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In the Event

Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
1. Aufl.

von: Lotte Meinert, Bruce Kapferer
32,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.05.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781782388906
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	186

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

<a>Introduction: In the Event—toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments</a> Bruce Kapferer
 Chapter 1. ‘Ashura in Bahrain: Analyses of an Analytical Event Thomas Fibiger
 Chapter 2. ‘Burying the ANC’: Post-apartheid Ambiguities at the University of Limpopo, South Africa Bjarke Oxlund
 Chapter 3. A Topographic Event: A Buddhist Lama’s Perception of a Pilgrimage Cave Jesper Oestergaard
 Chapter 4. The Outburst: Climate Change, Gender Relations, and Situational Analysis Jonas Østergaard Nielsen
 Chapter 5. Events and Effects: Intensive Transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark Mikkel Rytter
 Chapter 6. The Cartoon Controversy: Creating Muslims in a Danish Setting Anja Kublitz
 Chapter 7. Values at Work: Ambivalent Situations and Human Resource Embarrassment Jakob Krause-Jensen
 Chapter 8. Figurations of the Future: On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe Stine Krøijer
 Chapter 9. Mimesis of the State: From Natural Disaster to Urban Citizenship on the Outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique Morten Nielsen
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Autorenportrait

Lotte Meinert is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University, research leader of Governing Transition in Northern Uganda: Land and Trust, and co-director of EPICENTER: Center for Cultural Epidemics. She is the author of Hopes in Friction: Schooling, Health and Everyday Life in Uganda (Information Age Publishing) and co-editor of Second Chances: The First Generation Living with ART in Uganda and Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality (Temple University Press).