Momentous Mobilities

Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel

Noel B. Salazar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-803-0 (ISBN)

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Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cultures imagine and value boundary-crossing mobilities “elsewhere” and drawing heavily on his own European lifeworld, the author examines momentous travels abroad in the context of education, work, and spiritual quests and the search for a better quality of life.

Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the University of Leuven. He is the author of Envisioning Eden (Berghahn, 2010) and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes on the anthropology of mobility and travel. He is the founder of Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMore) and the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (AnthroMob).

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Foreword

Vered Amit

Preface

Introduction: Mapping Mobility

PART I: IMAGINING MOBILITY

Chapter 1. Chile: Traveling to and from the End of the World

Chapter 2. Indonesia: Merantau and Modernity

Chapter 3. Tanzania: The Maasai as Icons of Mobility

PART II: ENACTING MOBILITY

Chapter 4. Education: Leaving to Learn

Chapter 5. Labor: Capitalizing on Movement

Chapter 6. Life’s “Pilgrimage”: Travel, Travail, Transformation

Conclusion: Mobile Futures

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Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Worlds in Motion
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Reisen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78920-803-3 / 1789208033
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-803-0 / 9781789208030
Zustand	Neuware