Quandaries of Belonging

Notes on Home, from Abroad

von Michael Jackson

200 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Those who leave their homelands, either under duress or by design, will see them in a different light than those who have stayed put. Michael Jackson argues that the perspective of the expatriate may be compared with what ethnographers call 'stranger value'. In moving between detachment and deep immersion, this bifocal perspective implicates a bicultural one, which is why Jackson has recourse to M¿ori traditional knowledge, not in order to impose a Eurocentric interpretation on them, but to show how cross-cultural conversations and interactions can promote new forms of sociality and coexistence.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781785276415
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2020
• Größe: 222 x 145 mm
• Verlag: First Hill Books