Realizing Community

Concepts, Social Relationships and Sentiments
Herausgeber: Amit, Vered

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The authors contribute invigorating new material to an established and crucial area of anthropological study. Vered Amit, Anthony Cohen, Andrew Dawson, Noel Dyck, John Gray, Signe Howell, Marian Kempny, Ullrich Kockel, Karen Fog Olwig and Nigel Rapport.

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Contributes various new analyses and approaches to the issue of community - such as destabilization in the global context, cultural absoluteness, separation of community and culture, compartmentalized communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 155mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780415229081
• ISBN-10: 0415229081
• Artikelnr.: 21029130

Autorenporträt

Vered Amit is an Associate Professor at Concordia University, Canada. She is editor of Constructing the Field (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Reconceptualizing community 2 The mining community and the ageing body:
Towards a phenomenology of community? 3 Community as place-making: Ram
auctions in the Scottish borderland 4 Cultural islands in the globalizing
world: Communitcum-locality of the Cieszyn Silesian Lutherans 5 Community
beyond place: Adoptive families in Norway 6 'Have you been to Hayward
Field?': Children's sport and the construction of community in suburban
Canada 7 The ethnographic field revisited: Towards a study of common and
not so common fields of belonging 8 Post-cultural anthropology: The
ironization of values in a world of movement 9 Epilogue