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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460663003321

Titolo

Thinking through sociality : an anthropological interrogation of key concepts / / edited by Vered Amit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-586-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Disciplina

302

Soggetti

Ethnology

Social interaction

Anthropology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Thinking through Sociality""; ""Thinking through Sociality - An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts - Edited by Vered Amit""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction - Thinking through Sociality""; ""1 - Disjuncture""; ""2 - Fields""; ""3 - Social Space""; ""4 - Sociability""; ""5 - Organizations""; ""6 - Network""; ""Epilogue - Sociality and Uncertainty""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has never been greater. Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues, locales, situations and domains. In this book, an international group of contributors train attention on the concepts of disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and networ