20th century world politics
abuse of trust
cambodia
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cultural studies
cyprus
demographic studies
displaced people
displacement
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ethnography
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greece
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humanitarian
individual identity
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mayan indians
memory
native peoples
palestine
public policy
refuge
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refugee film
refugee narratives
refugee women
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social welfare
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torture
trust
trust and mistrust
worldwide disruption
Product details
- ISBN 9780520088993
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Feb 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The twentieth century has seen people displaced on an unprecedented scale and has brought concerns about refugees into sharp focus. There are forty million refugees in the world--1 in 130 inhabitants of this planet. In this first interdisciplinary study of the issue, fifteen scholars from diverse fields focus on the worldwide disruption of "trust" as a sentiment, a concept, and an experience. Contributors provide a rich array of essays that maintain a delicate balance between providing specific details of the refugee experience and exploring corresponding theories of trust and mistrust. Their subjects range widely across the globe, and include Palestinians, Cambodians, Tamils, and Mayan Indians of Guatemala. By examining what individuals experience when removed from their own culture, these essays reflect on individual identity and culture as a whole.
E. Valentine Daniel is author of Fluid Signs (California, 1984), coeditor of Culture/Contexture (California, 1995), and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. John Chr. Knudsen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen.
