Based on ethnographic studies from around the world, varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and management, this volume unfolds how to analyze generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations.

Introduction: In the Event—toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments Bruce Kapferer Chapter 1. ‘Ashura in Bahrain: Analyses of an Analytical Event Thomas Fibiger Chapter 2. ‘Burying the ANC’: Post-apartheid Ambiguities at the University of Limpopo, South Africa Bjarke Oxlund Chapter 3. A Topographic Event: A Buddhist Lama’s Perception of a Pilgrimage Cave Jesper Oestergaard Chapter 4. The Outburst: Climate Change, Gender Relations, and Situational Analysis Jonas Østergaard Nielsen Chapter 5. Events and Effects: Intensive Transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark Mikkel Rytter Chapter 6. The Cartoon Controversy: Creating Muslims in a Danish Setting Anja Kublitz Chapter 7. Values at Work: Ambivalent Situations and Human Resource Embarrassment Jakob Krause-Jensen Chapter 8. Figurations of the Future: On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe Stine Krøijer Chapter 9. Mimesis of the State: From Natural Disaster to Urban Citizenship on the Outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique Morten Nielsen About the Editors Index

“In general terms, In the Event: Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments accomplishes several goals that make it a book extremely worth reading. For a start, it is an excellent introduction to the contemporary validity of the Manchester School, particularly in terms of the exploration concerning the question of what an event is and does. Furthermore, and following from this, the various contributions to this volume show a very thought provoking argument, inspired by Deleuze (2002): the event is the seed to change, to multiplicity, to the unexpected, rather than merely the illustration of something that already exists. Finally, every chapter of this book manifests something that is becoming increasingly evident for all of us: the translocal connections made visible by the occurrence of events.” · Anthropological Forum