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.
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.
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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Introduction: Against Exoticism Bruce Kapferer and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 1¿. On Ethnographic Nostalgia: Exoticizing and De-exoticizing the Emberá, for Example Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 2. Between Triste Tropique and Cultural Creativity: Modern Times and the Vanishing Primitive Pnina Werbner Chapter 3. The Exotic Albatross: Exotic Indians, Exotic Theory Stephen Nugent Chapter 4. Living the Li(f)e: Negotiating Paradise in Southern Sri Lanka Maurice Said Chapter 5. Bahia of All Saints, Enchantments and Dreams: Female Tourists, Capoeira Practitioners, and The Exotic Theodora Lefkaditou Chapter 6. From Primitive to Culturally Distinct: Patachitra Art and Self-Exoticization in West Bengal Urmi Bhattacharyya Afterword Bruce Kapferer and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Index
Introduction: Against Exoticism Bruce Kapferer and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 1¿. On Ethnographic Nostalgia: Exoticizing and De-exoticizing the Emberá, for Example Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 2. Between Triste Tropique and Cultural Creativity: Modern Times and the Vanishing Primitive Pnina Werbner Chapter 3. The Exotic Albatross: Exotic Indians, Exotic Theory Stephen Nugent Chapter 4. Living the Li(f)e: Negotiating Paradise in Southern Sri Lanka Maurice Said Chapter 5. Bahia of All Saints, Enchantments and Dreams: Female Tourists, Capoeira Practitioners, and The Exotic Theodora Lefkaditou Chapter 6. From Primitive to Culturally Distinct: Patachitra Art and Self-Exoticization in West Bengal Urmi Bhattacharyya Afterword Bruce Kapferer and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Index
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