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The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour. The 11 case studies, based across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, explore how state regulative law is often ignored and/or selectively manipulated. The emerging collective narrative shows the workings of regulated criminal economic systems where criminal formations, politicians, police, judges and bureaucrats are deeply intertwined.By pioneering the field-study of the politicisation of economic crime, and disrupting the wider literature on South Asia’s informal economy, The Wild East aims to influence future research agendas through its case for the study of mafia-enterprises and their engagement with governance in South Asia and outside. Its empirical and theoretical contribution to debates about economic crimes in democratic regimes will be of critical value to researchers in Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Comparative Politics, Political Science and International Relations, Criminologists and Development Studies, as well as to those inside and outside academia interested in current affairs and the relationship between crime, politics and mafia enterprises.
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Explores the way business is portrayed in American culture and examines the emergence of cultural studies as a discipline.
#KVHA:American Studies --- #KVHA:Cultuur; Verenigde Staten --- Business anthropology --- Corporate culture --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- United States --- Civilization. --- Study and teaching. --- Business --- Corporate anthropology --- Industrial anthropology --- Management anthropology --- Private sector anthropology --- Public sector anthropology --- Anthropological aspects --- E-books
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For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in--and thinking about--sports for more than two thousand years. The articles in this volume scan a wide chronological range: from the Hellenistic period (first century BCE) to the most recent basketball season. The range of athletes covered is equally broad: from participants in Roman-style games to wrestlers, boxers, fencers, baseball players, and basketball stars. The authors of these essays, many of whom actively participate in athletics themselves, raise a number of intriguing questions, such as: What differing attitudes toward sports have Jews exhibited across periods and cultures? Is it possible to be a "good Jew" and a "great athlete"? In what sports have Jews excelled, and why? How have Jews overcome prejudices on the part of the general populace against a Jewish presence on the field or in the ring? In what ways has Jewish participation in sports aided, or failed to aid, the perception of Jews as "good Germans," "good Hungarians," "good Americans," and so forth? This volume, which features a number of illustrations (many of them quite rare), is not only accessible to the general reader, but also contains much information of interest to the scholar in Jewish studies, American studies, and sports history.
Jewish athletes --- Jews --- Athletes --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History. --- Sports --- History --- Sports&delete& --- E-books --- Religious groups: social & cultural aspects --- Social groups: religious groups & communities
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Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore not accessible to economists working on synthetic theories of human choice. This book addresses the problem by bringing together anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in the study of religion and economy to forge an analytical vocabulary that constitutes the building blocks of a theory of ritual economythe process of provisioning and consuming that materializes and substantiates worldview for managing meanings and shaping interpretations.The chapters in Part I explore how values and beliefs structure the dual processes of provisioning and consuming. Contributions to Part II consider how ritual and economic processes interlink to materialize and substantiate worldview. Chapters in Part III examine how people and institutions craft and assert worldview through ritual and economic action to manage meaning and shape interpretation. In Part IV, Jeremy Sabloff outlines the road ahead for developing the theory of ritual economy. By focusing on the intersection of cosmology and material transfers, the contributors push economic theory towards a more socially informed perspective.
Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Economic anthropology. --- Ritual. --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Commerce, Primitive --- Economics, Primitive --- Economics --- Ethnology --- Economic anthropology --- Ritual --- Commerce --- Economic aspects --- Cross-cultural studies --- Social aspects --- E-books --- Anthropologie économique --- Rituel --- Trade --- Business --- Transportation --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants --- Business & Economics --- Social Science --- Economic theory & philosophy. --- Anthropology. --- General. --- Anthropology --- Economic aspects. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Social aspects.
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An in-depth study of street trading in Dar es Salaam, revealing the hidden dimensions of the city's thriving informal economy.
Street vendors. --- Street people (Street vendors) --- Vendors, Street --- Merchants --- Peddlers --- Vending stands --- Enterprise zones --- Street vendors --- Market stalls --- Roadside stands --- Sidewalk vending --- Stalls, Market --- Stalls, Vending --- Stands, Roadside --- Stands, Vending --- Vending stalls --- Vendor stalls --- Vendor stands --- Retail trade --- Empowerment zones --- Enterprise zones, Urban --- Urban enterprise zones --- Zones, Enterprise --- Zones, Urban enterprise --- Business enterprises --- Community development, Urban --- Industrial promotion --- Manpower policy --- Tax credits --- Taxation --- E-books --- Sociology of work --- Economic structure --- Tanzania --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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"This is a pioneering study of how to undertake ethnographic fieldwork in diffferent types of complex organisations. The book focuses on the process of initiating contact, establishing rapport and gaining the trust of the organisation's members. The contributors examine the particular challenges posed by fieldwork in organisational environments"--Back cover.
#SBIB:39A4 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Business anthropology. --- Corporate culture. --- Business anthropology --- Corporate culture --- Anthropology --- Management --- Social Sciences --- Business & Economics --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Management Styles & Communication --- Business --- Corporate anthropology --- Industrial anthropology --- Management anthropology --- Private sector anthropology --- Public sector anthropology --- Culture, Corporate --- Institutional culture --- Organizational culture --- Anthropological aspects --- Wirtschaftsethnologie. --- Thinktank. --- Politische Anthropologie. --- Organisationsforschung. --- Multinationales Unternehmen. --- Firma. --- Feldforschung. --- Feldarbeit --- Feldstudie --- Field-research --- Field-work --- Firmierung --- Firmenbezeichnung --- Unternehmensname --- Handelsname --- Internationale Unternehmung --- Internationaler Konzern --- Internationales Unternehmen --- Multinationale Unternehmung --- Multinationaler Konzern --- Transnationaler Konzern --- Transnationales Unternehmen --- Denkfabrik --- Think-Tank --- Think Tank --- Kaufmann --- Firma --- Corporations --- Organizational behavior --- Sociological aspects --- Empirische Sozialforschung --- Unternehmen --- Kulturanthropologie --- Politikberatung --- Forschungsinstitut --- Ethnologie --- Ökonomische Anthropologie --- E-books --- Ökonomische Anthropologie
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Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarity-based purchase groups) and explores the innovative social dynamics underlying these networks and the reasons behind their success. Based on a detailed 'insider' ethnography, this study interprets the principles behind t.
Food cooperatives --- Fair trade foods --- Farmer's markets --- Food supply --- Coopératives d'alimentation --- Aliments équitables --- Marchés de ferme --- Aliments --- Economic aspects --- Approvisionnement --- Aspect économique --- Fair trade food --- Farmers' markets --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Markets --- Food --- Consumer food cooperatives --- Cooperative food stores --- Cooperative grocery stores --- Cooperative supermarkets --- Food stores, Cooperative --- Grocery stores, Cooperative --- Supermarkets, Cooperative --- Consumer cooperatives --- Grocery trade --- E-books --- Food cooperatives - Italy --- Fair trade food - Italy --- Farmer's markets - Italy --- Food supply - Economic aspects - Italy --- Social & cultural history
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"This book is an ethnography of the politics of waiting. While the global political economy is usually imagined through metaphors of acceleration and speed, Ozolina's book reveals waiting as the shadow temporality of the contemporary logic of governance. The ethnographic site for this analysis is a state-run unemployment office in Latvia. This site not only grants the author unique access to observing everyday implementation of social assistance programmes that use acceleration and waiting as forms of control, but also serves as a vantage point from which to compare Western and post-Soviet welfare policy designs. The book thus contributes to current debates across sociology and anthropology around the increasingly coercive forms of social control, by examining ethnographic forms of statecraft that have emerged over several decades of neoliberalism. The ethnographic perspective reveals how time shapes a nation's identity, as well as one's sense of self, in culturally specific ways. The book traces how both the Soviet past, with its narratives of building communism at an accelerated speed while waiting patiently for a better future, as well as the post-Soviet nationalist narratives of waiting as a sacrifice for freedom, come to play a role in this particular case of the politics of waiting. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in contemporary forms of state power, temporal politics, and political subjectivity formation, as well as comparisons between Western and post-Soviet welfare reforms." -- Back cover. This book is an ethnography of politics of waiting. While the global political economy is usually imagined through metaphors of acceleration and speed, this book reveals waiting as the shadow temporality of the contemporary logics of governance. The ethnographic site for this analysis is a state-run unemployment office in Latvia, serving as a vantage point from which to observe how welfare programmes use acceleration and waiting as forms of control as well as to compare Western and post-Soviet welfare policy designs. The book is therefore a timely sociological critique of the forms of statecraft that have emerged in the aftermath of neoliberalism. The key audiences for this book are students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, social policy, and social and political theory, as well as policymakers and activists with an interest in welfare reforms and comparisons between Western and post-Soviet welfare designs.
Unemployment. --- Joblessness --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Full employment policies --- Labor supply --- Manpower policy --- Underemployment --- Unemployment --- Public welfare --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- E-books --- Polittics. --- Public welfare. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics. --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography. --- Political aspects. --- Latvia. --- Lifli︠a︡ndskai︠a︡ gubernīi︠a︡ (Russia) --- Ostland --- L.P.S.R. --- Läti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik --- Latvian S.S.R. --- Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic --- Latvian SSR --- Latvii︠a︡ --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ Sovetskai︠a︡ Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Latviĭskai︠a︡ SSR --- Latvija --- Latvijas Padomju Socialistiska Republika --- Latvijas PSR --- Latvijas Republika --- Laṭviyah --- Latviyskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika --- Leṭland --- Letònia --- Lettland --- Lettonie --- Łotwa --- LPSR --- Repubblica Socialista Sovietica della Lettonia --- Republic of Latvia --- Латвия --- Latvii͡ --- Latviĭskai͡a Respublika --- Latviĭskai͡a Sovetskai͡a Sot͡sialisticheskai͡a Respublika --- Latviĭskai͡a SSR --- Russia (Federation) --- Europe --- Polittics --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics --- Austerity. --- Ethics. --- Ethnography. --- Post-Soviet. --- Waiting. --- Workfare.
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American and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money, and the perceived ease and regularity with which they found success with money, condemning Jews for their desires for wealth and their proclivities for turning a profit. A new, dauntless generation of historians, however, realizes that Jewish business has had and continues to have a profound impact on American culture and development, and patterns of immigrant Jewish exploration of business opportunities reflect internal, communal, Jewish-cultural structures and their relationship to the larger non-Jewish world. As such, they see the subject rightly as a vital and underexplored area of study. Doing Business in America: A Jewish History, edited by Hasia R. Diner, rises to the challenge of taking on the long-unspoken taboo subject, comprising leading scholars and exploring an array of key topics in this important and growing area of research.
Jews --- Jewish businesspeople --- Jewish businessmen --- Businesspeople --- History. --- Social conditions. --- History --- Social conditions --- E-books --- Social & cultural history --- United States. --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi͡avks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- É.-U. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- ÉU --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si͡evero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si͡evernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi͡ednani Derz͡havy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi͡a Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz͡havy --- ZSA
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