Anthropology begins in the encounter with the exotic: what stands outside ofand challengesconventional 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-ą-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.
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This book demonstrates the urgent need for a scholarly discourse on methodological concerns with intellectual representations of minorities and subaltern groups. It echoes postcolonial critiques of representation, challenges the transparency by denegations of intellectuals and undoes the epistemic violence By unraveling these realities, the book contributes a meaningful analysis of deep-seated social values and heterogeneous norms for advancing the discipline of anthropology. Anthro Book Forum
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Chapter 1 On Ethnographic Nostalgia: Exoticizing and De-exoticizing the Embera, for Example |
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Chapter 2 Between Tristes Tropiques and Cultural Creativity: Modern Times and the Vanishing Primitive |
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Chapter 3 The Exotic Albatross: Exotic Indians, Exotic Theory |
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Chapter 4 Living the Li(f)e: Negotiating Paradise in Southern Sri Lanka |
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Chapter 5 Bahia of All Saints, Enchantments, and Dreams: Female Tourists, Capoeira Practitioners, and the Exotic |
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Chapter 6 From Primitive to Culturally Distinct: Patachitra and Self-Exoticization in West Bengal |
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| Afterword: Lessons of the Exotic |
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Bruce Kapferer is Director of an ERC Advanced Grant on Egalitarianism at the University of Bergen. He was the Foundation Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Adelaide and later James Cook University. He was the Professor and Chair of Anthropology at University College London, where he is now also Honorary Professor. He is the author of several monographs, including Legends of People, Myths of State (2011) and 2001 and Counting: Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology (2014), and editor of many volumes, among which are Beyond Rationalism (2003) and In the Event (2015, with Lotte Meinert). He has conducted ethnographic research in Zambia, Sri Lanka, Australia, India, and South Africa.
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