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Title Against exoticism : toward the transcendence of relativism and universalism in anthropology / edited by Bruce Kapferer and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 147 pages)
Contents On ethnographic nostalgia : exoticising and de-exoticising the Emberá, for example / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Between triste tropique and cultural creativity : modern times and the vanishing primitive / Pnina Werbner -- The exotic albatross : exotic Indians, exotic theory / Stephen Nugent -- Living the li(f)e : negotiating paradise in southern Sri Lanka / Maurice Said -- Bahia of all saints, enchantments and dreams : female tourists, capoeira practitioners, and the exotic / Theodora Lefkaditou -- From primitive to culturally distinct : Patachitra art and self-exoticisation in West Bengal / Urmi Bhattacharyya
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2019)
Subject Cultural relativism -- Case studies
Ethnology -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Cultural relativism
Ethnology
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Kapferer, Bruce, editor.
Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios, editor.
LC no. 2016047698
ISBN 9781785333712
1785333712