Transatlantic Parallaxes

Toward Reciprocal Anthropology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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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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Utgivningsdatum2015-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781782386636

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Anne Raulin is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Paris West-Nanterre-La Defense and a member of the Laboratory of Urban Anthropology at CNRS, Ivry. She has published ethnographic fieldwork on both New York and Paris respectively in Manhattan ou la mémoire insulaire (1997) and L’ethnique est quotidian: Diasporas, marchés et cultures metropolitaines (2000) and is the author of a general textbook on urban anthropology, Anthropologie Urbaine ([2001] 2007).

PrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: Toward reciprocal anthropologyAnne Raulin and Susan Carol RogersPART I: DISTINCTIONS: CLASS, RACE, CULTUREChapter 1. Homeless People (Paris, Los Angeles): The principle of equality seen from belowPatrick GaboriauChapter 2. The Moral Public Sphere: Integration and discrimination in a French New TownBeth EpsteinChapter 3. Creolization, Racial Imagination and the Music Market in French LouisianaSara Le MenestrelChapter 4. Claiming Culture, Defending Culture: Perspectives on culture in France and the United StatesDavid BerissPART II: KEY WORDS: COMMUNITY, HEALINGChapter 5. Gay Activism and the Question of Community William Poulin-DeltourChapter 6. Confronting “Community”: From Rural France to the Vietnamese DiasporaDeborah Reed-DanahayChapter 7. Healing the Community: Ethics and ancestry in Orisha religious practices in the United States Stefania CaponeChapter 8. Healing at the Foot of the Twin Towers: Beyond the trauma of 9/11Anne RaulinPART III: MYTHS: ENDLESS POSSIBILITY, COUNTRYSIDES Chapter 9. To Live in a World of Possibilities: A New Age version of the American MythChristian GhasarianChapter 10. Faux Amis in the Countryside: Deciphering the familiarSusan Carol RogersIndex