Holding Worlds Together Ethnographies Of Knowing And Belonging
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Holding Worlds Together Ethnographies Of Knowing And Belonging
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language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
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Holding Worlds Together Ethnographies Of Knowing And Belonging written by and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Education categories.
Studies of globalization tend to foreground movements, mobilities or flows, while structures that remain stable and unchanged are often ignored. This volume foregrounds the latter. Discarding the term "globalization" for analytic purposes, this volume suggests that the significance of globalizing processes is best understood as an experiential, imaginary and epistemological dimension in people's lives. The authors explore how meaningful relations are made when the "socially local is not necessarily the geographically near" and how connections are made and unmade that reach beyond the specificity of time and place. Finally, this volume is about the ways knowledge and received wisdom are challenged and recast through processes of re-scaling, and how the understanding of locality and identity are transformed as a result.
Holding Worlds Together
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Author : Marianne E. Lien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Holding Worlds Together written by Marianne E. Lien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
Studies of globalization tend to foreground movements, mobilities or flows, while structures that remain stable and unchanged are often ignored. This volume foregrounds the latter. Discarding the term “globalization” for analytic purposes, this volume suggests that the significance of globalizing processes is best understood as an experiential, imaginary and epistemological dimension in people’s lives. The authors explore how meaningful relations are made when the “socially local is not necessarily the geographically near” and how connections are made and unmade that reach beyond the specificity of time and place. Finally, this volume is about the ways knowledge and received wisdom are challenged and recast through processes of re-scaling, and how the understanding of locality and identity are transformed as a result.
On The Order Of Chaos
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Author : Mark S. Mosko
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2005
On The Order Of Chaos written by Mark S. Mosko and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Science categories.
The essays in this volume collectively transform perspectives previously experienced as divergent, conflicting, and inconsistent into a common and complex orientation to problems central to the natural and social sciences involving transitions between order and disorder."--Jacket.
The Problem Of Context
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Author : Roy Dilley
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 1999
The Problem Of Context written by Roy Dilley and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Social Science categories.
The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation of meanings construe context indifferent ways. How do these ways differ? And what analytical strategies are adopted in order to suggest that the relevant context is "self-evident"? The notion of context has received less attention than is due such a central, key concept in social anthropology, as well as in other related disciplines. This collection of contributions from a group of leading social anthropologists and anthropological linguists addresses the question of how the idea of context is constructed, invoked, and deployed in the interpretations put forward by social anthropologists. The ethnographic focus embraces peoples from regions such as Bali, Europe, Malawi, and Zaire. Primarily theoretical in its aims, the work also draws on expertise from anthropological linguistics and philosophy in order to set the issue as much in a comparative disciplinary perspective as in a comparative cross-cultural one.
Critical Junctions
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Author : Don Kalb
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2005
Critical Junctions written by Don Kalb and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
"A book about theory and method in the humanities and social sciences. It reacts to what has become known as the "cultural turn," a shift toward semiotics, discourse, and representations and away from other sorts of determinations that started in the early 1980s and that has dominated social thinking for a long string of years. The book is based in a reconsideration of the meeting of two disciplines that helped to launch the cultural turn: anthropology and history. Specifically, it criticizes the ideas of hermeneutics and "thick description" (Clifford Geertz) that have come to play a key role in the encounter of anthropology and history and then in the cultural turn. It led to the renewed cherishing of what Gupta and Ferguson have called paradigms of "peoples and places," saturated pictures of universes, both small and large, of meaning ina more of less frozen standstill-an intellectual precursor to the cultural xenophobia of our times. Against this, the present book embraces praxis and "critical junctions": the connections in space (in and out of a relations of power and dependency, and what Eric Wolf has called the "interstitial relations" between apparently separate institutional domains. In this way the book adds to the current revival of institutionally based "global ethnography," which studies "up and outward" (the journal of Ethnography is a good example)."--Preface
Existential Anthropology
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Author : Michael Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2005
Existential Anthropology written by Michael Jackson and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Philosophy categories.
Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they yet possess for creating viable forms of social life.
Themes In French Culture
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Author : Rhoda Métraux
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2001
Themes In French Culture written by Rhoda Métraux and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Métraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one of the few works by American social scientists dealing with broad themes of French life. Mead and Métraux present a vivid picture of the French starting with the organization of the house and its architecture, and drawing original conclusions for the structure of French families and overall cultural values. This work, long out of print, is a fascinating and penetrating portrait of a contemporary European society.
The Anthropologist As Writer
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Author : Helena Wulff
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2017-09
The Anthropologist As Writer written by Helena Wulff and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09 with Social Science categories.
Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer : Across and Within Genres / Helena Wulff -- The Necessity of Being a Writer in Anthropology Today / Dominic Boyer -- Reading, Writing, and Recognition in the Emerging Academy / Don Brenneis -- O Anthropology, Where Art Thou? : An Auto-Ethnography of Proposals / Sverker Finnström -- The Craft of Editing : Anthropology's Prose and Qualms / Brian Moeran -- The Anglicization of Anthropology : Opportunities and Challenges / Máiréd Nic Craith -- The Anthropologist as Storyteller / Alma Gottlieb -- Writing for the Future / Paul Stoller -- Life-writing : Anthropological Knowledge, Boundary-Making, and the Experiential / Narmala Halstead -- Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse / Kirin Narayan -- On Some Nice Benefits and One Big Challenge of The Second File / Anette Nyqvist -- The Writer as Anthropologist / Oscar Hemer -- Writing Together : Tensions and Joy between Scholars and Activists / Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Vincent Manoharan, Urmila Devi, Jussi Eskola and Swarna Sabrina Francis -- Fiction and Anthropological Understanding : A Cosmopolitan Vision / Nigel Rapport -- On Timely Appearances : Literature, Art, Anthropology / Mattias Viktorin -- Digital Narratives in Anthropology / Paula Uimonen -- Writing Otherwise / Ulf Hannerz
How Materials Matter
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Author : Graeme Were
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-03-27
How Materials Matter written by Graeme Were and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-27 with Social Science categories.
How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region.
Race Ethnicity And Nation
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Author : Peter Wade
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2007
Race Ethnicity And Nation written by Peter Wade and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Medical categories.
"Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnical revolutions. Drawing on data from assisted reproduction, transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation."--Back cover