Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging
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Publisher: Berghahn Books
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Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781845459673
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Publisher: Berghahn Books
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Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marianne E. Lien
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781845452506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies 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.
Author: Roy Dilley
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781571817006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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. R.M. Dilley is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.
Author: Don Kalb
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781845450298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: Michael Jackson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781845451226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired 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.
Author: Helena Wulff
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1785330195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters identify the different writing genres and contexts anthropologists actually engage with. Second, this book argues for the usefulness and necessity of taking seriously the idea of writing as a craft and of writing across and within genres in new ways. Although academic writing is an anthropologist’s primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction.
Author: Mark S. Mosko
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781845450236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Stewart Allen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-08-17
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1526127555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough an ethnographic study of the ‘Barefoot College’, an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success.
Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2007-09-15
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1845205243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHowever, arguing that variation is as characteristic of globalization as standardization, the book stresses the necessity for a bottom-up, comparative analysis. Distinguishing between the cultural, political, economic and ecological aspects of globalization, the book highlights the implications of globalization for people's everyday lives.
Author: N. J. Allen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781571818089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom reflections on such works in translation as the 1938 essay, The Person, by seminal French sociocultural anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), and Primitive Classification (1903), which Mauss coauthored with his uncle-mentor sociologist Emile Durkheim, Allen offers his Maussian-influenced ideas on the origins of human society, magic, religion, and Indo- European ideology. Only the last chapter is original to this text. The titles and dates of Mauss' lectures are appended. The author acknowledges the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Oxford. c. Book News Inc.