White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals, Lucia Amanda J.

Название: Against Exoticism
ISBN: 1785333704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785333705
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Anthropology begins in the encounter with the ‘exotic’: what stands outside of—and challenges—conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches.?

Chapters look at the risk of exoticism in the perspectivist approach, the significant exotic corrective of L?vi-Strauss vis-?-vis an imperializing Eurocentrism, our nostalgic relationship with the ethnographic record, and the attempts of local communities to readapt previous exoticized referents, renegotiate their identity, and ‘counter-exoticize.’ This volume demonstrates a range of approaches that will be valuable for researchers and students seeking to effectively establish comparative methodological frameworks that transcend issues of relativism and universalism.

Автор: Lucia Amanda J.
Название: White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals
ISBN: 0520376943 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520376946
Издательство: Wiley
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Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, have become massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In this groundbreaking book, Amanda J. Lucia shows how these festivals are religious institutions for "spiritual, but not religious" (SBNR) communities. Whereas previous research into SBNR practices and New Age religion has not addressed the predominantly white makeup of these communities, White Utopias examines the complicated, often contradictory relationships with race at these events, presenting an engrossing ethnography of SBNR practices. Lucia contends that participants create temporary utopias through their shared commitments to spiritual growth and human connection. But they also participate in religious exoticism by adopting Indigenous and Indic spiritualities, a practice that ultimately renders them exclusive, white utopias. Focusing on yoga's role in disseminating SBNR values, Lucia offers new ways of comprehending transformational festivals as significant cultural phenomena.

Автор: Kuldova Tereza, Varghese Mathew A.
Название: Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia
ISBN: 3319837842 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319837840
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Описание: This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the future in the neoliberal cities of India and Sri Lanka.

Автор: Tereza Kuldova; Mathew A. Varghese
Название: Urban Utopias
ISBN: 331947622X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319476223
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Описание: This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the future in the neoliberal cities of India and Sri Lanka.

Автор: Kim Beauchesne; Alessandra Santos
Название: Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas
ISBN: 1137571543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137571540
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Описание: This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities.

Автор: Wright, Erik Olin
Название: Envisioning real utopias
ISBN: 184467617X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844676170
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Описание: A comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory. Building on a work analyzing the class system in the developed world, as well as exploring the problem of the transition to a socialist alternative, it reconstructs the core values and feasible goals for Left theorists and political actors.