Anthropology in Motion : Encounters with current trajectories of scholarship from Austria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andre, Gingrich.

Series:

The RAI Country Series

The RAI Country Series ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canon Pyon : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

Anthropology in Austria has come a long way, achieving diversity, growth and international visibility , since first emerging in Vienna, the capital of the former Habsburg Empire. This volume combines critical self-reflection about that academic past with confidence in the intellectual currents presently in motion across the discipline.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Series Editor's Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

1- Advances, transitions and other forms of motion : Introducing the trajectories of anthropology in Austria (Andre Gingrich)

2 - Revaluation processes: Urban restructuring, war and dispossessed histories in a border city (Ayşe Çağlar)

3 - Remote connections: Human entanglements with built and natural environments in the Arctic and elsewhere (Peter Schweitzer)

4 - In motion: genes, identities and mediated lives in dispersed small-scale contexts (Eva-Maria Knoll)

5-Persistent universals in biennial research: A perspective from the Biennale of Dakar Thomas Fillitz)

6 - From Buddhist deities to the spirit of capitalism: Tibetan medicine and the remaking of Inner Asia (Stephan Kloos)

7 - Mnemotopos and memoryscapes in a transnation: The commemoration of extreme violent experiences in Kurdish and Yezidi Society (Maria Six-Hohenbalken)

8 - Riddles of the past Historical anthropology and the history of anthropology (Andre Gingrich)

9 - The heirs of ethnologia: The missing homeland and three imperial suburbs (Chris Hann)

10 - Comment: an anthropology of the land (João de Pina-Cabral)

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Andre, Gingrich Anthropology in Motion

ISBN:

9781912385416

OCLC:

1295280142