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In This Remarkable And Often Dazzling Book, Paul Carter Explores The Conditions For Sociability In A Globalized Future. He Argues That We Make Many Assumptions About Communication But Overlook Barriers To Understanding Between Strangers As Well As The Importance Of Improvisation In Overcoming These Obstacles To Meeting. While Disciplines Such As Sociology, Legal Studies, Psychology, Political Theory, And Even Urban Planning Treat Meeting As A Good In Its Own Right, They Fail To Provide A Model Of What Makes Meeting Possible And Worth Pursuing: A Yearning For Encounter. The Volume's Central Narrative--between Northern Cultural Philosophers And Australian Societies--traverses The Troubled History Of Misinterpretation That Is Characteristic Of Colonial Cross-cultural Encounter. As He Brings The Literature Of Indigenous And Non-indigenous Anthropological Research Into Dialogue With Western Approaches Of Conceptualizing Sociability, Carter Makes A Startling Discovery: That Meeting May Not Be Desirable And, If It Is, Its Primary Objective May Be To Negotiate A Future Of Non-meeting. To Explain The Phenomenon Of Encounter, Carter Performs It In Differing Scales, Spaces, Languages, Tropes,

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Author

Carter, Paul , 1951-

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816685363

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Anthropology