Grammars of identity/alterity: a structural approach / edited by Gerd Baumann and Andre Gingrich; European Association of Social Anthropologists, contributor

Baumann, Gerd

ISBN 10: 1845451082 / ISBN 13: 9781845451080

Published by New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006

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Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.Signed. Physical description: xiv, 219 pages: illustrations. Contents: Conceptualising identities: anthropological alternatives to essentialising difference and moralizing about othering / Andre Gingrich -- Grammars of identity/alterity: a structural approach / Gerd Baumann -- Othering the scapegoat in Nepal: the ritual of Ghantakarna / Michael Mühlich -- German grammars of identity/alterity: a diachronic view / Anne Friederike Müller -- Alterity as celebration, alterity as threat: a comparison of grammars between Brazil and Denmark / Inger Sjørslev -- Completing or competing? Contexts of Hmong selfing/othering in Laos / Christian Postert --'Out of the race' : the poiesis of genocide in mass media discourses in Cote d'Ivoire / Karel Arnaut -- Dehumanization as a double-edged sword: from boot-camp animals to killing machines / Jojada Verrips -- Between structure and agency: from the langue of Hindutva identity construction to the parole of lived experience / Christian Karner -- Encompassment and its discontents: the Rmeet and the lowland Lao / Guido Sprenger -- Debating grammars: arguments and prospects / Gerd Baumann and Andre Gingrich. Subjects: Group identity. Other (Philosophy). Culutral identity. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 354200

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Title: Grammars of identity/alterity: a structural ...

Publisher: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Soft cover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Paperback Edition.

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Synopsis:

Issues of the construction of Self and Other, normally in the context of social exclusion of those perceived as different, have assumed a new urgency. This collection offers a fresh perspective on the ongoing debates on these questions in the social sciences and the humanities by focusing specifically on one theoretical proposition, namely, that the seemingly universal processes of identity formation and exclusion of the 'other' can be differentiated according to three modalities. All contributors directly engage with rigorous empirical testing and theoretical cross-examination of this proposition. Their results have direct implications not only for a more differentiated understanding of collective identities, but also for a better understanding of extreme collective violence and genocide.

About the Authors:

Gerd Baumann (1953-2014) was Reader in Social Anthropology at the Research Centre Religion & Society of the University of Amsterdam. His other titles included National Integration and Local Integrity: The Miri of the Nuba Mountains in the Sudan (1986), Contesting Culture: Discourses of Identity in Multiethnic London (1996) and The Multicultural Riddle: Rethinking National, Ethnic and Religious Identities (1999).

Andre Gingrich is Professor for Social Anthropology at Vienna University and Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His ethnographic field interests include the Muslim Middle East, but also Tibet and Austria. Having lectured and taught at SAR (Santa Fé), the University of Chicago, and other institutions in the US and Europe, his books include Anthropology by Comparison (2002, co-edited with R.G.Fox).