TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steffen,Megan
AU  - Steffen,Megan
TI  - Crowds: Ethnographic Encounters
T2  - Encounters: Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
SN  - 9781003085133
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Social research & statistics
KW  - Urban communities
KW  - Anthropology;Social research and statistics;Urban communities
N1  - Open Access
N2  - What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions, politics, or faith? In Crowds, contributors draw on their experiences and expertise to reflect on their encounters with crowds. Each chapter examines a particular crowd or conception of crowdedness to provide an analysis of how, when, where-and with whom-crowds form in different contexts, as well as their purpose and the practical effect the experience has on both the participants and their environment. The wide selection of case studies ranges from the crowds that form every year during the Hajj, to New Year celebrations in China, commuters on the Delhi metro, public prayer in Nigeria, online mobs in Bangladesh, and the crowds that have emerged during protest movements in Thailand and Syria. Crowds makes a key contribution to establishing an anthropological theory of crowds and will be an essential read for both students and researchers
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/36a2cf86-fc26-42dd-ab24-cf18927b3c38/9781000185157.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42729
ER  -