Social scientists have generally remained impervious to a major
economic and cultural adaptation--namely, the peripatetic
lifestyle--although this adaptation has been an integral part of
developments within the socioeconomic and cultural networks that
social scientists study. This lack of interest derives perhaps from
the ambiguous integration of peripatetics into these networks as
well as the often negatively charged constructs -Gypsies,
outsiders, or marginal others--imposed on peripatetics by dominant
cultures. As peddlers of the strange to borrow a phrase from
Clifford Geertz, peripatetics are situated at the fringes of their
host societies and many students of the social ecological and
behavioral sciences still continue to overlook the roles of
peripatetic peoples.
This collection presents the latest in cross-cultural
comparative research on the nature of peripatetic peoples.
Contributors examine the place of peripatetic peoples in the
everyday lives and diverse cognitive maps of client communities.
Relying on Georg Simmel's construct of The Stranger, the
contributors to this volume suggest that peripatetic peoples are
simultaneously outsiders and insiders, but most important, they are
entrepreneurial middlemen traders par excellence. All told, the
essays provoke vital reassessments of the anthropological focus on
the role and status of cultural brokers and go-betweens in
political, economic, and social interactions.
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