Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology contains almost six hundred individually-signed entries from a global team of contributors and offers an important, and fascinating overview of the historical and contemporary reach of anthropological research.
Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology<...
"The publication of this book... is timely... Interesting and accessibly written, Going First Class? offers not only ethnographically rich reflections on the subject of privileged travel, but... it provides valuable critical insights on the nature of places and the methodological issues surrounding their study." - JRAI
..". this collection of chapters deserves to be widely read and discussed - together, they demonstrate the imperative for ethnographic research in conversation, but not necessarily in cahoots, with reigning critical theories of modernity and the contemporary world." - Social...
"The publication of this book... is timely... Interesting and accessibly written, Going First Class? offers not only ethnographically rich reflections...
In academic descriptions of cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction often recurs. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to distinguish between cosmopolitanism as a set of mundane practices and/or competences on the one hand and cosmopolitanism as a cultivated form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other. For anthropologists whose ethnographic studies reveal many different expressions of cosmopolitanism, this distinction between aspiration and practice can often be quite ambiguous. Thisbook therefore brings together five contributions from...
In academic descriptions of cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction often recurs. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to dis...
Contributors focus on key concepts of sociality - disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network - and how these can be used to think through ethnographic situations.
Contributors focus on key concepts of sociality - disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network - and how these can be used...
