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    Individually Ourselves: Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School
    Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation
    A Magpie’s Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia
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    Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories Series

    By Anna Odland Portisch, Sarah Winkler-Reid, Eva Fiks and

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    Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life, as a means by which actors strive to accommodate themselves to others. This perspective transcends conventional distinctions between power and resistance, and offers to open up new avenues of anthropological enquiry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerghahn Books
    Release dateJan 13, 2023
    Individually Ourselves: Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School
    Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation
    A Magpie’s Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

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      A Magpie’s Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia
      A Magpie’s Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

      A Magpie’s Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

      Anna Odland Portisch
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      Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region. It looks at the position of the  Kazakh over time in relation to Tsarist Russian, Soviet, Chinese and Mongolian rule and influence. These are stories of migration across generations, bride kidnappings and marriage, domestic violence and alcoholism, adoption and family, and how people have coped in the face of political and economic crisis, poverty and loss, and, perhaps most enduringly, how love and family persist through all of this.

      Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region. It looks at the position of the  Kazakh over time in relation to Tsarist Russian, Soviet, Chinese and Mongolian rule and influence. These are stories of migration across generations, bride kidnappings and marriage, domestic violence and alcoholism, adoption and family, and how people have coped in the face of political and economic crisis, poverty and loss, and, perhaps most enduringly, how love and family persist through all of this.

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      Individually Ourselves: Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School
      Individually Ourselves: Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School

      Individually Ourselves: Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School

      Sarah Winkler-Reid
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      Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school, Individually Ourselves demonstrates how young people elaborate notions of individual personhood through their friendships, and pervasive peer ethics, shaped in and through relations of power and inequality. By examining the interplay between ourselves and others during such a formative time of life, the book addresses how individuality is produced in everyday life and how our interactions help create the person we become.

      Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school, Individually Ourselves demonstrates how young people elaborate notions of individual personhood through their friendships, and pervasive peer ethics, shaped in and through relations of power and inequality. By examining the interplay between ourselves and others during such a formative time of life, the book addresses how individuality is produced in everyday life and how our interactions help create the person we become.

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      Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation
      Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation

      Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation

      Will Rollason
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      Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life, as a means by which actors strive to accommodate themselves to others. This perspective transcends conventional distinctions between power and resistance, and offers to open up new avenues of anthropological enquiry.

      Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life, as a means by which actors strive to accommodate themselves to others. This perspective transcends conventional distinctions between power and resistance, and offers to open up new avenues of anthropological enquiry.

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    Anna Odland Portisch

    Anna Odland Portisch has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Brunel University.

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