Integrating Strangers in Society Perspectives from Elsewhere /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Platenkamp, Jos D. M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schneider, Almut (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Ethnography.; Cultural studies.; Emigration and immigration.; Social Anthropology.; Cultural Studies.; Migration.

"The essays presented break a new path in the human sciences: there is not much written on the issue in focus and this perspective before. There may be bits here and there in introductory books on anthropological fieldwork, but I know of nothing that can compare with this new endeavor. This tex...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Becoming a Sinta: learning to see dreams and relating to the dead
• 3. "You are like geese". Working and rum dancing with the Inuit elders in Nunavut (Canada)
• 4. Being the otheri n Inuit society
• 5. An anthropologist in Kanaky. Modulations of belonging and otherness
• 6. A stranger-anthropologist as advocate of Māori development projects
• 7. On becoming a ritual master among the Lanten - Yao Mun - of Laos
• 8. To be made part part of Tobelo society (North Moluccas)
• 9. Welcome to Tanebar-Evav - can one be incorporated in a village society?
• 10. Naming and Becoming a Munyoro in Western Uganda
• 11. Placing the newcomer - staying with the Gawigl of Highland Papua New Guinea
• 12. Mythical beings from the swamp among the Siassi, Papua New Guinea
• 13. Strangers on an industrial frontier in Eastern India.