Realizing Community

Concepts, Social Relationships and Sentiments
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-22907-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Reihe: European Association of Social Anthropologists

'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea continues to resonate powerfully in our daily lives, ethnographic accounts as well as theoretical analyses. This book returns a timely and concerted anthropological gaze to community as part of a broader consideration of contemporary circumstances of social affiliation and solidarity.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amit, Vered

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Reconceptualizing community 2 The mining community and the ageing body: Towards a phenomenology of community? 3 Community as place-making: Ram auctions in the Scottish borderland 4 Cultural islands in the globalizing world: Communitcum-locality of the Cieszyn Silesian Lutherans 5 Community beyond place: Adoptive families in Norway 6 ‘Have you been to Hayward Field?’: Children’s sport and the construction of community in suburban Canada 7 The ethnographic field revisited: Towards a study of common and not so common fields of belonging 8 Post-cultural anthropology: The ironization of values in a world of movement 9 Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Vered Amit is an Associate Professor at Concordia University, Canada. She is editor of Constructing the Field (1999).