New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations. Vertiginous Life : : An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen / / Daniel M. Knight.

Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (178 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION Vertigo: Temporalities and Inconstancies
  • CHAPTER 1 MAIRI The Nausea of Unknowingness
  • CHAPTER 2 DIMITRIS Rebuilding from Rubble
  • CHAPTER 3 ANTONIS Technology and the Elsewhen
  • CHAPTER 4 ALEXIA Life in Suspension
  • CHAPTER 5 APHRODITE The Captivity of Chronic Crisis
  • CONCLUSION Parting Shots
  • EPILOGUE A Note on Crisis
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX