ISBN:
9780415150019
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (331 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Siting Culture : The Shifting Anthropological Object
DDC:
301/.01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉Siting Culture〈/I〉 will be essential reading to the many students of culture who are looking for ways of siting culture in the diffuse and complex theoretical space of present day anthropology
Description / Table of Contents:
Siting CultureThe shifting anthropological object; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Part IFinding a place for culture; 1 Cultural sites: sustaining a home in a deterritorialized world; 2 Imagining a place in the Andes: in the borderland of lived, invented, and analyzed culture; 3 Which world? On the diffusion of Algerian raï to the West; 4 Seeking place: capsized identities and contracted belonging among Sri Lankan Tamil refugees; Part IIThe culture and politics of place
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The nation as a human being-a metaphor in a midlife crisis? Notes on the imminent collapse of Norwegian national identity6 Paradoxes of sovereignty and independence: "Real" and "pseudo" nation-states and the depoliticization of poverty; 7 The experience of displacement: Reconstructing places and identities in Sri Lanka; 8 Localizing the American dream: Constructing Hawaiian homelands; 9 Picturing and placing Constable Country; Part IIITopical metaphors in anthropological thinking; 10 Speechless emissaries: Refugees, humanitarianism, and dehistoricization
Description / Table of Contents:
11 "Roots" and "Mosaic" in a Balkan border village: Locating cultural production12 Simplifying complexity: Assimilating the global in a small paradise; 13 There are no Indians in the Dominican Republic: The cultural construction of Dominican identities; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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