Against Exoticism: Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology

by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (Editor), Bruce Kapferer (Editor)

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  2016

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  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.