Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Suspect Others: Anthropological Horizons

Autor Stuart Earle Strange
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 iul 2021

Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for belonging, political power, and control over natural resources, Surinamese Ndyuka Maroons and Hindus look to spirit mediums to understand the causes of their successes and sufferings and to know the hidden minds of relatives and rivals alike. But although mediumship promises knowledge of others, interactions between mediums and their devotees also fundamentally challenge what devotees know about themselves, thereby turning interpersonal suspicion into doubts about the self.

Through a rich ethnographic comparison of the different ways in which Ndyuka and Hindu spirit mediums and their devotees navigate suspicion, Suspect Others shows how present-day Caribbean peoples come to experience selves that defy concepts of personhood inflicted by the colonial past. Stuart Earle Strange investigates key questions about the nature of self-knowledge, religious revelation, and racial discourse in a hyper-diverse society. At a moment when exclusionary suspicions dominate global politics, Suspect Others elucidates self-identity as a social process that emerges from the paradoxical ways in which people must look to others to know themselves.

Citește tot Restrânge

Din seria Anthropological Horizons

Preț: 39858 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 598

Preț estimativ în valută:
7634 7865$ 6395£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 03-17 februarie
Livrare express 18-24 ianuarie pentru 24795 lei

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781487509705
ISBN-10: 1487509707
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 5.3 kg
Editura: University of Toronto Press (Scholarly Pub)
Seria Anthropological Horizons


Notă biografică