Anthropology and nostalgia /
Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring c...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume consider the fabric of nostalgia in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movem. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782384540 1782384545 |