Navigating Terrains of War : : Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau / / Henrik E. Vigh.
Through the concept of "social navigation," this book sheds light on the mobilization of urban youth in West Africa. Social navigation offers a perspective on praxis in situations of conflict and turmoil. It provides insights into the interplay between objective structures and subjective a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Methodology & History in Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- 1. Mbuli the Victorious: The Micro-history of an Aguenta
- 2. Perspectives and Positions
- PART II THE AGUENTAS
- 3. Becoming Aguentas
- 4. Wars without Enemies
- PART III SOCIAL NAVIGATION
- 5. The Social Moratorium of Youth
- 6. Dubriagem and Social Navigation: Constructing Social Trajectories through War
- PART IV ON SHIFTING GROUND
- 7. Inhabiting Unstable Terrains: The Everyday of Decline and Conflict
- 8. From Negritude to Ineptitude: On Horizons and Broken Imaginaries
- PART V IN APPEASEMENT?
- 9. Recategorising Men as Children: Bottom-up Reconciliation
- 10. Closure
- Bibliography
- Index