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  • - 'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World
    von Miguel Vale de Almeida
    40,00 - 164,00 €

    Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power - Portugal - has not been given any attention. This volume explores notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism and postcolonialism.

  • - European Reactions to Mass Tourism
     
    47,00 €

    This collection demonstrates both varied and skillful ways in which individuals and communities react to and cope with the impact of decades of mass tourism on their lives and values, thus throwing new light onto questions of identity, boundary maintenance and cultural adjustment.

  • - Paradise and Reality in Mallorca
    von Jacqueline Waldren
    46,00 - 167,00 €

    The indigenous population of Deia has lived side by side with increasing numbers of foreigners over the past century, and what has occurred there over this period offers an example of how the population of one Mediterranean village has gained full advantage from the economic opportunities opened up by foreign investments...

  • - Back to the Future
     
    46,00 €

    The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect...

  • - The Ritual Process of Museum Magic
    von Mary Bouquet & Nuno Porto
    163,00 €

    For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied to the art museums in Europe and the United States so far. This volume expands it by exploring a range of contemporary museums in Europe and Africa. The case studies examine the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such sites. It turns out that not only museum specialists, but visitors themselves are engaged in complex performances and experiences that make use of museums in often unexpected ways.

  • - Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism
     
    164,00 €

    The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process - one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience.

  • - Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond
    von Noel B. Salazar
    47,00 - 166,00 €

    As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania, this book offers an in-depth investigation of the local-to-global dynamics of contemporary tourism. Each destination offers examples that illustrate how tour guide narratives and practices are informed by widely circulating imaginaries of the past as well as personal imaginings of the future.

  • - Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain
    von Mette Louise Berg
    166,00 €

    Interpretations of the background to the Cuban diaspora - a political revolution and the subsequent radical transformation of the society and economy towards socialism - are politicised and highly contested. The Miami-based Cuban diaspora has had extraordinary success in putting its case high on the US political agenda and in capturing world media attention, but in the process the multiplicity of experiences within the diaspora has been overshadowed. This book gives voice to diasporic Cubans living in Spain, the former colonial ruler of Cuba. By focusing on their lived experiences of displacement, the book brings to light imaginative, narrative re-creations of the nation from afar. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book argues that the Cuban diaspora in Spain consists of three diasporic generations, generated through distinct migratory experiences. This constitutes an important step forward in understanding the dynamics of memory-making and social differentiation within diasporas, and in appreciating why people within the same diaspora engage in different modes of transnational practices and homeland relations.

  • - Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley
    von Jaro Stacul
    166,00 €

    Investigating how ideas about village boundaries and private property in the Trentino region of northern Italy form the background against which regionalist ideologies are understood, this study suggests that ideas about regionalism largely reflect views about private property.

  • - Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World
     
    166,00 €

    This book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan, and Ethiopia. Attention is focused on the child's perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in child-adult relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning, and parenting in a changing world.

  • - Cultivating the Human Garden
    von Dr. David Picard
    46,00 - 166,00 €

    Tropical islands are magical, volcanoes are magical and coral reefs are magical. Classical ruins, old town centres, modern artworks, and contemporary architecture are magical as well. Even local people are magical. The attribution of magical qualities appears central in the constitution of contemporary tourism attractions.

  • - Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island
    von Andrew S. Buckser
    168,00 €

    A reconsideration of secularization theory using, as its core study, the people of a rural island in Denmark. Buckser (sociology and anthropology, Purdue U.) combines historical research and field study to portray the people of Mors whose community went through a profound religious awakening in the

  • - Imagining and Remembering Home
    von Janette Davies
    40,00 - 162,00 €

    This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.

  • - Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe
    von Liliana Suarez-Navaz
    167,00 €

    The extension of the EU into the Mediterranean areas led to a redefinition of social difference in Spain, creating new boundaries in the interior. This text traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the EU.

  • - The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic
     
    46,00 €

    Museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. This volume explores a range of contemporary museums in Europe and Africa. The case studies examine the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such sites.

  • - Between Agency and the System
     
    164,00 €

    With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, and Africa...

  • - Back to the Future
     
    164,00 €

    The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect...

  • - Ethiopians in an Israeli Absorption Center
    von Esther Hertzog
    166,00 €

    Since Israel is primarily a country of immigrants, the state takes on the responsibility for the settlement and integration of each new group. It therefore sees its role as benevolent and indispensable to the welfare of the immigrants. This be true to some extent.

  • - Conversations and Introspection
    von Marie-Benedicte Dembour
    45,00 - 166,00 €

  • - Russian Jews in Israel
    von Dina Siegel
    162,00 €

    Based on a number of case studies, this book offers analysis of the life of the new Russian-Jewish immigrants and the interaction between them and other Israeli citizens.

  • - Ethnic Identity in Mauritius
    von Rosabelle Boswell
    163,00 €

    Provides critical insight into the dynamics of contemporary Mauritian society. In this researched study of ethnic, gender and racial discrimination in Mauritius, the author, a native anthropologist, addresses debates carried out in many developing societies on subaltern identities, ethnicity, poverty and social injustice.

  • - Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories
     
    166,00 €

    At the turn of the millennium the state of Europe is fluid and contested, yet how this affects the everyday lives of European peoples and the ways they experience the social world they live in remains largely unexplored. Drawing upon ethnographic information from diverse European settings, this volume points to the contradictions that the project of a "Europe without boundaries" involves. In illustrating how the removal of political boundaries can create other boundaries, the articles in this volume provide alternatives to recent theorising on complexity, which takes little account of human agency.

  • - Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy
    von Davide Pero
    163,00 €

    Migration and multiculturalism are hotly discussed in public debates across Europe. Whereas ethnographic research has begun to examine the Right in this context, the Left remains largely unexplored. This book provides fresh perspectives on how the contemporary Left "frames" these issues in practice and how such framing has changed.

  • - The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village
    von Deema Kaneff
    47,00 €

    In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation. Focusing on a local community that was considered a "e;model"e; in the socialist period, the author explores a variety of state-sponsored and unofficial pasts - history, folklore, and tradition - and shows how they "e;fit"e; together in everyday life. During the socialist period, the past was a central dimension of local politics and village identity. Post-socialist development has demanded a revaluation of temporality - as well as public and private space. This has led to fundamental changes in social life and political relations, reduced local resources, threatened village identity and transformed political activity through the emergence of new political elites. While the full implications of this process are still being played out, this study underlines some of the fundamental processes prevalent across eastern Europe that help explain widespread ambiguity vis-B-vis post-socialist reform.

  • - Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World
     
    46,00 €

    Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult - child power dynamics.

  • - Power and Anxiety in the Face of Change
    von Tijo Salverda
    164,00 €

    Mauritian independence in 1968 marked the end of a regime favorable to the Franco-Mauritians, the island's white colonial elite. Now, in postcolonial Mauritius, this group is faced with a much more diverse power constellation and often feels in competition with others vying for their privileges. Though this is a clear departure from the colonial heydays, Franco-Mauritians have been able to continue their elite position into the early twenty-first century. This book focuses on the power of white elites still lingering on in postcolonial realities, and with regards to elites and power in general, addresses anew how an elite group aims to prolong its position over time.

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