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Exposed : Living with Scandal, Rumour, and Gossip
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It applies ethnological perspectives to empirical material...
Invective Gaze - Das digitale Bild und die Kultur der Beschämung
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Der schaulüsterne Blick: Bilder adressieren affektive Register, fördern somit voyeuristische Tendenzen wie Glotzen, Gaffen und den Drang, sich oder andere im Bild zu exponieren. Digitale Medien ermöglichen direkte Beteiligung und Bewertung, wodurch sic...
Claiming Home : Migration Biographies and Everyday Lives of Queer Migrant Women in Switzerland
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Abstract: Through biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, gender, and nation. Situated between heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women...
Mapping the Unmappable? : Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa's indigenous peoples with other human and non-human actors within their environments. T...
»Failed« Migratory Adventures? : Malian Men Facing Conditions Post Deportation in Southern Mali
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Abstract: The effects of the intra-African and European deportation regimes brought about since the European Union's externalization of its migration and development policy by transferring it to countries of sub-Saharan Africa remain largely understudied - espec...
Ernährungskulturen und Geschlecht : Fleisch, Veganismus und die Konstruktion von Männlichkeiten
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Die Verbindung von Fleisch und Männlichkeit hat eine enorme kulturelle Relevanz - auch für vegane Ernährung. Eine soziologische Perspektive auf den Ernährungswandel zeigt, wie dieser sozial und kulturell strukturiert ist: Zwischen dem Lebensmittel Flei...
Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity
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Abstract: From Bangladesh and Hong Kong to Iran and South Africa, film industries around the world are rapidly growing at a time when new digital technologies are fundamentally changing how films are made and viewed. Larger film industries like Bollywood and Nol...
Onscreen/Offscreen
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Onscreen/Offscreen is an exploration of the politics and being of filmic images. The book examines contestations inside and outside the Tamil film industry over t...
Vererbte Regionen : Aneignungen und Nutzungen von regionalem Heritage im Wendland und in der Lausitz im Vergleich
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Kulturelles Erbe spielt in Grenzregionen nicht nur im Kontext von Beheimatung eine zentrale Rolle, es kommt auch in energieindustriell bedingten Transformationsprozessen zum Tragen: so etwa im Wendland als ehemaligem »Zonenrandgebiet« und in der Lausit...
Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society : Women's Lives in the Wahgi Valley
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Abstract: Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society brings to the reader anthropologist Marie Reay's field research from the 1950s and 1960s on women's lives in the Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Dramatically written, each chapt...