Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging

Simonsen, Jan

ISBN 10: 1787075508 / ISBN 13: 9781787075504

Edité par Peter Lang, 2018

pp. 228. N° de réf. du vendeur 26382162938

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.

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of...
Éditeur : Peter Lang
Date d'édition : 2018
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New