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This innovative work seeks to reverse the perspective and reasoning of anthropology and to develop an alternative mode of conceiving culture that would not automatically privilege the colonizing West. That necessarily involves a critique of the “ethnological reason” that extracts elements from their context, aestheticizes them, and then uses their supposed differences to classify types of political, economic, or religious ensembles. Such “reason” yields classical oppositions like the State versus segmentary societies, market versus subsistence economies, and Islam or Christianity versus paganism.
As an alternative, the author opposes to exclusionary categories a “mestizo logic” that sees social phenomena as situated on a continuum and accentuates indistinction and the originary syncretism in all cultures and other ways of categorizing human life. The book’s rich source material is drawn from the author’s fifteen years of fieldwork and research in West Africa.
The opening chapters first treat the notion of ethnological reason—its history and ideological practices—then oppose to it the reality of cultural tension, the fact that conflicts and negotiations bring about transformations in the identity of collectivities. The following two chapters illustrate a real system of transformation, and question some basic concepts of political anthropology. The discussion continues in a more illustrative manner over the next two chapters, which present case studies of two West African societies that challenge typologies of political anthropology and ethnographic classification.
The last three chapters—on white paganism, cultural identities and cultural models, and understanding and acting—situate the debate within a wider historical framework of political and cultural confrontations. Who defines “ethnicities,” “identities,” “differences”?Where can one find them as pure essences witnessing to their own originary beings?

Amazingly obtuse
The author takes a variety of vague and nebulous social constructs and attempts to redefine them in order to reach preordained social and poilitical conclusions. The book is unbelievably overblown and could probably be summarized in a few pages.

I can only assume that the author has now moved on to writing government regulations. ... Read more

1. Papua New Guinea (Cultures of the World) by Ingrid Gascoigne
	Library Binding: 128 Pages (1998-04) list price: US$42.79 -- used & new: US$3.83 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0761408134 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description Discusses the geography, history, economy, government, varied culture and peoples of the country made up of more than 600 islands and archipelagos. ... Read more

2. Equatorial Guinea: The Inculcation and Maintenance of Hispanic Culture (Occasional Papers S.) by Igor Cusack
	Paperback: 41 Pages (1999-03) Isbn: 0862924812 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

3. Africans in Europe: The Culture of Exile and Emigration from Equatorial Guinea to Spain (Studies of World Migrations) by Michael Ugarte
	Hardcover: 224 Pages (2010-01-21) list price: US$60.00 -- used & new: US$52.90 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0252035038 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements. Tracing the shifts of Africans into and out of Equatorial Guinea, it explores a small former Spanish colony in central Africa. Throughout its history, many inhabitants of Equatorial Guinea were forced to leave, whether because of the slave trade of the early nineteenth century or the political upheavals of the twentieth century. Michael Ugarte examines the writings of Equatorial Guinean exiles and migrants, considering the underlying causes of such moves and arguing that the example of Equatorial Guinea is emblematic of broader dynamics of cultural exchange in a postcolonial world. Based on personal stories of people forced to leave and those who left of their own accord, Africans in Europe captures the nuanced realities and widespread impact of mobile populations. Ugarte illustrates the global material inequalities that occur when groups and populations migrate from their native land of colonization to other countries and regions that are often the lands of the former colonizers. By focusing on the geographical, emotional, and intellectual dynamics of Equatorial Guinea's human movements, readers gain an inroad to "the consciousness of an age" and an understanding of the global realities that will define the cultural, economic, and political currents of the twenty-first century. ... Read more

5. Journal of Expeditions to the Soviet Union, Africa, the Islands of Madagascar, La Reunion and Mauritius, Indonesia and to East and West New Guinea, Australia and Guam to Study Kuru and Other Neurological Diseases, Epidemic Influenza, Endemic Goitrous ... by D. Carleton Gajdusek
	Paperback: Pages (1971) Asin: B003W2ZQBQ Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

6. An Annotated Word List of the Motuna Language (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea) Douglas L. Oliver's Materials (1) by Masayuki Onishi
	Paperback: Pages (2002) Asin: B000Q5GFT4 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

7. Journal of expeditions to the Soviet Union, Africa, the islands of Madagascar,: La Reunion and Mauritius, Indonesia and to East and West New Guinea, Australia ... New Guinea, June 1, 1969 to March 3, 1970 by D. Carleton Gajdusek
	Unknown Binding: 755 Pages (1971) Asin: B0006C7W5I Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

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