Migration - Networks - Skills: Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation

by Astrid Wonneberger (Editor), Mijal Gandelsman-Trier (Editor), Hauke Dorsch (Editor)

Overview

Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, they also mark the wide range of interests of cultural and social anthropologist Waltraud Kokot, who is to be honoured in this Festschrift. Internationally distinguished scholars from five European countries and various academic disciplines present their most recent research findings on topics such as diaspora and migration studies, urban anthropology and the anthropology of crafts, all of which are connected by the common themes of mobility and transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837633641
Publication date:	10/18/2016
Series:	Culture and Social Practice
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Astrid Wonneberger (PD Dr.) is a private lecturer for cultural and social anthropology at the University of Hamburg as well as a researcher and lecturer for family science at the University of Applied Sciences (HAW) Hamburg. Her major academic interests include diaspora, ethnicity and urban anthropology. She has completed field research in Western Ireland, New York, Boston and Dublin (Ireland).
Mijal Gandelsman-Trier (M.A.) is a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg.
Hauke Dorsch (Dr.) is the director of the African Music Archives of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Migration, Networks, Skills Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation Astrid Wonneberger Mijal Gandelsman-Trier Hauke Dorsch 9

The Kashmiri Diaspora in Britain and the Limits of Political Mobilisation Martin Sökefeld 23

From Ultimogeniture to Senior Club Negotiating Certainties and Uncertainties of Growing Older between Rural Mexico and Urban Chicago Julia Pauli Franziska Bedorf 47

Secular Mood, Community Consensus The Identity of the Bulgarian Muslims in Zlatograd Milena Benovska-Sabkova Iliya Nedin 67

The Pervasion of the Ancient and Traditional Value of "Hospitality" in Contemporary Greece From Xenios Zeus to "Xenios Zeus" Eftihia Voutira 85

How Solomon Bibo from Germany Became an Indian Chief And Other Glimpses of Jewish Life in the Wild West Sabine Lang 101

The Modernity of the Mafia. Personalized Network Efficiency versus State Institutional Lethargy Christian Giordano 131

The Ethnographic Validity of Paternity Denial (alias "Virgin Birth") Hartmut Lang Astrid Wonneberger 149

Hamburg HafenCity Revisited. Reading Mental Maps as an Approach to Urban Imaginaries Kathrin Wildner 177

Towards an Ethnography of Rivers Henk Driessen 195

Hands, Skills, Materiality. Towards an Anthropology of Crafts Clemens Greiner Michael Pröpper 209

About the Authors 231

Waltraud Kokot: Publications 1982-2013 237