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Ethnographies of waiting :

1474280293

1474280307

9781474280297

9781474280303

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Ethnographies of waiting :

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doubt, hope and uncertainty

edited by Manpreet K Janeja and Andreas Bandak.

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA

Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc,

2018.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Great Expectations?: Between Boredom and Sincerity in Jewish Ritual Àttendance' / Simon Coleman -- 2. Hope and Waiting in Post-Soviet Moscow / Jarrett Zigon -- 3. Time and the Other: Waiting and Hope among Irregular Migrants / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- 4. Waiting for God in Ghana: The Chronotopes of a Prayer Mountain / Bruno Reinhardt -- 5. Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park / James S. Bielo -- 6. Waiting for Nothing: Nihilism, Doubt and Difference without Difference in Post-Revolutionary Georgia / Martin Demant Frederiksen -- 7. Not-Waiting to Die Badly: Facing the Precarity of Dying Alone in Japan / Anne Allison.

We all wait - in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for a response, for better weather, the holidays, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting isWe all wait - in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for a response, for better weather, the holidays, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting isWe all wait - in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for a response, for better weather, the holidays, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is",,,,,"We all wait - in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for a response, for better weather, the holidays, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is negotiated in myriad ways and provides a new perspective on waiting as the uncertain interplay between doubting and hoping. Featuring eight detailed ethnographies covering areas such as India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Tajikistan, South Africa, Russia, and the UK, it examines both the political and existential dimensions of waiting to ask this central question: when is time worth the wait? With contributions from scholars in the UK, Europe, Australia, and the United States - as well as an afterword by Ghassan Hage - this is a vital contribution to the field of anthropology of time and essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and philosophy.

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Manpreet K Janeja

Andreas Bandak

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