The Topic and the Book
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20055582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Rapport (0000-0003-2803-0212), Andrew Dawson (0000-0003-3285-3537) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 3-17 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Migrants of Identity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003136149-2 |
| OpenAlex | W3119878447 |
| ISBN | 9781003136149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
'Migrants of identity' was the phrase that Theodore Schwartz used in the mid-1970s to describe the continual search by American youth for an identity that they found 'acceptable and authentic'. Individual identity was always and everywhere dynamic, Schwartz suggested, always something 'problematic', something calling for a resolution that was never wholly acquired, because it was through the search that the individual per se came to be defined. A traditional concern of anthropological description and analysis has been the identification of socio-cultural 'places': fixities of social relations and cultural routines localized in time and space. The separate socio-cultural place, usually expressed as the 'field', has its uses as a trope of authority. It is represented variously as the locus of a panoptical gaze, as a part through which one can represent the cultural whole, and, evoking the authoritative tones of natural science, as a pseudo-laboratory
Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2012 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |