The essays in this volume, in all their astonishing richness and
diversity, focus on the question of the "other." Brimming with
whole flotillas of new ideas, they delineate subtle and various
ways in which that question can be made the basis of an
ethnographic project. In them, the author responds to the
invitations extended by a specific location rather than pursuing a
codified method. And they examine many different socialities in
many different locations-among them the Cornell University campus
in the late seventies, the former Musee de l'Homme and the Quai
Branly Museum in Paris, the Indonesian province of Aceh in the wake
of the tsunami of 2004, and contemporary Indonesia, in the liminal
figures of the Jew and the Chinese. The author meticulously traces
how the social and cultural responses in each location are
astonishingly different-in the form, say, of gorges, faces,
garbage, and fetishes. Regrettably, these days anthropologists have
a tendency to look for similarities rather than differences, to
show how one phenomenon is "just like" another. This book stands
determinedly against this trend, both in its ethnographic
examinations and in how it takes up such figures as Kant, Derrida,
Bataille, Simmel, and Leiris so as to illuminate not only the
objects of ethnography but also differences among the perspectives
these thinkers represent. This book will put the methods and
objects of anthropology in an entirely new light. In addition, it
will speak to the concerns of historians, political scientists, and
scholars of area studies, literature, and art.
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