In the Event : : Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments / / ed. by Bruce Kapferer, Lotte Meinert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Fibiger, Thomas,; Kapferer, Bruce,; Krause-Jensen, Jakob,; Krøijer, Stine,; Kublitz, Anja,; Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard,; Nielsen, Morten,; Oestergaard, Jesper,; Oxlund, Bjarke,; Rytter, Mikkel,
• HerausgeberIn: Kapferer, Bruce,; Meinert, Lotte,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)

Events are “generative moments” in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic studie...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: In the Event—toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
• Chapter 1 ‘Ashura in Bahrain: Analyses of an Analytical Event
• Chapter 2 ‘Burying the ANC’: Post-apartheid Ambiguities at the University of Limpopo, South Africa
• Chapter 3 A Topographic Event: A Buddhist Lama’s Perception of a Pilgrimage Cave
• Chapter 4 The Outburst: Climate Change, Gender Relations, and Situational Analysis
• Chapter 5 Events and Effects: Intensive Transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark
• Chapter 6 The Cartoon Controversy: Creating Muslims in a Danish Setting
• Chapter 7 Studying Human Resource Management: Beyond Corporate Consensus and Colonial Conflicts
• Chapter 8 Figurations of the Future: On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe
• Chapter 9 Mimesis of the State: From Natural Disaster to Urban Citizenship on the Outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique
• About the Editors
• Index