Going First Class? by Vered Amit
People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripatetic professionals to middle class migrants...-
Being-Here
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Ethnographies of Deservingness
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Policy Worlds
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Ethnographies of Power
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Culture Wars
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Ethnographic Practice in the Present
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Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology
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Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices
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Landscapes Beyond Land
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Grammars of Identity / Alterity
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Family Upheaval
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Being Human, Being Migrant
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World Heritage on the Ground
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Messy Europe
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Moving Places
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Shaping Taxpayers
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Back to the Postindustrial Future
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Economy, Crime, and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era
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Knowing How to Know
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Postsocialist Europe
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Power and Magic in Italy
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Flexible Capitalism
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Peripheral Vision
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Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
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Multiple Medical Realities
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Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
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Embodying Borders
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Experimental Collaborations
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The Good Holiday
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Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class
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Queer and Trans Life
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Fracturing Resemblances
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Managing Ambiguity
The publication of this book - is timely.. Interesting and accessibly written, Going First Class? offers not only ethnographically rich reflections on the subject of privileged travel, but... it provides valuable critical insights on the nature of places and the methodological issues surrounding their study.A" * JRAI ... this collection of chapters deserves to be widely read and discussed - together, they demonstrate the imperative for ethnographic research in conversation, but not necessarily in cahoots, with reigning critical theories of modernity and the contemporary world.A" * Social Anthropology
Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Manchester and is the author or editor of 11 books including the forthcoming (with Noel Dyck) Young Men in Uncertain Times, the Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology and (with Nigel Rapport) The Trouble with Community.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857451514 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857451510 |
| Title | Going First Class? |
| Author | Vered Amit |
| Series | Easa Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2011-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 170 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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