The making of anthropology : the semiotics of self and other in the Western tradition /
"This book offers an interpretation of anthropology as a discourse that contrasts the western self and the non-western other and shows that the organizing principle of this discourse was the Judeo-Christian episteme of the "Other in Us" that the Christian Church Fathers developed to d...
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New Delhi :
Vedams,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Anthropology as discourse on self and other. The semiotics of self and other in the making of western anthropology ; The semiotic structures of the other in us and the protean self/other ; The semiotics of anthropo-cartography and the domestication of the other
- Part II. Colonialism and the anthropological domestication of the other. The global expansion of Europe and the emergence of the world capitalist system ; European expansion in the new world and the domestication of the savage other ; European expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa and the domestication of the black racial other ; European expansion in Asia and the domestication of the oriental despotic other ; European expansion in Oceania and the domestication of the sexual aboriginal other
- Part. III. Discourse on the making of protein pluralism and the conception of anthropology as a humanistic science. The discourse on culture and globalism, and the making of protean pluralism in anthropology ; The future of anthropology and the conception of anthropology as a humanistic science.