Small Countries. Structures and Sensibilities (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Edited by Ulf Hannerz (Professor Emeritus in the Department of Social Anthropology) and Andre Gingrich
What is a small country? Is a country small because of the size of its territory or its population? Can smallness be relative, based on the subjective perception of a country's inhabitants or in comparison with one's neighbours? How does smallness, however it is defined, shape a country and its relations with other countries? Answers to these questions, among others, can be found in Small Countries, the first and only anthropological study of smallness as a defining variable.
Contents
- Andre Gingrich and Ulf Hannerz: Introduction: Exploring Small Countries
- Cris Shore: ‘100% Pure New Zealand’: National Branding and the Paradoxes of Scale
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen: After 22 July 2011: Norwegians Together
- Orvar Löfgren: The Scandinavian Cluster: Small Countries with Big Egos
- Goh Beng Lan: Red Dot on the Map: Singapore, Size and the Problems of Success
- Don Robotham: ‘Wi Likkle But Wi Tallawah’: Soft Power and Smallness in Jamaica
- Virginia R. Dominguez: On Chutzpah Countries and “Shitty Little Countries”
- João de Pina-Cabral: Portugal and the Dynamics of Smallness
- Regina F. Bendix: Two Countries in the Alps: Austrian and Swiss Presentations of Self for Internal and Global Consumption
- Aleksandar Bosković: Serbia and the Surplus of History: Being Small, Large, and Small again
- Eva-Maria Knoll: Blood and other Precious Resources: Vulnerability and Social Cohesion on the Maldive Islands
- Richard Wilk: Belize: A Country but not a Nation
- Jacqueline Knörr: A War and After: Sierra Leone Reconnects, within Itself and with the World
- Sulayman Khalaf: An Emirate Goes Global: The Cultural Making of Abu Dhabi
- Andre Gingrich, with Zulfokar Al-Dubai and Noura Kamal: Smiles and Smallness: Jokes in the Yemen and in Palestine
- Helena Wulff: Greater than its Size: Ireland in Literature and Life
- Ulf Hannerz: Swedish Encounters: End Notes of a Native Son
Geographies of Difference: Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies (Routledge)
Edited by Mélanie Vandenhelsken, Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, and Bengt G. Karlsson (Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology)
This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a centre of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated periphery. Questioning dominant tropes and assumptions around the Northeast, it examines socio-political and historical processes, border issues, the role of the state, displacement and development, debates over natural resources, violence, notions of body and belonging, movements, tensions and relations, and strategies, struggles and narratives that frame discussions on the region.
Contents
- Bengt G. Karlsson: Introduction: Northeastern Research Entanglements
- Sanjib Baruah: Reading Fürer-Haimendorf in Northeast India
- Bianca Son: The Role of Informants in the Construction of the Zo as the Chin, Lushai and the Kuki of Burma and of India
- Anandaroop Sen: Sutured landscapes: Making of an Imperial Frontier in Tripura (1848–1854)
- Dolly Kikon: Portrait of a Place: Reflections about Fieldwork from the Foothills of Northeast India
- Mélanie Vandenhelsken: Ethnographic Study and Cultural Production in Sikkim
- Mibi Ete: Hydro-dollar Dreams: Emergent Local Politics of Large Dams and Small Communities
- Sanjay (Xonzoi) Barbora: Violence, Agrarian Change and the Politics of Autonomy in Assam
- Iris Odyuo: Naga Art and Their Market Through Time. Delocalisation, State Control and Globalisation
- Teiborlang T. Kharsyntiew: Youth Fashion and the Identity of Resistance in Northeast India
- Kaustubh Deka: Decades of ‘Ethnic Massacre’ in Bodoland. The State and the Framing of Conflict in India’s Northeast
- Cornelia Guenauer: Diversity and Difference: The Art of Electioneering in Meghalaya
- Soibam Haripriya: From the Shackles of Tradition: Motherhood and Women's Agitation in Manipur
- N. William Singh: Mizo Identity: The Role of the Young Mizo Association (YMA) in Mizoram
- Mark Turin: Situating Language, Recognizing Multilingualism: Linguistic Identities and Mother Tongue Attachment in Northeast India and the Region
- Willem van Schendel: Contested, Vertical, Fragmenting: De-Partitioning ‘Northeast India’ Studies
Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs. Shaping Industries, Creating Professionals (Palgrave Macmillan)
Edited by Hege Høyer Leivestad (researcher and lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology) and Anette Nyqvist (Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology)
This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society. The authors describe how these large-scale professional gatherings have become key sites for making and negotiating both industries and individual professions. In fact, during the past few decades, conferences and trade fairs have become a significant global industry in their own right. The editors assert that large-scale professional gatherings are remarkable events that require deeper analysis and scholarly attention.
Contents
- Anette Nyqvist, Hege Høyer Leivestad, Hans Tunestad: Individuals and Industries: Large-Scale Professional Gatherings as Ethnographic Fields
- Anette Nyqvist: Scheduled Schmoozing: Notes on Interludal Practices at Responsible Investors’ Conferences
- Melissa Fisher: White Corporate Feminine Spirituality: The Rise of Global Professional Women’s Conferences in the New Millennium
- Hans Tunestad: The Therapeutic Square: The Psychotherapy Fair from an Anthropological Perspective
- Mia Forrest: Establishing the Complexity of Obesity: The Conference as a Site of Understanding Obesity as a Medical Condition
- Thomas Fillitz: The Biennial of Dakar: Scales of Art Worlds-Networks
- Hege Høyer Leivestad: Beyond Informality: Intimacy and Commerce at the Caravanning Trade Fair
- Tereza Kuldova: Traversing Trade Fairs and Fashion Weeks: On Dependence and Disavowal in the Indian Fashion Industry