(Izdošanas datums: 22-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472077755)
Education is generally promoted as the key to the future of Africa in global development discourses about the continent. Educations official story in Africa continues to be one of innocence and public good, yet, since colonial times, education has c...Lasīt vairāk
The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship has, however, neither completely disappeared fr...Lasīt vairāk
Megha Amrith, Julia Pauli, Victoria K. Sakti, Dora Sampaio, Dumitrita Lunca, Lisa Johnson, Erdmute Alber, Cati Coe, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Alfonso Otaegui...
In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold...Lasīt vairāk
Megha Amrith, Julia Pauli, Victoria K. Sakti, Dora Sampaio, Dumitrita Lunca, Lisa Johnson, Erdmute Alber, Cati Coe, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Alfonso Otaegui...
Sērija : Global Perspectives on Aging
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Jul-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978830417)
While aspirations are most often connected to younger people, this volume argues that people do not stop aspiring in older age. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering o...Lasīt vairāk
A long tradition of Western political thought included the concepts of a household, the family, and kinship in models of public order, but during the nineteenth century the newly constructed social sciences developed a conceptualization of the We...Lasīt vairāk
Politics and Kinship: A Reader offers a unique overview of the entanglement of these two categories in both theoretical debates and everyday practices. It features contributions from a broad range of regional, temporal and theore...Lasīt vairāk
Politics and Kinship: A Reader offers a unique overview of the entanglement of these two categories in both theoretical debates and everyday practices. It features contributions from a broad range of regional, temporal and theore...Lasīt vairāk
In Transfers of Belonging, Erdmute Alber argues for a new understanding of child foster practices in West Africa. It is based on the elaboration of the history of child foster practices in rural and urban Benin....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Dec-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812249514)
Reconnecting State and Kinship seeks to overcome the traditional dichotomy between state and kinship, asking whether concepts associated with one sphere surface in the other, tracking the evolution of these concepts through time and space,...Lasīt vairāk
In the course of last two decades, the notion of care has become prominent in the social and cultural sciences. As a result of this proliferation of care in several disciplinary fields, we are observing not only the expansion of its conceptual m...Lasīt vairāk
Child fostering in West Africa connects classical and new kinship theory and offers ethnographic studies on a mobile and creative kinship practice....Lasīt vairāk
Though long neglected in anthropological research, the connections and conflicts between generations are at the heart of social processes. In this book, sixteen studies examine relations between generations of kin and between historical and political...Lasīt vairāk
