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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Webber , a social anthropologist, holds the UNESCO Chair in Jewish and Interfaith Studies at the University of Birmingham. Klappentext Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this wide-ranging collection of essays, mostly by social anthropologists, focuses instead on the enormous social creativity being invested as collective identities are reconfigured. Using fieldwork findings drawn from Africa, Asia, and Europe, special emphasis is placed on the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities in the cultural, social, political, and religious realms of public life. Under what circumstances does trust arise, paving the way for friendship, collegiality, knowledge creation, national unity, or emergence of leadership? How is social life constructed as a collective endeavour? Does the means towards sociability become its end? And what can be said about the agency and collegiality of women? The inspiration for examining these conundrums is the work and persona of Shirley Ardener, to whom the volume is dedicated. Contributors: Jonathan Benthall, Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Gina Buijs, Sandra Burman, Hilary Callan, Gaynor Cohen, Janette Davies, Tamara Dragadze, Ronnie Frankenberg, Peter Geschiere, Kirsten Hastrup, Paula Heinonen, Maria Jaschok, Grazyna Kubica, Rhian Loudon, Sharon Macdonald, Zdzislaw Mach, Fiona Moore, Judith Okely, Lidia D. Sciama, Shui Jingjun, Cecillie Swaisland, Jacqueline Waldren, Jonathan Webber. Zusammenfassung Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11! this wide-ranging collection of essays! mostly by social anthropologists! focuses instead on the enormous social creativity being invested as collective identities are reconfigured. Using fieldwork findings drawn from Africa! Asia! and Europe! special emphasis is placed on the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities in the cultural! social! political! and religious realms of public life. Under what circumstances does trust arise! paving the way for friendship! collegiality! knowledge creation! national unity! or emergence of leadership? How is social life constructed as a collective endeavour? Does the means towards sociability become its end? And what can be said about the agency and collegiality of women? The inspiration for examining these conundrums is the work and persona of Shirley Ardener! to whom the volume is dedicated. Contributors: Jonathan Benthall! Deborah Fahy Bryceson! Gina Buijs! Sandra Burman! Hilary Callan! Gaynor Cohen! Janette Davies! Tamara Dragadze! Ronnie Frankenberg! Peter Geschiere! Kirsten Hastrup! Paula Heinonen! Maria Jaschok! Grazyna Kubica! Rhian Loudon! Sharon Macdonald! Zdzislaw Mach! Fiona Moore! Judith Okely! Lidia D. Sciama! Shui Jingjun! Cecillie Swaisland! Jacqueline Waldren! Jonathan Webber. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: The Artistry of Social Life Deborah Fahy Bryceson PART I: FASHIONING IDENTITIES Chapter 1. Changing Cultures, Changing Rooms: Fashioning Identities and Anthropological Research Sharon Macdonald Chapter 2. Identity at Play: Individuals, Characters, and Theatres of Action Kirsten Hastrup Chapter 3. Constructing Identities in a Post-Communist Society: Ethnic, National, and European Zdzislaw Mach Chapter 4. Making Sense of the Past: Reflections on Jewish Historical Consciousness Jonathan Webber Chapter 5. A Sense of People and Place: The Chapel and Language in Sustaining Welsh Identity Gaynor Cohen Chapter 6. Towards an Ethnography of Colleagueship Hilary Callan PART II: GENDER AGENCY AND NETWORKS Chapter 7. Thinking the Unheard, Writing the Unwritten: Reflecting on M...
