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Policy Worlds - Anthropology And The Analysis Of Contemporary Power

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 There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy-making has progressively reached into the structure of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into the systems of governance themselves...
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Postsocialist Europe - Anthropological Perspectives From Home

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 Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Bringing together authors with different historical, cultural, regional and theoretical backgrounds, this volume engages in debates that address new questions aris
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Ordinary Lives And Grand Schemes - An Anthropology Of Everyday Religion

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 Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent, and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be.
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World Heritage On The Ground - Ethnographic Perspectives

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 The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of this heritage regime.
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Shaping Taxpayers - Values In Action At The Swedish Tax Agency

de Lotta Björklund Larsen

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 How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography is a vivid account of one of the most esteemed Swedish bureaucracies - the Swedish Tax Agency. Shaping Taxpayers focuses on how fiscal strategies and relationships, as well as diverse knowledge claims - legal, economic, cultural - compete to shape taxpayer behaviour.
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Managing Ambiguity - How Clientelism, Citizenship, And Power Shape Personhood In Bosnia And Herzegovina

de Carna Brkovic

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 Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Challenging widespread views of favors as means of survival in transitioning contexts, this volume demonstrates that these contemporary globalized forms of flexible governance are not contradictory to one another, but often mutually constitutive.
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Messy Europe - Crisis, Race, And Nation-State In A Postcolonial World

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 Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis - economic and otherwise - showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities.
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Non-Humans In Amerindian South America - Ethnographies Of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals And Songs

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 It focuses only on South America. It embraces both its Highlands and Lowlands. All their chapters are fieldwork-based. It critically addresses currently debated issues linked to Anthropology, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Ontologies and Non-Humans.
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Institutionalised Dreams - The Art Of Managing Foreign Aid

de Elzbieta Drazkiewicz

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 Using examples from Poland, the author demonstrates how the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and local cultures of charitable giving with broader ideas about the global political economy.
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Sea Commands - Community And Perception Of The Environment In A Portuguese Fishing Village

de Paulo Mendes

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 Azenha do Mar is a fishing community on the southwest coast of Portugal. It came into existence around forty years ago, as an outcome of the abandonment of work in the fields and of propitious ecological conditions. This book looks at the migration processes since the founding of the community and how they relate to the social inequalities towards property and labour which prevail today.
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Tracing Slavery - The Politics Of Atlantic Memory In The Netherlands

de Markus Balkenhol

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 Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country's slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic.
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Economy, Crime And Wrong In A Neoliberal Era

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 This volume examines the relationship between corporate and economic wrong-doing and the neoliberal policies and practices that have been influential in Western societies since around 1980.
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Experimental Collaborations - Ethnography Through Fieldwork Devices

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 Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices.
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Good Holiday - Development, Tourism And The Politics Of Benevolence In Mozambique

de João Afonso Baptista

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 Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, this volume explores the influence of development and tourism in relation to ethics, and non-state governance in contemporary life.
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Going First Class? - New Approaches To Privileged Travel And Movement

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 Explores a diversity of circumstances and motives towards contemporary mobility, ranging from expatriates to peripatetic professionals to middle class migrants in search of extended educational and career opportunities to people seeking self-development through travel.
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Ethnographic Practice In The Present

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 In its assessment of the current 'state of play' of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of 'the field'pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having...
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Culture Wars - Context, Models And Anthropologists' Accounts

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 The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it...
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Caring For The 'Holy Land' - Filipina Domestic Workers In Israel

de Claudia Liebelt

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 In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina migrant women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly. Nevertheless, the case of Israel is unique in many ways: the country has a special significance as the "Holy Land" for the predominantly devout Christian Filipina...
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Being Human, Being Migrant - Senses Of Self And Well-Being

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 This volume explores migrant's movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living "in between" or on the "borderlands" between differently figured life-worlds.
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Back To The Postindustrial Future - An Ethnography Of Germany'S Fastest-Shrinking City

de Felix Ringel

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 Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany's fastest shrinking city, not from the perspective of its past, but persistently from that of its future.
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Being-Here - Placemaking In A World Of Movement

de Annika Lems

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 By exploring the lifeworlds of two middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, Being-Here sheds light on the existential dynamics of being-in-place.
Hidden Minority - Perceptions Of Belonging And Otherness In The Finnish - Russian Borderland

de Helena Jerman

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 The Russian minority in Finland is imbued with â€™being hiddenâ€˜ or â€™hiding oneselfâ€˜. The book explores informantsâ€™ reflections, together with the author, on the mental and physical crossing of national borders. Perceptions of belonging and/or Otherness and lived experience reveal a complex relationship of embodied memory, history, time and a multi-national social space.
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Re-Turns, Entanglements And Collaborations

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Re-Turns, Entanglements And Collaborations - Anthropological Experimentations

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 This collection marks the EASA Book Seriesâ€™ 50th volume to celebrate collaborative forms of knowledge production in anthropology. It is organized around eight key themes and concepts that have marked anthropological debates in Europe over the past 20 years.
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Â€˜You Donâ€™T Knowâ€™ - Precarious Methods And Life In A Workers' Hostel

de Jacob A. E. Nielsen

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 People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings.
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