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Migration - Networks - Skills : Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Kultur und soziale PraxisPublication details: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839433645
  • 3839433649
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Migration - Networks - Skills : Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation.DDC classification:
  • 306 23
LOC classification:
  • GN316 .M547 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover. Migration -- Networks -- Skills; Table of Contents ; Introduction: Migration, Networks, Skills. Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation ; The Kashmiri Diaspora in Britain and the Limits of Political Mobilisation.
The Modernity of the Mafia. Personalized Network Efficiency versus State Institutional Lethargy The Ethnographic Validity of Paternity Denial (alias "Virgin Birth") ; Hamburg HafenCity Revisited. Reading Mental Maps as an Approach to Urban Imaginaries ; Towards an Ethnography of Rivers.
Hands, Skills, Materiality. Towards an Anthropology of Crafts About the Authors ; Waltraud Kokot: Publications 1982 -- 2013.
Summary: Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, they also mark the wide range of interests of cultural and social anthropologist Waltraud Kokot, who is to be honoured in this Festschrift. Internationally distinguished scholars from five European countries and various academic disciplines present their most recent research findings on topics such as diaspora and migration studies, urban anthropology, tolerance and the anthropology of crafts, all of which are connected by the common themes of mobility and transformation.
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Print version record.

Cover. Migration -- Networks -- Skills; Table of Contents ; Introduction: Migration, Networks, Skills. Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation ; The Kashmiri Diaspora in Britain and the Limits of Political Mobilisation.

From Ultimogeniture to Senior Club. Negotiating Certainties and Uncertainties of Growing Older between Rural Mexico and Urban Chicago Secular Mood, Community Consensus. The Identity of the Bulgarian Muslims in Zlatograd.

The Pervasion of the Ancient and Traditional Value of "Hospitality" in Contemporary Greece. From Xenios Zeus to "Xenios Zeus" How Solomon Bibo from Germany Became an Indian Chief. And Other Glimpses of Jewish Life in the Wild West.

The Modernity of the Mafia. Personalized Network Efficiency versus State Institutional Lethargy The Ethnographic Validity of Paternity Denial (alias "Virgin Birth") ; Hamburg HafenCity Revisited. Reading Mental Maps as an Approach to Urban Imaginaries ; Towards an Ethnography of Rivers.

Hands, Skills, Materiality. Towards an Anthropology of Crafts About the Authors ; Waltraud Kokot: Publications 1982 -- 2013.

Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, they also mark the wide range of interests of cultural and social anthropologist Waltraud Kokot, who is to be honoured in this Festschrift. Internationally distinguished scholars from five European countries and various academic disciplines present their most recent research findings on topics such as diaspora and migration studies, urban anthropology, tolerance and the anthropology of crafts, all of which are connected by the common themes of mobility and transformation.

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