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“The essays presented break a new path in the human sciences: there is not much written on the issue in focus and this perspective before. There may be bits here and there in introductory books on anthropological fieldwork, but I know of nothing that can compare with this new endeavor. This text offers an 'inverted anthropology' where what is foreign is an anthropologist coming in from abroad. This experience of acceptance of a stranger is made relevant for the more conventional debates on immigrant foreigners in various Western societies.” —Göran Aijmer, Professor at the Gothenburg Research Institute, University of Gothenbburg, Sweden “This book is absolutely timely, and quite unique in 'exoticizing' a debate that seems to be homemade in Europe and North America but, as the co-editors and authors show, is universal.” —Andre Gingrich, Director of the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria This book provides a uniquely positioned contribution to the current debates on the integration of immigrants in Europe. Twelve social anthropologists—“strangers by vocation”—reflect upon how they were taken in by those they studied over the course of their long-term fieldwork. The societies concerned are Sinti (northern Italy), Inuit (Canadian Arctic), Kanak (New Caledonia), Māori (New Zealand), Lanten (Laos), Tobelo and Tanebar-Evav (Indonesia), Banyoro (Uganda), Gawigl and Siassi (Papua New Guinea) and a township in Odisha (India). A comparative analysis of these reflexive, ethnographic accounts reveals as yet underrepresented, non-European perspectives on the issue of integrating strangers, enabling the reader to identify and reflect upon the uniquely Western ideals and values that currently dominate such discourse.

Immigrants --- Europe --- Emigration and immigration. --- Ethnology. --- Ethnography. --- Migration. --- Social Anthropology. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Cultural studies. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization

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L’autorité, thème majeur de la philosophie politique, apparaît comme un mystère (ou une mystification) dans nos sociétés modernes où l’on déplore (ou célèbre) sa disparition, au moment même où les « relations de pouvoir » paraissent s’imposer dans certaines théories comme la clé ouvrant toutes les portes du savoir sociologique, par ses capacités infinies de dévoilement des intérêts cachés au cœur de toute relation sociale. Pourtant, à l’issue d’un examen approfondi, réunissant des lieux aussi divers que la Chine, l’Inde, la Nouvelle-Calédonie, la Nouvelle-Guinée, les Philippines, la Russie, la Tunisie et Wallis, des sociétés aux régimes politiques allant de l’empire à la « société sans État » en passant par la démocratie et des religions allant de l’islam au chamanisme, l’autorité se révèle être une dimension nécessaire et consubstantielle à la vie sociale, articulant et ordonnant les valeurs fondamentales qui régissent la pensée et l’action collectives. En plaçant chaque forme d’autorité observée dans le tout de chaque culture, ce travail dégage non seulement certaines conclusions quant à la nature de l’autorité, mais invite également à des considérations méthodologiques générales en soulignant les impasses des « anthropologies potestatives » pour lesquelles seuls les rapports de pouvoir sont au fondement de l’ordre social.

Anthropology --- autorité --- autorité/pouvoir --- holisme --- anthropologie politique --- postmodernisme --- pouvoir

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