Laura Nader 
Culture and Dignity [PDF ebook] 
Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West

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In Culture and Dignity – Dialogues between the Middle East and
the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines
the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship
between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences
can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence.



* Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on
the myriad connections between peoples–especially the
critical intercultural dialogues between the cultures of the East
and the West

* Takes an historical and ethnographic approach to studying the
intermingling of Arab peoples and the West.

* Demonstrates how cultural exchange between the East and West is
a two-way process

* Presents an anthropological perspective on issues such as
religious fundamentalism, the lives of women and children, notions
of violence and order
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Acknowledgments x

Preface xii

1 Introduction 1

Indignities 5

Naturalizing Difference and the Great Transformation 14

Comparison, Ethnography, and History 17

2 From Rifaah al-Tahtawi to Edward Said: Lessons in Culture and
Dignity 24

Introduction 24

Rifaah al-Tahtawi and France 26

A Hundred Years Later: Edward Said 34

Concluding Comments 45

3 Ethnography as Theory: On the Roots of Controversy in
Anthropology 51

Introduction 51

Unstated Consensus 54

Defining Ethnographic Worth: 1896-2000 55

Ethnographic Audiences 64

An Outsider Looking In on Anthropology’s Ethnography
69

Concluding Comments 74

4 Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Control of Women 80

Cultural Hierarchy and Processes of Control 83

The Specifi city of Eastern and Western Grids 85

Positional Superiority, Thought Systems, and Other Cultures
87

Ways of Seeing and Comparing – East and West 88

The Controlling Role of Ideas 96

The Use of Revolution in Gender Control 98

Multiple Systems of Female Subordination 102

Colonialism, Development, Religion, and Gender Control 107

Conclusion: The Need to Separate Identities 110

5 Corporate Fundamentalism: Constructing Childhood in the United
States and Elsewhere 120

Introduction 120

Manufacturing Culture Bit by Bit 122

Fundamentalisms: Corporate and Religious 126

Marketing and Children: The United States 131

Drugs, Commercialism, and the Biomedical Paradigm: An American
Example 137

When Corporate Profits and Education Meet: The Educational
Testing Industry 140

Fundamentalisms: Economic, Religious, Political 141

Back to Corporate Fundamentalism: Future Directions 144

6 Culture and the Seeds of Nonviolence in the Middle East
151

Introduction 151

Disharmonic Westernization and Pilgrimage 154

Between the Stereotype and Reality 157

Little Worlds in the International Grip 161

Culture and Nonviolence: Who Stands to Gain From Peace? 165

Dignity Becomes Reality 168

7 Normative Blindness and Unresolved Human Rights Issues: The
Hypocrisy of Our Age 175

Introduction 175

Early Constraints 176

Unresolved Issues 178

A Nonstate Human Rights Effort 183

Health and Human Rights 186

Human Rights and Commercialism 191

Concluding Remarks 193

8 Breaking the Silence: Politics and Professional Autonomy
197

Introduction 197

Silence and Dominant Hegemonies 198

Desensitization 204

Mistakes Repeated in the Iraq Invasion 206

9 Lessons 212

Lessons Learned 212

Strategies of Subordination – In Reverse 216

Macro-histories 221

Appendix 226

Index 230

O autorze

Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology at the University
of California at Berkeley. An influential voice in contemporary
anthropology, Laura Nader’s books include Naked Science:
Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power and Knowledge
(1996), The Life of the Law (2002), and, with Ugo Mattei,
Plunder-When the Rule of Law is Illegal (2008).
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