An anthropological study of play-acting. Kirsten Hastrup aims at a renewed understanding of action and motivation within any social setting. By listening to such experts of action as the players of Shakespeare, we achieve a comprehensive reappraisal of cu
An anthropological study of play-acting. Kirsten Hastrup aims at a renewed understanding of action and motivation within any social setting. By liste...
Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled. Through analysis of predictive practices in a diversity of regions affected by climate change - including coastal India, the Cook Islands, Tibet, and the High Arctic, and various domains of scientific expertise and policy making such as ice core drilling, flood risk...
Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which p...
'The greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration', stated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. Since then there has been considerable concern about the large-scale population movements that might take place because of climate change. This book examines emerging patterns of human mobility in relation to climate change, drawing on a multidisciplinary approach, including anthropology and geography. It addresses both larger, general questions and concrete local cases, where the link between climate change and human mobility is manifest and demands...
'The greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration', stated the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. Since...
Cultural diversity, as expressed for instance in different normative orders or legal cultures, poses both a practical and a theoretical challenge to the idea of universal human rights. In this volume, the authors seek to address and contain this challenge with a view to the changing nature of the global society. While "culture" is sometimes signposted as an obstacle to human rights on the ground, this volume suggests that in so far as the global "culture of human rights" is primarily seen as a formal and institutional order based on a particular view of equal human worth, local cultures...
Cultural diversity, as expressed for instance in different normative orders or legal cultures, poses both a practical and a theoretical challenge to t...
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors' detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the...
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors' detailed ethnograph...
