In the Event (eBook, ePUB)

Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
Redaktion: Meinert, Lotte; Kapferer, Bruce

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782388906
• Artikelnr.: 42881225

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: In the Event-toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
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
About the Editors
Index