Movement and Connectivity - Couverture souple

Simonsen, Jan

 
9781787075504: Movement and Connectivity

Synopsis

Through a series of case studies from Southern and Eastern Africa, Oceania, and Europe, Movement and Connectivity-Configurations of Belonging explores the analytical usefulness of the concept of mobility for anthropological thought and theorization.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jan Ketil Simonsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the co-editor of the Norwegian Journal of Anthropology. He has done extensive field research in Zambia, and his research interests include migration, kinship, ritual studies, childhood studies, and visual anthropology.

Kjersti Larsen holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo, Norway. She is Professor at the Department of Ethnography, Numismatics and Classical Archaeology, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. She conducts research in and has published extensively on Muslim societies in East Africa, in particular on the Swahili Coast, East Africa and in the Bayoda desert, Northern Sudan.

Ada I. Engebrigtsen is a Research Professor at Norwegian Social Research, Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Her main research topics are minorities, interethnic relations, mobility, Roma issues, family and children. She has published extensively on all these issues in both Norwegian and English.

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