By Lotte Meinert, Bruce Kapferer
ISBN-10: 1782388893
ISBN-13: 9781782388890
Occasions are "generative moments" in at the very least 3 senses: occasions are created through and condense larger-scale social constructions; as moments, they spark and provides upward push to new social strategies; in themselves, occasions can also serve to research social occasions and relationships. in accordance with ethnographic reviews from round the world-varying from rituals and conferences over protests and conflicts to ordinary mess ups and management-this quantity analyzes generative moments via occasions that carry the most important to knowing better social events. those events-including the Ashura ritual in Bahrain, social cleavages in South Africa, a Buddhist collapse Nepal, drought in Burkina Faso, an earthquake in Pakistan, the caricature obstacle in Denmark, company administration at Bang & Olufsen, protest conferences in Europe, and flooding and concrete citizenship in Mozambique-are now not easily damaging failures, crises, and conflicts, but in addition generative and constitutive of the social.
Lotte Meinert is Professor of Anthropology within the division of tradition and Society at Aarhus college, learn chief of Governing Transition in Northern Uganda: Land and belief, and co-director of EPICENTER: heart for Cultural Epidemics. She is the writer of Hopes in Friction: education, Health and Everyday lifestyles in Uganda (Information Age Publishing) and co-editor of Second possibilities: the 1st new release dwelling with artwork in Uganda and Ethnographies of sweet sixteen and Temporality (Temple collage Press).
Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Anthropology on the collage of Bergen and Honorary Professor at collage collage London. He has held educational positions in Zambia, Manchester, Adelaide, London, and Queensland, and conducted large fieldwork in Zambia, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, and South Africa. His significant guides comprise The banquet of the Sorcerer (University of Chicago Press) and Legends of individuals, Myths of State (Berghahn Books).
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