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In Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay: Social
and Kinship Relations within a Market Economy, Stephen Kidd
examines the social discourse and value systems of the Indigenous
Enxet people. Kidd's analysis focuses on how the Enxet navigate the
market economy in Paraguay through their values of egalitarianism,
generosity, and personal autonomy.
Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love - variously defined -
as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study.
The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni
couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant
youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man
with dementia, two women "coming home" to queer identity, a White
researcher working with Black women in the US, the common ground
between Dogen's Zen teachings and Habermas's critical theory, an
Albanian Sufi community in Michigan and interactions between humans
and the natural world. It also includes theoretical writing on the
place of love in social analysis, whether this involves
relationships between researchers and participants or the nature of
human connection itself. The authors argue that social research is
an affective process as well as a cognitive one, and that fellow
feeling is an essential component of making sense of the world.
Along with more traditional scholarly forms, the contributors to
this book use auto-ethnography, life stories, archival research and
poetry, noting that style itself conveys information and emotion.
Writing is always to some extent partisan. While anthropologists
and other social researchers have explored this idea over the last
few decades, they have more often explored it with an eye to
critique than to the ideals underlying that critique. This is a
collection of essays about what ethnographers are aiming for as
well as the problems they address, and the authors discuss ethical
principles like agape, hizmet and carino as rationales for
ethnography and rationales for social change.
Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing -
as a case study, this work contends that economic development can
be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx
of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government.
Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing -
as a case study, this work contends that economic development can
be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx
of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government.
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