Produktbild: Culture and Dignity

Culture and Dignity Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

28.11.2012

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

264

Maße (L/B/H)

22,6/15/1,3 cm

Gewicht

340 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-31901-7

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"The book is written in an engaging and highly accessible manner. Although it would have benefited from a deeper differentiated discussion of 'cultural dignity' and what it means in this world that Nader paints, Culture and dignity is a thought-provoking exercise in the kind of connections we need to make for an anthropology committed to a more honest and robust knowledge of the Middle East and the world." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 January 2014)
 
"Drawing from an eclectic sample of literature dealing with the global connections between the Middle East and the West, the author achieves a much needed - and very timely - intellectual 'check-up' and warns us against cultural framings that serve to side-line serious explorations of the roots and nature of human suffering. It is crucial for all those of us who are genuinely concerned with peace to liberate our imaginations from the myths and stereotypes that work to divide us." (Studies in Ethnicity And Nationalism, 15 October 2013)
 
"The collection reflects the many lasting contributions Nader has made to understanding and improving the human condition. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 July 2013)

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

28.11.2012

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

264

Maße (L/B/H)

22,6/15/1,3 cm

Gewicht

340 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-31901-7

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Culture and Dignity
  • Acknowledgments x
     
    Preface xii
     
    1 Introduction 1
     
    Indignities 5
     
    Naturalizing Difference and the Great Transformation 14
     
    Comparison, Ethnography, and History 17
     
    2 From Rifaah al-Tahtawi to Edward Said: Lessons in Culture and Dignity 24
     
    Introduction 24
     
    Rifaah al-Tahtawi and France 26
     
    A Hundred Years Later: Edward Said 34
     
    Concluding Comments 45
     
    3 Ethnography as Theory: On the Roots of Controversy in Anthropology 51
     
    Introduction 51
     
    Unstated Consensus 54
     
    Defining Ethnographic Worth: 1896-2000 55
     
    Ethnographic Audiences 64
     
    An Outsider Looking In on Anthropology's Ethnography 69
     
    Concluding Comments 74
     
    4 Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Control of Women 80
     
    Cultural Hierarchy and Processes of Control 83
     
    The Specifi city of Eastern and Western Grids 85
     
    Positional Superiority, Thought Systems, and Other Cultures 87
     
    Ways of Seeing and Comparing - East and West 88
     
    The Controlling Role of Ideas 96
     
    The Use of Revolution in Gender Control 98
     
    Multiple Systems of Female Subordination 102
     
    Colonialism, Development, Religion, and Gender Control 107
     
    Conclusion: The Need to Separate Identities 110
     
    5 Corporate Fundamentalism: Constructing Childhood in the United States and Elsewhere 120
     
    Introduction 120
     
    Manufacturing Culture Bit by Bit 122
     
    Fundamentalisms: Corporate and Religious 126
     
    Marketing and Children: The United States 131
     
    Drugs, Commercialism, and the Biomedical Paradigm: An American Example 137
     
    When Corporate Profits and Education Meet: The Educational Testing Industry 140
     
    Fundamentalisms: Economic, Religious, Political 141
     
    Back to Corporate Fundamentalism: Future Directions 144
     
    6 Culture and the Seeds of Nonviolence in the Middle East 151
     
    Introduction 151
     
    Disharmonic Westernization and Pilgrimage 154
     
    Between the Stereotype and Reality 157
     
    Little Worlds in the International Grip 161
     
    Culture and Nonviolence: Who Stands to Gain From Peace? 165
     
    Dignity Becomes Reality 168
     
    7 Normative Blindness and Unresolved Human Rights Issues: The Hypocrisy of Our Age 175
     
    Introduction 175
     
    Early Constraints 176
     
    Unresolved Issues 178
     
    A Nonstate Human Rights Effort 183
     
    Health and Human Rights 186
     
    Human Rights and Commercialism 191
     
    Concluding Remarks 193
     
    8 Breaking the Silence: Politics and Professional Autonomy 197
     
    Introduction 197
     
    Silence and Dominant Hegemonies 198
     
    Desensitization 204
     
    Mistakes Repeated in the Iraq Invasion 206
     
    9 Lessons 212
     
    Lessons Learned 212
     
    Strategies of Subordination - In Reverse 216
     
    Macro-histories 221
     
    Appendix 226
     
    Index 230