LEADER 05641nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910463338703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-299-15783-1 010 $a1-118-31904-4 010 $a1-118-31902-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000327611 035 $a(EBL)1120579 035 $a(OCoLC)827207726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000831887 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11530821 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000831887 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10881580 035 $a(PQKB)10976127 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1120579 035 $a(DLC) 2012018448 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1120579 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10657902 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL447033 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000327611 100 $a20120503d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCulture and dignity$b[electronic resource] $edialogues between the Middle East and the West /$fLaura Nader 210 $aChichester, West Sussex, U.K. $cWiley-Blackwell$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-31900-1 311 $a1-118-31901-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCulture 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 327 $aEthnographic 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 327 $aAcknowledgmentsNotes; 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 327 $a6 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 327 $a8 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 330 $a"In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence. Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections between peoples--especially the critical intercultural dialogues between the cultures of the East and the West Takes an historical and ethnographic approach to studying the intermingling of Arab peoples and the West. Demonstrates how cultural exchange between the East and West is a two-way process Presents an anthropological perspective on issues such as religious fundamentalism, the lives of women and children, notions of violence and order "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCivilization, Arab 606 $aEthnology$zArab countries 606 $aArabs$xEthnic identity 606 $aEast and West 607 $aWestern countries$xRelations$zArab countries 607 $aArab countries$xRelations$zWestern countries 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivilization, Arab. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aArabs$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aEast and West. 676 $a303.48/25601821 686 $aSOC002010$2bisacsh 700 $aNader$b Laura$0185520 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463338703321 996 $aCulture and dignity$92043953 997 $aUNINA