Integrating Strangers in Society

TRAMA

This book provides a uniquely positioned contribution to the current debates on the integration of immigrants in Europe. Twelve social anthropologists—“strangers by vocation”—reflect upon how they were taken in by those they studied over the course of their long-term fieldwork. The societies concerned are Sinti (northern Italy), Inuit (Canadian Arctic), Kanak (New Caledonia), Maori (New Zealand), Lanten (Laos), Tobelo and Tanebar-Evav (Indonesia), Banyoro (Uganda), Gawigl and Siassi (Papua New Guinea) and a township in Odisha (India). A comparative analysis of these reflexive, ethnographic accounts reveals as yet underrepresented, non-European perspectives on the issue of integrating strangers, enabling the reader to identify and reflect upon the uniquely Western ideals and values that currently dominate such discourse.

SOMMARIO

1 Introduction2 Becoming a Sinta: Learning to See Dreams and Relating to the Dead3 “You are like Geese”. Working and Drum Dancing with Inuit Elders in Nunavut (Canada)4 Being the Other in Inuit Society5 An Anthropologist in Kanaky. Modulations of Belonging and Otherness6 A Stranger-Anthropologist as Advocate of Ma¯ori Development Projects7 On Becoming a Ritual Master Among the Lanten—Yao Mun—Of Laos8 To Be Made Part of the Tobelo Society (North Moluccas)9 Welcome to Tanebar-Evav: Can One Be Incorporated in a Village Society?10 “What Is Your Empaako?” Naming and Becoming a Munyoro in Western Uganda11 Placing the Newcomer: Staying with the Gawigl of Highland Papua New Guinea12 Mythical Beings from the Swamp Among the Siassi, Papua New Guinea13 The Variegated Integration of an Anthropologist in an Eastern Indian Steel Town

AUTORE

Jos D. M. Platenkamp is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Münster, Germany. Almut Schneider is Associate Researcher in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783030167028
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm Ø 560 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XIX, 229 p. 1 illus.
• Pagine Arabe: 229
• Pagine Romane: xix