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Post-cosmopolitan Cities
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ISBN: 9781782386773 1782386777 9780857455109 0857455109 9780857455116 0857455117 1283655632 9781283655637 Year: 2012 Volume: v. 9 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized tourism on urban sociality. The case studies here share the situation of having been incorporated in previous political regimes (imperial, colonial, socialist) that one way or another created their own kind of cosmopolitanism, and now these cities are experiencing the aftermath of these regimes while being exposed to new national politics and migratory flows of people.


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Animism in Rainforest and Tundra
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ISBN: 9780857454683 0857454684 9780857454690 0857454692 9781782385240 178238524X 128365556X Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged 'western' understandings of man's place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also 'things' such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of the two areas. The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of th

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