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Culture wars : context, models and anthropologists' accounts /

The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only Native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: James, Deborah
Otros Autores: Plaice, Evelyn, Toren, Christina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2010.
Colección:EASA series ; 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only Native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable "cultural wor.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (228 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index.
ISBN:9781845458119
1845458117