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Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies
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ISBN: 1442667095 1442667087 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies presents a selection of essays highlighting the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people's activities across space and time.


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Unfinished : the anthropology of becoming
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ISBN: 9780822369301 0822369303 9780822369455 0822369451 Year: 2017 Publisher: Durham Duke University Press

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Unfinished : the anthropology of becoming
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ISBN: 0822372452 Year: 2017 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming. People's becomings trouble and exceed ways of knowing and acting, producing new possibilities for research, methodology, and writing. The contributors creatively bridge ethnography and critical theory in a range of worlds on the edge, from war and its aftermath, economic transformation, racial inequality, and gun violence to religiosity, therapeutic markets, animal rights activism, and abrupt environmental change. Defying totalizing analytical schemes, these visionary essays articulate a human science of the uncertain and unknown and restore a sense of movement and possibility to ethics and political practice. Unfinished invites readers to consider the array of affects, ideas, forces, and objects that shape contemporary modes of existence and future horizons, opening new channels for critical thought and creative expression.Contributors. Lucas Bessire, João Biehl, Naisargi N. Dave, Elizabeth A. Davis, Michael M. J. Fischer, Angela Garcia, Peter Locke, Adriana Petryna, Bridget Purcell, Laurence Ralph, Lilia M. Schwarcz


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Mary Douglas
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ISBN: 9781800739819 1800739796 9781800739796 1800739818 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York: Berghahn,

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"This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. Her work focused on how human groups classify each other, and how they resolve the anomalies that then arise. Classification, she argued, emerges from practices of social life, and is a factor in all deep and intractable human disputes. This biography offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival"--


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Le folk-lore : littérature orale et ethnographie traditionnelle
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Year: 1913 Publisher: Paris : O. Doin,

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Under New Public Management : Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work
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ISBN: 1442619465 9781442619463 9781442649101 1442649100 9781442626560 1442626569 1442619473 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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"The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private sector. Using research drawn from Canada, the United States, Australia, and Denmark, the contributors expose how standardized managerial requirements are created and applied, and how they affect the practicalities of working with people whose lives and experiences are complex and unique."--Publisher's description


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The cultural intermediaries reader
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ISBN: 9781446201329 9781446201336 1446201325 1446201333 Year: 2016 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications Ltd,

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"A rich selection of readings that expose the shadowy underworld of critics, bloggers, tweeters and stylists who have become essential guides to the good life of cultural consumption... a long overdue examination of how cultural intermediaries work, and how their work supports the new capitalist economy." - Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and City University "An array of talented contributors, skilfully brought together by the editors, show how the concept of cultural intermediaries can cast light on cultural production, and on media, culture and society." - David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds Cultural intermediaries are the taste makers defining what counts as good taste and cool culture in today's marketplace. Working at the intersection of culture and economy, they perform critical operations in the production and promotion of consumption, constructing legitimacy and adding value through the qualification of goods.Too often, these are processes that remain invisible to the consumer's eye and in scholarly debates about creative industries. The Cultural Intermediaries Readeroffers the first, comprehensive introduction to this exciting field of research, providingthe conceptual and practical tools needed to analyse these market actors. The book: Surveys the theoretical terrain through accessible, in-depth primers to key approaches (Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Callon and the new economic sociology). Equips readers with a practical guide to methodology that highlights the central features and challenges of conducting cultural intermediary research. Challenges stereotypes and narrow views of cultural work through a diverse range of case studies, including creative directors of advertising and branding campaigns, music critics, lifestyle chefs, assistants in book shops and fashion outlets, personal trainers, bartenders and more. Brings the field to life through a wealth of ethnographic data from research in the US, UK and around the world, in original chapters written by some of the leading scholars in the field. Invites readers to engage with proposed new directions for research, and comparative analyses of cultural intermediaries historical development, material practices, and cultural and economic impacts. The book will be an essential point of reference for scholars and students in sociology, critical management, cultural studies, and media studies with an interest in cultural economy, creative labour, and the past, present and future intersections between production and consumption."


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Ethnosymbolism and the dynamics of identity
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ISBN: 144388085X 1443884650 9781443884655 9781443880855 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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This book is an exploration of the potential of the ethnosymbolic approach to nation and identity to act as an instrumental tool for research into the mechanisms of identity-building. Using insights and data from Bulgarian history and culture, it views the construction of Bulgarian national identity as a modern process intimately affected by circumstances which prevailed in nineteenth-century Bulgarian society, and also as a process which, for its structural and psychological prerequisites, drew upon and reworked various specific features and peculiarities of an available but always malleable

Les étrangers de l'intérieur : filières, trafics et xénophobie
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ISBN: 2228897221 Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris : Payot,

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Penser et faire la géographie sociale : contributions à une épistémologie de la géographie sociale
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ISBN: 9782753503229 2753503222 2821817959 275352677X Year: 2006 Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rennes

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Comment la géographie sociale est-elle perçue par ceux qui la font ou par ceux qui, sans y adhérer pleinement, lui reconnaissent des spécificités dans le champ de la géographie ? Comment peut-elle contribuer à positionner la géographie dans les sciences sociales? Vingt-cinq auteurs de différentes générations donnent leur point de vue dans le premier d'une série de trois ouvrages issus du colloque Espaces et sociétés aujourd'hui qui s'est tenu à Rennes en octobre 2004. Ces contributions qui portent sur les enjeux scientifiques et méthodologiques actuels révèlent la vita-lité et les capacités de renouvellement de cette orientation de la géographie qui s'est affirmée au début des années 1980. La géographie sociale a évolué dans ses paradigmes, ses questionnements, ses méthodes. Comme l'anthropologie, la socio-logie, l'histoire..., elle est passée des grandes théories explicatives à l'action et l'acteur; elle a renoué avec l'immatériel, l'idéel, le symbolique. Ouverte aux échanges avec d'autres géographies, pleinement investie dans les sciences sociales, la géographie sociale n'en continue pas moins à faire entendre un point de vue original sur le monde et sur la société. La plupart des auteurs réaffirment la nécessité ou le choix de l'implication et de l'engagement du chercheur, renouant ainsi avec des principes affichés par les pionniers de la géographie sociale. En se donnant pour objet la relation à l'autre, telle qu'elle se construit dans l'espace, plutôt que les configurations spatiales (le quartier, la ville, la région...), ces chercheurs sont en mesure d'expliciter des enjeux de pouvoir et des rapports de domination. C'est dans cette démarche d'approfondissement théorique et épistémologique que les auteurs envisagent des enjeux sociétaux (le vivre ensemble, la démocratie...), se positionnent par rapport à d'autres sciences sociales (géopolitique, sociolinguistique) et au sein de différents champs de recherche (médias, sport, santé, ville, risques). Il en…

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