The Making and Unmaking of Differences : : Anthropological, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives / / ed. by Shingo Shimada, Burkhard Schnepel, Richard Rottenburg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Behrend, Heike,; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland,; Kohl, Karl-Heinz,; Monceri, Flavia,; Rottenburg, Richard,; Schnepel, Burkhard,; Shimada, Shingo,; Sosoe, Lukas K.,; Stewart, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Rottenburg, Richard,; Schnepel, Burkhard,; Shimada, Shingo,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENT --; Untrivializing Difference. A Personal Introduction --; Diversity Versus Difference: Neo-liberalism in the Minority-Debate --; Social Constructivism and the Enigma of Strangeness --; Witchcraft, Evidence and the Localisation of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Uganda --; Critical Note. Is African Philosophy Different? --; Philosophy, Queer Theories, and the Overcoming of Identity --; Cultural Differences and the Problem of Translation --; Coming Back to One’s Own: What Happens to Tradition in Neo-Traditionalist Movements? --; How different? Re-Examining the Process of Creolization --; Strangers in the Night: The Making and Unmaking of Differences from the Perspective of an Anthropology of the Night --; On the Authors --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839404263; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110463415; 9783110463408
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839404263?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Shingo Shimada, Burkhard Schnepel, Richard Rottenburg.

This book is about the making and unmaking of socio-cultural differences, seen from anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives. Some contributions are of a theoretical nature, such as when the »problem of translation«, »the enigma of alienity« or »queer theory« are addressed; other contributors throw light on contemporary issues like the integration of Muslims in Norway, identity-forming processes in »Creole« societies or »neo-traditionalist movements« and »identity« in Africa. Moreover, the book deals with »strangers« looked at from an »anthropology of the night«. Special emphasis is placed on how globalization and the rapid spread of ever new technologies of information have generated ever new patterns of inclusion and exclusion, and how these can be theorized.