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Grammars of identity/alterity: a structural approach / edited by Gerd Baumann

Grammars of identity/alterity: a structural approach / edited by Gerd Baumann and Andre Gingrich; European Association of Social Anthropologists, contributor Softcover - 2006

by Baumann, Gerd

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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.
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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 F), 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).

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