Anthropology begins in the encounter with the 'exotic': what stands
outside of-and challenges-conventional or established
understandings. 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. Chapters look at
the risk of exoticism in the perspectivist approach, the
significant exotic corrective of Levi-Strauss vis-a-vis an
imperializing Eurocentrism, our nostalgic relationship with the
ethnographic record, and the attempts of local communities to
readapt previous exoticized referents, renegotiate their identity,
and 'counter-exoticize.' This volume demonstrates a range of
approaches that will be valuable for researchers and students
seeking to effectively establish comparative methodological
frameworks that transcend issues of relativism and universalism.
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