Title:
Grammars of identity/alterity : a structural approach
Author:
Baumann, Gerd.
ISBN:
9781571816986
Publication Information:
New York : Berghahn Books, 2004.
Physical Description:
xiv, 219 s. : res. ; 24 cm.
Series:
The EASA series.
Contents:
Conceptualising identities : anthropological alternatives to essentialising difference and moralizing about othering / Andre Gingrich -- Grammars of identity/alterity : a structural approach / Gerd Baumann -- Othering the scapegoat in Nepal : the ritual of Ghantakarna / Michael Mühlich -- German grammars of identity/alterity : a diachronic view / Anne Friederike Müller -- Alterity as celebration, alterity as threat : a comparison of grammars between Brazil and Denmark / Inger Sjørslev -- Completing or competing? Contexts of Hmong selfing/othering in Laos / Christian Postert --'Out of the race' : the poiesis of genocide in mass media discourses in Cote d'Ivoire / Karel Arnaut -- Dehumanization as a double-edged sword : from boot-camp animals to killing machines / Jojada Verrips -- Between structure and agency : from the langue of Hindutva identity construction to the parole of lived experience / Christian Karner -- Encompassment and its discontents : the Rmeet and the lowland Lao / Guido Sprenger -- Debating grammars : arguments and prospects / Gerd Baumann and Andre Gingrich.
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