Integrating strangers in society: perspectives from elsewhere

This book provides a uniquely positioned contribution to the current debates on the integration of immigrants in Europe. Twelve social anthropologists -- "strangers by vocation"--Reflect upon how they were taken in by those they studied over the course of their long-term fieldwork. The societies concerned are Sinti (northern Italy), Inuit (Canadian Arctic), Kanak (New Caledonia), Māori (New Zealand), Lanten (Laos), Tobelo and Tanebar-Evav (Indonesia), Banyoro (Uganda), Gawigl and Siassi (Papua New Guinea) and a township in Odisha (India). A comparative analysis of these reflexive, ethnographic accounts reveals as yet underrepresented, non-European perspectives on the issue of integrating strangers, enabling the reader to identify and reflect upon the uniquely Western ideals and values that currently dominate such discourse.

Intro; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Contributions; By Comparison; References; Chapter 2: Becoming a Sinta: Learning to See Dreams and Relating to the Dead; Introduction; Escaping and Pleading Forgiveness; To Go Peddling and Begging, Learning to Respect and Giving Birth; Respect for the Dead; Bemoaning Our Son: Becoming a Sinta; The Relationship of 'Blood'; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3: "You are like Geese". Working and Drum Dancing with Inuit Elders in Nunavut (Canada); Introduction

How Qallunaat Came into Being. The Incorporation of Strangers in Inuit MythologyDrum Dancing. Transforming Strangers into Local Participants; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4: Being the Other in Inuit Society; Introduction; Time, Space, and Belonging; Being Inummarriit: "Real Inuit"; Inummariit and Qallunaat; A Qallunaat Anthropologist in Qikiqtarjuaq; Social and Community Life; Between the Settlement and Camps; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 5: An Anthropologist in Kanaky. Modulations of Belonging and Otherness; Introduction; First Ceremonial Interactions

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