In the Event

Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-889-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 282 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meinert, Lotte

Kapferer, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Meinert, Lotte
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).

Kapferer, Bruce
Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen and Honorary Professor at University College London. He has held academic positions in Zambia, Manchester, Adelaide, London, and Queensland, and carried out extensive fieldwork in Zambia, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, and South Africa. His major publications include The Feast of the Sorcerer (University of Chicago Press) and Legends of People, Myths of State (Berghahn Books).

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).