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Yearnings in the meantime : 'normal lives' and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex
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- Creator
- Stef Jansen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Berghahn, 2015
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- Physical Details
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- xii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1785338218, 9781782386506, 1782386513, 1782386505, 9781782386513
- OCLC
- ocn896861966, ocn910935723
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
- Introduction [or, towards an anthropology of shared concerns] -- Figuring 'normal lives' -- 'Normal lives' [or, towards an anthropology of yearning] -- Waiting for a bus [or, towards an anthropology of gridding] -- War-time gridding for 'normal lives' [or, towards an anthropology of hope for the state] -- Diagnosing Daytonitis -- First symptom: 'there is no system' [or, towards an anthropology of an elusive state effect] -- Second symptom: 'we are pattering in place' [or, towards an anthropology of spatiotemporal entrapment] -- Living with Daytonitis -- Conviviality in the meantime [or, towards a critique of Dayton non-politics] -- Epilogue, shovelling and numbering for 'normal lives'