The Making and Unmaking of Differences : : Anthropological, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives / / ed. by Shingo Shimada, Burkhard Schnepel, Richard Rottenburg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Behrend, Heike,; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland,; Kohl, Karl-Heinz,; Monceri, Flavia,; Rottenburg, Richard,; Schnepel, Burkhard,; Shimada, Shingo,; Sosoe, Lukas K.,; Stewart, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Rottenburg, Richard,; Schnepel, Burkhard,; Shimada, Shingo,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)

This book is about the making and unmaking of socio-cultural differences, seen from anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives. Some contributions are of a theoretical nature, such as when the »problem of translation«, »the enigma of alienity« or »queer theory« are addressed; other...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENT
• Untrivializing Difference. A Personal Introduction
• Diversity Versus Difference: Neo-liberalism in the Minority-Debate
• Social Constructivism and the Enigma of Strangeness
• Witchcraft, Evidence and the Localisation of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Uganda
• Critical Note. Is African Philosophy Different?
• Philosophy, Queer Theories, and the Overcoming of Identity
• Cultural Differences and the Problem of Translation
• Coming Back to One’s Own: What Happens to Tradition in Neo-Traditionalist Movements?
• How different? Re-Examining the Process of Creolization
• Strangers in the Night: The Making and Unmaking of Differences from the Perspective of an Anthropology of the Night
• On the Authors
• Backmatter