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  1. Minor Universality : Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism ; Universalité mineure : Penser l’humanité après l’universalisme occidental
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek

    The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words, are not the same. The idea of a world-society... more

     

    The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words, are not the same. The idea of a world-society remains highly contested. Our times are marked by the fragmentation of a double relativistic character: the inevitable critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other. Sources of an argumentation for a strong universalism brought forward by Western traditions such as Christianity, Marxism, and Liberalism have largely lost their legitimation. All the while, manifold and situated narratives of a common world that re-address the universal are under way of being produced and gain significance. This volume tracks the development and relevance of such cultural and social practices that posit forms of what we call minor universality. It asks: Where and how do contemporary practices open up concrete settings so as to create experiences, reflections and agencies of a shared humanity? ; European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Undefined
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 700; 300; 440; 840; 070; 230; 100; 620
    Subjects: Cultural Studies; Literary Studies; Philosophy; Philosophy of Culture; Postcolonial Studies; Romance Literature; Anthropology
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  2. <<Der>> wohltemperierte Mensch
    Aufklärungsanthropologien im Widerstreit
    Author: Nowitzki, Hans-Peter
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Walter de Gruyter, Berlin

    Die interdisziplinär angelegte Untersuchung widmet sich der Entstehung und Entwicklung der Anthropologie im 18. Jahrhundert und bietet eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme des nur schwer überschaubaren anthropologischen Denkens vor seinem kultur- und... more

     

    Die interdisziplinär angelegte Untersuchung widmet sich der Entstehung und Entwicklung der Anthropologie im 18. Jahrhundert und bietet eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme des nur schwer überschaubaren anthropologischen Denkens vor seinem kultur- und problemgeschichtlichen Hintergrund. Aus vier in sich abgeschlossenen, zugleich aufeinander aufbauenden Studien ergibt sich so eine Geschichte der Anthropologieentwicklung im 18. Jahrhundert.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110898675
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    RVK Categories: GI 1622 ; CC 6400
    Series: Quellen und Forschungen zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte ; 25 (259)
    Subjects: Anthropology; Anthropology; German literature; Anthropology; Anthropology; Anthropology; Anthropology; Anthropology.; Antropologie.; Aufklärung.; German literature; German literature.; Intellectual life.; Literatur.; Literature; Menschenbild.; PHILOSOPHY; Philosophy; Philosophie.
    Scope: XI, 458 Seiten
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    Geringfügig überarbeitete Fassung der Hochschulschrift

    Dissertation, Universität Jena, 2001
  3. Shakespeare auf der Couch
    Zur Anthropologie und Tiefenpsychologie in seiner Dramenwelt
    Author: Danzer, Gerhard
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin ; Imprint: Springer, Heidelberg

    Shakespeare ist als Autor weltberühmt. Er war allerdings nicht nur ein genialer Theater-Mann, sondern mindestens ein ebenso exzellenter Psychologe und Anthropologe, der das menschliche Dasein in allen seinen Schattierungen intuitiv verstanden sowie... more

     

    Shakespeare ist als Autor weltberühmt. Er war allerdings nicht nur ein genialer Theater-Mann, sondern mindestens ein ebenso exzellenter Psychologe und Anthropologe, der das menschliche Dasein in allen seinen Schattierungen intuitiv verstanden sowie mit künstlerischer Verve und literarischer Generosität auf die Bühne gebracht hat. Dieses Buch führt durch eine Auswahl seiner Stücke, fasst Handlungen zusammen, kommentiert Verhaltensweisen und interpretiert diese feinsinnig. Shakespeare wird hier als Psychologe und Anthropologe vorgestellt - höchst vergnüglich, hellsichtig und tiefgründig. Hamlet - Romeo und Julia - Othello - Macbeth - King Lear - Richard III. - Henry VIII. - Wie es euch gefällt - Sommernachtstraum - Der Sturm

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook; Data medium
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783662638705
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021
    Subjects: Anthropology; Psychoanalysis; European literature; Anthropology; Psychoanalysis; European Literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 254 Seiten), 1 Illustrationen
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    William Shakespeare - and who he was? -- Hamlet - falscher Mann, falscher Ort, falscher Auftrag -- Romeo und Julia - die Melodien der Liebe -- Othello - Syndrom der ontologischen Unsicherheit -- Macbeth - die Melodien von Herrschaft, Macht, Gewalt -- King Lear - ein alter Mann ist stets ein König Lear -- Richard III -- Das personifizierte Böse? -- Heinrich VIII -- Alles ist wahr! Ist tatsächlich alles wahr? -- Wie es euch gefällt - Das Leben als Pastorale -- Ein Sommernachtstraum - Das Leben -- Der Stoff - Wir sind vom Stoff, aus dem die Träume sind -- Personenregister - Literaturverzeichnis
  4. The Spectral Arctic : A History of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration
    Author: McCorristine, Shane
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith.... more

     

    Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.

     
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  5. Chapter 8 Anticipatory nostalgia and nomadic temporality : A case study of chronocracy in the crypto-colony
    Author: Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.... more

     

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350125865; 9781003087199
    Parent title: The Time of Anthropology
    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Anthropology
    Other subjects: Anthropology, Chronopolitics, Time
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (29 p.)
  6. Chapter Introduction : The time of anthropology: studies of contemporary chronopolitics and chronocracy
    Author: Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth; Simpson, Bob
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.... more

     

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350125865; 9781003087199
    Parent title: The Time of Anthropology
    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Anthropology
    Other subjects: Anthropology, Chronopolitics, Time
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (31 p.)
  7. Documenting Death : Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania
    Author: Strong, Adrienne
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland

    "Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne... more

     

    "Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing maternal mortality rates, despite global development support. Growing administrative pressures to document good care serve to preclude good care in practice while placing frontline healthcare workers in moral and ethical peril. Maternal health emergencies expose the precarity of hospital social relations and accountability systems, which, together, continue to lead to the deaths of pregnant women.

    “This powerful and compelling analysis of maternal mortality in rural Tanzania is a groundbreaking addition to scholarship on Africa and its public health challenges. Adrienne E. Strong presents a rich ethnography of hospital function and dysfunction, to which the voices of patients and staff add poignant detail. The ways in which state and global health policy shape maternal health and well-being frame individual narratives in a memorable testimony.” Carolyn Sargent, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis

    Documenting Death is an arresting tale of life and death on a busy maternity ward in rural Tanzania. Drawing on a remarkable period of ethnographic fieldwork, Strong evocatively details the predicament of nurse midwives caught in the ‘biobureaucracy’ of global health projects and their audit trails. A significant contribution to medical anthropology and critical global health scholarship.” Margaret MacDonald, Associate Professor of Anthropology, York University"

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Popular medicine & health; Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Health & Fitness; Health Care Issues; Social Science; Anthropology; General; Social Science; Anthropology; Cultural & Social
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (271 p.)
  8. How Generations Remember : Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Author: Palmberger, Monika
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Basingstoke

    This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective... more

     

    This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and ‘rewritten’ following great socio-political change. Focusing on both Bosniak-dominated East Mostar and Croat-dominated West Mostar, it demonstrates that, even in this ethno-nationally divided city with its two divergent national historiographies, generation-specific experiences are crucial in how people ascribe meaning to past events. Dieses Buch liefert einen einzigartigen Einblick in das Leben in der Stadt Mostar. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die Erinnerungen der Menschen dieser seit dem Krieg in den 1990er-Jahren geteilten bosnisch-herzegowinischen Stadt. Basierend auf einer mehrjährigen ethnographischen Feldforschung untersucht die Autorin die tiefgreifende Verwobenheit persönlicher und kollektiver Erinnerungen anhand der Analyse dreier Generationen: Erstens die Aufbaugeneration Jugoslawiens, die „First Yugoslavs“, zweitens die „Last Yugoslavs“, die nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg geboren wurden und in Titos sozialistischem Jugoslawien sozialisiert wurden und drittens die „Post-Yugoslavs“, die nur noch den Zerfall Jugoslawiens und den Krieg als Kinder erlebten.

     
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  9. Cities Full of Symbols : A Theory of Urban Space and Culture
    Author: Nas, Peter J.M.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press, Leiden

    This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a... more

     

    This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a remnant of Dutch colonial architecture, or the mass pilgrimage to Elvis’s Graceland in Memphis. Cities Full of Symbols develops urban symbolic ecology and hypercity approaches into a new perspective on social cohesion. Approaches of architects, anthropologists, sociologists, social geographers and historians converge to make this a book for anyone interested in urban life, policymaking and city branding. Overal in steden zijn de betekenisvolle symbolen te vinden die samen de stadscultuur vormen. In de bundel Cities Full of Symbols, worden voorbeelden van Jakarta tot Leiden en van Buenos Aires tot New York gebruikt, en wordt aan de hand van de ‘urban symbolism theory’ ingezoomd op symbolen zoals stadslayout, standbeelden, straatnamen en de heersende populaire cultuur. Dit boek onderzoekt de symboliek die ten grondslag ligt aan de bouwplannen na de aanslagen op 11 september in New York, de betekenis van het tijdens de tsunami aangespoelde schip in Banda Atjeh, het stadslogo van Kaapstad dat is afgeleid van Nederlandse koloniale architectuur, en de massale pelgrimage naar Elvis’ Graceland in Memphis.

    In Cities Full of Symbols wordt door middel van stedelijke symbolische ecologie en hypercity benaderingen een nieuw perspectief ontwikkeld over sociale cohesie. Deze bundel verenigt benaderingen van architecten, antropologen, sociologen, sociaal geografen en historici. Dit is een boek voor iedereen met interesse in het stadsleven, beleidsvorming en stadsmarketing.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789087281250
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    Subjects: Architecture; Anthropology; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: sociology; culture studies; anthropology; Colombo; Ghent; Jakarta; Yogyakarta
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (304 p.)
  10. Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life
    Contributor: Lempert, Michael (Publisher); Summerson Carr, E. (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland, California

    "Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies: local and global, micro and macro events. Even the most critical among us often... more

     

    "Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies: local and global, micro and macro events. Even the most critical among us often proceed with our analysis as if such scales were the ready-made platforms of social life, rather than asking how, why, and to what effect are scalar distinctions forged in the first place. How do scalar distinctions help actors and analysts alike make sense of and navigate their social worlds? What do these distinctions reveal and what do they conceal? How are scales construed and what effects do they have on the way those who abide by them think and act? This pathbreaking volume attends to the practical labor of scale-making and the communicative practices this labor requires. From an ethnographic perspective, the authors demonstrate that scale is practice and process before it becomes product, whether in the work of projecting the commons, claiming access to the big picture, or scaling the seriousness of a crime."

     
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    Contributor: Lempert, Michael (Publisher); Summerson Carr, E. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520965430
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    Subjects: Research methods: general; Society & social sciences; Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: scalar processes; scale-making; scale; Trademark
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (276 p.)
  11. Knowledge Sovereignty Among African Cattle Herders
    Author: Fre, Zeremarian
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    Beni-Amer cattle owners in the western part of the Horn of Africa are not only masters in cattle breeding, they are also knowledge sovereign, in terms of owning productive genes of cattle and the cognitive knowledge base crucial to sustainable... more

     

    Beni-Amer cattle owners in the western part of the Horn of Africa are not only masters in cattle breeding, they are also knowledge sovereign, in terms of owning productive genes of cattle and the cognitive knowledge base crucial to sustainable development. The strong bonds between the Beni-Amer, their animals, and their environment constitute the basis of their ways of knowing, and much of their knowledge system is built on experience and embedded in their cultural practices.

     

    In this book, the first to study Beni-Amer practices, Zeremariam Fre argues for the importance of their knowledge, challenging the preconceptions that regard it as untrustworthy when compared to scientific knowledge from more developed regions. Empirical evidence suggests that there is much one could learn from the other, since elements of pastoralist technology, such as those related to animal production and husbandry, make a direct contribution to our knowledge of livestock production. It is this potential for hybridisation, as well as the resilience of the herders, at the core of the indigenous knowledge system.

     
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  12. Visualising Facebook
    Author: Miller, Daniel; Sinanan, Jolynna
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the... more

     

    Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town in Trinidad. Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their local context. The book aims to highlight the importance of visual images today in patrolling and controlling the moral values of populations, and explores the changing role of photography from that of recording and representation, to that of communication, where an image not only documents an experience but also enhances it, making the moment itself more exciting.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Media studies; Sociology & anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology
    Other subjects: facebook; social media; england; anthropology; trinidad; El Mirador; Photography; Selfie
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (236 p.)
  13. Worlds in Miniature : Contemplating Miniaturisation in Global Material Culture
    Contributor: Davy, Jack (Publisher); Dixon, Charlotte (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    Miniaturisation is the creation of small objects that resemble larger ones, usually, but not always, for purposes different to those of the larger original object. Worlds in Miniature brings together researchers working across various regions, time... more

     

    Miniaturisation is the creation of small objects that resemble larger ones, usually, but not always, for purposes different to those of the larger original object. Worlds in Miniature brings together researchers working across various regions, time periods and disciplines to explore the subject of miniaturisation as a material culture technique. It offers original contribution to the field of miniaturisation through its broad geographical scope, interdisciplinary approach, and deep understanding of miniatures and their diverse contexts.

     

    Beginning with an introduction by the editors, which offers one possible guide to studying and comparing miniatures, the following chapters include studies of miniature Neolithic stone circles on Exmoor, Ancient Egyptian miniature assemblages, miniaturisation under colonialism as practiced by the Makah People of Washington State, miniature surf boats from India, miniaturised contemporary tourist art of the Warao people of Venezuela, and dioramas on display in the Science Museum.

     

    Interspersing the chapters are interviews with miniature-makers, including two miniature boat-builders at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall and a freelance architectural model-maker. Professor Susanne Küchler concludes the volume with a theoretical study summarising the current state of miniaturisation as a research discipline. The interdisciplinary nature of the volume makes it suitable reading for anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and artists, and for researchers in related fields across the social sciences.

     
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    Contributor: Davy, Jack (Publisher); Dixon, Charlotte (Publisher)
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    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Archaeology; Material culture; Anthropology
    Other subjects: anthropology; archaeology; miniatures
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (206 p.)
  14. The Anthropology of Parliaments : Entanglements in Democratic Politics
    Author: Crewe, Emma
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe’s insights deepen our... more

     

    The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe’s insights deepen our understanding of the complexity of political institutions. She reveals how elected politicians navigate relationships by forging alliances and thwarting opponents; how parliamentary buildings are constructed as sites of work, debate and the nation in miniature; and how politicians and officials engage with hierarchies, continuity and change. This book also proposes how to study parliaments through an anthropological lens while in conversation with other disciplines. The dive into ethnographies from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Region demolishes hackneyed geo-political categories and culminates in a new comparative theory about the contradictions in everyday political work. This important book will be of interest to anyone studying parliaments but especially those in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; politics, legal and development studies; and international relations.

     
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  15. Chapter 6 Monsoon uncertainties, hydro-chemical infrastructures, and ecological time in Sri Lanka
    Author: Widger, Tom; Wickramasinghe, Upul
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.... more

     

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.

     
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    Parent title: The Time of Anthropology
    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Anthropology
    Other subjects: anthropology; chronopolitics; time
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (20 p.)
  16. The Scarcity Slot : Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana
    Author: Logan, Amanda L.
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa's deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed... more

     

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

    The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa's deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of "the scarcity slot," a kind of Othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together archaeological, historical, and environmental data with food ethnography, she advances a new approach to building long-term histories of food security on the continent in order to combat these stereotypes. Focusing on a case study in Banda, Ghana that spans the past six centuries, The Scarcity Slot reveals that people thrived during a severe, centuries-long drought just as Europeans arrived on the coast, with a major decline in food security emerging only recently. This narrative radically challenges how we think about African foodways in the past with major implications for the future.

     
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  17. Chapter 5 Depressing time : waiting, melancholia, and the psychoanalytic practice of care
    Author: Salisbury, Laura; Baraitser, Lisa
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.... more

     

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.

     
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    Format: Online
    Parent title: The Time of Anthropology
    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Anthropology
    Other subjects: anthropology; chronopolitics; time
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (21 p.)
  18. The Time of Anthropology : Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics
    Contributor: Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth (Publisher); Simpson, Bob (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.... more

     

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.

     
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    Contributor: Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth (Publisher); Simpson, Bob (Publisher)
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    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Anthropology
    Other subjects: anthropology; chronopolitics; time
  19. Movement of knowledge : Medical humanities perspectives on medicine, science, and experience
    Contributor: Hansson, Kristofer (Publisher); Irwin, Rachel (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Kriterium, Gothenburg

    Medical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant’s desk and then on to a policymaker. Knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed... more

     

    Medical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant’s desk and then on to a policymaker. Knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves. The dynamic, ever-evolving nature of medical knowledge has given rise to different concepts to explain it: diffusion, translation, circulation, transit, co-production. At the same time, its movements—and the ways in which we conceptualize and describe them—have material consequences. For instance, value judgements on the validity of certain forms of knowledge determine the direction of clinical research. Policy decisions are taken in relation to existing knowledge. The acceptance or rejection of treatment protocols based on medical ‘facts’ impacts on patients, dependents, health providers, and society at large. Simply put, knowledge and the movement of knowledge matter. How do they matter, though? The contributors to this volume examine the complexity of medical knowledge in everyday life. We demonstrate not only the pervasive influence of knowledge in medical and public health settings, but also the range of methodological and theoretical tools to study knowledge. Ours is a multidisciplinary approach to the medical humanities, presenting both contemporary and historical perspectives in order to explore the borderlands between expertise and common knowledge.

     
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    Contributor: Hansson, Kristofer (Publisher); Irwin, Rachel (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Anthropology; The arts: general issues; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; History of medicine; Medical & healthcare law; Science & technology: general interest (Children's / Teenage)
    Other subjects: Knowledge; Ethnography; Medicine; Health care Public health; Science
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (265 p.)
  20. Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
    Author: Martinez, Francisco
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional... more

     

    What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past.

     

    Francisco Martinez brings together a number of sites of interest to explore the vanquishing of the Soviet legacy in Estonia: the railway bazaar in Tallinn where concepts such as ‘market’ and ‘employment’ take on distinctly different meanings from their Western use; Linnahall, a grandiose venue, whose Soviet heritage now poses diffi cult questions of how to present the building’s history; Tallinn’s cityscape, where the social, spatial and temporal co-evolution of the city can be viewed and debated; Narva, a city that marks the border between the Russian Federation, NATO and the European Union, and represents a place of continual negotiation of belonging; and the new Estonian National Museum in Raadi, an area on the outskirts of Tartu, that has been turned into a memory field.

     
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781787353534
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    Subjects: European history; Sociology & anthropology; Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Marxism & Communism
    Other subjects: Estonia; Communism; Eastern Europe; Soviet; Linnahall; Narva; Russians; Tallinn
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (282 p.)
  21. Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
    Author: Geismar, Haidy
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each... more

     

    Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography), and theories of how knowledge is produced in museums on a wide range of digital projects. Swooping from Ethnographic to Decorative Arts Collections, from the Google Art Project to bespoke digital experiments, Haidy Geismar explores the object lessons contained in digital form and asks what they can tell us about both the past and the future. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience working with collections across the world, Geismar argues for an understanding of digital media as material, rather than immaterial, and advocates for a more nuanced, ethnographic and historicised view of museum digitisation projects than those usually adopted in the celebratory accounts of new media in museums. By locating the digital as part of a longer history of material engagements, transformations and processes of translation, this book broadens our understanding of the reality effects that digital technologies create, and of how digital media can be mobilised in different parts of the world to very different effects.

     
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    Language: English
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    Subjects: Museology & heritage studies; Material culture; Sociology & anthropology; Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: object; digital age; arts; museum; Anthropology; Collection (artwork); Ethnography; Maori people
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (164 p.)
  22. Ethnographies of Waiting : Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty
    Contributor: Janeja, Manpreet K. (Publisher); Bandak, Andreas (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of... more

     

    We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is negotiated in myriad ways. Examining the politics and poetics of waiting, Ethnographies of Waiting offers fresh perspectives on waiting as the uncertain interplay between doubting and hoping, and asks "When is time worth the wait?" Waiting thus conceived is intrinsic to the ethnographic method at the heart of the anthropological enterprise. Featuring detailed ethnographies from Japan, Georgia, England, Ghana, Norway, Russia and the United States, a Foreword by Craig Jeffrey and an Afterword by Ghassan Hage, this is a vital contribution to the field of anthropology of time and essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and philosophy.

     
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    Contributor: Janeja, Manpreet K. (Publisher); Bandak, Andreas (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003085317
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    Subjects: Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Sociology
    Other subjects: Anthropology; Social and cultural anthropology; Sociology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (232 p.)
  23. Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration
    Contributor: Jacobsen, Christine M. (Publisher); Karlsen, Marry-Anne (Publisher); Khosravi, Shahram (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    "This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices. Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights... more

     

    "This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.

    Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging, state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in irregular migration. The chapters in this book address legal, bureaucratic, ethical, gendered, and affective dimensions of time and migration. A key concern is to develop more theoretically robust approaches to waiting in migration as constituted in and through multiple and relational temporalities. The chapters highlight how waiting is configured in specific legal, material, and socio-cultural situations, as well as how migrants encounter, incorporate, and resist temporal structures.

    This collection includes ethnographic and other empirically based material, as well as theorizing that cross-cut disciplinary boundaries. It will be relevant to scholars from anthropology and sociology, and others interested in temporalities, migration, borders, and power. "

     
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    Contributor: Jacobsen, Christine M. (Publisher); Karlsen, Marry-Anne (Publisher); Khosravi, Shahram (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429351730
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    Subjects: Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Migration, immigration & emigration
    Other subjects: anthropology; social and cultural anthropology; migration; immigration and emigration
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (229 p.)
  24. The Scarcity Slot : Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana
    Author: Logan, Amanda L.
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland, California

    The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa’s deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of “the scarcity slot,” a kind of othering based on presumed differences in... more

     

    The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa’s deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of “the scarcity slot,” a kind of othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together archaeological, historical, and environmental data with food ethnography, she advances a new approach to building long-term histories of food security on the continent in order to combat these stereotypes. Focusing on a case study in Banda, Ghana that spans the past six centuries, The Scarcity Slot reveals that people thrived during a severe, centuries-long drought just as Europeans arrived on the coast, with a major decline in food security emerging only recently. This narrative radically challenges how we think about African foodways in the past, with major implications for the future. “This book offers a pathbreaking archaeological ethnography of food in a region of West Africa that has experienced some of the most cataclysmic sociopolitical upheavals the world has ever seen. Amanda Logan dismantles the dominant narrative that Columbian Exchange crop introductions rescued a continent long shaped by hunger. This brilliant study elevates archaeology’s contributions to African food history and food insecurity studies.” JUDITH CARNEY, author of In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World “The Scarcity Slot is an accessible, empirically grounded history demonstrating for students of Africa’s futures the urgent need to understand her pasts.” KATHRYN M. DE LUNA, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown University “A radical shift from the old ways of doing the archaeology of diet, this book breaks ground for a new food archaeology. A truly innovative and exciting work and a convincing antidote to the popular image of Africa as a continent of famine.” RICHARD WILK, Distinguished Professor and Provost’s Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Indiana University

     
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    Subjects: Anthropology; Food & society
    Other subjects: Anthropology; Food Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (246 p.)
  25. Invoking Flora Nwapa : Nigerian women writers, femininity and spirituality in world literature
    Author: Uimonen, Paula
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Stockholm University Press, Stockholm, Sweden

    By invoking Flora Nwapa, this monograph draws attention to Nigerian women writers in world literature, with an emphasis on femininity and spirituality. Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) was the first internationally published novel in English by a female... more

     

    By invoking Flora Nwapa, this monograph draws attention to Nigerian women writers in world literature, with an emphasis on femininity and spirituality. Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) was the first internationally published novel in English by a female African writer. With the establishment of Tana Press in 1977, Flora Nwapa also became the first female publisher in Africa. Although Flora Nwapa has been recognized as the ‘mother of modern African literature’, she is not sufficiently acknowledged in world literary canons or world literature studies, which is something this monograph aspires to redress, with the help of earlier studies, especially Nigerian scholarship. Drawing on the Efuru@50 celebration in Nigeria in 2016, this book explores the revival of Flora Nwapa’s fame as the pioneer of African women’s literature. Using an ethnographic rather than biographical approach, it captures Flora Nwapa’s literary practice in the context of the Nigerian literary scene and its interlinkages with world literature. The ethnographic portrayal of Flora Nwapa is complemented with an exposé of a select number of contemporary Nigerian women writers, based on interviews during fieldwork in Nigeria. The book uses concepts like creolized aesthetics and womanist worldmaking to advance scholarly understandings of world literature, which is conceived here as a pluriverse of aesthetic worlds. Exploring experimental ethnographic writing, the book combines the genres of creative non-fiction, descriptive ethnography and scholarly analysis, in an effort to make the text more accessible to academic as well as non-academic readers. Through travel notes the experience of fieldwork is shared in a candid manner. Detailed ethnography from the Efuru@50 literary festival is presented to show the expansion of Flora Nwapa’s fame. In-depth analyses of Flora Nwapa’s literary works and the cultural context of her literary practice cover a wide range of themes, from feminine storytelling and children’s literature, to publishing and digitalization. The theoretical discussion draws on anthropological, literary and African womanist theory to contextualize and explore the central themes of femininity and spirituality in world literature. Inspired by the social change perspective of African womanism and critical decolonial theory, the book makes a contribution to current efforts to explore a more socially just and environmentally sustainable world of many worlds. Paying close attention to gender complementarity and sacred engagements in Flora Nwapa’s literary worldmaking, it shows how world literature can help us create other possible worlds of human, spiritual and environmental coexistence.

     
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