- Table View
- List View
Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change
by Carol J. Greenhouse Elizabeth Mertz Kay B. WarrenEthnography in Unstable Places is a collection of ethnographic accounts of everyday situations in places undergoing dramatic political transformation. Offering vivid case studies that range from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia, the contributing anthropologists narrate particular circumstances of social and political transformation--in contexts of colonialism, war and its aftermath, social movements, and post-Cold War climates--from the standpoints of ordinary people caught up in and having to cope with the collapse or reconfiguration of the states in which they live. Using grounded ethnographic detail to explore the challenges to the anthropological imagination that are posed by modern uncertainties, the contributors confront the ambiguities and paradoxes that exist across the spectrum of human cultures and geographies. The collection is framed by introductory and concluding chapters that highlight different dimensions of the book's interrelated themes--agency and ethnographic reflexivity, identity and ethics, and the inseparability of political economy and interpretivism. Ethnography in Unstable Places will interest students and specialists in social anthropology, sociology, political science, international relations, and cultural studies. Contributors. Eve Darian-Smith, Howard J. De Nike, Elizabeth Faier, James M. Freeman, Robert T. Gordon, Carol J. Greenhouse, Nguyen Dinh Huu, Carroll McC. Lewin, Elizabeth Mertz, Philip C. Parnell, Nancy Ries, Judy Rosenthal, Kay B. Warren, Stacia E. Zabusky
Ethnography in the Raw: Life in a Luzon Village
by Brian MoeranEthnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with the Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles northeast of Manila. The book links detailed descriptions of his Philippine family with cultural practices such as circumcision, marriage and cockfights combined with theoretical musings on the concepts of sacrifice, social exchange, patron-client relations, food, and religious symbolism. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.
Ethnography in the Raw: Life in a Luzon Village
by Brian MoeranEthnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with the Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles northeast of Manila. The book links detailed descriptions of his Philippine family with cultural practices such as circumcision, marriage and cockfights combined with theoretical musings on the concepts of sacrifice, social exchange, patron-client relations, food, and religious symbolism. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.
Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections
by Yuliya GrinbergTechnologists frequently promote self-tracking devices as objective tools. This book argues that such glib and often worrying assertions must be placed in the context of precarious industry dynamics. The author draws on several years of ethnographic fieldwork with developers of self-tracking applications and wearable devices in New York City's Silicon Alley and with technologists who participate in the international forum called the Quantified Self to illuminate the professional compromises that shape digital technology and the gap between the tech sector's public claims and its interior processes. By reconciling the business conventions, compromises, shifting labor practices, and growing employment insecurity that power the self-tracking market with device makers' often simplistic promotional claims, the book offers an understanding of the impact that technologists exert on digital discourse, on the tools they make, and on the data that these gadgets put out into the world.
Ethnography on the Underground Migratory Routes from Sudan to the North: Sombok Is an Idea and Ideas Never Die (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship)
by Livio AmigoniThis book uses an ethnography of the migratory route from Sudan to the EU to understand how undocumented migration experiences take place and breed underground forms of mobilities and survival strategies. It pays particular attention to the production, circulation and resilience of migratory knowledge in transnational networks and how those produce and sustain specific mobility practices. The related research questions focus on: how and which narratives and popular imaginations circulate and foster high-risk journeys towards Europe, referred to as sombok; understanding how these kind of journeys are interpreted and framed according to gender, religion and family traditions; discerning how border regimes produce specific migration careers, decision making processes and forms of resistance and cooperation with other actors; how the figure of the smuggler is framed by people on the move and how one group of smugglers interpret their activities at the Ventimiglia border; and how the practices of homing on the move and solidarity housing experiences take place and prop underground routes. This book will be of interest to scholars of migration.
Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality: Toward An Understanding Of Voice
by Dell HymesThis collection of work addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research in education makes to anthropology and linguistics.; The first section of the book pinpoints characteristics of anthropology that most make a difference to research in education. The second section describes the perspective that is needed if the study of language is to contribute adequately to problems of education and inequality. Finally, the third section takes up discoveries about narrative, which show that young people's narratives may have a depth of form and skill that has gone largely unrecognized.
Ethnography: A Theoretically Oriented Practice
by Vincenzo Matera Angela BiscaldiThis volume presents both a historical exploration of ethnography and a thematic discussion of major trends that, over different periods, have oriented and re-oriented research practice. As it overviews ethnography from different geographic and thematic perspectives, it further explores new lines of ethnographic research, including as feminist ethnography and visual research, that uncover non-traditional routes to anthropological knowledge.As the great ethnographer E. E. Evans-Pritchard wrote, “Anyone who is not a complete idiot can do fieldwork… but will [his contribution] be to theoretical, or just to factual knowledge?” As Evans-Pritchard highlights and as this book argues, successful ethnography must be connected to a sophisticated theoretical reflection rooted in social and cultural anthropology.
Ethnography: A Way Of Seeing
by Harry F. WolcottOne of anthropology's leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies. <P><P>Tracing its development from its disciplinary origins in sociology and anthropology, he points out what is distinctive about ethnography and what it means to conduct research in the ethnographic tradition. <P><P>In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Wolcott distinguishes ethnography as more than just a set of field methods and practices, separating it from many related qualitative research traditions as 'a way of seeing' through the lens of culture. <P><P>For both beginning and experienced ethnographers in a wide range of disciplines, Wolcott's book will provide important ideas for improving research practice.
Ethnography: Principles in Practice
by Paul Atkinson Martyn HammersleyNow in its third edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice. New material covers the use of visual and virtual research methods, hypermedia software and the issue of ethical regulation. There is also a new prologue and epilogue. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. What this means is that we must recognize that social research is part of the world that it studies. From an outline of the principle of reflexivity the authors go on to discuss and exemplify main features of ethnographic work, including: the selection and sampling of cases the problems of access observation and interviewing recording and filing data the process of data analysis and writing research reports. Throughout, the discussion draws on a wide range of illustrative material from classic and more recent studies within a global context. The new edition of this popular textbook will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers utilizing social research methods in the social sciences and cultural studies.
Ethnography: Principles in Practice
by Paul Atkinson Martyn HammersleyNow in its fourth edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. The volume offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice, and includes a new chapter on ‘Ethnography in the digital world’. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. This requires recognition that social research is part of the world that it studies, and demands that researchers reflect on how they shape both data and analysis. Starting in Chapter 1 with an outline of the principle of reflexivity, against the background of competing research philosophies, the authors go on to discuss the main features of ethnographic work, including: the selection and sampling of cases the problem of access field relations and observation interviewing the use of documents recording and organizing data the process of data analysis and writing research reports. There is also consideration of the ethical issues involved in ethnographic research. Throughout, the discussion draws on a wide range of illustrative material from classic and more recent studies, within a global context. The new edition of this popular textbook will be an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers using ethnographic methods in the social sciences and the humanities.
Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and New Technologies
by Pentti Haddington, Tiina Eilittä, Antti Kamunen, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Tuire Oittinen, Iira Rautiainen and Anna VatanenThis volume discusses current and emerging trends in Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA). Focusing on step-by-step procedures of talk and interaction in real time, EMCA explores how people – through locally-produced, public, and common-sensical practices – accomplish activities together and thereby make sense and create social order as part of their everyday lives. The volume is divided into four parts, and it provides a timely methodological contribution by exploring new questions, settings, and recording technologies in EMCA for the study of social interaction. It addresses the methodical diversity in EMCA, including current practices as well as those testing its boundaries, and paves way for the development of future interaction research. At the same time, the book offers readers a glimpse into the ways in which human and non-human participants operate with each other and make sense of the world around them. The authors represent diverse fields of research, such as language studies, sociology, social psychology, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. Ultimately, the book is a conversation opener that invites critical and constructive dialogue on how EMCA’s methodology and toolbox could be developed for the purpose of acquiring richer perspectives on endogenous social action. This is key reading for researchers and advanced students on a range of courses on conversation analysis, language in interaction, discourse studies, multimodality and more.
Ethnomorality of Care: Migrants and their Aging Parents (Routledge Research in Transnationalism)
by Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna Anna Rosińska Weronika Kloc-NowakWhat happens when the parents of migrants age and need care in mobile and aging societies? Ethnomorality of Care acts as a window in sharing how physical distance challenges family-centered elderly care by juxtaposing transnational families with non-migrant families. <P><P>A novel approach that explores intentions and moral beliefs concerning elderly care alongside practical care arrangements, Ethnomorality of Care presents a concept of care which recognizes how various factors shape the experience of care, including: national, regional, and local contexts, economic inequalities, gender, care and migration regimes. Based on the findings of a multi-sited research carried out between 2014 and 2017 in Poland and the UK, this perceptive volume also seeks to demonstrate how researchers and practitioners can use ethnomorality of care approach to examine non-migrant families and other types of care. <P><P>Helping readers to better understand the lived experience of care receivers and givers beyond kinship care, Ethnomorality of Care will appeal to graduate students, researchers, policy makers and care practitioners interested in fields such as migration studies, transnational studies and social and cultural gerontology.
Ethnonationality’s Evolution in Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia: Politics, Institutions and Intergenerational Dis-continuities
by Arianna PiacentiniThis book is centred upon the concept of ‘ethnonationality,’ investigating how its meanings and functions have changed across political regimes, time, and generations. Piacentini explores two similar yet different realities, Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia (now North Macedonia) – both former Yugoslav republics, multiethnic, and currently characterised by consociational arrangements and ethnic politics. This temporal perspective encompasses both the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period, empirically exploring two generations living together in the same family, each socialised by different macro-environments and socio-political and economic conditions. The book explores which ideas, rules, and patterns of behaviour related to ethnonationality have been transmitted between the generations. Ethnonationality’s Evolution in Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, and conflict studies.
Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders inside Armenian Los Angeles
by Daniel FittanteEthnopolitical Entrepreneurs presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California. Coming from Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, and many other countries, this group is internally fragmented and often has limited experience with the American political system. Nonetheless, Glendale's Armenians have rapidly mobilized and remade an American suburban space in their own likeness. In telling their story, Daniel Fittante expands our understanding of US political history. From the late nineteenth-century onward, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and several other immigrant populations in large American cities began changing the country's political reality. The author shows how Glendale's Armenians—as well as many other immigrants—are now changing the country's political reality within its dynamic, multiethnic suburbs. The processes look different in various suburban contexts, but the underlying narrative holds: immigrant populations converge on suburban areas and ambitious political actors develop careers by driving coethnics' political incorporation.
Ethnopsychologie: Ein Überblick über die mexikanische ethnopsychologische Forschung
by Rolando Díaz-LovingDieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über die mexikanische Ethnopsychologie, einen originellen theoretischen und methodischen Ansatz, der darauf abzielt, die auf universellen Prinzipien, Prozessen und Konstrukten basierende psychologische Wissenschaft durch wissenschaftliche Methoden zu ergänzen, um die für bestimmte kulturelle Gruppen typischen idiosynkratischen Merkmale und Verhaltensweisen zu untersuchen. Sie schlägt ein historisch-bio-psycho-sozio-kulturelles theoretisches Modell vor, um Forschungsergebnisse zu sozialen, psychologischen, kollektiven und individuellen Phänomenen zu beschreiben.Die Psychologie steht am Scheideweg einer jahrelangen Forschung, bei der der Schwerpunkt auf der internen Validität lag und kontextuelle und kulturelle Variablen kaum beachtet wurden. Es ist von grundlegender Bedeutung, den Weg der internen Validität weiterzuverfolgen und gleichzeitig Fragen der externen Validität einzubeziehen. Die Zunahme indigener Bewegungen und Daten ermöglicht eine gründliche Bewertung der Frage, inwieweit scheinbar universelle Phänomene wirklich universell sind und inwieweit sie idiosynkratische Manifestationen der Kulturen sind, in denen die Mainstream-Forschung betrieben wird.Mexikanische Ethnopsychologen verfolgen diesen Weg schon seit Jahrzehnten, seit der Pionierarbeit von Rogelio Díaz-Guerrero, aber bisher wurde nur wenig über diesen innovativen theoretischen Ansatz in englischer Sprache veröffentlicht. Ethnopsychologie - Stücke aus der mexikanischen Forschungsgalerie füllt diese Lücke, indem es der internationalen Gemeinschaft einen Überblick über die mexikanische Ethnopsychologie gibt und somit ein nützliches Instrument für Verhaltens-, Sozial- und Gesundheitswissenschaftler darstellt, die daran interessiert sind, zu verstehen, wie die Kultur sowohl kollektive als auch individuelle Verhaltensweisen prägt.
Ethnopsychology: Pieces from the Mexican Research Gallery (Latin American Voices)
by Rolando Díaz-LovingThis book presents an overview of Mexican ethnopsychology, an original theoretical and methodological approach that seeks to complement the mainstream psychological science – based on universal principles, processes and constructs – with scientific methods to study the idiosyncratic features and behaviors typical of specific cultural groups. It proposes a historic-bio-psycho-socio-cultural theoretical model to describe research findings of social, psychological, collective and individual phenomena. Psychology is at a crossroads of years of research with stress on internal validity and little attention to contextual and cultural variables. It becomes fundamental to continue on the internal validity track but at the same time incorporate external validity issues. The growth of indigenous movements and data allows for a profound evaluation of the extents to which apparent universal phenomena are truly universal, and to what extent they are idiosyncratic manifestations of the cultures where the mainstream research is conducted. Mexican ethnopsychologists have been following this path for decades, since the pioneer work of Rogelio Díaz-Guerrero, but until now little has been published in English about this innovative theoretical approach. Ethnopsychology – Pieces from the Mexican Research Gallery fills this gap by presenting the international community an overview of Mexican ethnopsychology and thus providing a useful tool to behavioral, social and health scientists interested in understanding how culture shapes both collective and individual behaviors.
Etica delle Relazioni Alimentari
by Adriano FabrisQuesto libro presenta e discute alcuni problemi di fondo che emergono oggi nelle relazioni alimentari e che riguardano i nostri stili di vita. I primi tre capitoli si concentrano sulle questioni che concernono l'alimentazione e sul rapporto con ciò che possiamo o non possiamo mangiare, per motivi etici, religiosi o semplicemente collegati al nostro benessere. Il quarto capitolo tratta dell'atto del bere e del nostro rapporto con l'acqua, nell’ottica della sostenibilità, della giustizia, del corretto uso e dell’equa distribuzione delle risorse idriche. In generale, l’idea che viene sostenuta nel libro è che per gli esseri umani gli atti del mangiare e del bere non dipendono dalla volontà del soggetto, ma si svolgono in contesti di relazione già dati e mettono in gioco, o impediscono, ulteriori relazioni: con altri esseri viventi, con altri esseri umani, con noi stessi. Tali relazioni possono svilupparsi bene oppure male. Se sono attuate male risultano distruttive. Bisogna capire come ciò accade e agire di conseguenza. L’etica ci aiuta a farlo, facendoci riflettere su questi problemi e individuando soluzioni concrete. Scritto per studenti universitari e per studiosi di etiche applicate, il libro è una lettura stimolante e provocatoria anche per un pubblico più ampio.
Etimologías para sobrevivir al caos: Viaje al origen de 99 palabras
by Andrea Marcolongo99 momentos de felicidad etimológica y amor al lenguaje. Las palabras dan forma a nuestra idea del mundo. Cuando elegimos un término con atención ponemos cierto orden en el caos, y esa es también una bonita manera de cuidarnos. Un discurso pobre, impreciso, insípido y sin relieves refleja un pensamiento equivalente. ¿Cómo escapar del desconcierto de la indefinición? ¿Cómo recuperar el sentido de las cosas? Andrea Marcolongo dibuja un atlas etimológico lleno de sorpresas que nos lleva a los orígenes de nuestra historia, revela quiénes hemos sido y nos invita a pensar quiénes queremos ser. Explorar las raíces de los términos, saborear sus matices, asombrarse ante los desplazamientos que han sufrido a través de los siglos y los lugares equivale a trazar la evolución de nuestra lectura del mundo. El arte de reconstruir las etimologías es, por tanto, cualquier cosa menos estéril: es un fin en sí mismo. ¿Desde qué lugar lejano ha viajado cada palabra antes de llegar a nosotros? ¿Qué otros paisajes ha recorrido, influyendo en otros idiomas y moldeándose a su vez? Quizá no haya mejor lección sobre nuestra esencia que la que ofrecen estas viajeras cuya supervivencia depende de la evolución, la mezcla y el movimiento. La crítica ha dicho:«Marcolongo regresa a su punto fuerte, el instinto de la palabra, la búsqueda de las raíces. Es una mente creativa en constante movimiento.»Grazia «Un viaje al aire fresco de las palabras precisas. Y un acto de amor a los seres humanos, que siempre se han reflejado en ellas.»Il Foglio «La autora juega con las palabras como una niña con Lego. Con ligereza, sin obstáculos.»Libero «Se entremezclan los comentarios sabios y las intuiciones íntimas entre destellos sutiles.»Le Monde «La joven helenista publica un viaje lleno de sorpresas a través de un centenar de palabras, guiado por su búsqueda de la autenticidad.»Libération «Marcolongo se salva a sí misma y nos salva recogiendo el néctar de las raíces de las palabras, etimología de la pasión.»France Inter «Una maravillosa búsqueda de los orígenes.»Le Figaro Magazine «Una narradora excepcional, con un estilo claro y refrescante.»Les Échos «Un atlas etimológico entrañable.»Le Figaro «Entre otras cosas descubrirás lo que realmente significa "leer", "traicionar", "globo aerostático", "beso" y "mariposa". Parecen muchas, pero, en realidad, cuando llegues a la última página, te parecerán muy pocas.»Il Foglio
Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain
by Pauline MazumdarThis scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.
Euphoria and Symposia: The Dialectic of Desire in Thinking, Drinking, and Well-Being
by Kieran BonnerEuphoria and Symposia explores the relationship between euphoria, desire, and well-being in the human practices of drinking and thinking, both phenomena in which seeking more – more alcohol, more knowledge – can be understood, ambiguously, as simultaneously positive and negative.Drinking leads to both euphoria and depression and is potentially destabilizing for both the individual and the collective. While medical science understands it is risky for our health (dependency, addiction, illness), anthropology sees drinking as contributing to communal celebration (euphoria, sociability). Since health and celebration are both desirable goods, Kieran Bonner suggests that it is this balancing act – our desire for what is better and good, our preference for one thing over another – that creates ambiguity, revealing a grey zone that is fundamental to a fuller understanding of well-being. In a series of case studies, revealing intricacies and ambiguities not usually picked up in typical scientific, philosophical, or sociological discourses, Bonner posits well-being as harmony, requiring nuanced judgments about the various things that humans desire, including wealth, health, beauty, power, vitality, leisure, pleasure, love, and wisdom.Informed by a creative synthesis of Socratic interrogation, hermeneutic perspectives drawn from post-phenomenological thinkers such as Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hannah Arendt, and distinctive perspectives found in the tradition of reflexive sociology, Euphoria and Symposia asserts that reconciling unlimited desire with the finite nature of the human condition is essential for the understanding and enjoyment of life itself.
Euphorias in Gender, Sex and Sexuality Variations: Positive Experiences
by Tiffany JonesThis Open Access book uses the concept of ‘euphoria’ to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variations even within repressive and disordering contexts. Drawing on data from multiple online surveys including a study of 2,407 LGBTQ+ people and a study of 272 people with intersex variations, it names and offers a new ecological framework for understanding participants’ influences on and barriers to euphorias, asserting the subversive possibilities of being euphorically queer, as opposed to euphoric and queer. The author argues that it is the particularities of negative internal, socio-cultural and institutional contexts for a marginal group or groups that contributes towards the possibilities that shape their potential euphoric feelings and experiences. Ultimately, she calls for a more expansive focus in gender and sexuality studies to show the complex effects of dysphoria and repression on the possibilities of pleasure and joy.This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender, Sexuality and Queer Studies.
EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management: Political Cultures, Contested Spaces, and Ordinary Lives (Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies)
by Paolo Gaibazzi, Stephan Dünnwald and Alice BellagambaThis volume traces the African ramifications of Europe’s southern border. While the Mediterranean Sea has become the main stage for the current play and tragedy between European borders and African migrants, Europe’s southern border has also been “offshored” to Africa, mainly through cooperation agreements with countries of transit and origin. By bringing into conversation case studies from different countries and disciplines, this volume seeks to open a window on the backstage of this externalization of borders. It casts light on the sites – from consulates to open seas and deserts – in which Europe’s southern border is made and unmade as an African reality, yielding what the editors call "EurAfrican borders." It further describes the multiple actors – state agents, migrants, smugglers, activists, etc. – that variously imagine, construct, cross or contest these borders, and situates their encounters within the history of uneven exchanges between Africa and Europe.
Eurafrican Migration: Legal, Economic and Social Responses to Irregular Migration
by Rino Coluccello Simon MasseyInformed by witness testimonies, Eurafrican Migration details how the perilous journeys undertaken by irregular migrants are enabled by complex networks of guides during the Sahara phase, and explores the relationship between migrants and the criminal groups who arrange for them to be transported across the sea to southern Europe.
Eurasia at the Dawn of History
by Fernández-Götz Manuel Dirk KrausseOur current world is characterized by life in cities, the existence of social inequalities, and increasing individualization. When and how did these phenomena arise? What was the social and economic background for the development of hierarchies and the first cities? The authors of this volume analyze the processes of centralization, cultural interaction, and social differentiation that led to the development of the first urban centres and early state formations of ancient Eurasia, from the Atlantic coasts to China. The chronological framework spans a period from the Neolithic to the Late Iron Age, with a special focus on the early first millennium BC. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach structured around the concepts of identity and materiality, this book addresses the appearance of a range of key phenomena that continue to shape our world.
Eurasian Business Perspectives: Proceedings of the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference (Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics #11/2)
by Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin Hakan Danis Ender Demir Ugur CanThis volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Bangkok. The theoretical and empirical papers gathered here cover diverse areas of business and management from different geographic regions; yet the main focus is on the latest findings on evolving marketing methods, analytics, communication standards, and their effects on customer value and engagement. The volume also includes related studies that analyze sustainable consumer behavior, and business strategy-related topics such as cross-border restructuring, quality management standards, and the internationalization of SMEs.