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A World of Insecurity : Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security /

Human security is a key element in the measure of well-being, and a hot topic in anthropology and development studies. A World of Insecurity outlines a new approach to the subject. The contributors expose a contradiction at the heart of conventional accounts of what constitutes human security, namel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Bal, Ellen, Salemink, Oscar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : New York : Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Colección:Anthropology, culture, and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Human security and social anthropology / Thomas Hylland Eriksen
  • Taking risks for security's sake : Bolivians resisting their state and its economic policies / Ton Salman
  • State formation, imposition of a land market and silent resistance among the Berbers of the Middle Atlas / Bernard Venema (with Ali Mguild)
  • Flexible migrants : Brazilian gold miners and their quest for human security in Surinam / Marjo de Theije and Ellen Bal
  • 'Bharat-Wasie or Surinamie?' Hindustani notions of belonging in Surinam and the Netherlands / Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff
  • Cultural identity as a key dimension of human security in Western Europe : the Dutch case / Edien Bartels [and others]
  • 'I'd die without the cybersouk' : local experiences in a Dutch digital community centre / Lenie Brouwer
  • Religion, identity and security among Pomeranian Lutheran migrants in Espírito Santo, Brazil (1880-2005) : a schema repertoire approach / André Droogers
  • Changing notions of belonging : migrants and natives in an Amsterdam multicultural neighbourhood / Marion den Uyl
  • Tales from a captive audience : dissident narratives and the official history of the Seychelles / Sandra Evers
  • Harnessing ceremonial for political security : an Indian princely state on the verge of extinction / Dick Kooiman
  • Ritual efficacy, spiritual security and human security : spirit mediumship in contemporary Vietnam / Oscar Salemink.