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Title Against exoticism : toward the transcendence of relativism and universalism in anthropology / edited by Bruce Kapferer and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 147 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents On ethnographic nostalgia : exoticising and de-exoticising the Emberá, for example / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Between triste tropique and cultural creativity : modern times and the vanishing primitive / Pnina Werbner -- The exotic albatross : exotic Indians, exotic theory / Stephen Nugent -- Living the li(f)e : negotiating paradise in southern Sri Lanka / Maurice Said -- Bahia of all saints, enchantments and dreams : female tourists, capoeira practitioners, and the exotic / Theodora Lefkaditou -- From primitive to culturally distinct : Patachitra art and self-exoticisation in West Bengal / Urmi Bhattacharyya.
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Subject Cultural relativism -- Case studies.
Cultural relativism.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Ethnology -- Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Added Author Kapferer, Bruce, editor.
Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Against exoticism. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016 9781785333705 (DLC) 2016044417
ISBN 9781785333712 (electronic book)
1785333712 (electronic book)
9781785333705 (paperback alkaline paper)