In the Event : : Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments / ed. by Bruce Kapferer, Lotte Meinert.

• MitwirkendeR: Fibiger, Thomas,; Kapferer, Bruce,; Krause-Jensen, Jakob,; Krøijer, Stine,; Kublitz, Anja,; Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard,; Nielsen, Morten,; Oestergaard, Jesper,; Oxlund, Bjarke,; Rytter, Mikkel,
• HerausgeberIn: Kapferer, Bruce,; Meinert, Lotte,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: In the Event-toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments --; Chapter 1 'Ashura in Bahrain: Analyses of an Analytical Event --; Chapter 2 'Burying the ANC': Post-apartheid Ambiguities at the University of Limpopo, South Africa --; Chapter 3 A Topographic Event: A Buddhist Lama's Perception of a Pilgrimage Cave --; Chapter 4 The Outburst: Climate Change, Gender Relations, and Situational Analysis --; Chapter 5 Events and Effects: Intensive Transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark --; Chapter 6 The Cartoon Controversy: Creating Muslims in a Danish Setting --; Chapter 7 Studying Human Resource Management: Beyond Corporate Consensus and Colonial Conflicts --; Chapter 8 Figurations of the Future: On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe --; Chapter 9 Mimesis of the State: From Natural Disaster to Urban Citizenship on the Outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique --; About the Editors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782388906
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782388906?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Bruce Kapferer, Lotte Meinert.

Events are "generative moments" in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic studies from around the world-varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and management-this volume analyzes generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations. These events-including the Ashura ritual in Bahrain, social cleavages in South Africa, a Buddhist cave in Nepal, drought in Burkina Faso, an earthquake in Pakistan, the cartoon crisis in Denmark, corporate management at Bang & Olufsen, protest meetings in Europe, and flooding and urban citizenship in Mozambique-are not simply destructive disasters, crises, and conflicts, but also generative and constitutive of the social.