Ruptures : anthropologies of discontinuity in times of turmoil / Martin Holbraad, Bruce Kapferer, Julia Sauma, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holbraad, Martin, editor.

Kapferer, Bruce, editor.

Sauma, Julia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 236 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2019.

Summary:

Ruptures brings together leading and emerging international anthropologists to explore the concept of 'rupture'.

Contents:

Introduction: critical ruptures The guillotine: reflections on violent revolutionary rupture Rupture and repair: a museum of the Red Age confronts historical nihilism Times like the present: political rupture and the heat of the moment Inner revolution: reaction and rupture in a Danish Lutheran movement Blurring rupture: frames of conversion in Japanese Catholicism Writing as rupture: on prophetic invention in Central Africa Slow rupture: the art of sneaking in an occupied forest The rhythm of rupture: attunement among Danish jihadists Earthquake citizens: disaster and aftermath politics in India and Nepal Afterword: some reflections on rupture.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed May 9, 2023).