Integrating Strangers in Society Perspectives from Elsewhere
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Integrating Strangers in Society
Jos D. M. Platenkamp • Almut Schneider Editors
Integrating Strangers in Society Perspectives from Elsewhere
Editors Jos D. M. Platenkamp Münster University Münster, Germany
Almut Schneider Goethe University 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 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. Corrected publication 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
In memory of Jarich G. Oosten
Preface
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 present 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, Ooste
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