Customary Strangers
New Perspectives on Peripatetic Peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia
Social scientists have generally remained impervious to a major economic and cultural adaptation--namely, the peripatetic lifestyle--although this adaptation has been an integral part of developments within the socioeconomic and cultural networks that social scientists study. This lack of interest derives perhaps from the ambiguous integration of peripatetics into these networks as well as the often negatively charged constructs--Gypsies, outsiders, or marginal others--imposed on peripatetics by dominant cultures. As peddlers of the strange to borrow a phrase from Clifford Geertz, peripatetics are situated at the fringes of their host societi…
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Weitere Autoren: Rao, Aparna (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-89789-771-6
- EAN: 9780897897716
- Produktnummer: 1340179
- Verlag: Praeger
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 350 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.3 cm 692 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 692
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