Lotte (Hrsg.) Meinert

In the Event

Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments

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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,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kapferer, Bruce (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78238-890-6
EAN: 9781782388906
Produktnummer: 20451589
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 186 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 8'869 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

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).