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Tourism, Magic and Modernity
Cultivating the Human Garden
Av David Picard
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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Tropical islands are magical, volcanoes are magical and coral reefs are magical. Classical ruins, old town centres, modern artworks, and contemporary architecture are magical as well. Even local people are magical. The attribution of magical qualities appears central in the constitution of …
Diasporic Generations
Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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Interpretations of the background to the Cuban diaspora – a political revolution and the subsequent radical transformation of the society and economy towards socialism – are politicised and highly contested. The Miami-based Cuban diaspora has had extraordinary success in putting its case high on …
Great Expectations
Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism
Av Jonathan Skinner, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process – one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall …
Learning From the Children
Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World
Av Jacqueline Waldren, Ignacy-Marek Kaminski
Inbunden, 2012
1921 kr
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Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult–child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the …
Envisioning Eden
Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania, this book offers an in-depth …
Communities of Faith
Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island
Inbunden, 1996
1921 kr
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Most studies of modern religious change have viewed it as a process of secularization in which the advance of science and technology discredits religious beliefs and destroys religious institutions. Yet religion has stubbornly failed to expire in the West, and in some places is undergoing a …
Mastering Soldiers
Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Army Unit
Av Eyal Ben-Ari
Inbunden, 1998
1880 kr
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Studies of the military that deal with the actual experience of troops in the field are still rare in the social sciences. In fact, this ethnographic study of an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Force is the only one of its kind. As an officer of this unit and a professional anthropologist, the …
Recalling the Belgian Congo
Conversations and Introspection
Häftad, 2001
543 kr
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"Dembour is to be warmly congratulated on her achievement, both intellectually and in terms of memory retrieval content ...Its anthropological skills and merits apart, for readers [interested] in colonial administrators [this book] is at once a prime analysis and a rich resource." - African Affairs …
Academic Anthropology and the Museum
Back to the Future
Av Mary Bouquet
Häftad, 2001
454 kr
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The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to …
Simulated Dreams
Zionist Dreams for Israeli Youth
Av Haim Hazan
Häftad, 2002
454 kr
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At the core of the author's concern stands the question of cultural transmutation in an era riddled with media channels and all-embracing messages. Fragments of the Israeli experience are pieced together in this provocative essay to provide a socio-anthropological agenda for some of the issues …
After Socialism
Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe
Av Ray Abrahams
Häftad, 1996
527 kr
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The collapse of Soviet influence and the disillusionment with socialism in the early 1990s led to ambitious programs of economic reform throughout Eastern Europe. The papers in this volume, written by anthropologists and sociologists with detailed first-hand knowledge of the rural areas concerned, …
Defiance and Compliance
Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo
Inbunden, 2002
1880 kr
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The gap between rich and poor is widening in most countries, putting more pressure on women in particular who often find themselves with the ultimate responsibility to provide for their families, especially their children, in the face of economic and political discrimination. Based on participant …
Defiance and Compliance
Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo
Häftad, 2003
527 kr
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The gap between rich and poor is widening in most countries, putting more pressure on women in particular who often find themselves with the ultimate responsibility to provide for their families, especially their children, in the face of economic and political discrimination. Based on participant …
Bounded Field
Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley
Av Jaro Stacul
Inbunden, 2003
1921 kr
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Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino …
Rebordering the Mediterranean
Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe
Inbunden, 2004
1861 kr
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Offering a rich ethnographic account, this book traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the European Union, a region where thousands of African immigrants …
Science, Magic and Religion
The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic
Inbunden, 2004
1894 kr
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For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied to the art museums in Europe and the United States so far. This volume expands it by exploring a range of …
Science, Magic and Religion
The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic
Häftad, 2006
520 kr
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For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied to the art museums in Europe and the United States so far. This volume expands it by exploring a range of …
Who Owns the Past?
The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village
Av Deema Kaneff
Inbunden, 2004
1921 kr
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In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation. Focusing on a local community that was considered a "model" in the socialist period, the author explores a variety of state-sponsored and unofficial pasts - history, folklore, and …
Troubles with Turtles
Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
Inbunden, 2003
1861 kr
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The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the Greek island of Zakynthos, are involved in a bitter environmental dispute concerning the conservation of sea turtles. Against the environmentalists' practices and ideals they set their own culture of relating to the land, …
Earth-colored Sea
'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World
Inbunden, 2004
1861 kr
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Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power – Portugal – has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism and …
Earth-colored Sea
'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World
Häftad, 2004
454 kr
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Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power – Portugal – has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism and …
Foundations of National Identity
From Catalonia to Europe
Inbunden, 2004
1861 kr
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Since it emergence in the 19th century in response to feudalism, nationalism has been a mixed blessing. Originally seen as a positive force, often enough it has resulted in warfare and persecution of minorities, so much so that, over time, it has been considered a social evil whose apparent decline …
Bodies of Evidence
Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus
Inbunden, 2005
1979 kr
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In the course of hostilities between Greek and Turkish Cypriots between 1963 and 1974, over 2000 persons, both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, went "missing" in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean with a population distribution of 80% Greeks and 18% Turks. This represents a significant number for a …
Troubles with Turtles
Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
Häftad, 2005
444 kr
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The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the Greek island of Zakynthos, are involved in a bitter environmental dispute concerning the conservation of sea turtles. Against the environmentalists' practices and ideals they set their own culture of relating to the land, …
Morals of Legitimacy
Between Agency and the System
Av Italo Pardo
Inbunden, 2001
1730 kr
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With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., …
Morals of Legitimacy
Between Agency and the System
Av Italo Pardo
Häftad, 2001
485 kr
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With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., …
Simulated Dreams
Zionist Dreams for Israeli Youth
Av Haim Hazan
Inbunden, 2001
1861 kr
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At the core of the author's concern stands the question of cultural transmutation in an era riddled with media channels and all-embracing messages. Fragments of the Israeli experience are pieced together in this provocative essay to provide a socio-anthropological agenda for some of the issues …
Academic Anthropology and the Museum
Back to the Future
Av Mary Bouquet
Inbunden, 2002
1921 kr
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The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to …
Coping with Tourists
European Reactions to Mass Tourism
Inbunden, 1996
1861 kr
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Once content to sunbathe and follow guides and established itineraries, tourists are increasingly seeking authentic culture. This is taking them into the private areas and zones to which the locals retire in order to escape the tourist gaze, creating tensions between the two groups. Based on recent …
Sentimental Economy
Commodity and Community in Rural Ireland
Inbunden, 1996
1921 kr
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On the fringe of western Europe, yet fully integrated into the capitalist market, the rural economy of the west of Ireland seems to provide a fascinating object of analysis to the student of European folk cultures. This book concentrates on a particular aspect of that rural economy: the social …
