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Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity
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Description for Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity
Paperback. Challenges conventional understandings of identity based on notions of nation and culture as bounded or discrete. This volume exemplifies a cross-disciplinary cultural studies and a concept of culture rooted in lived experience as well as textual readings. Editor(s): Lavie, Smadar; Swedenburg, Ted. Num Pages: 344 pages, 6 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580.
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity challenges conventional understandings of identity based on notions of nation and culture as bounded or discrete. Through careful examinations of various transnational, hybrid, border, and diasporic forces and practices, these essays push at the edge of cultural studies, postmodernism, and postcolonial theory and raise crucial questions about ethnographic methodology.
This volume exemplifies a cross-disciplinary cultural studies and a concept of culture rooted in lived experience as well as textual readings. Anthropologists and scholars from related fields deploy a range of methodologies and styles of writing to blur and complicate conventional dualisms between authors ... Read more
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity challenges conventional understandings of identity based on notions of nation and culture as bounded or discrete. Through careful examinations of various transnational, hybrid, border, and diasporic forces and practices, these essays push at the edge of cultural studies, postmodernism, and postcolonial theory and raise crucial questions about ethnographic methodology.
This volume exemplifies a cross-disciplinary cultural studies and a concept of culture rooted in lived experience as well as textual readings. Anthropologists and scholars from related fields deploy a range of methodologies and styles of writing to blur and complicate conventional dualisms between authors ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822317203
SKU
V9780822317203
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About Lavie
Smadar Lavie is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory at the University of California at Davis. Ted Swedenburg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo.
Reviews for Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity
“Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity is informed not only by detailed attention to specific case studies or theoretical analyses, but also by an awareness of theoretical work in several fields which allows the highlighting of points and circuits of connections across disciplines and areas. This collection succeeds in ways which are thought provoking and likely to lead to vital ... Read more