Transatlantic Parallaxes

Toward Reciprocal Anthropology

Anne Raulin, Susan Carol Rogers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2015
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-663-6 (ISBN)

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Now that we live in a world that seems increasingly familiar, putatively marked by a spreading sameness, anthropology must re-envision itself. This volume, the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States, explores the possibilities of that path...

Anthropological inquiry developed around the study of the exotic. Now that we live in a world that seems increasingly familiar, putatively marked by a spreading sameness, anthropology must re-envision itself. The emergence of diverse national traditions in the discipline offers one intriguing path. This volume, the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States, explores the possibilities of that path through an experiment in the reciprocal production of knowledge. Simultaneously native subjects, foreign experts, and colleagues, these scholars offer novel insights into each other’s societies, juxtaposing glimpses of ourselves and a familiar “others” to productively unsettle and enrich our understanding of both.

Anne Raulin is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Paris West-Nanterre-La Defense and a member of the Laboratory of Urban Anthropology at CNRS, Ivry. She has published ethnographic fieldwork on both New York and Paris respectively in Manhattan ou la mémoire insulaire (1997) and L’ethnique est quotidian: Diasporas, marchés et cultures metropolitaines (2000) and is the author of a general textbook on urban anthropology, Anthropologie Urbaine ([2001] 2007).

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction: Toward reciprocal anthropology

Anne Raulin and Susan Carol Rogers

PART I: DISTINCTIONS: CLASS, RACE, CULTURE

Chapter 1. Homeless People (Paris, Los Angeles): The principle of equality seen from below

Patrick Gaboriau

Chapter 2. The Moral Public Sphere: Integration and discrimination in a French New Town

Beth Epstein

Chapter 3. Creolization, Racial Imagination and the Music Market in French Louisiana

Sara Le Menestrel

Chapter 4. Claiming Culture, Defending Culture: Perspectives on culture in France and the United States

David Beriss

PART II: KEY WORDS: COMMUNITY, HEALING

Chapter 5. Gay Activism and the Question of Community

William Poulin-Deltour

Chapter 6. Confronting “Community”: From Rural France to the Vietnamese Diaspora

Deborah Reed-Danahay

Chapter 7. Healing the Community: Ethics and ancestry in Orisha religious practices in the United States

Stefania Capone

Chapter 8. Healing at the Foot of the Twin Towers: Beyond the trauma of 9/11

Anne Raulin

PART III: MYTHS: ENDLESS POSSIBILITY, COUNTRYSIDES

Chapter 9. To Live in a World of Possibilities: A New Age version of the American Myth

Christian Ghasarian

Chapter 10. Faux Amis in the Countryside: Deciphering the familiar

Susan Carol Rogers

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2015
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	503 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78238-663-7 / 1782386637
ISBN-13	978-1-78238-663-6 / 9781782386636
Zustand	Neuware