Social Conflict, Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Social Stratification

History in Person Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities

Name: History in Person Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities
Author: Dorothy Holland
ISBN: 9781930618015

by Dorothy Holland, Liisa H. Malkki, Jean Lave, Paul Willis, Kay B. Warren

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Overview

Extended conflict situations in Northern Ireland or South Africa, the local effects of the rise of multinational corporations, and conflicts in workplaces, households, and academic fields are all crucibles for the forging of identities. In this volume, the authors bring their research to bear on enduring struggles and the practices of identity within those struggles. This collection of essays explores the innermost, generative aspects of subjects as social, cultural, and historical beings and raises serious questions about long-term conflicts and sustained identities in the world today. Nine ethnographers address such topics as the politically sexualized transformation of identities of women political prisoners in Northern Ireland; the changing character of political activism across generations in a Guatemala Mayan family; the cultural forms that mediate the struggles of working-class men on shop floors in England; and class and community struggles between the state and grassroots activists in New York.