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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792203403321

Titolo

Grammars of identity/alterity : a structural approach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Berghahn Books, 2004

ISBN

1-84545-108-2

1-57181-698-4

Collana

EASA series  Grammars of identity/alterity

Classificazione

71.62

Disciplina

302.4

Soggetti

Group identity

Other (Philosophy)

Violence

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Social Change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.