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

New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books , 2006. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. 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 M�hlich -- German grammars of identity/alterity: a diachronic view / Anne Friederike M�ller -- Alterity as celebration, alterity as threat: a comparison of grammars between Brazil and Denmark / Inger Sj�rslev -- 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.