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Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi : The Pressure of being a Man in an African City
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ISBN: 9781805432043 1805432044 Year: 2024 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell and Brewer,

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Pipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place where fleeting forms of capitalist consumption reassure migrants of an upward trajectory, it is also a place where their ambitions of long-term economic success and stable romantic relationships are routinely thwarted. This book explores how men who migrate to Nairobi from Western Kenya navigate this tension that is generated by the contrast between their view of Pipeline as a launching pad for their personal and professional careers and the fact that they face constant economic, romantic, and personal backlashes. Drawing on over two years of fieldwork, the book reveals that many male migrants design their future on trajectories of personal and economic growth but have to adjust or indefinitely postpone their plans once they arrive in Kenya's capital. Under the pressure to succeed from romantic partners, spouses, rural kin, and children, they create and participate in homosocial spaces where a sense of brotherhood emerges and their experience of pressure is attenuated. Alongside a deep ethnographic exploration of how male migrants model their financial, physical, and mental well-being in three different masculine spaces - an ethnically homogenous investment group, an interethnic gym, and the semi-digital sphere of self-help books, workshops, and motivational trainings on man- and fatherhood - this book brings a new perspective to our understanding of urban African life and the nature of masculinity. This title is available under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Open Access Fund and the German Research Foundation.


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Wampum und Biber: Fetischgeld im kolonialen Nordamerika : Eine mausssche Kritik des Gabeparadigmas
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Mittels einer kritischen Relektüre des »Essai sur le don« von Marcel Mauss erarbeitet Mario Schmidt einen ethnologischen Geldbegriff, der nicht von vornherein durch die Übertragung des historisch gewachsenen und widersprüchlichen Merkmalskatalogs des modernen Geldes die Sicht auf die jeweilige ethnographische Lebenswelt verstellt. Im Zuge einer historischen Rekonstruktion der Lebenswelt des nordöstlichen Nordamerikas des 17. Jahrhunderts analysiert er Wampum und Biberfelle als zirkulierende Fetischgelder, die Ungerechtigkeiten innerhalb der gesamtgesellschaftlichen Wertverteilung verschleiern.


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Wampum und Biber: Fetischgeld im kolonialen Nordamerika
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ISBN: 9783839425268 3839425263 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bielefeld

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Money counts : revisiting economic calculation
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ISBN: 1789206863 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn,

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Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood-money payments in Germanic law codes, and the "idian use of money in cosmopolitical Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money’s quantitative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.


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Money counts : revisiting economic calculation
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ISBN: 9781789206852 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York Berghahn

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"Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. On the Qualities of Quantity moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money's quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood money payments in Germanic law codes, and the quotidian use of money in cosmopolital Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money's quantative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality"--

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Stoffstromanalysen in Ökobilanzen und Öko-Audits.
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ISBN: 3540593365 Year: 1995 Publisher: Berlin Springer

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Money counts : revisiting economic calculation.
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ISBN: 9781789206845 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York Berghahn

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Money supply --- Money --- Social aspects


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Ressourceneffizienz und Nachhaltigkeit : Sechs Planspiele Für Die Betriebliche Weiterbildung.
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ISBN: 3662640716 3662640708 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Nature

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Klimaschutz und Ressourceneffizienz gehen häufig Hand in Hand. Mit Spiel und Spaß ressourceneffizientes Handeln fördern – das ist die Devise der Planspiele rund um das Thema Energie- und Materialeffizienz, die in diesem Buch vorgestellt werden. Die Planspiele schließen eine Lücke im betrieblichen Weiterbildungsangebot und bilden ein niederschwelliges Angebot, mit dem ressourceneffizientes Denken und Handeln spielerisch in Unternehmen eingeführt werden kann. Unternehmen aller Art können gleich auf mehrere Arten von den in den Spielen vermittelten Kenntnissen und Methoden profitieren: Durch Ressourceneffizienz-Maßnahmen werden sowohl deutliche Kosteneinsparungen erzielt als auch ein Beitrag zum Klimaschutz durch die Minderung von Treibhausgasemissionen geleistet. Dies wirkt sich nicht zuletzt positiv auf die Wettbewerbs- und die Innovationsfähigkeit aus. Darüber hinaus werden die Mitarbeiter intern mit einem attraktiven und kurzweiligen Schulungsangebot weiterqualifiziert. Die Interaktion im Spiel involviert die Mitarbeiter aktiv und motiviert sie, ihr Wissen produktiv einzubringen. Das Ergebnis sind neue Ideen für noch mehr Effizienz im Unternehmen und gleichzeitig für mehr Klimaschutz. In diesem Open Access-Buch werden sowohl das fachliche Hintergrundwissen für die in den Spielen vermittelten Methoden beschrieben als auch konkrete Anleitungen zur Durchführung der Spiele gegeben.


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The social origins of thought : Durkheim, Mauss, and the category project
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ISBN: 9781800732346 9781800732339 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York Berghahn Books

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By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the "category project" which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vice versa.

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The social origins of thought : Durkheim, Mauss, and the category project
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ISBN: 9781800732339 1800732333 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York: Berghahn,

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"By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the "category project" which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vice versa"--

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