Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change /

Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change /

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Carefully contextualizing the ethnography by taking scale and time seriously, the book shows why fieldwork is both necessary and insufficient if the aim is to make sense of the contemporary world. It is a significant contribution to the renewal of anthropological theory and methodology. Highly recom...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Berriane, Yasmine (Editor), Derks, Annuska (Editor), Kreil, Aymon (Editor), Lüddeckens, Dorothea (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
Series:Anthropology, Change, and Development,
Subjects:
Economic development.
Regionalism.
Ethnology.
Development Studies.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Making Sense of Change: Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation - An Introduction
  • Part 1: Scales of Change
  • Chapter 2: Scales of Change and Diagnostic Contradictions: Shifting Relations Between an Emigrant Community and its Diaspora
  • Chapter 3: Seeing Social Change through the Institutional Lens: Universities in Egypt, 2011-2018
  • Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Change in the Cuban Revolution
  • Part 2: Biographies of Change
  • Chapter 5: Social Change and Generational Disparity: Education, Violence, and Precariousness in the Life Story of a Young Moroccan Activist
  • Chapter 6: Rescuing Biography from the Nation: Discrete Perspectives on Political Change in Morocco
  • Chapter 7: 'A Proper House, Not a Barn': House Biographies and Societal Change in Urban Kyrgyzstan
  • Chapter 8: When a Coterie Becomes a Generation: Intellectual Sociability and the Narrative of Generational Change in Sayyid Qutb's Egypt
  • Part 3: Change in the Making
  • Chapter 9: Spatializing Social Change: Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Upper-Guinea
  • Chapter 10: The Affects of Change: An Ethnography of the Affective Experiences of the 2013 Military Intervention in Egypt
  • Chapter 11: Funeral Reforms in Taiwan: Insights on Change from a Discourse Analytic Perspective. .

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