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Live Literature
The Experience and Cultural Value of Literary Performance Events from Salons to Festivals
Av Ellen Wiles
Häftad, 2021
338 kr
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This ground-breaking book explores the phenomenal growth of live literature in the digitalizing 21st century. Wiles asks why literary events appeal and matter to people, and how they can transform the ways in which fiction is received and valued. Readers are immersed in the experience of two …
Vanishing World of The Islandman
Narrative and Nostalgia
Häftad, 2019
282 kr
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Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O'Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction …
Writing Friendship
A Reciprocal Ethnography
Av Paloma Gay y Blasco, Liria Hernández
Inbunden, 2019
937 kr
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This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernández, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment, the former informant returns the gaze to write about the anthropologist, her life and her environment. …
Writing Friendship
A Reciprocal Ethnography
Av Paloma Gay y Blasco, Liria Hernández
Häftad, 2020
938 kr
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This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernández, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment, the former informant returns the gaze to write about the anthropologist, her life and her environment. …
Theatrical Spectaculum
An Anthropological Theory
Av Tova Gamliel
Inbunden, 2019
1027 kr
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This book offers a new mythic perspective on the secret of the allure and survival of a current-archaic institution—the Western theatre—in an era of diverse technological media. Central to the theory is the spectaculum—a stage “world” that mirrors a monotheistic cosmic order.Tova Gamliel here not …
Theatrical Spectaculum
An Anthropological Theory
Av Tova Gamliel
Häftad, 2021
1027 kr
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This book offers a new mythic perspective on the secret of the allure and survival of a current-archaic institution—the Western theatre—in an era of diverse technological media. Central to the theory is the spectaculum—a stage “world” that mirrors a monotheistic cosmic order.Tova Gamliel here not …
Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging
Roots, Routes, and Rhizomes
Av Cicilie Fagerlid, Michelle A. Tisdel
Inbunden, 2020
1102 kr
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This collection pushes migration and "the minor" to the fore of literary anthropology. What happens when authors who thematize their “minority” background articulate notions of belonging, self, and society in literature? The contributors use “interface ethnography” and “fieldwork on foot” to …
Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging
Roots, Routes, and Rhizomes
Av Cicilie Fagerlid, Michelle A. Tisdel
Häftad, 2021
1102 kr
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This collection pushes migration and "the minor" to the fore of literary anthropology. What happens when authors who thematize their “minority” background articulate notions of belonging, self, and society in literature? The contributors use “interface ethnography” and “fieldwork on foot” to …
Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions
Southern Crossings
Av Oscar Hemer
Inbunden, 2020
786 kr
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In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, …
Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions
Southern Crossings
Av Oscar Hemer
Häftad, 2021
343 kr
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In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, …
Tales from the Desert Borderland
Häftad, 2020
236 kr
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Taylor brings an ethnographer’s eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border. In these linked short stories, readers are taken on a wild ride from San Diego to Nogales, into Mexican and Chicano neighborhoods, failed spas and defunct …
Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic
Letters from Uganda
Inbunden, 2020
989 kr
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A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives, this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how global questions of responsibility and inequity travel in family networks and confront people with decisions about life and death. It is a story of existence under extremely challenging …
Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic
Letters from Uganda
Häftad, 2021
989 kr
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A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives, this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how global questions of responsibility and inequity travel in family networks and confront people with decisions about life and death. It is a story of existence under extremely challenging …
Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood
Queer Chicano/Mexicano Desire and Belonging
Av Adelaida R. Del Castillo, Gibrán Güido
Inbunden, 2021
1425 kr
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Bringing together a unique collection of narrative accounts based on the lived experience of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons, this book explores fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. In many ways, the contributors reveal the significance of fathering and representations of fatherhood in the context of …
Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood
Queer Chicano/Mexicano Desire and Belonging
Av Adelaida R. Del Castillo, Gibrán Güido
Häftad, 2022
1425 kr
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Bringing together a unique collection of narrative accounts based on the lived experience of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons, this book explores fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. In many ways, the contributors reveal the significance of fathering and representations of fatherhood in the context of …
Gender and Genre in Ethnographic Writing
Av Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn
Inbunden, 2021
1541 kr
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This book provides new insights into an intense and long-standing debate on women, gender, and masculinity with an explicit focus on ethnographic writing. The six contributors to this book investigate and discuss the multiple connections between ethnographic writing and gender in both the history …
Gender and Genre in Ethnographic Writing
Av Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn
Häftad, 2022
1541 kr
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This book provides new insights into an intense and long-standing debate on women, gender, and masculinity with an explicit focus on ethnographic writing. The six contributors to this book investigate and discuss the multiple connections between ethnographic writing and gender in both the history …
Cosmopolitanism from the Global South
Caribbean Spiritual Repatriation to Ethiopia
Inbunden, 2021
1432 kr
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This is a book about the power of the imagination to move persons from the Global South as they reinvent themselves. This ethnography focuses on Caribbean Rastafari who have undertaken a spiritual repatriation to Ethiopia over several decades particularly, though not exclusively, from Jamaica. …
Cosmopolitanism from the Global South
Caribbean Spiritual Repatriation to Ethiopia
Häftad, 2022
1432 kr
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This is a book about the power of the imagination to move persons from the Global South as they reinvent themselves. This ethnography focuses on Caribbean Rastafari who have undertaken a spiritual repatriation to Ethiopia over several decades particularly, though not exclusively, from Jamaica. …
Jeliya at the Crossroads
Learning African Wisdom through an Embodied Practice
Av Lisa Feder
Inbunden, 2021
1361 kr
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This book describes the remarkable culture of jeliya, a musical and verbal art from the Manding region of West Africa. Using an embodied practice as her methodology, the author reveals how she and her music teachers live “in between” local and global cultures. Her journey spans 20 years of …
Jeliya at the Crossroads
Learning African Wisdom through an Embodied Practice
Av Lisa Feder
Häftad, 2022
1361 kr
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This book describes the remarkable culture of jeliya, a musical and verbal art from the Manding region of West Africa. Using an embodied practice as her methodology, the author reveals how she and her music teachers live “in between” local and global cultures. Her journey spans 20 years of …
Imaginary Worlds
Invitation to an Argument
Av Wayne Fife
Inbunden, 2022
1447 kr
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In this work, the author contends that we should create a comparative framework for the study of imaginary worlds in the social sciences. Making use of extended examples from both science fiction and fantasy fiction, as well as the living movement of steampunk, the reader is invited to an argument …
Imaginary Worlds
Invitation to an Argument
Av Wayne Fife
Häftad, 2023
1449 kr
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In this work, the author contends that we should create a comparative framework for the study of imaginary worlds in the social sciences. Making use of extended examples from both science fiction and fantasy fiction, as well as the living movement of steampunk, the reader is invited to an argument …
Reproducing Fictional Ethnographies
Surrogacy and Digitally Performed Anthropological Knowledge
Inbunden, 2023
1431 kr
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This book focuses on the example of surrogate motherhood to explore the interplay between new reproductive technologies and new ethnographic writing technologies. It seeks to interrogate the potential of fictional multimodality in ethnography and to illuminate the generative possibilities of …
Reproducing Fictional Ethnographies
Surrogacy and Digitally Performed Anthropological Knowledge
Häftad, 2024
1431 kr
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This book focuses on the example of surrogate motherhood to explore the interplay between new reproductive technologies and new ethnographic writing technologies. It seeks to interrogate the potential of fictional multimodality in ethnography and to illuminate the generative possibilities of …
Breath of Empire
Breathing with Historical Trauma in Anglo-Chinese Relations
Av Nichola Khan
Inbunden, 2022
515 kr
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This Palgrave Pivot combines anthropological, biographical and autoethnographic perspectives onto imperial intimacies, the transgenerational transmission of colonial and familial trauma, and violence in two kinds of household: the Chinese family in British Hong Kong and wider imperial Asia, and the …
Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Av Robert Desjarlais, Sabina M. Perrino m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1475 kr
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This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus …
Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Av Robert Desjarlais, Sabina M. Perrino m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1475 kr
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This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus …
Ethnography of Reading at Thirty
Inbunden, 2023
1541 kr
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This edited volume examines what the classic text The Ethnography of Reading (Boyarin ed., 1993), and the diverse ethnographies of reading it helped inspire, can offer contemporary scholars interested in understanding the place of reading in social life. The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty brings …
Ethnography of Reading at Thirty
Häftad, 2024
1541 kr
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This edited volume examines what the classic text The Ethnography of Reading (Boyarin ed., 1993), and the diverse ethnographies of reading it helped inspire, can offer contemporary scholars interested in understanding the place of reading in social life. The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty brings …
