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Anthropology begins in the encounter with the ‘exotic’: what stands outside of—and challenges—conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubsta...
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Against Exoticism : Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology / ed. by Bruce Kapferer, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (154 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Against Exoticism -- Chapter 1 On Ethnographic Nostalgia: Exoticizing and De-exoticizing the Emberá, for Example -- Chapter 2 Between Tristes Tropiques and Cultural Creativity: Modern Times and the Vanishing Primitive -- Chapter 3 The Exotic Albatross: Exotic Indians, Exotic Theory -- Chapter 4 Living the Li(f)e: Negotiating Paradise in Southern Sri Lanka -- Chapter 5 Bahia of All Saints, Enchantments, and Dreams: Female Tourists, Capoeira Practitioners, and the Exotic -- Chapter 6 From Primitive to Culturally Distinct: Patachitra and Self-Exoticization in West Bengal -- Afterword: Lessons of the Exotic -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Anthropology begins in the encounter with the ‘exotic’: what stands outside of—and challenges—conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches. Chapters look at the risk of exoticism in the perspectivist approach, the significant exotic corrective of Lévi-Strauss vis-à-vis an imperializing Eurocentrism, our nostalgic relationship with the ethnographic record, and the attempts of local communities to readapt previous exoticized referents, renegotiate their identity, and ‘counter-exoticize.’ This volume demonstrates a range of approaches that will be valuable for researchers and students seeking to effectively establish comparative methodological frameworks that transcend issues of relativism and universalism. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022) Cultural relativism Case studies. Ethnology Case studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Bhattacharyya, Urmi, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Kapferer, Bruce, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Kapferer, Bruce, editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Lefkaditou, Theodora, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Nugent, Stephen, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Said, Maurice, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios, editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Werbner, Pnina, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110998221 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785333712 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785333712 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785333712/original |
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