Pluto Press (UK) (
2002)
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Aryrou (social anthropology, U. of Hull, UK) explores "the impossible which manifests itself in ethnological belief and practice," discussion what exactly this "impossible" is and the different ways in which the discipline and its practitioners encounter it repeatedly, as well as "why ethnographers should want to imagine, desire and strive to demonstrate the impossible to begin with." He argues that ethnographers imagine and desire Sameness as the only "real" reality, but that in their effort to uphold Sameness they reproduce its contrary: Otherness. Written for ethnographers and other Western scholars, and those on the receiving end of Western discursive power. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.