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Bruce (Hrsg.) Kapferer

Against Exoticism

Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology

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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 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 Levi-Strauss vis-à-vis an imperia… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-78533-370-5
  • EAN: 9781785333705
  • Produktnummer: 20625250
  • Verlag: Berghahn Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 154 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 234 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 234

Über den Autor


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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