Realizing Community: Concepts, Social Relationships and Sentiments (European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series).)

'community' Is So Overused Both In Everyday Language As Well As In Scholarly Work That It Could Easily Be Dismissed As A Truism. However, The Persistence Of The Term Itself Shows That The Idea Continues To Resonate Powerfully In Our Daily Lives, Ethnographic Accounts As Well As Theoretical Analyses. This Book Returns A Timely And Concerted Anthropological Gaze To Community As Part Of A Broader Consideration Of Contemporary Circumstances Of Social Affiliation And Solidarity.--jacket. Reconceptualizing Community / Vered Amit -- The Mining Community And The Ageing Body : Towards A Phenomenology Of Community? / Andrew Dawson -- Community As Place-making : Ram Auctions In The Scottish Borderland / John Gray -- Cultural Islands In The Globalizing World : Community-cum-locality Of The Cieszyn Silesian Lutherans / Marian Kempny -- Community Beyond Place : Adoptive Families In Norway / Signe Howell. 'have You Been To Hayward Field?' : Children's Sport And The Construction Of Community In Suburban Canada / Noel Dyck -- The Ethnographic Field Revisited : Towards A Study Of Common And Not So Common Fields Of Belonging / Karen Fog Olwig -- Post-cultural Anthropology : The Ironization Of Values In A World Of Movement / Nigel Rapport. Edited By Vered Amit. Outgrowth Of Session Of The Easa (european Association Of Social Anthropologists) Conference Held In Frankfurt In 1998. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea continues to resonate powerfully in our daily lives, ethnographic accounts as well as theoretical analyses. This book returns a timely and concerted anthropological gaze to community as part of a broader consideration of contemporary circumstances of social affiliation and solidarity. Over the last twenty years, community as an idea has overtaken community as social interaction in a number of influential works. However, without elucidating the actual social relations in which the idea of community is realized, it is difficult to account for the emotions it calls forth. Thus while the essays in this book acknowledge the conceptual, imagined dimension of the construction of communities, they also seek to re-embed their accounts of community in a social context. The chapters cover a whole gamut of ethnographic cases from small localities, regional identities, transnationally dispersed personal networks to more limited and ephemeral relationships. The authors contribute invigorating new material to an established and crucial area of anthropological study. Vered Amit, Anthony Cohen, Andrew Dawson, Noel Dyck, John Gray, Signe Howell, Marian Kempny, Ullrich Kockel, Karen Fog Olwig and Nigel Rapport Annotation 'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea continues to resonate powerfully in our daily lives, ethnographic accounts as well as theoretical analyses. This book returns a timely and concerted anthropological gaze to community as part of a broader consideration of contemporary circumstances of social affiliation and solidarity It is difficult to discern much in the way of coherence among the multitude of definitions, descriptions and claims of community which occur in quotidian conversation as well as within a variety of scholarly work.