Etnologie

Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe

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The key concepts of the book are media, class, poverty, and shaming. The contributors to this book examine how certain social relations and their cultural meanings in the media, namely class and poverty, are transformed into factual or moral attributes of people and situations. …

Histories of Sexology: Between Science and Politics

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Histories of Sexology: Between Science and Politics takes an interdisciplinary and reflexive approach to the historiography of sexology. Drawing on an intellectual history perspective informed by recent developments in science and technology studies and political history of scie…

A History of Maritime Trade in Northern Vietnam, 12th to 18th Centuries: Archaeological Investigations in Vandon and Phohi…

by KIKUCHI, YURIKO

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This book analyzes the role of Đại Việt (Vietnam) in the maritime Asian trading network of the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries as it systematically integrates the results of archaeological investigations. The first half of the book consolidates reports from excavatio…

Creativity and Time: A Sociological Exploration

by Roche Cárcel, Juan A.

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This book defends that the pursuit of originality constitutes one of the most important characteristics of creativity, but that originality refers, etymologically, to both origin and originary. Hence, the book is structured into two parts, dedicated, respectively, to the creativ…

Ghost Lives of the Pendatang: Informality and Cosmopolitan Contaminations in Ur…

by Muniandy, Parthiban

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This book is an ethnographic study of migrants, refugees and 'temporary' people in Malaysia, incorporating narratives, personal stories, and observations of everyday life in Kuala Lumpur and Georgetown, Penang. Rather than focusing on specific migrant communities or refugee 'cam…

International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives

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Th is handbook includes state-of-the-art research on love in classical, modern and postmodern perspectives. It expands on previous literature and explores topics around love from new cultural, intercultural and transcultural approaches and across disciplines. It provides insight…

Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China

by Cunningham, Stuart, Craig, David, Lin, Jian

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"Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China is the very first academic book that systematically theorizes the phenomenon of internet celebrification in China's changing cultural economy." - Professor Anthony Fung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong "Wanghong as Social Medi…

Migrant Farmworkers in 'Plastic Factories': Investigating Work-Life Struggles

by Piro, Valeria

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This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily). In a highly competitive global scenario, driven by multinational corpo…

Understanding Culture and Society in India: A Study of Sufis, Saints and Deities in Jammu Reg…

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This book is an in-depth account of people's cultural and religious life in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It brings out the significance of Sufi and deity shrines as alternative places of worship that give meaning and purpose to people's lives. It includes sites …

Religion, Sustainability, and Place: Moral Geographies of the Anthropocene

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"The editors and authors are right to note that the field of sustainability studies has been strangely silent on the salience of religion. This volume provides exactly the right kind of intervention to this emerging and multidisciplinary field, that is one which includes a diver…

Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents with Disabilities

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This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities. Following the adoption of the UNCRPD, adolescents with disabilities still commonly suffer from widespread violation of their rights particularly concerning sex…

Inside Management: Studying Organizational Practices

by Vickers, David

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"Participant observations of positions high in the hierarchy are very rare; not the least because the job is too demanding to play the two roles - of participant and an observer - at the same time. This is why both students and general readers will be very pleased to learn what …

The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography

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A comprehensive guide to the alternative sociology originating in the work of Dorothy E. Smith, this Handbook not only explores the basic, founding principles of institutional ethnography (IE), but also captures current developments, approaches, and debates. Now widely known as …

Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies

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Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental challenges-cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, warfare and displacements…

Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation

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This book discusses food in the context of the cultural matrix of India. Addressing topical issues in food and food culture, it explores questions concerning the consumption, representation and mediation of food. The book is divided into four sections, focusing on food fads; foo…

Urban Inequalities: Ethnographically Informed Reflections

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'The conceptual and geographic scope of this timely collection of ethnographically-based writings is exceptionally rich. The authors explore inequalities in relation to citizenship, policy, precariousness, social exclusion, transformation, sovereignty, class, gender and kinship …

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'

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This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apart. The novel remains a "must read" literary text for reasons the many contributors to this book make clear in their astute readin…

Ethnography: A Theoretically Oriented Practice

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This volume presents both a historical exploration of ethnography and a thematic discussion of major trends that, over different periods, have oriented and re-oriented research practice. As it overviews ethnography from different geographic and thematic perspectives, it further …

Milkyway Image: Producing Hong Kong Film Genres for Global Consum…

by Sun, Yi

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This book adopts an integrative research framework that primarily combines industrial and discourse analysis to investigate the company Milkyway Image, drawing upon literature that studies film studios and the practices of film production, distribution, and reception. The histor…

Family Business in China, Volume 2: Challenges and Opportunities

by Chen, Ling, Zhu, Jian An, Fang, Hanqing

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Unlike other economies, family businesses in China are greatly affected by the derived Confucian culture, excessive marketization, as well as the seemingly endless institutional supervision by a transitional Chinese government. China has a strong historical legacy, devoted to pa…