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Ethnographies of Waiting : Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: London : Taylor and Francis, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781000183764
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 115
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: Worth the Wait -- 1 Great Expectations?: Between Boredom and Sincerity in Jewish Ritual 'Attendance' -- 2 Hope and Waiting in Post-Soviet Moscow -- 3 Time and the Other: Waiting and Hope among Irregular Migrants -- 4 Waiting for God in Ghana: The Chronotopes of a Prayer Mountain -- 5 Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park -- 6 Waiting for Nothing: Nihilism, Doubt and Difference without Difference in Post-Revolutionary Georgia -- 7 Not-Waiting to Die Badly: Facing the Precarity of Dying Alone in Japan -- Afterword -- Index.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: Worth the Wait -- 1 Great Expectations?: Between Boredom and Sincerity in Jewish Ritual 'Attendance' -- 2 Hope and Waiting in Post-Soviet Moscow -- 3 Time and the Other: Waiting and Hope among Irregular Migrants -- 4 Waiting for God in Ghana: The Chronotopes of a Prayer Mountain -- 5 Providence and Publicity in Waiting for a Creationist Theme Park -- 6 Waiting for Nothing: Nihilism, Doubt and Difference without Difference in Post-Revolutionary Georgia -- 7 Not-Waiting to Die Badly: Facing the Precarity of Dying Alone in Japan -- Afterword -- Index.

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