Gerd Baumann’s scientific contributions

... In the literature, Baumann names this as the englobing grammar, minorities can consider themselves dierent; but from a higher level of consciousness, these supposed dierences are nothing but ctions of the politic of identity. In fact, or better said, from above, those auto dened as others are nothing more than a subordinated part of an englobing Us [12]. I could see misery rsthand, for example, when going on a tourist train ride, some Tunisian children were running by our side, and other tourists were throwing coins at them from the train as if we were in a kind of human safari. ...

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Personal Reflections on Social Anthropology: A Personal Voyage