Author: Gero BauerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783823383505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Kinship and Collective Action
Author: Gero BauerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783823383505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Kinship and Collective Action
Author: Gero BauerPublisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823393502
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"Make kin, not babies!", Donna Haraway demands in an attempt to offer new and creative ways of thinking what kinship might mean in an age of ecological devastation. At the same time, the emergence of a seemingly new culture of public protest and political opinion have provoked scholars such as Judith Butler to address the contexts and dynamics of public collective action. This volume explores the dynamic relationship between structures of kinship and the (material) conditions under which collective action emerges from a literary and cultural studies perspective. How are kinship and collective action negotiated in literature, the arts, or in specific historical moments, and how does this affect the role of representation? How have conceptualizations of both concepts developed over time, and what can we infer from this for questions of kinship and collective action today?
Kinship, Community, and Self
Author: Jason CoyPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782384200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. His career has helped shape the discipline of history through his supervision of dozens of graduate students and his influence on countless other scholars. This book collects wide-ranging essays demonstrating the impact of Sabean’s work has on scholars of diverse time periods and regions, all revolving around the prominent issues that have framed his career: kinship, community, and self. The significance of David Warren Sabean’s scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former students and essays written by his contemporaries, demonstrating Sabean’s impact on the discipline of history.
The Logic of Collective Action
Author: Mancur OlsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674537514
Category : Social groups
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Understanding and Measuring Social Capital
Author: Christiaan GrootaertPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821350683
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This work details various methods of gauging social capital and provides illustrative case studies from Mali and India. It also offers a measuring instrument, the Social Capital Assessment Tool, that combines quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change
Author: Lacey B. CarpenterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000464911
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change offers new perspectives on the processes of social change from the standpoint of household archaeology. This volume develops new theoretical and methodological approaches to the archaeology of households pursuing three critical themes: household diversity in human residential communities with and without archaeologically identifiable houses, interactions within and between households that explicitly considers impacts of kin and non-kin relationships, and lastly change as a process that involves the choices made by members of households in the context of larger societal constraints. Encompassing these themes, authors explore the role of social ties and their material manifestations (within the house, dwelling, or other constructed space), how the household relates to other social units, how households consolidate power and control over resources, and how these changes manifest at multiple scales. The case studies presented in this volume have broader implications for understanding the drivers of change, the ways households create the contexts for change, and how households serve as spaces for invention, reaction, and/or resistance. Understanding the nature of relationships within households is necessary for a more complete understanding of communities and regions as these ties are vital to explaining how and why societies change. Taking a comparative outlook, with case studies from around the world, this volume will inform students and professionals researching household archaeology and be of interest to other disciplines concerned with the relationship between social networks and societal change.
Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin
Author: Berit ÅströmPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666910465
Category : Families in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This edited collection examines the central role that webs of kinship and families play in the fiction of N.K. Jemisin, arguing that they ca function as centers of resistance, means of oppression, or both. In doing so, Jemisin's work challenges readers to re-imagine the intimate relations of their present.
Kinship and Collective Activity in the Ngayarda Languages of Australia
Author: Alan Charles DenchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Describes functions of a verbal derivational suffix in Panyjima, Martuthunira, Yinyjiparnti and Kurrama which marks kin relationship between participants involved in collective action described by verb; social organization of division of labour in same generation sets reflected in grammar; four-section kinship system.
Ritual and Economy in Metropolitan China
Author: Carsten Herrmann-PillathPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429748965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book focuses on Shenzhen, one of China’s most globalized metropolises, a leading centre of high-tech industries and, as a melting pot of migrants from all over China, a place of vibrant cultural creativity. While in the early stages of Shenzhen’s development this vibrant cultural creativity was associated with the resilience of traditional social structures in Shenzhen’s migrant ‘urban villages’, today these structures undergird dynamic entrepreneurship and urban self-organization throughout Shenzhen, and have gradually merged with the formal structures of urban governance and politics. This book examines these developments, showing how important traditional social structures and traditional Chinese culture have been for China’s economic modernization. The book goes on to draw out the implications of this for the future of Chinese culture and Chinese economic engagement in a globalized world.
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