UID:
almafu_9961047036902883
Format:
1 online resource (153 pages)
Content:
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.
Note:
On ethnographic nostalgia : exoticising and de-exoticising the Emberá, for example / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Between triste tropique and cultural creativity : modern times and the vanishing primitive / Pnina Werbner -- The exotic albatross : exotic Indians, exotic theory / Stephen Nugent -- Living the li(f)e : negotiating paradise in southern Sri Lanka / Maurice Said -- Bahia of all saints, enchantments and dreams : female tourists, capoeira practitioners, and the exotic / Theodora Lefkaditou -- From primitive to culturally distinct : Patachitra art and self-exoticisation in West Bengal / Urmi Bhattacharyya.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78533-370-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78533-371-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1515/9781785333712
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785333712
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785333712
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785333712
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785333712
