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The essays in this volume, in all their astonishing richness and diversity, focus on the question of the other. Brimming with whole flotillas of new ideas, they delineate subtle and various ways in which that question can be made the basis of an ethnographic project. In them, the author responds to the invitations extended by a specific location rather than pursuing a codified method. And they examine many different socialities in many different locationsamong them the Cornell University campus in the late seventies, the former Muse de lHomme and the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, the Indonesian province of Aceh in the wake of the tsunami of 2004, and contemporary Indonesia, in the liminal figures of the Jew and the Chinese. The author meticulously traces how the social and cultural responses in each location are astonishingly differentin the form, say, of gorges, faces, garbage, and fetishes. Regrettably, these days anthropologists have a tendency to look for similarities rather than differences, to show how one phenomenon is just like another. This book stands determinedly against this trend, both in its ethnographic examinations and in how it takes up such figures as Kant, Derrida

Author

Siegel, James T. , 1937-

Publisher

Fordham University Press New York University Press [distributor

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823232758

Subjects

Anthropology, Philosophy, Social_sciences