Against Exoticism : : Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology /

Against Exoticism : : Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology / / ed. by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Bruce Kapferer.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Bhattacharyya, Urmi,
Kapferer, Bruce,
Lefkaditou, Theodora,
Nugent, Stephen,
Said, Maurice,
Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios,
Werbner, Pnina,
HerausgeberIn:
Kapferer, Bruce,
Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (154 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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