Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners--they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood and notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. In Livelihood on the Margins, anthropologists and practitioners engaged in hands-on development work use fine-grained ethnographic research to cut through the conventional narratives that romanticize, victimize, or demonize these populations. They go beyond the trendy "sustainable livelihoods" approach to development to examine the relationship between the agency people can actually wield over...
Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners--they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood a...
Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners--they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood and notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. In Livelihood on the Margins, anthropologists and practitioners engaged in hands-on development work use fine-grained ethnographic research to cut through the conventional narratives that romanticize, victimize, or demonize these populations. They go beyond the trendy "sustainable livelihoods" approach to development to examine the relationship between the agency people can actually wield over...
Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners--they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood a...
Drawing on solid ethnographic fieldwork as well as many hours of interviews, Leprosy and a Life in South India: Journeys with a Tamil Brahmin tells the life story of Das, a Tamil Brahmin born in the newly post-colonial India of the early 1950s. After being diagnosed with leprosy, Das spent over a decade on the streets of Bombay and Madras, learning to survive as an unofficial station porter, hotel bellhop, and sometimes tourist guide. He won and lost fortunes on horses, he gambled, and he learned firsthand of the pleasures to be had in Bombay's red light district. But for all the joy that...
Drawing on solid ethnographic fieldwork as well as many hours of interviews, Leprosy and a Life in South India: Journeys with a Tamil Brahmin tells th...
..".a diverse group of scholars who have a broad range of experience as ethnographers and whose work with interviews, life stories and biography highlight the extraordinariness of social encounters." - Tamara Kohn, University of Melbourne
"Each chapter is well written and has something interesting . . . to say about interviewing. . . All in all, a genuinely absorbing read which has prompted me to think about interviewing in new ways." - Peter Collins, Durham University
Given the anthropological focus on ethnography as a kind of deep immersion, the interview poses theoretical and...
..".a diverse group of scholars who have a broad range of experience as ethnographers and whose work with interviews, life stories and biography hi...
This is an investigation of arts and aesthetics in their widest senses and experiences, presenting a variety of perspectives which range from the metaphysical to the political. Moving beyond art as an expression of the inner mind and invention of the individual self, the volume bridges the gap between changing perceptions of contemporary art and aesthetics, and maps globalizing currents in a number of contexts and regions.
The volume includes an impressive variety of case studies offered by established leaders in the field and original and emerging scholarly talent covering areas in...
This is an investigation of arts and aesthetics in their widest senses and experiences, presenting a variety of perspectives which range from the m...
