Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change

by Carol J. Greenhouse

Book Overview

Ethnography in Unstable Places is a collection of ethnographic accounts of everyday situations in places undergoing dramatic political transformation. Offering vivid case studies that range from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia, the contributing anthropologists narrate particular circumstances of social and political transformation--in contexts of colonialism, war and its aftermath, social movements, and post-Cold War...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822328488
• ISBN13: 9780822328483
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"