§16§This book provides a uniquely positioned contribution to the current debates on the integration of immigrants in Europe. Twelve social anthropologists-"strangers by vocation"-reflect upon how they were taken in by those they studied over the course of their long-term fieldwork. The societies concerned are Sinti (northern Italy), Inuit (Canadian Arctic), Kanak (New Caledonia), Maori (New Zealand), Lanten (Laos), Tobelo and Tanebar-Evav (Indonesia), Banyoro (Uganda), Gawigl and Siassi (Papua New Guinea) and a township in Odisha (India). A comparative analysis of these reflexive, ethnographic accounts reveals as yet underrepresented, non-European perspectives on the issue of integrating strangers, enabling the reader to identify and reflect upon the uniquely Western ideals and values that currently dominate such discourse.§ §04§§1. Introduction.- 2. Becoming a Sinta: learning to see dreams and relating to the dead.- 3. "You are like geese". Working and rum dancing with the Inuit elders in Nunavut (Canada).- 4. Being the otheri n Inuit society.- 5. An anthropologist in Kanaky. Modulations of belonging and otherness.- 6. A stranger-anthropologist as advocate of Maori development projects.- 7. On becoming a ritual master among the Lanten - Yao Mun - of Laos.- 8. To be made part part of Tobelo society (North Moluccas).- 9. Welcome to Tanebar-Evav - can one be incorporated in a village society?.- 10. Naming and Becoming a Munyoro in Western Uganda.- 11. Placing the newcomer - staying with the Gawigl of Highland Papua New Guinea.- 12. Mythical beings from the swamp among the Siassi, Papua New Guinea.- 13. Strangers on an industrial frontier in Eastern India.§ §02§§ Jos D. M. Platenkamp is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Münster, Germany.§ § Almut Schneider is Associate Researcher in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.§
