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 p...

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