What does it mean to be at home when your sense of belonging is ambivalent? What is home if the physical frames of what you call home are contested? And is it possible to grasp an atmosphere of a ...home’s firm, yet vulnerable qualities? For Tanzanian Indians, on whom this article focuses, the immediate boundaries of their dwelling are solid and materialised in heavy wooden doors and massive metal lattice doors with padlocks. The outside is kept at a distance but constantly imposes itself in different forms of materiality. Behind this lurks the anxiety sparked by the nationalisation of Indian houses that took place after Independence: many Tanzanian Indians are still fighting to regain ownership of their houses. Exploring experiences of permeability of the home, the article shows how different measures are taken by the inhabitants to prevent certain things entering the home, while openness to others is essential to creating a feeling of home. Permeability conveys and enables certain atmospheres of belonging and non-belonging. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in an Indian migrant community in Tanzania and working with subtle details of everyday sensory and material practices in the home, the article explores how studying the atmosphere of home through permeability and the pervasive allows a closer understanding of the intimate politics of what it means to create and sustain a feeling of home as a marginalised but resourceful migrant minority.
Antropolog Rane Willerslev blev i direktør for Nationalmuseeti København. Med lanceringen af museets -plan har han satkursen for den udvikling, han mener er nødvendig for at bringe museet ...sikkert ind i fremtiden. Vi mødte Willerslev til en samtale om hans visioner for den danske museumsetnografi – og hvordan han i praksis ser disse visioner realiseret.
Hvad gør indsamling for det etnografiske feltarbejde? I denne artikel udforsker jeg, hvad det betød for mit feltarbejde blandt det indiske mindretal i Tanzania, at jeg ti år efter mit første besøg ...pludselig medbragte optageudstyr og bad mine informanter hjælpe mig med at indsamle genstande til en udstilling. Jeg argumenterer for, at dette metodiske skift gav en langt bedre mulighed for samskabelse.
With point of departure in the emic concept of 'two feet,' the article explores how transnationalism by 'keeping a foot in the door' is being practiced among people of Indian origin living in ...Tanzania. Indians settled in East Africa in the late nineteenth century and since the end of colonial rule they have been aware of distributing different citizenships within the families in order to stay transnationally mobile after independence. Numerous Indians moved to the U.K. and Canada in the years following independence and those who stayed back made sure to 'keep the door open' and thus secure a potential future abroad. 'Two feet,' the article argues, is a practice that ensures a necessary level of social protection for the East African Indians. Shedding light on ways in which lifeworlds stretched across national borders unfold on a micro level, the article shows how 'two feet' is a gendered practice in which women's purity becomes intertwined with transnational mobility and the potentiality of different places.
"En mørk og kølig aften i oktober samledes dele af det danske antropologmiljø traditionen tro på Moesgård for at hylde den gode formidling. I år skulle antropolog, filmskaber og underviser Berit ...Madsen modtage prisen for sit eminente arbejde, og i dagens anledning var prismodtageren fra 2020, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, mødt op for at overrække den tunge trækasse, hvor et messingskilt med Berit Madsens navn nu var påsat."
Making Friends and Playing the Game Cecil Marie Schou Pallesen
Journal of Extreme Anthropology,
04/2022, Letnik:
5, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Bribery relations are a way to cope with the uncertainties of everyday life for many people living in Tanzania. For members of the Tanzanian Indian communities, the uncertainties not only count the ...faltering bureaucratic systems and a state lacking legitimacy. Being members of a resourceful yet marginalized ethnic group within a nation that has not been willing or able to offer them protection also puts Tanzanian Indian communities in a vulnerable position. Bribery friends, as this article shows, are relations that despite, or perhaps owing to, their uncertain nature create a level of certainty and protection. ‘Playing the game’, meaning to accept and engage in bribery, becomes a way for the Tanzanian Indians to control and claim both distance and belonging to a nation that never really accepted them as true citizens. Investigating the moral economy of bribery among Tanzanian Indians, the article argues that the experiences and logics of bribery help us to get a deeper understanding of Tanzanian Indians’ perception of the state and their role in it, which is, above all, ambiguous.
Hvordan formidler man antropologisk forskning til et bredt, ikke-akade- misk publikum? Marianne E. Lien og Simone Abram givet et bud på det i bogen Hytta. Fire vegger rundt en drøm. Med sine mange ...stemningsfulde fotografier, en del af dem hel- eller dobbeltsides, og et lettilgængeligt sprog er bogen både underholdende og interessant for antropologer såvel som for andre, som synes hytteliv, slægtskab og familie er spændende temaer.
I denne nye serie fortæller vi om antropologers arbejdsliv udenfor universiteterne. Vi ser på vejen fra studie til første job, og vi undersøger, hvordan antropologien bruges forskelligt i ...mangfoldige sammenhænge. I denne første del af serien fokuserer vi på det antropologiske virke, som det udfoldede sig for Julie Thaarup, kandidat i Etnografi og Socialantropologi fra Aarhus Universitet, 2005. Julie gik meget pludseligt bort i november 2018, og fortællingerne om hendes studie- og arbejdsliv præsenteres derfor af hendes studiekammeraterog kolleger.
