Reigniting a tradition of learning from experience, Search After Method is a plea for livelier forms of anthropology. The anthropologists in the collection recount their experiences of working in the field, framed within a range of anthropological debates. The book thus provides accounts of lived experiences from both extensive and contemporary fieldwork as well as offering solutions for how to evolve the art of anthropological research beyond what is currently imagined.
Описание: Drawing on qualitative research from around the world, the book is particularly anchored in two bodies of social science scholarship - sociological and anthropological inquiries into the cultural impact of reproductive technologies on the one hand, and parenting culture studies on the other.
Questions the way we understand the idea of community through an investigation of the term "historically black" In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood, the complex relationship between human beings and their social and physical landscapes—and how the term “community” is sometimes conjured to feign a cohesiveness that may not actually exist. Drawing on ethnographic and historical materials from Union, Virginia, Historically Black offers a nuanced and sensitive portrait of a federally recognized Historic District under the category “Ethnic Heritage—Black.” Since Union has been home to a racially mixed population since at least the late 19th century, calling it “historically black” poses some curious existential questions to the black residents who currently live there. Union’s identity as a “historically black community” encourages a perception of the town as a monochromatic and monohistoric landscape, effectively erasing both old-timer white residents and newcomer black residents while allowing newer white residents to take on a proud role as preservers of history. Gestures to “community” gloss an oversimplified perspective of race, history and space that conceals much of the richness (and contention) of lived reality in Union, as well as in the larger United States. They allow Americans to avoid important conversations about the complex and unfolding nature by which groups of people and social/physical landscapes are conceptualized as a single unified whole. This multi-layered, multi-textured ethnography explores a key concept, inviting public conversation about the dynamic ways in which race, space, and history inform our experiences and understanding of community.
Описание: In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with America`s golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the Creole City reveals the profusion of literary output that white Creoles used to imagine themselves as a unified community of writers and readers.
Автор: A. Bradley Название: Imagining Ireland in the Poems and Plays of W. B. Yeats ISBN: 1349532215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349532216 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7927.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat`s work has helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it`s revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat`s volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history.
Автор: Stokes-Rees, Emily, Assistant Professor and Head of Program, Museum Studies, Syracuse University, USA Название: Imagining Asia ISBN: 1538147955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538147955 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 7516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the development and influence of national museums in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau.
Автор: Ann Komaromi Название: Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society ISBN: 1501763598 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501763595 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6640.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Soviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and distinctive phenomena of the late Soviet era, as an uncensored system for making and sharing texts. Based on extensive research of the underground journals, bulletins, art folios and other periodicals produced in the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, Ann Komaromi analyzes the role of samizdat in fostering new forms of imagined community among Soviet citizens.
Dissidence has been dismissed as an elite phenomenon or as insignificant because it had little demonstrable impact on the Soviet regime. Komaromi challenges these views and demonstrates that the kind of imagination about self and community made possible by samizdat could be a powerful social force. She explains why participants in samizdat culture so often sought to divide "political" from "cultural" samizdat. Her study provides a controversial umbrella definition for all forms of samizdat in terms of truth-telling, arguing that the act is experienced as transformative by Soviet authors and readers. This argument will challenge scholars in the field to respond to contentions that go against the grain of both anthropological and postmodern accounts.
Komaromi's combination of literary analysis, historical research, and sociological theory makes sense of the phenomenon of samizdat for readers today. Soviet Samizdat shows that samizdat was not simply a tool of opposition to a defunct regime. Instead, samizdat fostered informal communities of knowledge that foreshadowed a similar phenomenon of alternative perspectives challenging the authority of institutions around the world today.
Автор: Stevenson Margaret Elizabeth Название: Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic ISBN: 0520282949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520282940 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present).
Автор: Friedman John T Название: Imagining the Post-Apartheid State ISBN: 1782383239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782383239 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 4796.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.
Автор: Bellier, Ir?ne Название: An Anthropology of the European Union ISBN: 1859733298 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781859733295 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Bellier, Ir?ne Название: An Anthropology of the European Union ISBN: 1859733247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781859733240 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 1. Introduction2. Being-Other-Than-Human: Ontological Mutability and Experience3. Monsters and Carnivory: Tolerance of Ontological Ambiguity4. Experiencing Transformation5. The Enchantment and Disenchantment of the World of the San6. (S)animism and Other Animisms7. Conclusion, Ontological Ambiguity and Anthropological Astonishment
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