'Cultures do not exist': Exploding self-evidences in the investigation of interculturality

Binsbergen, W.M.J. van (2003)

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This volume brings together fifteen essays investigating aspects of interculturality. Published between 1969 and 2002, the essays operate at the borderline between anthropology and intercultural philosophy. Ethnographic data are derived from field research carried out in Tunisia, Zambia and Botswana. While a number of chapters focus on specific African contexts, others have a more theoretical focus, or deal with the whole of Africa. The essays are arranged in five parts: 1. Preliminaries; 2. The construction of intercultural knowledge through anthropological fieldwork; 3. From anthropological fieldworker in southern Africa, to North Atlantic diviner-priest: an experiment in intercultural philosophy; 4. From cultural anthropology to intercultural philosophy; 5. Exercises in intercultural philosophy. [ASC Leiden abstract]

• Africa
• cultural philosophy
• anthropology
• collected works (form)
• Botswana
• fieldwork
• Zambia

• All authors: Binsbergen, W.M.J. van
• Date: 2003
• Title of host publication: Intercultural encounters: African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality
• Pages: 459 - 522
• ISBN (print): 3825867838