1. Introduction: Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray Fans in Vienna -- 2. Approaching the Field -- 3. Entering the Field -- 4. The Plurality of us and them: performing Loyalties and Rivalries -- 5. The Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender and Social Class in Fan Narratives and Performances -- 6. Conclusion and Outlook: the Intersection of Football Fandom and Migration.This book studies how transnationalis…
1. Introduction: Sharia Dynamics and the Anthropology of Islam -- 2. Fatwa, Discursivity, and the Production of Sharia -- 3. Fatwās on Mohamed Bouazizi’s Self Immolation: Religious Authority, Media, and Secularization -- 4. Sharia Law and Muslim Ethical Imaginaries in Modern Indonesia -- 5. Sharia in China: Compromising Perceptions -- 6. Interplay of Sharia Projects: Between Ketuanan Melayu,…
Preface: Identity and Political Mobilisation of Diasporas: A Gendered Perspective; Nadje Al-Ali -- Introduction: Coming to Terms with Diaspora Cooperation; David Carment and Ariane Sadjed -- Part I. Negotiating Identities: Accommodating Home and Host-State Policies -- Chapter 1. Contested Diaspora: Negotiating Jewish Identity in Germany; Karen Koerber -- Chapter 2. The ‘Sweet Spot’ between …
1. Cutting the Cloth -- 2. Invitation -- 3. Teaming Up -- 4. Saints of the Casino -- 5. Car Crash -- 6. Trip to Mexico -- 7. Don Quixote Rides Again -- 8. Searching for the Key -- 9. A Moon Shot -- 10. Visit to Campus -- 11. Confronting the Enemy -- 12. Mysteries of Money -- 13. Garbage Dream -- 14. Crash Warning -- 15. Stopping Time -- 16. Into the Mystic -- 17. Plan B -- 18. Mr. Success or Mr…
Chapter 1. Of many Indias: alternative nationhoods in contemporary Indian poetry -- Chapter 2. Reviewing Nirmal Varma, Jaidev and the Indianness of Indian Literature -- Chapter 3. Indianness as a category in literary criticism on Nayī Kahānī -- Chapter 4. Imagining “Indianness” and modern Hindi drama -- Chapter 5. The Indian contexts and subtexts of my text -- Chapter 6. Kishorilal Gosva…
Chapter 1: Geographies of Cyberspace: Internet, Community, Space and Place -- Chapter 2: A Phenomenological Approach on Cyberspace: Cyberplace, Community and Neighbourhood -- Chapter 3: Methodology and Methods of Analysing Representations on Websites -- Chapter 4: The Contemporary Contrade of Siena -- Chapter 5: The Symbolic Realm and Historical Framework of the Contrade -- Chapter 6: The Websi…
1. Introduction: Asking in Time -- 2. The Power of the Gift: Killing and Healing in Northwest Zambia -- 3. Seeking the Wounds of the Gift: Recipient Agency in Catholic Charity and Kiganda Patronage -- 4. When God Is a Moral Accountant: Requests and Dilemmas of Accountability in U.S. Medical Relief in Madagascar -- 5. How Asking and Giving Beget Distrust in Christian Child Sponsorship -- 6. Fund…
1. Introduction: Pentecostal Witchcraft: Governance and Universalism in Comparison -- 2. German Pentecostal Witches and Communists: The Violence of Purity and Sameness -- 3. Becoming Witches: Sight, Sin, and Sociality in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.- 4. The Ndoki Index: Sorcery, Economy and Invisible Operations in the Angolan Urban Sphere -- 5. Branhamist Kindoki: Ethnograp…
1. Introduction -- 2. Current Trends -- 3. Coming Out and Being Out -- 4. Religion and Spirituality -- 5. Family Life -- 6. The SJS Project: Phases of Research.This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 500 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Asian and Pacific Islander LGBT communities within the United States. Additionally, the authors document and …
1. Introduction: Re-Sacralizing the Social: Spiritual Kinship at the Crossroads of the Abrahamic Religions -- 2. Spiritual Kinship Between Formal Norms and Actual Practice a Comparative Analysis in the Long Run (from the Early Middle Ages until Today) -- 3. The Religion and Science of Kinship in an Age of Dissent: Pigeon-Breeders in Darwin’s London -- 4. Kinship as Ethical Relation: An Altern…