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....

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