ISBN:
9783030456382
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (457 pages)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Elie, Serge D. A post-exotic anthropology of Soqotra ; volume 1: A mesography of an indigenous polity in Yemen
DDC:
953.32
Keywords:
Indigenous peoples
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Terminology and Transliteration -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acronyms -- Prologue: An Invitation to Practice Anthropology Differently -- A Mesogaphy of Soqotra: A Total Community Study -- The Catalyst: Arcadian Epistemology Fatigue -- Targeted Audience: Status Quo Dissenters -- Anthropology Without Narcissus: Abandoning the Self-Other Dialectic -- Oppositional Standpoint: Constructive Iconoclasm -- Interstitial Zone: Straddling Africa and Arabia -- Engaging Locals: Ethic of Reciprocity -- Reclaiming Anthropology as a Human Science: Beyond the West-Rest Antinomy -- Caveat About Language: Against Linguistic Populism -- Structure of the Book: Presentation Rationale -- 1 Mesography as Paradigm for a Post-Exotic Anthropology: The Post-Ethnography Turn -- 1.1 An Axial Era: Anthropology in a Post-Universalist Conjuncture -- 1.1.1 Emergent Pluriverse: Geopolitical Transition -- 1.2 Epochal Transition: From Ethnography to Mesography -- 1.2.1 Epistemological Renewal: Beyond the Neo-Imperial Vulgate -- 1.2.2 Interpretivism: A Predatory Hermeneutics -- 1.3 Disciplinary Praxis Reimagined: Infrastructural Makeover -- 1.4 Anthropology's New Ethical Covenant: Three Pillars -- 1.4.1 Research Ethic: Experiential Authenticity -- 1.4.2 Relational Ethic: Bond of Reciprocity -- 1.4.3 Discursive Ethic: Referential Veracity -- 1.5 Mesography Defined: Genealogy and Primer -- 1.6 Fieldwork as a Recursive Process: From Village Dwelling to Sites Hopping -- Part I Eco-Socio-Economic Disarticulation: Waning Pastoral Community -- 2 Synoptic Preview: Context, Catalysts, Theory, and History -- 2.1 Situating Soqotra: Contextual Reconnaissance -- 2.1.1 Noah's Ark Rediscovered: Arcadian Fixation -- 2.1.2 Clash of Futures: Incommensurable Visions -- 2.2 Catalysts of Transition: Transmigration and State Policy.
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