In the Event: Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments

Published by Berghahn Books 2015

In the Event

Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments

Edited by: Lotte Meinert and Bruce Kapferer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388906

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Events are “generative moments” in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic studies from around the world—varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and management—this volume analyzes generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations. These events—including the Ashura ritual in Bahrain, social cleavages in South Africa, a Buddhist cave in Nepal, drought in Burkina Faso, an earthquake in Pakistan, the cartoon crisis in Denmark, corporate management at Bang & Olufsen, protest meetings in Europe, and flooding and urban citizenship in Mozambique—are not simply destructive disasters, crises, and conflicts, but also generative and constitutive of the social.

Author / Editor information

Lotte Meinert is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University, research leader of Governing Transition in Northern Uganda: Land and Trust, and co-director of EPICENTER: Center for Cultural Epidemics. She is the author of Hopes in Friction: Schooling, Health and Everyday Life in Uganda (Information Age Publishing) and co-editor of Second Chances: The First Generation Living with ART in Uganda and Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality (Temple University Press).

Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen and Honorary Professor at University College London. He has held academic positions in Zambia, Manchester, Adelaide, London, and Queensland, and carried out extensive fieldwork in Zambia, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, and South Africa. His major publications include The Feast of the Sorcerer (University of Chicago Press) and Legends of People, Myths of State (Berghahn Books).

Lotte Meinert is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University, research leader of Governing Transition in Northern Uganda: Land and Trust, and co-director of EPICENTER: Center for Cultural Epidemics. She is the author of Hopes in Friction: Schooling, Health and Everyday Life in Uganda (Information Age Publishing) and co-editor of Second Chances: The First Generation Living with ART in Uganda and Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality (Temple University Press).

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“In general terms, In the Event: Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments accomplishes several goals that make it a book extremely worth reading. For a start, it is an excellent introduction to the contemporary validity of the Manchester School, particularly in terms of the exploration concerning the question of what an event is and does. Furthermore, and following from this, the various contributions to this volume show a very thought provoking argument, inspired by Deleuze (2002): the event is the seed to change, to multiplicity, to the unexpected, rather than merely the illustration of something that already exists. Finally, every chapter of this book manifests something that is becoming increasingly evident for all of us: the translocal connections made visible by the occurrence of events.” · Anthropological Forum

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Introduction: In the Event—toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments Bruce Kapferer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 ‘Ashura in Bahrain: Analyses of an Analytical Event Thomas Fibiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 2 ‘Burying the ANC’: Post-apartheid Ambiguities at the University of Limpopo, South Africa Bjarke Oxlund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 3 A Topographic Event: A Buddhist Lama’s Perception of a Pilgrimage Cave Jesper Oestergaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter 4 The Outburst: Climate Change, Gender Relations, and Situational Analysis Jonas Østergaard Nielsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Chapter 5 Events and Effects: Intensive Transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark Mikkel Rytter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Chapter 6 The Cartoon Controversy: Creating Muslims in a Danish Setting Anja Kublitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 7 Studying Human Resource Management: Beyond Corporate Consensus and Colonial Conflicts Jakob Krause-Jensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter 8 Figurations of the Future: On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe Stine Krøijer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 9 Mimesis of the State: From Natural Disaster to Urban Citizenship on the Outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique Morten Nielsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
About the Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 186
Keywords: Anthropology (General)

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Published: May 1, 2015
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