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Grammars of identity/alterity : a structural approach / edited by Gerd Baumann and Andre Gingrich.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
- The EASA series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity.
- Other (Philosophy).
- Violence.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2004.
- Contents:
- Step I From an Essentialised Use of 'Othering' to a Differentiation of Grammars
- Chapter 1 Conceptualising Identities: Anthropological Alternatives to Essentialising Difference and Moralizing about Othering / Andre Gingrich 3
- Chapter 2 Grammars of Identity/Alterity: A Structural Approach / Gerd Baumann 18
- Step II From a Repertoire of Grammars to Hierarchies and Power
- Chapter 3 Othering the Scapegoat in Nepal: The Ritual of Ghantakarna / Michael Muhlich 53
- Chapter 4 German Grammars of Identity/Alterity: A Diachronic View / Anne Friederike Muller 63
- Chapter 5 Alterity as Celebration, Alterity as Threat: A Comparison of Grammars between Brazil and Denmark / Inger Sjorslev 79
- Step III From Power to Violence - when Grammars Implode
- Chapter 6 Completing or Competing? Contexts of Hmong Selfing/Othering in Laos / Christian Postert 101
- Chapter 7 'Out of the Race': The Poiesis of Genocide in Mass Media Discourses in Cote d'Ivoire / Karel Arnaut 112
- Chapter 8 Dehumanization as a Double-Edged Sword: From Boot-Camp Animals to Killing Machines / Jojada Verrips 142
- Step IV From Testing Grammars to Widening the Debate
- Chapter 9 Between Structure and Agency: From the langue of Hindutva Identity Construction to the parole of Lived Experience / Christian Karner 157
- Chapter 10 Encompassment and its Discontents: The Rmeet and the Lowland Lao / Guido Sprenger 173
- Chapter 11 Debating Grammars: Arguments and Prospects / Gerd Baumann, Andre Gingrich 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1571816984
- OCLC:
- 55044625
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