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PaperbackEngels9780857451514
1-6-2011
People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780857451590
1-11-2011
In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780857456618
1-6-2012
The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Meer
GebondenEngels9780857456717
1-9-2012
Goes beyond the theoretical dichotomy of structure and experience Focuses on routes, aesthetics and narratives Wide regional spread of ethnography ... Meer
PaperbackEngels9780857451576
10-11-2011
Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780857452412
1-4-2011
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy-making has progressively reached into the structure of everyday life. Meer
GebondenEngels9780857452610
1-11-2011
In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina migrant women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly. Meer
GebondenEngels9780857458544
1-3-2013
Paves the way for a new cyber anthropology Investigates processes of identity construction, community building, and evolving conflict dynamics on... Meer
GebondenEngels9781782380450
1-10-2013
This volume explores migrant's movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living "in between" or on the "borderlands" between differently figured life-worlds. Meer
GebondenEngels9781571814524
17-7-2003
Aimed at professional anthropologists, their students and academic policy-makers, the contributions to this volume provide an unprecedented array of insights into the current teaching and learning of social anthropology across Europe. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781571816924
1-2-2004
GebondenEngels9781782382966
1-5-2014
Taking a fresh look at the Georgian highlands allows the author to consider perennial questions of citizenship, belonging, & mobility in a context thats otherwise been known only for its folkloric dimensions. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845452100
1-1-2007
Providing a comprehensive spectrum of case studies in relevant contexts, this volume raises the issue of the rehabilitation of vision and contextualizes vision in the contemporary debate on the construction of local knowledge versus the hegemony of the socio-technical network. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845450267
1-12-2005
Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self, sickness and healing. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845454388
1-5-2008
Through the idea of the "extended field," this volume examines issues in fieldwork and ethnography and provides fresh insights into the problems of ethnographic knowledge construction. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845454821
1-3-2011
Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape, the body, human practice, and material experience. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845451967
1-5-2007
Explores a diversity of circumstances and motives towards contemporary mobility, ranging from expatriates to peripatetic professionals to middle class migrants in search of extended educational and career opportunities to people seeking self-development through travel. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845454012
1-4-2008
Showcases varied and complex disciplinary practices and relationships in a set of ethnographic studies. Interrogating the respective fields of work, religion, governance, leisure, education and child rearing, together the essays in this book explore and offer different ways of thinking about discipline in everyday life. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781800739352
9-6-2023
Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Meer