Free (DRM-free) Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls [Migrant Family & Religion Anthropology]

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Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls: Family, Religion and Migration in a Global World edited by Mikkel Rytter (Academia.edu profile), a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, & Karen Fog Olwig (faculty profile), a professor in the Anthropology Institute at the University of Copenhagen, is the is the 7th title in the Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus series of mixed historical archaelogical and current cultural anthropology studies, from the looks of it, this volume containing assorted ethnographic case study essays focusing on modern culture and how the intermingling subtitular factors affect each other and shape the domestic and social lives of migrating persons, free for a limited time courtesy of Aarhus University Press in Denmark.

This is their featured English-language Free Book of the Month selection for June. This looks pretty interesting, and covers not only the experiences of immigrants from the Middle East to the Nordic countries, as one might expect, but also people in areas like the Caribbean and Peru, and focused subgroups such as women and the families of “guest workers” imported for labour who later became middle-class in ensuing generations.

Currently free through June directly @ the university's dedicated promo page (DRM-free PDF available worldwide, approx 4.2 mb)

Description
Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls engages the complex relationship between family, religion and migration. Following '9/11' much research on migrants in western societies has focused on the public and political dimensions of religion. This volume starts out 'from below', exploring how religious ideas and practices take form, are negotiated and contested within the private domain of the home, household and family. Bringing together ethnographic studies from different parts of the world, it explores the role of religious ideas and practices in migrants' efforts to sustain, create and contest moral and social orders in the context of their every day life.

The ethnographic analyses show how religious practices and imaginaries both enable engagement with new social settings and offer a means of connecting and reconnecting with people and places left behind. Offering a comparative perspective on the varying ways in which religious practices and notions of relatedness interconnect and shape each other, the book sheds new light on a comtemporary global world inhabited by mobile bodies and souls.

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Just a reminder that this may be the last day to pick up the freebie, if you're interested.