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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Introduction : in the event : toward an anthropology of generic moments / Bruce Kapferer -- "Ashura in Bahrain" : analyses of an analytical event / Thomas Fibiger -- "Burying the ANC" : post-apartheid ambiguities at the University of Limpopo, South Africa / Bjarke Oxlund -- A topographic event : a Buddhist Lama's perception of a pilgrimage cave / Jesper Oestergaard -- The outburst : climate change, gender relations, and situational analysis / Jonas Østergaard Nielsen |
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Events and effects : intensive transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark / Mikkel Rytter -- The cartoon controversy : creating Muslims in a Danish setting / Anja Kublitz -- Values at work : ambivalent situations and human resource embarrassment / Jakob Krause-Jensen -- Figurations of the future : on the form and temporarily of protests among Left radical activists in Europe / Stine Krøijer -- Mimesis of the state : from natural disaster to urban citizenship on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique / Morten Nielsen |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Originally published as a special issue of Social analysis (volume 54, issue 3) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Ethnology -- Methodology.
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Symbolic anthropology.
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Experience.
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Life change events.
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Life Change Events
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Ethnology -- Methodology
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Ethnology -- Philosophy
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Experience
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Life change events
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Symbolic anthropology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meinert, Lotte, editor.
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Kapferer, Bruce, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781782388906 |
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1782388907 |
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