Siting Culture (eBook, PDF)

The Shifting Anthropological Object
Redaktion: Hastrup, Kirsten; Olwig, Karen Fog

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Produktbeschreibung

Culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are recasting culture as a place of belonging as they construct local identities within global fields of relations.
So far, much of the analysis of the role of place in culture has been carried out at a level of theoretical debate. Siting Culture argues that it is only through rich ethnographic studies that anthropologists may explore the significance of place in the global space of relations which mould the lives of people throughout the world. By examining the concept of culture through case studies from Europe, Africa, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean it probes the methodological and theoretical implications of the divergent scholarly and popular concepts of culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134749461
• Artikelnr.: 38252630

Autorenporträt

Karen Fog Olwig is Senior Lecturer and Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology, both at the University of Copenhagen.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog OlwigPart I: Finding a key
debate place for cultureCultural Sites: Sustaining a home in a
deteritorialized world Karen Fog Olwig Imaginging a place in the Andes: In
the borderland of lived, invented and analyzed cultures Karsten Paerregaard
Which world? On diffusion of Algerian Rai to the West March Schade-Poulsen
Seeking place: Capsized identities and contracted belonging among Sri
lankan Tamil refugees Ann-Belinda Steen PreisPart II: The Culture and
Politics of PlaceThe nation as a human being: A metaphor in a mid-life
crisis? Notes on the imminent collapse of Norwegian national identity
Thomas Hylland Eriksen Paradoxes of sovereignty and independence: 'real'
and 'pseudo' nation-states and depoliticization of poverty James Ferguson
The experience of displacement: reconstructing places and identities in Sri
Lanka Brigitte Refslund Sorensen Localizing the American Dream:
constructing Hawaiian homelands Ulla Hasager Picturing and placing
Constable country Judith OkelyPart III: Topical Metaphors in
Anthropological ThinkingSpeechless emissaries: refugees, humanitarianism
and dehistoricization Liisa H. Malkki 'Roots' and 'Mosaic' in a Balkan
border village: locating cultural production Jonathan Schwartz Simplifying
Complexity: assimilating the global in a small paradise Jonathan Friedman
There are no Indians in the Dominican Republic: the cultural construction
of Dominican identities