Inplacement: Global Outbreaks and the Anthropology of Isolation

ISBN 10 : 1807580946 ISBN 13 : 9781807580940

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2026

Synopsis

Bringing together theoretical, ethnographic, and internationally contributed chapters, this book introduces a tripartite approach to anthropology. It highlights the need to study individuals alongside customary groups, to examine persons sequestered within their socio-cultural contexts amid changing global circumstances, and to reflect on one’s own society. Drawing on the Covid-19 lockdown, Contributors discuss their own experiences of in-placement. The volume also considers how epidemics qualify as disasters within the risk field and asks whether certain long-established postulations may now be outdated.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Susanna M. Hoffman is a risk and disaster anthropologist, and the author/editor of fourteen books, two ethnographic films, and over forty articles. Among her books are: The Angry Earth (three editions); Disaster Upon Disaster (Berghahn Books, 2019); and the forthcoming Nostalgia, Ecalgia, Topalgia. She launched the Risk and Disaster Group for the Society of Applied Anthropology and for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences. She was the first recipient of the Fulbright Foundation Aegean Initiative Grant concerning disasters and helped write the United Nations Statement on Women and Disaster.

Virginia García-Acosta is a social anthropologist and historian. She is now Emeritus Professor at CIESAS (Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico), where she has completed 50 years as a research professor. She is also Emeritus Researcher at the National System of Researchers, and a full member of the Mexican Academy of History where she holds chair number 5. She has published extensively in over a hundred articles or book chapters and 34 books in Mexico and abroad. She has been a founder and active member of several international networks, among them LA RED (Network of Social Studies in Disaster Prevention in Latin America) founded in 1992.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1807580946
• ISBN 13: 9781807580940
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 350
• Éditeur: Hoffman Susanna M., García-Acosta Virginia
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