Karin Polit
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Polit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | Polit |
| SIGNATURE | POLIT K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lokesh Ohri, Till Kingdom Come
For several years, social and cultural anthropologists have been wrestling with the explanation of the entanglement and interconnectedness of humans with their environment. Central to this discussion is always the question of the possibility of agency or the attribution of agency by non-human actors. Lokesh Ohri’s book Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the modern Himalaya takes this discussion several steps further. It introduces a social a…
Gifts of Love and Friendship
Social Consequences Of Ritual Failure
In the field of ritual studies, ritual failure has been explained from many different perspectives. In his description of a ritual which failed to function properly, Clifford Geertz describes failure of function as a natural result of social change. Distinguishing culture as a framework of beliefs from the social world as interactive behaviour, he attributes the failure of ritual to a growing discontinuity between the community's cultural framewo…
Health, Wealth or Family Ties? Why Turkish Work Migrants Return from Germany
In the 1960s and 1970s, hundreds of thousands of Turkish workers migrated to Germany. Some settled there, others returned to Turkey after a few years. To explore how the experience of life between two cultures and in transnational families affected the decision to return, we conducted focus-group sessions with male returnees in Turkey who had spent varying lengths of time in Germany. Return was rarely based on purely economic or health-related mo…
Health, Wealth or Family Ties? Why Turkish Work Migrants Return from Germany
In the 1960s and 1970s, hundreds of thousands of Turkish workers migrated to Germany. Some settled there, others returned to Turkey after a few years. To explore how the experience of life between two cultures and in transnational families affected the decision to return, we conducted focus-group sessions with male returnees in Turkey who had spent varying lengths of time in Germany. Return was rarely based on purely economic or health-related mo…
Health, Wealth or Family Ties? Why Turkish Work Migrants Return from Germany
In the 1960s and 1970s, hundreds of thousands of Turkish workers migrated to Germany. Some settled there, others returned to Turkey after a few years. To explore how the experience of life between two cultures and in transnational families affected the decision to return, we conducted focus-group sessions with male returnees in Turkey who had spent varying lengths of time in Germany. Return was rarely based on purely economic or health-related mo…
Social Consequences Of Ritual Failure
In the field of ritual studies, ritual failure has been explained from many different perspectives. In his description of a ritual which failed to function properly, Clifford Geertz describes failure of function as a natural result of social change. Distinguishing culture as a framework of beliefs from the social world as interactive behaviour, he attributes the failure of ritual to a growing discontinuity between the community's cultural framewo…
Gifts of Love and Friendship
Lokesh Ohri, Till Kingdom Come
For several years, social and cultural anthropologists have been wrestling with the explanation of the entanglement and interconnectedness of humans with their environment. Central to this discussion is always the question of the possibility of agency or the attribution of agency by non-human actors. Lokesh Ohri’s book Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the modern Himalaya takes this discussion several steps further. It introduces a social a…
History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 work) · Ceremony (1 work) · Demographic economics (1 work)