Integrating Strangers in Society: Perspectives from Elsewhere

242 Pages·2019·2.391 MB·English

by  Jos D. M. Platenkamp, Almut Schneider

Integrating Strangers
in Society
Perspectives from Elsewhere
Edited by
Jos D. M. Platenkamp
Almut Schneider
Integrating Strangers in Society
Jos D. M. Platenkamp • Almut Schneider
Editors
Integrating Strangers
in Society
Perspectives from Elsewhere
Editors
Jos D. M. Platenkamp Almut Schneider
Münster University Goethe University
Münster, Germany Frankfurt, Germany
ISBN 978-3-030-16702-8 ISBN 978-3-030-16703-5 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16703-5
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In memory of Jarich G. Oosten
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reface
This volume is the outcome of a conference entitled “Integrating
Others: Perspectives from Elsewhere” that we convened at Münster
University, Germany, in December 2016. It was intended to offer a
forum to fellow anthropologists telling of their experiences while doing
field research in other societies and reflecting on what it meant to be a
stranger in such circumstances. We expected that their testimonies
would widen the horizon of current debates about the integration of
strangers in our own societies.
All of these contributions have now been brought together in the pres-
ent volume with two exceptions. The report addressing in a comparative
perspective the experiences of Roland Hardenberg and his family in Odisha
in India and Kyrgyzstan, and that of Jeanette Lykkegård among the
Siberian Chukchi could unfortunately not be included.
In the third chapter, Frédéric Laugrand recounts the research that he
and the late Jarich G. Oosten of Leiden University, The Netherlands,
conducted among the Inuit of Baffin Island (Nunavut, Canada). In the
course of his academic career, Oosten had repeatedly advocated mobil-
ising anthropological expertise when it comes to understanding the
“differences in value” and “the value of difference”1 involved in the
processes of integration. His untimely and much regretted demise in
1 J. G. Oosten. 1999. De waarde van het verschil, verschillen in waarde. Inaugural lectures
at the universities of Leiden and Utrecht. Leiden, Onderzoeksschool CNWS.
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May 2016 precluded his participation in this book project. We honour
his scientific integrity and humanistic stance by dedicating this volume
to his memory.
Münster, Germany Jos D. M. Platenkamp
Frankfurt, Germany Almut Schneider
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ontents
1 Introduction 1
Jos D. M. Platenkamp
2 Becoming a Sinta: Learning to See Dreams and Relating
to the Dead 23
Elisabeth Tauber
3 “You are like Geese”. Working and Drum Dancing with
Inuit Elders in Nunavut (Canada) 39
Frédéric Laugrand
4 Being the Other in Inuit Society 53
Anja Nicole Stuckenberger
5 An Anthropologist in Kanaky. Modulations of Belonging
and Otherness 75
Denis Monnerie
6 A Stranger-Anthropologist as Advocate of Māori
Development Projects 91
Toon van Meijl
7 On Becoming a Ritual Master Among the Lanten—Yao
Mun—Of Laos 111
Joseba Estévez
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8 To Be Made Part of the Tobelo Society (North Moluccas) 131
Jos D. M. Platenkamp
9 Welcome to Tanebar-Evav: Can One Be Incorporated in a
Village Society? 147
Cécile Barraud
10 “What Is Your Empaako?” Naming and Becoming a
Munyoro in Western Uganda 165
Raphaela von Weichs
11 Placing the Newcomer: Staying with the Gawigl of
Highland Papua New Guinea 185
Almut Schneider
12 Mythical Beings from the Swamp Among the Siassi,
Papua New Guinea 199
Pieter ter Keurs
13 The Variegated Integration of an Anthropologist in an
Eastern Indian Steel Town 211
Christian Strümpell
Index 227
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