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A world of insecurity : anthropological perspectives on human security / edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ellen Bal and Oscar Salemink.

Title
A world of insecurity : anthropological perspectives on human security / edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ellen Bal and Oscar Salemink.
Publication
London ; New York : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Eriksen, Thomas Hylland
  • Bal, Ellen
  • Salemink, Oscar
Description
vii, 300 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Anthropology, culture and society
Uniform Title
Anthropology, culture, and society
Subject
  • Identität
  • Sozialanthropologie
  • Sicherheit
  • Social rights
  • Social conflict > Political aspects > Case studies
  • Human security
  • Ethnology > Social aspects
  • Ethnicity
Genre/Form
Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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 ... [et al.] -- '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.
ISBN
  • 9780745329840 (paperback)
  • 0745329845 (paperback)
  • 9780745329857 (hardback)
  • 0745329853 (hardback)
OCLC
  • 430839560
  • SCSB-12485229
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library