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What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform people's emotions, politics or faith? In Crowds: Ethnographic Encounters, ten ethnographers draw on their experiences and expertise to reflect on encounters with crowds. Each author ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Steffen, Megan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2020]
Series:Encounters--experience and anthropological knowledge.
Subjects:
Crowds > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.