Integrating Strangers in Society Perspectives from Elsewhere

Integrating Strangers in Society Perspectives from Elsewhere / edited by Jos D. M. Platenkamp, Almut Schneider.

“The essays presented break a new path in the human sciences: there is not much written on the issue in focus and this perspective before. There may be bits here and there in introductory books on anthropological fieldwork, but I know of nothing that can compare with this new endeavor. This text off...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Platenkamp, Jos D. M. (Editor), Schneider, Almut (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Ethnology.
Ethnography.
Cultural studies.
Emigration and immigration.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Becoming a Sinta: learning to see dreams and relating to the dead
  • 3. "You are like geese". Working and rum dancing with the Inuit elders in Nunavut (Canada)
  • 4. Being the otheri n Inuit society
  • 5. An anthropologist in Kanaky. Modulations of belonging and otherness
  • 6. A stranger-anthropologist as advocate of Māori development projects
  • 7. On becoming a ritual master among the Lanten - Yao Mun - of Laos
  • 8. To be made part part of Tobelo society (North Moluccas)
  • 9. Welcome to Tanebar-Evav - can one be incorporated in a village society?
  • 10. Naming and Becoming a Munyoro in Western Uganda
  • 11. Placing the newcomer - staying with the Gawigl of Highland Papua New Guinea
  • 12. Mythical beings from the swamp among the Siassi, Papua New Guinea
  • 13. Strangers on an industrial frontier in Eastern India.

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