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Collaborative Damage

An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization

By: Mikkel Bunkenborg,Morten Nielsen,Morten Axel Pedersen

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Collaborative Damage

An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization

By: Mikkel Bunkenborg,Morten Nielsen,Morten Axel Pedersen

Collaborative Damage is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention—sub-Saharan Africa and Inner/Central Asia. Based on their fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and resource-extraction projects in Mozambique and Mongolia, Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen provide new empirical insights into neocolonialism and Sinophobia in the Global South. The core argument in Collaborative Damage is that the different participants studied in the globalization processes—local workers and cadres; Chinese managers and entrepreneurs; and the authors themselves, three Danish anthropologists—are intimately linked in paradoxical partnerships of mutual incomprehension. The authors call this "collaborative damage," which crucially refers not only to the misunderstandings and conflicts they observed in the field, but also to their own failure to agree about how to interpret the data. Via in-depth case studies and tragicomical tales of friendship, antagonism, irresolvable differences, and carefully maintained indifferences across disparate Sino-local worlds in Africa and Asia, Collaborative Damage tells a wide-ranging story of Chinese globalization in the twenty-first century.

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Not Quite Shamans

Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia

By: Morten Axel Pedersen

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Not Quite Shamans

Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia

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The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of Northern Mongolia's remote Shishged Valley have understood and responded to the disruptive transition to postsocialism by engaging with shamanic beliefs and practices associated with the past.For much of the twentieth century, Mongolia's communist rulers attempted to eradicate shamanism and the shamans who once served as spiritual guides and community leaders. With the transition from a collectivized economy and a one-party state to a global capitalist market and liberal democracy in the 1990s, the people of the Shishged were plunged into a new and harsh world that seemed beyond their control. "Not-quite-shamans"—young, unemployed men whose undirected energies erupted in unpredictable, frightening bouts of violence and drunkenness that seemed occult in their excess— became a serious threat to the fabric of community life. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Northern Mongolia, Pedersen details how, for many Darhads, the postsocialist state itself has become shamanic in nature.In the ideal version of traditional Darhad shamanism, shamans can control when and for what purpose their souls travel, whether to other bodies, landscapes, or worlds. Conversely, caught between uncontrollable spiritual powers and an excessive display of physical force, the "not-quite-shamans" embody the chaotic forms—the free market, neoliberal reform, and government corruption—that have created such upheaval in peoples' lives. As an experimental ethnography of recent political and economic transformations in Mongolia through the defamiliarizing prism of shamans and their lack, Not Quite Shamans is an attempt to write about as well as theorize postsocialism, and shamanism, in a new way.

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Collaborative Damage

An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization

By: Mikkel Bunkenborg,Morten Nielsen,Morten Axel Pedersen

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An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization

By: Mikkel Bunkenborg,Morten Nielsen,Morten Axel Pedersen

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The Ontological Turn

An Anthropological Exposition

By: Martin Holbraad,Morten Axel Pedersen

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The Ontological Turn

An Anthropological Exposition

By: Martin Holbraad,Morten Axel Pedersen

A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present. This book provides the first anthropological exposition of this recent intellectual development. It traces the roots of the ontological turn in the history of anthropology and elucidates its emergence as a distinct theoretical orientation over the past few decades, showing how it has emerged in the work of Roy Wagner, Marilyn Strathern and Viveiros de Castro, as well a number of younger scholars. Distinguishing this trajectory of thinking from related attempts to put questions of ontology at the heart of anthropological research, the book articulates critically the key methodological and theoretical tenets of the ontological turn, its prime epistemological and political implications, and locates it in the broader intellectual landscape of contemporary social theory.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316883191

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Urban Hunters

Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

By: Lars Hojer,Morten Axel Pedersen

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Urban Hunters

Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

By: Lars Hojer,Morten Axel Pedersen

An ethnography of the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar during the nation’s transition from socialism to a market-based economic system Urban Hunters is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation’s transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos characterized by wild inflation, disappearing banks, and closing farms, factories, and schools. During this time of widespread poverty, a generation of young adults came of age. In exploring the social, cultural, and existential ramifications of a transition that has become permanent and acquired a logic of its own, Lars Højer and Morten Axel Pedersen present a new theorization of social agency in postsocialist as well as postcolonial contexts.

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Yale University Press

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0300249551

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Not Quite Shamans

Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia

By: Morten Axel Pedersen

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Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia

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Urban Hunters

Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

By: Lars Hojer,Morten Axel Pedersen

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Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

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The Ontological Turn

An Anthropological Exposition

By: Martin Holbraad,Morten Axel Pedersen

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An Anthropological Exposition

By: Martin Holbraad,Morten Axel Pedersen

This book provides the first systematic presentation of anthropology's 'ontological turn', placing it in the landscape of contemporary social theory.

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