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04796aam a2200589 i 4500 001 4DADF1B8F2B011E79A81643B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180106010252 008 140815s2015 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014028136 020 $a 1137350822 020 $a 9781137350824 035 $a (OCoLC)882530887 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d CDX $d CHVBK $d STF $d DGU $d NLE $d S3O $d OCLCQ $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/f 050 00 $a HN773.5 $b .E88 2015 082 00 $a 306.096 $2 23 084 $a SOC042000 $a SOC002000 $a SOC042000 $2 bisacsh 245 00 $a Ethnographies of uncertainty in Africa / $c edited by Elizabeth Cooper, Simon Fraser University, Canada, David Pratten, Oxford University, UK. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a xiii, 198 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Anthropology, Change and Development 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 2 $a "This collection explores the productive potential of uncertainty for people living in Africa as well as for scholars of Africa. The relevance of the focus on uncertainty in Africa is not only that contemporary life is objectively risky and unpredictable (since it is so everywhere and in every period), but that uncertainty has become a dominant trope in the subjective experience of life in contemporary African societies. The contributors investigate how uncertainty animates people's ways of knowing and being across the continent. An introduction and eight ethnographic studies examine uncertainty as a social resource that can be used to negotiate insecurity, conduct and create relationships, and act as a source for imagining the future. These in-depth accounts demonstrate that uncertainty does not exist as an autonomous, external condition. Rather, uncertainty is entwined with social relations and shapes people's relationship between the present and the future. By foregrounding uncertainty, this volume advances our understandings of the contingency of practice, both socially and temporally"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a 1. Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa : An Introduction / Elizabeth Cooper and David Pratten -- PART I. SOCIAL CONTINGENCIES : BETWEEN SUSPICION AND THE SUBJUNCTIVE -- 2. Contingency : Interpersonal and Historical Dependencies in HIV Care / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Godfrey Etyang Siu -- 3. Charity and Chance : The Manufacture of Uncertainty and Mistrust Through Child Sponsorship in Kenya / Elizabeth Cooper -- 4. The Quest for Trust in the Face of Uncertainty : Managing Pregnancy Outcomes in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- 5. Food Security, Conjugal Conflict, and Uncertainty in "Bangladesh," Mombasa, Kenya / Adam Gilbertson -- PART II. FUTURE VISIONS -- 6. Social Invisibility and Political Opacity : On Perceptiveness and Apprehension in Bissau / Henrik Vigh -- 7. Rhythms of Uncertainty and the Pleasures of Anticipation / Julie Soleil Archambault -- 8. Embracing Uncertainty : Young People on the Move in Addis Ababa's Inner City / Marco Di Nunzio -- 9. "We Wait for Miracles" : Ideas of Hope and Future Among Clandestine Burundian Refugees in Nairobi / Simon Turner. 651 0 $a Africa $x Social conditions $y 1960- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001576 650 0 $a Uncertainty $x Social aspects $z Africa. 650 0 $a Pragmatism $x Social aspects $z Africa. 650 0 $a Forecasting $x Social aspects $z Africa. 650 0 $a Social problems $z Africa. 650 0 $a Ethnology $z Africa. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045206 651 4 $a Afrika. 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS $x Economic Development. $x Economic Development. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x General. $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x Developing Countries. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Zukunft. $0 (DE-588)4068097-6 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Unsicherheit. $0 (DE-588)4186957-6 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Soziale Situation. $0 (DE-588)4077575-6 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Soziale Probleme. $0 (DE-588)4139770-8 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Pragmatismus. $0 (DE-588)4047046-5 $2 gnd 651 7 $a Afrika. $0 (DE-588)4000695-5 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Sociala problem. $2 sao 650 7 $a Pragmatism. $2 sao 648 7 $a 1900-talet $2 sao 700 1 $a Cooper, Elizabeth, $d 1976- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012094499 700 1 $a Pratten, David. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr00028063 776 08 $i Ebook version $z 9781137350831 830 0 $a Anthropology, change and development. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015117816 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106035834.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4DADF1B8F2B011E79A81643B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search