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Translocal Care across Kosovo's Borders : Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines
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ISBN: 1805390791 1805390600 1805390597 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books,

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In today's globalized world, where the foundations of home and social security are destabilized due to wars and neoliberal transformations, the villagers of Kosovo are linked with a common locality despite living across borders. By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states.


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An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange : Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
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ISBN: 9781805390763 1805390767 1805390708 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books,

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Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such 'intellectual exchange' is also central to anthropologists' own professional practice: from their interactions with research participants and modes of pedagogy to their engagements with each other and scholars from adjacent disciplines. This collection of essays explores how such processes might best be studied cross-culturally. Foregrounding the diverse interactions, ethical reasoning, and intellectual lives of people from across the continent of Asia, the volume develops an anthropology of intellectual exchange itself.


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Oligarquía en América Latina : Redes Familiares Dominantes en el Siglo XIX e Inicios Del XX.
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ISBN: 9783968694207 Year: 2023 Publisher: Madrid : Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert,

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En su ensayo, Peter Waldmann sigue la evolución de los clanes familiares de capas altas en los Estados de Chile, Argentina, Brasil, Perú y México desde el período colonial temprano hasta el siglo xx. Aunque en principio los capítulos se estructuran por orden cronológico, el contenido se centra en las características estructurales de las familias de capas altas y su transformación: cuáles eran los objetivos de la actividad familiar, cómo se distribuía el poder dentro de la familia entre sexos y generaciones o cómo era la educación de hijos e hijas.Las familias no fueron un factor de poder sociopolítico relevante como entidades individuales, sino en la conformación de redes. Por ello, se suman también a la reflexión otras cuestiones importantes cómo el origen de esos vínculos y sus modos de cohesión


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Voices of Long-Term Care Workers : Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond
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ISBN: 9781805392354 1805392352 Year: 2024 Publisher: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books,

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There were many challenges, successes, and concerns in providing long-term care to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at central North Carolina, the authors highlight the implications of providing long-term care to older Americans, with an emphasis on the importance of communication, resilience of staff, and value of human infrastructure. Based on extensive interviews, this collection of essays reflects on the participants' individual experiences and represents the voices of staff and caregivers working in long-term residential care communities, in-home and community-based programs, as well as regional aging service providers and advocates.


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Popular Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia

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The Disarticulate : Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity
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Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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Language is integral to oursocial being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?The mentally disabled, "wild" children, people with autism and otherneurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificialintelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders.In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the'disarticulate'-those at the edges of language-have, paradoxically, playedessential, defining roles. Drawing on the disarticulate figures inmodern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury,Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others,James Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these charactersmark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, andscientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethicaltension, as society confronts the needs and desires of "the least of itsbrothers." Berger argues that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountablein the discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to theprevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well asdisability and trauma theory, he examines how these disarticulate figuresreveal modernity's anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others.


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Breathing Hearts : Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany.
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ISBN: 1805392360 180539200X Year: 2024 Publisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated,

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Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to 'breathe well' along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white German interlocutors to show how Sufi practices complicate the post secular imagination of healing in Germany.


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The transactions of the Royal Irish Academy.
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Year: 1787 Publisher: Dublin : Royal Irish Academy

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Food, Farms & Solidarity : French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops
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ISBN: 1478092114 Year: 2013 Publisher: [s.l.] : Duke University Press,

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The Confédération Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the group's complex strategies and campaigns, including a call for a Europe-wide ban on GM crops and hormone-treated beef, and a protest staged at a McDonald's. Her study of the Confédération Paysanne shows the challenges small farms face in a postindustrial agricultural world. Heller also reveals how the language the union uses to argue against GMOs encompasses more than the risks they pose; emphasizing solidarity has allowed farmers to focus on food as a cultural practice and align themselves with other workers. Heller's examination of the Confédération Paysanne's commitment to a vision of alter-globalization, the idea of substantive alternatives to neoliberal globalization, demonstrates how ecological and social justice can be restored in the world.


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The anthropology of citizenship : a reader
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ISBN: 9781118412916 9781118424452 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell,

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"The Anthropology of Citizenship introduces the theoretical foundations of and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world, in local, national and global contexts. Key readings provide a cross-cultural perspective on citizenship practices, and an individual citizen's relationship with the state. Introduces a range of exciting and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world Provides key readings for students and researchers who wish to gain an understanding of citizenship practices, and an individual's relationship with the state in a global context Offers an anthropological perspective on citizenship, the self and political agency, with a focus on encounters between citizens and the state in education, law, development, and immigration policy Provides students with an understanding of the theoretical foundations of citizenship, as characterized by liberal and civic republican ideas of political belonging and exclusion Explores how citizenship is constructed at different scales and in different spaces Twenty-five key writings identify what is a new and vibrant subfield within politics and anthropological research "-- "Introduces a range of exciting and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world"--

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