Crowds ethnographic encounters

What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions, politics, or faith? In Crowds, contributors draw on their experiences and expertise to reflect on their encounters with crowds. Each chapter examines a particular crowd or concept...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Steffen, Megan (Editor), Megan, Steffen, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor & Francis 2019
[2020]
Colección:Encounters: Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Syrian revolution : crowds, the political field, the political subject / John Borneman
  • The disappearance of the crowd and the rise of dissent in Thailand / Tyrell Haberkorn
  • Spectacles of piety : prayer and the politics of mass arousal in Democratic Nigeria / Ebenezer Obadare
  • Crowds and transformations : on the pious crowds of the Hajj / Abdellah Hammoudi
  • "Too many people" : crowds and cliques in contemporary China / Megan Steffen
  • Regarding others : metro crowds, metro publics, metro mobs / Rashmi Sadana
  • Emotional entrainment in crowds and other social formations / Douglas Hollan
  • Enduring crowds : the ritual molding of the anthropos in the prolonging of political protest / Bjørn Thomassen
  • The ethics of the digital : crowds and popular justice in Bangladesh / Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury
  • Death on the bund : crowd control and the Chinese dream in Shanghai / Scott Moskowitz.