Naslov
Reciprocity materialised: ethnicity and class as empirical questions

Autori
Povrzanović Frykman, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality, Book of Abstracts, 10th Biennial EASA Conference, Ljubljana 26 to 29 August, 2008 / Mesarič, Andreja ; Repič, Jaka ; Bartulovič, Alenka - Ljubljana : European Association of Social Anthropologists, 2008, 497-497

ISBN
978-961-237-247-7

Skup
Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality, Book of 10th Biennial EASA Conference

Mjesto i datum
Ljubljana, Slovenija, 26.08.2008. - 29.08.2008

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
ethnicity; ethnicity; migration; ethnography

Sažetak
Within the vast field of multidisciplinary research on international migration the importance of ethnography is unsurpassed in its ability to reach and represent the individual level of experience and everyday dynamics of sense-making. Ethnographic research into the interplay of sociality and materiality - experiences and memories embodied in and represented by objects - can also provide a solid foundation for critically interrogating ideas about migrants' being and belonging as primarily defined by their ethnic and class background. Ethnographic insights into material expressions of reciprocity, i.e. of migrants' involvement in personal relations and social networks achieved or proved through objects, can open up new avenues of understanding and create new conceptual lenses in studies of migration. This paper links the different contributions to this workshop together by discussing the theoretical benefits of investigating material expressions and practices of connection and belonging in the places where migrants live their everyday lives, in the places they keep returning to and on the journeys between them.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

POVEZANOST RADA