Transatlantic Parallaxes: Toward Reciprocal Anthropology

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Titel: Transatlantic Parallaxes : Toward Reciprocal Anthropology

Enthält: 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

Beteiligte: Beriss, David [MitwirkendeR]; Capone, Stefania [MitwirkendeR]; Epstein, Beth [MitwirkendeR]; Gaboriau, Patrick [MitwirkendeR]; Ghasarian, Christian [MitwirkendeR]; Le Menestrel, Sara [MitwirkendeR]; Poulin-Deltour, William [MitwirkendeR]; Raulin, Anne [MitwirkendeR]; Raulin, Anne [HerausgeberIn]; Reed-Danahay, Deborah [MitwirkendeR]; Rogers, Susan Carol [MitwirkendeR]; Rogers, Susan Carol [HerausgeberIn]

Erschienen: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2015]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (248 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781782386643

ISBN: 9781782386643

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Schlagwörter: Applied anthropology France ; Applied anthropology United States ; Comparative civilization ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: 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

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