Volume is the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States. Scholars from France and the United States offer novel insights into each other’s societies, juxtaposing glimpses of ourselves and a familiar "other" that productively unsettle and enrich our understanding of both.
Volume is the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States. Scholars from France and the United States offer novel insights into each other’s societies, juxtaposing glimpses of ourselves and a familiar "other" that productively unsettle and enrich our understanding of both.
Anne Raulin is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Paris West-Nanterre-La Defense and a member of the Laboratory of Urban Anthropology at CNRS, Ivry. She has published ethnographic fieldwork on both New York and Paris respectively in Manhattan ou la mémoire insulaire (1997) and L'ethnique est quotidian: Diasporas, marchés et cultures metropolitaines (2000) and is the author of a general textbook on urban anthropology, Anthropologie Urbaine ([2001] 2007).
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Preface List of Contributors Introduction: Toward reciprocal anthropology Anne Raulin and Susan Carol Rogers PART I: DISTINCTIONS: CLASS, RACE, CULTURE Chapter 1. Homeless People (Paris, Los Angeles): The principle of equality seen from below Patrick Gaboriau Chapter 2. The Moral Public Sphere: Integration and discrimination in a French New Town Beth Epstein Chapter 3. Creolization, Racial Imagination and the Music Market in French Louisiana Sara Le Menestrel Chapter 4. Claiming Culture, Defending Culture: Perspectives on culture in France and the United States David Beriss PART II: KEY WORDS: COMMUNITY, HEALING Chapter 5. Gay Activism and the Question of Community William Poulin-Deltour Chapter 6. Confronting "Community": From Rural France to the Vietnamese Diaspora Deborah Reed-Danahay Chapter 7. Healing the Community: Ethics and ancestry in Orisha religious practices in the United States Stefania Capone Chapter 8. Healing at the Foot of the Twin Towers: Beyond the trauma of 9/11 Anne Raulin PART III: MYTHS: ENDLESS POSSIBILITY, COUNTRYSIDES Chapter 9. To Live in a World of Possibilities: A New Age version of the American Myth Christian Ghasarian Chapter 10. Faux Amis in the Countryside: Deciphering the familiar Susan Carol Rogers Index
Preface List of Contributors Introduction: Toward reciprocal anthropology Anne Raulin and Susan Carol Rogers PART I: DISTINCTIONS: CLASS, RACE, CULTURE Chapter 1. Homeless People (Paris, Los Angeles): The principle of equality seen from below Patrick Gaboriau Chapter 2. The Moral Public Sphere: Integration and discrimination in a French New Town Beth Epstein Chapter 3. Creolization, Racial Imagination and the Music Market in French Louisiana Sara Le Menestrel Chapter 4. Claiming Culture, Defending Culture: Perspectives on culture in France and the United States David Beriss PART II: KEY WORDS: COMMUNITY, HEALING Chapter 5. Gay Activism and the Question of Community William Poulin-Deltour Chapter 6. Confronting "Community": From Rural France to the Vietnamese Diaspora Deborah Reed-Danahay Chapter 7. Healing the Community: Ethics and ancestry in Orisha religious practices in the United States Stefania Capone Chapter 8. Healing at the Foot of the Twin Towers: Beyond the trauma of 9/11 Anne Raulin PART III: MYTHS: ENDLESS POSSIBILITY, COUNTRYSIDES Chapter 9. To Live in a World of Possibilities: A New Age version of the American Myth Christian Ghasarian Chapter 10. Faux Amis in the Countryside: Deciphering the familiar Susan Carol Rogers Index
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