In the Event
Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
Lotte Meinert, Bruce Kapferer, Lotte Meinert, Bruce Kapferer
- 186 pages
- English
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In the Event
Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
Lotte Meinert, Bruce Kapferer, Lotte Meinert, Bruce Kapferer
About This Book
Events are "generative moments" in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic studies from around the worldâvarying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and managementâthis volume analyzes generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations. These eventsâincluding the Ashura ritual in Bahrain, social cleavages in South Africa, a Buddhist cave in Nepal, drought in Burkina Faso, an earthquake in Pakistan, the cartoon crisis in Denmark, corporate management at Bang & Olufsen, protest meetings in Europe, and flooding and urban citizenship in Mozambiqueâare not simply destructive disasters, crises, and conflicts, but also generative and constitutive of the social.