Transatlantic Parallaxes : : Toward Reciprocal Anthropology / / ed. by Anne Raulin, Susan Carol Rogers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Beriss, David,; Capone, Stefania,; Epstein, Beth,; Gaboriau, Patrick,; Ghasarian, Christian,; Le Menestrel, Sara,; Poulin-Deltour, William,; Raulin, Anne,; Reed-Danahay, Deborah,; Rogers, Susan Carol,
• HerausgeberIn: Raulin, Anne,; Rogers, Susan Carol,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Anthropological inquiry developed around the study of the exotic. Now that we live in a world that seems increasingly familiar, putatively marked by a spreading sameness, anthropology must re-envision itself. The emergence of diverse national traditions in the discipline offers one intriguing path. This volume, the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States, explores the possibilities of that path through an experiment in the reciprocal production of knowledge. Simultaneously native subjects, foreign experts, and colleagues, these scholars offer novel insights into each other’s societies, juxtaposing glimpses of ourselves and a familiar “others” to productively unsettle and enrich our understanding of both.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Distinctions: Class, Race, Culture -- 1 Homeless People (Paris, Los Angeles) The principle of equality seen from below -- 2 The Moral Public Sphere: Integration and discrimination in a French New Town -- 3 Creolization, Racial Imagination, and the Music Market in French Louisiana -- 4 Claiming Culture, Defending Culture: Perspectives on culture in France and the United States -- Part II Key Words: Community, Healing -- 5 Gay Activism and the Question of Community -- 6 Confronting “Community” From rural France to the Vietnamese diaspora -- 7 Healing the Community: Ethics and ancestry in Orisha religious practices in the United States -- 8 Healing at the Foot of the Twin Towers: Beyond the trauma of 9/11 -- Part III Myths: Endless possibility, Countrysides -- 9 To Live in a World of Possibilities: A New Age version of the American Myth -- 10 Faux Amis in the Countryside: Deciphering the familiar -- Contributors -- Index