In the Event: Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments

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Titel: In the Event : Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: In the Event—toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
Chapter 1 ‘Ashura in Bahrain: Analyses of an Analytical Event
Chapter 2 ‘Burying the ANC’: Post-apartheid Ambiguities at the University of Limpopo, South Africa
Chapter 3 A Topographic Event: A Buddhist Lama’s Perception of a Pilgrimage Cave
Chapter 4 The Outburst: Climate Change, Gender Relations, and Situational Analysis
Chapter 5 Events and Effects: Intensive Transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark
Chapter 6 The Cartoon Controversy: Creating Muslims in a Danish Setting
Chapter 7 Studying Human Resource Management: Beyond Corporate Consensus and Colonial Conflicts
Chapter 8 Figurations of the Future: On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe
Chapter 9 Mimesis of the State: From Natural Disaster to Urban Citizenship on the Outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique
About the Editors
Index

Beteiligte: Fibiger, Thomas [MitwirkendeR]; Kapferer, Bruce [MitwirkendeR]; Kapferer, Bruce [HerausgeberIn]; Krause-Jensen, Jakob [MitwirkendeR]; Krøijer, Stine [MitwirkendeR]; Kublitz, Anja [MitwirkendeR]; Meinert, Lotte [HerausgeberIn]; Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard [MitwirkendeR]; Nielsen, Morten [MitwirkendeR]; Oestergaard, Jesper [MitwirkendeR]; Oxlund, Bjarke [MitwirkendeR]; Rytter, Mikkel [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2015]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (186 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781782388906

ISBN: 9781782388906

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Schlagwörter: Ethnology Methodology ; Ethnology Philosophy ; Experience ; Life change events ; Symbolic anthropology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Events are “generative moments” in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic studies from around the world—varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and management—this volume analyzes generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations. These events—including the Ashura ritual in Bahrain, social cleavages in South Africa, a Buddhist cave in Nepal, drought in Burkina Faso, an earthquake in Pakistan, the cartoon crisis in Denmark, corporate management at Bang & Olufsen, protest meetings in Europe, and flooding and urban citizenship in Mozambique—are not simply destructive disasters, crises, and conflicts, but also generative and constitutive of the social

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