The Anthropology Of Ambiguity

Author : Mahnaz Alimardanian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526173843
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Ambiguity written by Mahnaz Alimardanian and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative force of political and socio-cultural transformation in contemporary human life trajectories.

Author : Čarna Brković
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785334158
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Ambiguity written by Čarna Brković and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare. Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.

Author : Mahnaz Alimardanian
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526173832
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The anthropology of ambiguity written by Mahnaz Alimardanian and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume puts ambiguity and its generative power at the centre of analytical attention. Rather than being cast negatively as a source of confusion, bewilderment or as a dangerous portent, ambiguity is held as the source of the dynamic between knowledge and experience and of certainty amid uncertainty. It positions human life between the realms of mystery and mastery where ambiguity is understood as the experience and expression of life and part of navigating the human condition. In turn, the tension between the tradition in anthropology of examining cultural certitudes through ethnographic description and efforts to challenge dominant expressions of incertitude are explored. Each chapter presents ethnographic accounts of how people engage individually and collectively with the self, the other, human-made institutions and the more-than-human to navigate ambiguity in a world affected by viral contagion, climate change, economic instability, labour precarity and (geo)political tension.

Author : Jens Kjaerulff
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782386165
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flexible Capitalism written by Jens Kjaerulff and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching “work” as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows how the perspective offers new ways to enquire about the flexible capitalism’s social dimensions. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change by documenting how, across diverse settings, “gift-like” socialities proliferate, and even sustain the intensified flexible commoditization that more commonly is touted as tearing social relations apart. By interrogating a keenly debated contemporary work regime through an approach to sociality rooted in a rich and distinct anthropological legacy, the volume also makes a novel contribution to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.

Author : Olivia Harris
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415129282
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside and Outside the Law written by Olivia Harris and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law is a discourse of absolutes, and yet it is beset by ambiguities. Legality is inevitably identified with morality, and yet there is in all legal systems a zone where the legal and the non-legal become hard to distinguish, and where it is debatable how far the moral and social standing of particular groups or individuals can be equated with their legal status. Anthropology is typically concerned with the frontiers of legality, and with groups defined by the law as marginal. Inside and Outside the Law reflects on the ambiguities of law's authority, drawing on comparative case-studies of ethnic groups within different modern states, of groups defined as marginal through their sexual behaviour, and on analyses of the ambiguities at the heart of state authority itself. Inside and Outside the Law will be of interest to political scientists and legal theorists, as well as anthropologists and sociologists concerned with popular conceptions of the state and its laws.

Author : Sam Migliore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mal'uocchiu written by Sam Migliore and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migliore examines the vague, ambiguous, and variable nature of mal'uocchiu (evil eye) among Sicilian-Canadians, shifting the focus of attention from explaining the concept to examining how "folk constructs" are used in everyday life.

Author : Th. C. W. Oudemans
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004084179
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragic Ambiguity written by Th. C. W. Oudemans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1987 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roland Bonsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ambiguity of Rapprochement written by Roland Bonsen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Lambek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571816740
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illness and Irony written by Michael Lambek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions. The studies in this volume explore the ways in which illness and therapy may be characterized as sites at which ironies of the human condition are produced, encountered, acknowledged – or discounted in favor of more literal readings. They ask what these sites can teach us about questions of human agency and about the broader importance of irony for theory. Encompassing a variety of perspectives, the contributors included in Illness and Irony apply theories of irony to a myriad of cultural contexts, ranging from Freud’s consulting room and the Lacanian clinics of Buenos Aires to fright illness in a Yemeni village and spirit possession on the island of Mayotte. An introductory chapter by Michael Lambek establishes a contextual viewpoint on irony, arising from the writings of Thomas Mann, Alexander Nehamas and others. Vincent Crapanzano concludes the volume by linking the contributions to current debates about irony in rhetoric, linguistics and comparative literature.

Author : Donald N. Levine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022605621X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flight from Ambiguity written by Donald N. Levine and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays turn about a single theme, the loss of the capacity to deal constructively with ambiguity in the modern era. Levine offers a head-on critique of the modern compulsion to flee ambiguity. He centers his analysis on the question of what responses social scientists should adopt in the face of the inexorably ambiguous character of all natural languages. In the course of his argument, Levine presents a fresh reading of works by the classic figures of modern European and American social theory—Durkheim, Freud, Simmel and Weber, and Park, Parsons, and Merton.