Boundless Worlds : : An Anthropological Approach to Movement / / ed. by Peter Wynn Kirby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Berglund, Eeva,; Clarke, Richard,; Grou, Christian,; Ingold, Tim,; Kirby, Peter Wynn,; Michael, Bernardo A.,; Mills, Martin,; Mondragón, Carlos,; Pedersen, Morten Axel,; Sedgwick, Mitchell W.,; Snellman, Tapio,
• HerausgeberIn: Kirby, Peter Wynn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)

Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be static and remote. "Space" and "place" are also often analyzed without grappling much (if at all) with the social, political, and historical roots of spatial practice. This volume embarks upon the novel strategy of focusing on movement as a way of understanding social spaces, which offers a means to get beyond biases inherent in the social science of space. Ethnographic studies of social life in settings as varied as nomadic Mongolia and island Melanesia, as distinct as contemporary Tokyo and war-torn Palestine, challenge Western assumptions about the universality of "space" and allow concrete understanding of how life plays out over different socio-cultural topographies. In a world that is becoming increasingly "bounded" in many ways - despite enormous changes wrought by technological, ideological, and other social developments - Boundless Worlds urges a scholarly turn, away from the purely global, toward the human dimension of social lives lived in conditions of conflict, upheaval, remapping, and improvisation through movement.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Lost in ‘Space’: An Anthropological Approach to Movement -- Chapter 2 Against Space: Place, Movement, Knowledge -- Chapter 3 Spatiality, Power, and State-Making in the Organization of Territory in Colonial South Asia: The Case of the Anglo–Gorkha Frontier, 1740–1816 -- Chapter 4 Embodying Spaces of Violence: Narratives of Israeli Soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories -- Chapter 5 This Circle of Kings: Modern Tibetan Visions of World Peace -- Chapter 6 A Weft of Nexus: Changing Notions of Space and Geographical Identity in Vanuatu, Oceania -- Chapter 7 At Home Away from Homes: Navigating the Taiga in Northern Mongolia -- Chapter 8 Toxins Without Borders: Interpreting Spaces of Contamination and Suffering -- Chapter 9 Movements in Corporate Space: Organizing a Japanese Multinational in France -- Chapter 10 Making Space in Finland’s New Economy -- Conclusion: Onward Bound: Ethnographic Perspectives on Space, Movement, and Context -- Visual Appendix Movement Studies -- Notes on Contributors -- Index