TY - BOOK AU - Beriss,David AU - Capone,Stefania AU - Epstein,Beth AU - Gaboriau,Patrick AU - Ghasarian,Christian AU - Le Menestrel,Sara AU - Poulin-Deltour,William AU - Raulin,Anne AU - Reed-Danahay,Deborah AU - Rogers,Susan Carol TI - Transatlantic Parallaxes: Toward Reciprocal Anthropology SN - 9781782386636 AV - GN397.7.U6 U1 - 301 23/eng PY - 2015///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Applied anthropology KW - France KW - United States KW - Comparative civilization KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh KW - Anthropology (General) N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Part I Distinctions: Class, Race, Culture --; 1 Homeless People (Paris, Los Angeles) The principle of equality seen from below --; 2 The Moral Public Sphere: Integration and discrimination in a French New Town --; 3 Creolization, Racial Imagination, and the Music Market in French Louisiana --; 4 Claiming Culture, Defending Culture: Perspectives on culture in France and the United States --; Part II Key Words: Community, Healing --; 5 Gay Activism and the Question of Community --; 6 Confronting “Community” From rural France to the Vietnamese diaspora --; 7 Healing the Community: Ethics and ancestry in Orisha religious practices in the United States --; 8 Healing at the Foot of the Twin Towers: Beyond the trauma of 9/11 --; Part III Myths: Endless possibility, Countrysides --; 9 To Live in a World of Possibilities: A New Age version of the American Myth --; 10 Faux Amis in the Countryside: Deciphering the familiar --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Anthropological inquiry developed around the study of the exotic. Now that we live in a world that seems increasingly familiar, putatively marked by a spreading sameness, anthropology must re-envision itself. The emergence of diverse national traditions in the discipline offers one intriguing path. This volume, the product of a novel encounter of American anthropologists of France and French anthropologists of the United States, explores the possibilities of that path through an experiment in the reciprocal production of knowledge. Simultaneously native subjects, foreign experts, and colleagues, these scholars offer novel insights into each other’s societies, juxtaposing glimpses of ourselves and a familiar “others” to productively unsettle and enrich our understanding of both UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782386643 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782386643 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782386643/original ER -