depaysement

is alienation from one's own enculturation as a recipe for objectivity in the appreciation of others. Ethnocentric bias can have invisible wavelengths.

Rabinow, in Reflections, writes. 'The Frenchman's paradoxical call for a distancing that would allow one to return more profoundly home was compelling, if obscure. (2-3). 'Levi-Strauss recommends to anthropologist the concept of depaysement. Alienation from one's own enculturation as a recipe for objectivity in the appreciation of others. Ethnocentric bias can have invisible wavelengths.' in Triste Tropiques

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depaysement