Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories 'Greek' and 'Turk', and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors examine the opinions of diverse social groups, such as ordinary middle-class citizens, intellectuals, army officers, children, villagers, refugees from Asia Minor, and Greek-and-Turkisj-Cypriots. They also investigate the local attitudes to international politics and highlight the contextual -...
Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the...
."the book has a number of things to recommend it, particularly for undergraduate teaching, as its scale and readability would be an ethnographic asset for courses on, for example, anthropology and the environment. Its material also provides a number of teachable opportunities, both critically and historically." - Human Ecology "Though predominantly informative about Greek rural life, the book constitutes an illustrative and informative account about human relationships with the natural world more generally." - H-Environment The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the...
."the book has a number of things to recommend it, particularly for undergraduate teaching, as its scale and readability would be an ethnographic asse...
Exoticisation undressed is an innovative ethnography revealing the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered, and their inherent power to distort understanding. The study focuses on the clothing practices of the Embera in Panama, an Amerindian ethnic group who have gained national and international visibility through their engagement with indigenous tourism. The act of gaining visibility while wearing indigenous attire has encouraged a closer identification with an indigenous identity, and a more confident representational awareness among some Embera...
Exoticisation undressed is an innovative ethnography revealing the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered, a...
Anthropology begins in the encounter with the 'exotic' what stands outside of--and challenges--conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches.
Chapters look at the risk of exoticism in the perspectivist approach, the significant exotic...
Anthropology begins in the encounter with the 'exotic' what stands outside of--and challenges--conventional or established understandings. This vol...
Exoticisation Undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and refract understanding. -- .
Exoticisation Undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are fi...
