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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463338703321

Autore

Nader Laura

Titolo

Culture and dignity [[electronic resource] ] : dialogues between the Middle East and the West / / Laura Nader

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

ISBN

1-299-15783-1

1-118-31904-4

1-118-31902-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Classificazione

SOC002010

Disciplina

303.48/25601821

Soggetti

Civilization, Arab

Ethnology - Arab countries

Arabs - Ethnic identity

East and West

Electronic books.

Western countries Relations Arab countries

Arab countries Relations Western countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Culture and Dignity: Dialogues between the Middle East and the West; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction; Indignities; Naturalizing Difference and the Great Transformation; Comparison, Ethnography, and History; References; Further Reading; 2 From Rifa' ah al-Tahtawi to Edward Said: Lessons in Culture and Dignity; Introduction; Rifa' ah al-Tahtawi and France; A Hundred Years Later: Edward Said; Concluding Comments; References; 3 Ethnography as Theory: On the Roots of Controversy in Anthropology; Introduction; Unstated Consensus; Defining Ethnographic Worth: 1896-2000

Ethnographic AudiencesAn Outsider Looking In on Anthropology's Ethnography; Concluding Comments; Note; References; Further Reading; 4 Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Control of Women; Cultural Hierarchy and Processes of Control; The Specificity of Eastern and Western Grids; Positional Superiority, Thought Systems, and Other Cultures; Ways of Seeing and Comparing - East and West; The



Controlling Role of Ideas; The Use of Revolution in Gender Control; Multiple Systems of Female Subordination; Colonialism, Development, Religion, and Gender Control; Conclusion: The Need to Separate Identities

AcknowledgmentsNotes; References; Further Reading; 5 Corporate Fundamentalism: Constructing Childhood in the United States and Elsewhere; Introduction; Manufacturing Culture Bit by Bit; Fundamentalisms: Corporate and Religious; Marketing and Children: The United States; Drugs, Commercialism, and the Biomedical Paradigm: An American Example; When Corporate Profits and Education Meet: The Educational Testing Industry; Fundamentalisms: Economic, Religious, Political; Back to Corporate Fundamentalism: Future Directions; References; Further Reading

6 Culture and the Seeds of Nonviolence in the Middle EastIntroduction; Disharmonic Westernization and Pilgrimage; Between the Stereotype and Reality; Little Worlds in the International Grip; Culture and Nonviolence: Who Stands to Gain From Peace?; Dignity Becomes Reality; References; Further Reading; 7 Normative Blindness and Unresolved Human Rights Issues: The Hypocrisy of Our Age; Introduction; Early Constraints; Unresolved Issues; A Nonstate Human Rights Effort; Health and Human Rights; Human Rights and Commercialism; Concluding Remarks; Note; References

8 Breaking the Silence: Politics and Professional AutonomyIntroduction; Silence and Dominant Hegemonies; Desensitization; Mistakes Repeated in the Iraq Invasion; Note; References; 9 Lessons; Lessons Learned; Strategies of Subordination - In Reverse; Macro-histories; References; Appendix Laura Nader: Selected Publications Relating to the Middle East; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence. Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections between peoples--especially the critical intercultural dialogues between the cultures of the East and the West Takes an historical and ethnographic approach to studying the intermingling of Arab peoples and the West. Demonstrates how cultural exchange between the East and West is a two-way process Presents an anthropological perspective on issues such as religious fundamentalism, the lives of women and children, notions of violence and order "--