TY - BOOK ID - 85710999 TI - Beyond exception AU - Kanna, Ahmed AU - Le Renard, Amélie AU - Vora, Neha PY - 2020 SN - 1501750305 1501750321 1501750313 1501750291 9781501750311 9781501750328 9781501750298 9781501750304 PB - Ithaca DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology KW - Exceptionalism KW - Orientalism KW - East and West KW - National characteristics KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Persian Gulf Region KW - Civilization KW - Gender, Migration, Orientalism, Postcoloniality, Ethnography, Arabian Peninsula, Capitalism, Decoloniality. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85710999 AB - Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticising and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for this book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a 'field' that is marked by such representations. The three focus on deconstructing the exceptionalist representations that circulate about the Arabian Peninsula. They analyse what exceptionalism does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies they study. ER -