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Ritual Revitalisation After Socialism

Author : László Fosztó
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643101759
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Ritual Revitalisation After Socialism written by László Fosztó and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although postsocialist Romania ranks as one of the most religious countries in Europe, the role of religion in public life is relatively little understood. This book investigates a village in Transylvania populated by members of two minority groups, Hungarians and Roma. Religion and ritual provide important resources for individuals and communities seeking to assert themselves publicly. The need for public affirmation among minorities is acute, but the forms of ritual they adopt differ. Some groups are more receptive to the revival of communal rituals and "traditions", whereas for others revitalisation seems to be more effective when it is individually focused through conversion to Pentecostalism. The book demonstrates that, even within a small community, different segments may opt for divergent forms of religious and cultural revival. Whereas Calvinism relies on the affirmation of cultural values to mobilise the faithful, Pentecostalism advocates a new form of moral personhood which is particularly attractive to Roma.

Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe

Author : Corina Rotar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857467
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe written by Corina Rotar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features the second selection of the most representative papers presented at the international conference “Dying and Death in 18th–21st Century Europe” (ABDD), a traditional scientific event organized every year in Alba Iulia, Romania. The book invites the reader on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, using the concept of death as a guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Serbia, Macedonia, Poland, USA, Germany, Sweden, Finland, and Italy are dealt with by authors from varying backgrounds, including historians, sociologists, psychologists, priests, humanists, anthropologists, and doctors. This is proof that death as a topic cannot be confined to one science; the deciphering of its meanings and of the shifts it effects requires a joint, interdisciplinary effort.

The Great Dispossession

Author : Ildikó Bellér-Hann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 364396367X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book The Great Dispossession written by Ildikó Bellér-Hann and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From the Mists of Martyrdom

Author : Ildikó Gyöngyvér Sárközi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643908938
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book From the Mists of Martyrdom written by Ildikó Gyöngyvér Sárközi and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of nearly three years of fieldwork among the Sibe, an ethnic minority long caught up in processes of Chinese imperial expansion and nation building. Split into two groups since the eighteenth century, 5000 kilometres separate Sibe in their Manchurian homeland from their co-ethnics in Xinjiang, northwest China. After 200 years, contacts were re-established in the 1950s. In this study, the author focuses on the (re)construction of ethnic awareness by ``local'' and ``official'' Sibe historians. Analysing how the cornerstone of Sibe history~-- the Great Western Resettlement~-- was turned into a myth, she demonstrates that writing their own history allowed the Sibe to reinterpret their shared past and identity. Combining analysis of primary sources and text-based data with ethnographic observations, this monograph offers a window on previously unknown dimensions of Chinese nation-building and makes an original contribution to historical anthropology.

Managing Firms and Families

Author : Daria Tereshina
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643914083
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Managing Firms and Families written by Daria Tereshina and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the moral dimensions of petty capitalism in Russia. Drawing on an ethnographic enquiry into the small-scale, family-based private sector of the city of Smolensk, it examines the values, moral ideas and sentiments that are entangled in the everyday workings of small businesses. The book situates the realm of values within the broader dynamics of Russia's political economy and the global circuits of capital. The moral frameworks of entrepreneurs incorporate conflicting values, such that moralities associated with the Soviet order are intertwined with market orientations and neoliberal ideologies.

On Money and Mettā

Author : Laura Hornig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3643963408
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book On Money and Mettā written by Laura Hornig and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on eighteen months of research in the lowland Myanmar town of Pathein, this book investigates manifold economic activities on the ground. Particular attention is paid to the self-employed and their relationships with relatives, workers, and community members. The ethnography covers a range of topics, including business formation and succession, recruitment, child labour, ethnicity, indebtedness and charity. It is demonstrated that, amidst rapidly changing socio-economic conditions, values rooted in kinship morality and Buddhism remain significant and continue to shape people's economic reasoning and activities. These values und moral aspects stand in a dialectical relationship with changing economic realities.

Small Is Good

Author : Anne-Erita Berta
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643914091
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Small Is Good written by Anne-Erita Berta and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a neoliberal market economy, small, independent businesses represent an alternative to large corporate enterprises. Based on 12 months of fieldwork in Aarhus, DenmarkÆs second largest city, this book explores the lives and social values of small, independent business owners, most of them shopkeepers. Owners organize their firms according to a morality that deviates from capitalist norms by aspiring to create inalienable commodities within networks of meaningful economic exchange. Their success in doing so is explained through in-depth analysis of contemporary household organization.

Doing "Gong Culture"

Author : Hoai Tran
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643914067
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Doing "Gong Culture" written by Hoai Tran and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the efforts of various actors in 'doing Gong culture' contribute to preserving the intangible heritage of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Tran's research challenges the conventional perspective that views heritagization as a process of cultural appropriation in which local heritage practitioners become cultural 'proprietors', who in UNESCO's view differ from 'culture carriers'. He shows that local artists actively engage with other actors in the 'heritage community', thus contributing to the performance of a 'living' image of the 'Space of Gong Culture' on the heritage stage. In this intangible cultural heritage, practically, all actors are 'culture carriers'. "Drawing on long-term fieldwork and placing the focus on human interaction, Hoai Tran paints a very subtle and sophisticated picture of the 'heritage community' and its actors in Vietnam's central highlands. By investigating who is acting in and on the space of gong culture, with what motivations, interests, intents or desires, how they are doing so and how effectively, this book arrives at new ways of thinking about 'heritagization' in Vietnam." Gábor Vargyas, Research Center for the Humanities, Budapest

The Formation of Peripheral Capital

Author : Ceren Deniz
Publisher : LIT Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3643964072
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book The Formation of Peripheral Capital written by Ceren Deniz and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages critically with mainstream accounts of Anatolian Tigers in contemporary Turkey. Based on her fieldwork in Çorum, Deniz explores the dynamics of medium-size businesses with a dual optic of political economy and moral economy. She demonstrates that the formation of the entrepreneurial stratum is a multifaceted process and zooms into a range of workplaces to show the entanglements of market and non-market dynamics in everyday life. This innovative work sheds original light on the role of kinship, religion and social values in shaping the everyday politics of labour. Ceren Deniz taught 'Economic Anthropology' at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2020-2021.

Plural World Interpretations

Author : Anett C. Oelschlaegel
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643907885
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Plural World Interpretations written by Anett C. Oelschlaegel and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Care and Ageing in North-West China

Author : Heila Sha
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643908741
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Book Synopsis Care and Ageing in North-West China by : Heila Sha

Download or read book Care and Ageing in North-West China written by Heila Sha and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a pioneering ethnographic exploration of practices and ideologies of eldercare in the bingtuan - a paramilitary state organization composed largely of migrants (most of them very poor) to the north-western frontier province of Xinjiang since the 1949 Communist Revolution. In exploring the discourses and actions of the elderly, their relatives, and the state, the book uncovers the ways in which macro-level economic and social transformations are linked to the material and emotional realities of ordinary Chinese people. The light shed on gender and inter-generational relations within the modern urbanized bingtuan illuminates ageing, care and social support mechanisms in an era of rapid social change globally.

Anthropology of Transformation

Author : Juraj Buzalka
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800643659
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology of Transformation written by Juraj Buzalka and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann’s lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, Turkey, and the Chinese north-west. The collapse of the Berlin Wall naturally triggered a plethora of analysis and scholarly research. Sociocultural anthropology, with its focus on ethnographic study and on the gradual evolution of social relations, sharply contrasted with the emphasis on dramatic rupture brought about by the 1989 transition. Continuing in this tradition, this volume, through micro-level analysis of societal transformation from the post-war years to the present day, provides an alternative perspective to the neoliberalist views often encountered in the scholarship on political and economic modernisation. The more nuanced analysis of social transformations proposed here is a particularly useful tool in the investigation of contemporary issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee ‘crisis’, and the rise of right-wing populism in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Anthropology of Transformation will be of interest to researchers in the fields of socio-cultural anthropology, religion and economics. Moreover, the book’s discussion of issues widely discussed beyond the field of academia such as neoliberalism and the welfare state, and populist and exclusionary politics, will appeal to non-specialist readers.

Materializing Difference

Author : Péter Berta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487520409
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Materializing Difference written by Péter Berta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture - such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories - play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, Materializing Difference addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects - defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania - is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption. Materializing Difference reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relationships and interactions between objects (silver beakers and roofed tankards) and subjects (Romanian Roma) and investigates how these relationships and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences. It also discusses how, after 1989, the political transformation in Romania led to the emergence of a new, post-socialist consumer sensitivity among the Gabor Roma, and how this sensitivity reshaped the pre-regime-change patterns, meanings, and value preferences of prestige consumption.

Other Borders

Author : Sabrina Tosi Cambini
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805393995
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Other Borders written by Sabrina Tosi Cambini and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudari Lingurari families, one of many significant minority groups in southeastern Europe, have been characterized by mobility since the end of the 19th century, from voluntary border crossings to deportations and forced relocations. Other Borders draws from participatory, multi-site ethnographic research to explore rudari families’ cultural and relational frames of mobility through their social and economic organization. Sabrina Tosi Cambini develops the concept of a “moving gaze” to more effectively explore rudari migration paths across multiple countries, their occupation of unoccupied buildings in Italy, their housing practices in both Italy and Romania, and the movement of their objects, ideas, and imaginaries.

Roma Activism

Author : Sam Beck
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339494
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Roma Activism written by Sam Beck and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring contemporary debates and developments in Roma-related research and forms of activism, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in these fields, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies. The contributors gathered here – whose professional trajectories often lie at the confluence between activism, academia, and policy or development interventions – are exceptionally well placed to reflect on mainstream practices in all these fields, and, from their particular positions, envision a reimagining of these practices.

Patterns of Inter-ethnic Relations with the Roma in the Carpathian Basin

Author : József Kotics
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527551652
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Inter-ethnic Relations with the Roma in the Carpathian Basin written by József Kotics and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost three decades of anthropological fieldwork on ethnic coexistence situations, completed by the author of the present volume, have revealed that in the multi-ethnic local communities of the Carpathian Basin, Roma-non-Roma coexistence practices are always based on opposition, regardless of whether the latter are Romanians, Saxons, Slovaks, Ukrainians or Hungarians. After presenting the theoretical-methodological framework and historical processes, this book presents patterns of Roma-non-Roma coexistence that emerge through case studies, which can be directly applied in the fight against the exclusion and stigmatisation of the Roma today. Thus, the book discusses two applied anthropology projects where research results have been used in urban regeneration and development projects. It interprets cannibalism charges against Gypsies as a typical type of chimerical prejudice. Through the case studies, it contributes to existing research by interpreting the coexistence of different ethnicities in the local socio-historical context, in the local embeddedness of inter-ethnic relations, as a constantly evolving and changing phenomenon, focusing on the performativity, dynamic interaction and functional role of relations.

Southeast European (Post)Modernities. Part 2

Author : Klaus Roth
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643904398
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Southeast European (Post)Modernities. Part 2 written by Klaus Roth and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In southeast Europe, more than 20 years of rapid change under the combined impact of transformation, globalization, and EU integration have deeply affected the structures of everyday life and have produced a variety of (post-)modern lifestyles. This book's contributions focus on the changing practices and patterns of everyday life. The concepts of multiple modernities and post-modernity appear to be particularly appropriate for a region in which everyday life is marked by often sharp contrasts: the coexistence of modern and traditional labor relations and legal concepts * the return to traditional religions and the adherence to new religious forms * the enthusiasm for modern communication technologies * the reliance on national identification. Understanding these paths to (post-)modernity is relevant for those generally interested in processes of socio-cultural change, but particularly for those interested in the Balkans. (Series: Ethnologia Balkanica - Vol. 16)