Well-Being
Häftad, 2016
454 kr
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Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant’s movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living “in between” or on the …
