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Author Wonneberger, Astrid

Title Migration - Networks - Skills : Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation
Published Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (245 pages)
Series Kultur und soziale Praxis
Kultur und soziale Praxis.
Contents Cover. Migration -- Networks -- Skills; Table of Contents ; Introduction: Migration, Networks, Skills. Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation ; The Kashmiri Diaspora in Britain and the Limits of Political Mobilisation
The Modernity of the Mafia. Personalized Network Efficiency versus State Institutional Lethargy The Ethnographic Validity of Paternity Denial (alias "Virgin Birth") ; Hamburg HafenCity Revisited. Reading Mental Maps as an Approach to Urban Imaginaries ; Towards an Ethnography of Rivers
Hands, Skills, Materiality. Towards an Anthropology of Crafts About the Authors ; Waltraud Kokot: Publications 1982 -- 2013
Summary Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, they also mark the wide range of interests of cultural and social anthropologist Waltraud Kokot, who is to be honoured in this Festschrift. Internationally distinguished scholars from five European countries and various academic disciplines present their most recent research findings on topics such as diaspora and migration studies, urban anthropology, tolerance and the anthropology of crafts, all of which are connected by the common themes of mobility and transformation
Notes From Ultimogeniture to Senior Club. Negotiating Certainties and Uncertainties of Growing Older between Rural Mexico and Urban Chicago Secular Mood, Community Consensus. The Identity of the Bulgarian Muslims in Zlatograd
The Pervasion of the Ancient and Traditional Value of "Hospitality" in Contemporary Greece. From Xenios Zeus to "Xenios Zeus" How Solomon Bibo from Germany Became an Indian Chief. And Other Glimpses of Jewish Life in the Wild West
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Subject Kokot, Waltraud
SUBJECT Kokot, Waltraud fast
Subject Communities -- Research
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
Urban anthropology -- Research
Residential mobility.
Migration, Internal.
Human beings -- Migrations.
Acculturation.
Anthropologists -- Germany -- Biography
internal migration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Acculturation
Anthropologists
Communities -- Research
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Human beings -- Migrations
Migration, Internal
Residential mobility
Mobilität.
Urbanität.
Migration.
Netzwerk.
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Gandelsman-Trier, Mijal
Dorsch, Hauke
ISBN 9783839433645
3839433649