Crowds: Ethnographic Encounters

✍ Scribed by Megan Steffen (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 212
Series: Encounters: Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions, politics, or faith? In Crowds, contributors draw on their experiences and expertise to reflect on their encounters with crowds. Each chapter examines a particular crowd or conception of crowdedness to provide an analysis of how, when, where―and with whom―crowds form in different contexts, as well as their purpose and the practical effect the experience has on both the participants and their environment. The wide selection of case studies ranges from the crowds that form every year during the Hajj, to New Year celebrations in China, commuters on the Delhi metro, public prayer in Nigeria, online mobs in Bangladesh, and the crowds that have emerged during protest movements in Thailand and Syria. Crowds makes a key contribution to establishing an anthropological theory of crowds and will be an essential read for both students and researchers.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
Contributors
Foreword • John Borneman
Acknowledgments
Introduction • Megan Stefen
1 The Syrian Revolution: Crowds, the Political Field, the Political Subject • John Borneman
2 The Disappearance of the Crowd and the Rise of Dissent in Thailand • Tyrell Haberkorn
3 Spectacles of Piety: Prayer and the Politics of Mass Arousal in Democratic Nigeria • Ebenezer Obadare
4 Crowds and Transformations: On the Pious Crowds of the Hajj • Abdellah Hammoudi
5 “Too Many People”: Crowds and Cliques in Contemporary China • Megan Stefen
6 Regarding Others: Metro Crowds, Metro Publics, Metro Mobs • Rashmi Sadana
7 Emotional Entrainment in Crowds and Other Social Formations • Douglas Hollan
8 Enduring Crowds: The Ritual Molding of the Anthropos in the Prolonging of Political Protest • Bjørn Tomassen
9 The Ethics of the Digital: Crowds and Popular Justice in Bangladesh • Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury
10 Death on the Bund: Crowd Control and the Chinese Dream in Shanghai • Scott Moskowitz
Guide to Further Reading • Megan Stefen
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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