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Anthropology. --- Anthropology --- Anthropologie --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Social Sciences --- social anthropology --- cultural anthropology --- anthropological theory

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This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human time. Beyond conventional discussions around breaks with the past in Christian conversion and future ruptures announced in prophecy, the volume reveals previously unexplored ways in which Christians work with concepts of time and its articulation with divinity, subjectivity, agency, and personal, social, and political change. By developing Coleman’s argument about “historiopraxy” in novel directions, contributors provide new understandings of religious temporalities and the ritual articulation of immanence and transcendence. While building upon previous scholarly work in the anthropology of Christianity, this volume pushes the debate further and provides original insights into how religion is mobilised to shape and transform people's pasts, presents and futures. Anna-Karina Hermkens is a senior lecturer and researcher in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She has a background in Gender Studies, Religious Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. Her research focuses on the various interplays between gender, material culture, religion, and violence in Indonesia, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, with particular attention to the power of Marian devotion in times of conflict and violence. Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on the globalization of Pentecostalism, contemporary manifestations of pilgrimage, and Christian influences on urban infrastructures. Matt Tomlinson is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. His research focuses on relationships between language, politics, and religious ritual in the Pacific Islands and Australia.

Anthropology of religion. --- Christianity --- Time --- Social aspects. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Anthropology. --- Ethnology. --- Religion and sociology. --- Anthropology of Religion. --- Anthropological Theory. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Sociology of Religion.

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"The book offers a fresh analysis of the discipline’s unfolding in different nation states by tracing the historical trajectories of lesser known anthropological traditions in terms of theoretical and methodological practices." —Soumendra Patnaik, Professor of Anthropology, University of Delhi This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but also lesser-known traditions, extending its scope beyond the Western world. It focuses on the results of these traditions in the present. Taking into account the distinction between empire-building and nation-building anthropology, introduced by G. Stocking and taken up by U. Hannerz, the book investigates different histories of anthropology, especially in ex-colonial and marginal contexts. It highlights how the hegemonic anthropologies have been accepted and assimilated in local contexts, which approaches have been privileged by institutions and academies in different locations, how the anthropological approach has been modelled and adapted according to specific knowledge requirements related to the cultural features of different areas, and which schools emerge as the most consolidated today. Each chapter presents a “cultural history” of one of the historical-cultural and geo-political contexts that influenced and produced the specific disciplinary traditions. The chapters highlight the local contributions to the discipline, the influences that the world centres have on the peripheries, but also the ways in which the peripheries have “learned from the centres” in order to re-elaborate meaningful or otherwise recognisable disciplinary lines. Gabriella D’Agostino is Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Palermo University, Department of Cultures and Societies, Italy. She is author of the book Sous le traces. Anthropologie et contemporanéité (Éditions Pétra 2018), and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo. Vincenzo Matera is Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Milan, Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations, Italy. He is also a professor at USI (Università della Svizzera Italiana). He is co-editor of Ethnography: A Theoretically Oriented Practice (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).

Philosophical anthropology. --- Anthropology. --- Ethnology. --- Anthropological Theory. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Primitive societies --- Anthropology, Philosophical --- Man (Philosophy) --- Civilization --- Life --- Ontology --- Humanism --- Persons --- Philosophy of mind --- Philosophy --- Social sciences --- Anthropologists. --- History.

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In this work, the author contends that we should create a comparative framework for the study of imaginary worlds in the social sciences. Making use of extended examples from both science fiction and fantasy fiction, as well as the living movement of steampunk, the reader is invited to an argument about how best to define imaginary worlds and approach them as social locations for qualitative research. It is suggested in this volume that increasing economic and existential forms of alienation fuel the contemporary surge of participation in imaginary worlds (from gaming worlds to young adult novels) and impel a search for more humane forms of social and cultural organization. Suggestions are made about the usefulness of imaginary worlds to social scientists as places for both testing out theoretical formulations and as tools for teaching in our classrooms. Wayne Fife is Professor of Anthropology at Memorial University, Canada and the author of Doing Fieldwork and Counting as a Qualitative Method, as well as many journal articles on heritage and eco-tourism, economic inequality and education, play as politics, social alienation, ethnographic research methods, and implicit forms of religion. .

Philosophy --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Linguistics --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- geletterdheid --- filosofie --- literatuur --- antropologie --- Anthropology and the arts. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Anthropology. --- Comparative literature. --- Anthropology of the Arts. --- Anthropological Theory. --- Comparative Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Philosophy.

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This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate; make and remake urban spaces; create opportunities; produce social change; challenge urban life, culture, and politics; or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be successful in the end. Contributors analyze the seeds of change at their very inception in diverse cultural contexts across four continents. How do small groups of ordinary and often also disenfranchised people design, suggest, and implement ideas of change? How do they use and remake small urban spaces to better suit their purposes, voice claims to the city, create opportunities, and design better urban lives and futures? The emphasis of this volume is not on the nature of activities and change, but on the minute processes of initiating change. Petra Kuppinger is Professor of Anthropology at Monmouth College, USA. She has conducted research on topics of space, globalization, and consumerism in Cairo, Egypt, and issues of space, culture, and Islam in Stuttgart, Germany. More recently she has been working on topics of urban transformations and sustainability. She is the author of Faithfully Urban: Pious Muslims in a German City (Berghahn, 2015) and, together with George Gmelch, she is the co-editor of Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City (6th ed., Waveland, 2018). .

Sociology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- etnologie --- sociologie --- steden --- antropologie --- Sociology, Urban. --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Ethnology. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Anthropology. --- Emigration and immigration—Social aspects. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Anthropological Theory. --- Sociology of Migration. --- Urban Sociology. --- Primitive societies --- Human beings --- Anthropology, Philosophical --- Man (Philosophy) --- Civilization --- Life --- Ontology --- Humanism --- Persons --- Philosophy of mind --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Philosophy --- Social sciences