Ethnography, Theory, Experiment – serie
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17 produkter
Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil for a Common World
An Essay on the Economy of Knowledge
Inbunden, 2013
1880 kr
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Our political age is characterized by forms of description as ‘big’ as the world itself: talk of ‘public knowledge’ and ‘public goods,’ ‘the commons’ or ‘global justice’ create an exigency for modes of governance that leave little room for smallness itself. Rather than question the politics of …
Figurations of the Future
Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Built around key events, from the eviction of a self-managed social centre in Copenhagen in 2007 to the Climate Summit protests in 2009, this book contributes to anthropological literature on contemporary Euro-American politics foreshadowing recent waves of public dissent. Stine Krøijer explores …
Waterworlds
Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Av Kirsten Hastrup, Frida Hastrup
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world …
Violent Becomings
State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
Inbunden, 2016
1921 kr
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Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of ordering. In doing so, this book addresses the question of why colonial and postcolonial state formation has involved …
Violent Becomings
State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
Häftad, 2016
307 kr
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Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of ordering. In doing so, this book addresses the question of why colonial and postcolonial state formation has involved …
Vital Diplomacy
The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
Inbunden, 2017
1921 kr
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In Brazil, where forest meets savanna, new towns, agribusiness and hydroelectric plants form a patchwork with the indigenous territories. Here, agricultural work, fishing, songs, feasts and exchanges occupy the Enawenê-nawê for eight months of each year during a season called Yankwa. Vital …
Waterworlds
Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Av Kirsten Hastrup, Frida Hastrup
Häftad, 2017
511 kr
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In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world …
Cutting Cosmos
Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot
Av Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen
Inbunden, 2018
1921 kr
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For the first time in over 30 years, a new ethnographic study emerges on the Bugkalot tribe, more widely known as the Ilongot of the northern Philippines. Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes …
Going to Pentecost
An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
Av Annelin Eriksen, Ruy Llera Blanes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
915 kr
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Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban …
Children of Gregoria
Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family
Av Regnar Kristensen, Claudia Adeath Villamil
Inbunden, 2020
2040 kr
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The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. The people entrenched in the violent communities that the Rosales belong to have been discussed, condemned, analyzed, joked about and cheered, but rarely have they been seriously listened to. This …
Figurations of the Future
Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe
Häftad, 2020
527 kr
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Built around key events, from the eviction of a self-managed social centre in Copenhagen in 2007 to the Climate Summit protests in 2009, this book contributes to anthropological literature on contemporary Euro-American politics foreshadowing recent waves of public dissent. Stine Krøijer explores …
Cattle Poetics
How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia
Inbunden, 2021
1921 kr
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Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. The killing of cattle may be brief and inflicted with few words, but it is preceded by a series of intense aesthetic …
Going to Pentecost
An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
Av Annelin Eriksen, Ruy Llera Blanes m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
307 kr
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Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban …
Vital Diplomacy
The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
Häftad, 2023
527 kr
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In Brazil, where forest meets savanna, new towns, agribusiness and hydroelectric plants form a patchwork with the indigenous territories. Here, agricultural work, fishing, songs, feasts and exchanges occupy the Enawenê-nawê for eight months of each year during a season called Yankwa. Vital …
Dreaming and the Imagination
Theoretical Intersections in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Inbunden, 2025
1861 kr
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Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreaming …
Entanglements of the Maya Universe
Life, Society, and Cosmos among the K'iche' of Momostenango
Av Alonso Rodrigo Zamora Corona
Inbunden, 2025
1921 kr
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Cosmology or cosmological ideas are often sought to solve problems in our daily lives. This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology through an ethnographic description of the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal and political lives of individuals within the …
God in the Machine
The Ganesh Yourself Experiment
Av Saana Hansen
Inbunden, 2026
1880 kr
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A teleoperated robot roaming in the streets of Mumbai enables anyone to put oneself in the place of the Hindu god Ganesha and have a conversation. Initially conceived as an anthropological experiment, the machine was launched in 2014 and became a collective, political and metaphysical experience. …
