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Author(s): Terry Williams Publisher: Columbia University Press, Year: 2017 ISBN: 0231177909,9780231177900 "Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra V., seventeen Reading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide may be uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why self-harm has become an epidemic, especially in the United States. What drives teenagers to self-harm? What makes death so attractive, so liberating, and so inevitable for so many? In Teenage Suicide Notes, the sociologist Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban contexts and across race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. His approach, which combines sensitive portrayals with objective sociological analy...

Author(s): Pink, Sarah Series: Home Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, Year: 2017 ISBN: 9781474239141,1474239145,9781474239158,1474239153 Making Homes: Anthropology and Design  is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design ethnography which offers unique and original approaches to research and intervention in the home. Presenting a coherent theoretical and methodological framework for both ethnographers and designers, the authors examine 'hot' topics – ranging from movements and mobilities to im/material environments, to digital culture – and confront the challenges of a research and design environment which seeks to bring about the changes required for a sustainable, resilient, 'safe', and comfortable future. Written by leading experts in the field, the book draws on real-life examples from a ...

Author(s): Maria do Mar Pereira Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2017 ISBN: 131743367X, 9781317433675 Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite ‘proper’ knowledge – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women’s and gender studies, and its scholars’ and students’ lives? These are the questions tackled by this ground-breaking ethnography of academia inspired by feminist epistemology, Foucault, and science and technology studies. Drawing on data collected over a decade in Portugal and the UK, US and Scandinavia, this title explores different spaces of academic work and sociability, considering both official discourse and ‘corridor talk’. It links epistemic negotiations to the shifting political economy of academic labour, and situates the smallest (but fiercest) departmental negotiations wi...

Author(s): Nicolas Peterson, Anna Kenny (eds.) Series: Monographs in Anthropology Publisher: Australian National University Press, Year: 2017 ISBN: 1760461326, 9781760461324 The contribution of German ethnography to Australian anthropological scholarship on Aboriginal societies and cultures has been limited, primarily because few people working in the field read German. But it has also been neglected because its humanistic concerns with language, religion and mythology contrasted with the mainstream British social anthropological tradition that prevailed in Australia until the late 1960s. The advent of native title claims, which require drawing on the earliest ethnography for any area, together with an increase in research on rock art of the Kimberley region, has stimulated interest in this German ethnography, as have some recent book translations. Even so, several major bodies of ethnography, such as the 13 volumes on the cultures of northeastern South Australia and the ...

Author(s): Alice Elliot, Roger Norum, Noel B. Salazar (eds.) Series: Worlds in Motion Publisher: Berghahn Books, Year: 2017 ISBN: 1785334808,9781785334801 Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a planet in flux?  Methodologies of Mobility  speaks beyond disciplinary boundaries to the methodological challenges and possibilities of engaging with a world on the move. With scholars continuing to face different forms and scales of mobility, this volume strategically traces innovative ways of designing, applying and reflecting on both established and cutting-edge methodologies of mobility.

Author(s): Didier Fassin (Editor) Publisher: Duke University Press, Year: 2017 ISBN: 9780822369776 What happens when ethnographers go public via books, opinion papers, media interviews, court testimonies, policy recommendations, or advocacy activities? Calling for a consideration of this public moment as part and parcel of the research process, the contributors to If Truth Be Told explore the challenges, difficulties, and stakes of having ethnographic research encounter various publics, ranging from journalists, legal experts, and policymakers to activist groups, local populations, and other scholars. The experiences they analyze include Didier Fassin’s interventions on police and prison, Gabriella Coleman's multiple roles as intermediary between hackers and journalists, Kelly Gillespie's and Jonathan Benthall's experiences serving as expert witnesses, the impact of Manuela Ivone Cunha's and Vincent Dubois's work on public policies, and the vociferous at...

Author(s): Didier Fassin (Editor) Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Year: 2017 ISBN: 978-0-226-49764-8 As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the role of the police in society? Are there important aspects of policing that are not captured through interviews and statistics? And how can the study of law enforcement shed light on the practice of ethnography? What might studying policing teach us about the epistemological and ethical challenges of participant observation? Beyond these questions of crucial interest for criminology and, more generally, the social sciences, Writing the World of Policing provides a timely discussion of one of the most problemati...

Author(s): Catarina Frois (auth.) Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2017 ISBN: 978-3-319-63684-9,978-3-319-63685-6 This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison.  Female Imprisonment  results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk about their lives, crimes, and expectations. Crucially, this work examines how these women consider prison: rather than primarily being a place of confinement designed to inflict punishment, it can equally be a place of transformation that enables them to regain a sense of selfhood. From in-depth ethnographic research involving close interaction with the prison population, in which inmates present their life h...

Author(s): Sami Hermez Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Year: 2017 ISBN: 0812248864,9780812248869 From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a politics of "no victor, no vanquished" was promoted, in which the political elite agreed simply to consign the war to the past. However, since then, Lebanon has found itself still entangled in various forms of political violence, from car bombings and assassinations to additional outbreaks of armed combat. In  War Is Coming , Sami Hermez argues that the country's political leaders have enabled the continuation of violence and examines how people live between these periods of conflict. What do everyday...

Author(s): Jon Schubert Publisher: Cornell University Press, Year: 2017 ISBN: 1501713701,9781501713705 Working the System  offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system―an emic notion of their current political and socioeconomic environment―Jon Schubert explores what it means and how it feels to be part of the contemporary Angolan polity. Schubert finds that for many ordinary Angolans, the benefits of the post-conflict "New Angola," flush with oil wealth and in the midst of a construction boom, are few. The majority of the inhabitants of the capital, Luanda, struggle to make ends meet and live on under $2.00 per day. The "New Angola" as promoted by the ruling MPLA, Schubert contends, is an essentially urban, upwardly mobile, and aspirational project, premised on the ...

Author(s): Gómez Cruz, Edgar; Pink, Sarah; Sumartojo, Shanti Series: Digital ethnography.; Palgrave pivot Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2017 ISBN: 978-3-319-61222-5,3319612220,978-3-319-61221-8 This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. It discusses technological change and technological possibility; theoretical shifts toward processual paradigms; and a respectful ethics of responsibility. The contributors explore how new and evolving digital-visual technologies and techniques have been utilized in the development of research, and reflect on how such theory and practice might advance what is “knowable” in a world of smartphones, drones, and 360-degree cameras. 

Author(s): Ashley Lebner (Editor) Publisher: Berghahn Books, Year: 2017 ISBN: 1785333925,9781785333927 Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences. Redescribing Relations brings some of Strathern's most committed and renowned readers into conversation in her honour – especially on themes she has rarely engaged. The volume not only deepens our understanding of Strathern's work, it also offers models of how to extend her relational insights to new terrains. With a comprehensive introduction, a complete list of Strathern's publications and a historic interview published in English for the first time, this is an invaluable resource for Strathern's old and new interlocutors alike.

Author(s): Sara Shneiderman Series: Contemporary Ethnography Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Year: 2017 ISBN: 0812224078,9780812224078 Rituals of Ethnicity  is a transnational study of the relationships between mobility, ethnicity, and ritual action. Through an ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Shneiderman offers a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities today despite the increasing realities of mobile, hybrid lives. She shows that ethnicization may be understood as a process of ritualization, which brings people together around the shared sacred object of identity. The first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi,  Rituals of Ethnicity  is framed by the Maoist-state civil conflict in Nepal and the movement for a separate state of Gorkhaland in India. The histories of individual nation-states i...

Author(s): Patrick Turner Series: Routledge advances in ethnography Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, Year: 2017 ISBN: 9781138679757,1138679755 What is the real hip hop?" "To whom does hip hop belong?" "For what constructive purposes can hip hop be put to use?" These are three key questions posed by hip hop activists. They explore the politics of cultural authenticity, ownership and uplift in London's post hip hop scene. The book is an ethnographic study of the identity, role, formation, and practices of the organic intellectuals that populate and propagate this 'conscious' hip hop milieu. Indeed, Turner provides an insightful examination of the work of artists and practitioners who use hip hop 'off-street' in the spheres of youth work, education, and theatre to raise consciousness and to develop artistic and personal skills. He also seeks to portray how cultural activism, which styles itself grassroots and mature, is framed ...

Author(s): Lindsay Hamilton, Nik Taylor (auth.) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 2017 ISBN: 978-1-137-53932-8, 978-1-137-53933-5 This book argues that qualitative methods, ethnography included, have tended to focus on the human at the cost of understanding humans and animals in relation, and that ethnography should evolve to account for the relationships between humans and other species. Intellectual recognition of this has arrived within the field of human-animal studies and in the philosophical development of posthumanism but there are few practical guidelines for research. Taking this problem as a starting point, the authors draw on a wide array of examples from visual methods, ethnodrama, poetry and movement studies to consider the political, philosophical and practical consequences of posthuman methods. They outline the possibilities for creative new forms of ethnography that eschew simplistic binaries between humans and animals. Ethnography after Humanism ...

Author(s): Nina Szogs (auth.) Series: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2017 ISBN: 978-3-319-50943-3, 978-3-319-50944-0 This book studies how transnationalisation, Europeanisation and migration processes intersect with football fandom, through an analysis of the transnational narratives and practices of Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray football fans in Vienna, Austria. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Austria, Turkey and Germany, the author analyses the ways in which narratives about football fandom are often linked to migrant experiences, including practices of (self‑)culturalization in the diasporic context in Austria.  The book shows how constructed ethnicities and also masculinities and femininities meet in football fan performances and in the construction of what makes a “proper” football fan. Turkish football fandom is a field where powerful prejudices and stereotypes amalgamate and interact. This study enables the reade...

Author(s): Tereza Kuldova, Mathew A. Varghese (eds.) Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2017 ISBN: 978-3-319-47622-3, 978-3-319-47623-0 This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the future in the neoliberal cities of India and Sri Lanka. Arguing for the priority of materiality in any analysis of contemporary ideology, the authors explore urban construction projects, special economic zones, fashion ramps, films, archaeological excavations, and various queer spaces. In the process, they reveal how diverse co-existing utopian visions are entangled with local politics and global capital, and show how these utopian visions are at once driven by visions of excess and by increasing expulsions. It’s a dystopia already in the making – one marred by land grabs and forced evictions, rising inequality, and the loss of urbanity and civility.

Menulis menjadi keharusan bagi mahasiswa tingkat apapun. Terlebih lagi jika kita menekuni bidang yang 'serakah' yaitu Antropologi. Serakah karena apapun dipelajari dengan menggunakan berbagai pendekatan dan pilihan paradigma. Musim ujian menjadi musim orang sibuk mengumpulkan laporan atau tugas tulisan (paper).  Ada yang mengeluh, ada yang galau.   Itulah perlunya kita membuat outline tulisan agar tidak ribet pada masalah teknis yang bisa membuat krisis.  Alex Gallego UK's Artwork Gaya penulisan orang tiap orang boleh beda, namun untuk urusan teknis hampir setiap kampus bahkan negara mempunyai standar tersendiri. Berikut adalah pola tradisional menurut H.L (Bud) Goodall, Jr (199:48)  yang terdiri dari tiga bagian yaitu introduction, body dan conclusion .  Saya perinci sebagai sebagai berikut:  Introduction Gain the attention of the audience by identifying the general issue I plan to pursue within an existing body of literature; Stat...

Kantor Unit Parangtritis YK. Perjalanan dari Jogjakarta menuju Malang via Surabaya pada tanggal 31 Maret 2013 meninggalkan suatu pengalaman yang menurut saya menarik. Luar biasanya terletak pada pengamen di bus yang berbeda dari biasanya. Musik yang ditampilkan oleh pengamen ini bukan musik yang pada umumnya ditampilkan seperti dangdut, campursari, rock, lagu balada sampai lagu ciptaan sendiri. Tapi pengamen yang ada pada video amatis tersebut adalah unik karena menyanyikan lagu Blues .   Selepas pintu tol keluar daerah Porong, bus Restu melaju menuju kearah selatan. Saat melintas Japanan sempat berhenti sejenak dan beberapa saat kemudian terdengar suara agak paruh dari sosok yang membawa gitar dan berambut gondrong. Awalnya saya mengira kalau pengamen ini akan menyanyikan lagu-lagu balada macam Ebiet atau Iwan Fals. Ternyata perkiraan saya salah, karena pengamen ini menyanyikan lagu blues dengan penuh penjiwaan. Nampak beberapa penumpang terlihat menerima tanpa merasa terganggu wa...

Kumis Kucing Room-Malang.  Prolog Transportasi adalah bagian dari kebudayaan, bahkan dapat dimasukan sebagai salah satu tambahan dari unsur-unsur budaya. Tanpa transportasi tidak akan ada perpindahan manusia beserta  barang bawaannya termasuk budaya. Sebuah tulisan bersambung yang membahas transportasi massal berdasarkan pengamatan dan wawancara sambil melakukan aktivitas nglaju mingguan AKAP (Antar Kota Antar Provinsi). Jogjakarta-Malang via Surabaya pp setiap minggu dapat menjadi sebuah alternatif dalam melakukan kajian etnografi.  1 Febuari 2013 ketika dalam perjalanan menuju Surabaya dengan armada PO Sumber Group, W 7006 UZ terlihat tiga pengamen dalam masuk ke dalam bus. Setelah bercanda sejenak dengan awak bus, mereka menuju bagian tengah bus. Suara gitar kecreng (gitar kecil) berpadu dengan kemricik suara dari pipihan tutup botol sebagai backsound dari suara lantang nyanyian seorang perempuan yang mendayu. Irama yang menghentak dari kendang modifikasi ala pipa p...