Book description
A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe
offers a survey of contemporary Europeanist anthropology and European
ethnology, and a guide to emerging trends in this geographical field of
research. Providing a synthesis of the different traditions and
contemporary approaches, the book is both thematic and fully
cross-European in its approach.
- Provides an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and
students of anthropology and European studies
- Discusses important emerging trends in this broadening field of research
- Includes established names and rising stars who will shape the
discipline in years to come
Ullrich Kockel
is Professor of Ethnology at the University of Ulster and an
Academician of the UK's Academy of the Social Sciences. His recent
publications include
Culture and Economy: Contemporary Perspectives
(edited, 2002),
and
Re-Visioning Europe: Frontiers, Place Identities and Journeys in
Debatable Lands (2010).
He has been elected President of the Société Internationale
d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (2008-11), and is currently editor of the
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
.
Máiréad Nic Craith is Professor of European Culture and Society
at the University of Ulster. She is the author ofPlural Identities,
Singular Narratives: The Case of Northern Ireland (2002) which
was joint winner of the 2004 Ruth Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff research
prize for folklife, Culture and Identity Politics in Northern
Ireland (2003), Europe and the Politics of Language (2006),
and Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights (co-edited, 2010).
Jonas Frykman is Professor of European Ethnology at Lund
University. His publications include Identities in Pain (with
Nadia Seremitakis, 1997), Articulating Europe: Local
Perspectives (with Peter Niedermüller, 2003), and Sense of
Community: Trust Hope and Worries in the Welfare State (with Bo
Rothstein et al, 2009).
