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  • The Trouble with Community

    Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity

    by Vered Amit, Nigel Rapport ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption of much social science has been that humans belong in communities, as social and cultural beings.The trouble with 'community' is that this is not necessarily so; the personal social networks of individuals' actual experience crosscut collective categories, situations and institutions. Communities can prove unviable or ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality

    by Vered Amit, Nigel Rapport ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole?This volume explores the nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on the ethical, organisational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned for mobilising and evading social collectivities in a world of mobile subjects.Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport present ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Youth Cultures

    A Cross-cultural Perspective

    Edited by Vered Amit, Helena Wulff ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1995, Youth Cultures critically studies an anthropologically neglected population: the youth. The book broadens the scope for analysing young people’s behaviour by moving away from notions of resistance and deviance and offers a range of ethnographically based studies of different kinds of youth in varied national contexts. From Nepal to Canada, Europe, the Solomon Islands and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Mobility and Cosmopolitanism

    Complicating the interaction between aspiration and practice

    Edited by Vered Amit, Pauline Gardiner Barber ...
    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 ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Young Men in Uncertain Times

    Edited by Noel Dyck, Vered Amit ...
    Anthropology is particularly well suited to explore the contemporary predicament in the coming of age of young men. Its grounded and comparative empiricism provides the opportunity to move beyond statistics, moral panics, or gender stereotypes in order to explore specific aspects of life course transitions, as well as the similar or divergent barriers or opportunities that young men in different ... Read more

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  • Young Men in Uncertain Times

    Edited by Vered Amit, Noel Dyck ...
    Anthropology is particularly well suited to explore the contemporary predicament in the coming of age of young men. Its grounded and comparative empiricism provides the opportunity to move beyond statistics, moral panics, or gender stereotypes in order to explore specific aspects of life course transitions, as well as the similar or divergent barriers or opportunities that young men in different ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Pacing Mobilities

    Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements

    Edited by Noel B. Salazar, Vered Amit ...
    Series Book 8 - Worlds in Motion
    Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and temporal composition of mobility, the rate at which people enact or deploy their movements as well as the conditions under which these moves are being marshalled, represented and contested. This is an anthropological exploration of temporality as a form of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Pacing Mobilities

    Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements

    Edited by Vered Amit, Noel B. Salazar ...
    Series Book 8 - Worlds in Motion
    Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and temporal composition of mobility, the rate at which people enact or deploy their movements as well as the conditions under which these moves are being marshalled, represented and contested. This is an anthropological exploration of temporality as a form of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Going First Class?

    New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement

    Edited by Vered Amit ...
    Series Book 7 - EASA Series
    People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripatetic professionals to middle class migrants in search of extended educational and career opportunities to ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Realizing Community

    Concepts, Social Relationships and Sentiments

    Edited by Vered Amit ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea continues to resonate powerfully in our daily lives, ethnographic accounts as well as theoretical analyses. This book returns a timely and concerted anthropological gaze to community as part of a broader ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Constructing the Field

    Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World

    Edited by Vered Amit ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection responds to the inte nsifying scrutiny of fieldwork in recent years. It challenges the idea of the necessity for the total immersion of the ethnographer in the field, and for the clear separation of professional and personal areas of activity. The very ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • What is Anthropology?

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an exciting and innovative way.Lucid and accessible, What is Anthropology? draws examples from current affairs as well as previous anthropological ... Read more

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