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Modernist Anthropology : From Fieldwork to Text /

Recent insights into the nature of representation and power relations have signaled an important shift in perspective on anthropology: from a fieldwork-based "science" of culture to an interpretive activity bound to the discursive and ideological process called "text-making." Thi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Manganaro, Marc (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1990]
Colección:Princeton legacy library
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Textual Play, Power, and Cultural Critique: An Orientation to Modernist Anthropology / Manganaro, Marc
  • Frazer and the Elegiac: The Modernist Connection / Vickery, John B.
  • Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Reading Lesson / Roth, Marty
  • Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology / Strathern, Marilyn
  • Irony in Anthropology: The Work of Franz Boas / Krupat, Arnold
  • The Politics of Ethnographic Authority: Race and Writing in the Ethnography of Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston / Gordon, Deborah
  • Ruth Benedict and the Modernist Sensibility / Handler, Richard
  • Anthropology and Modernism in France: From Durkheim to the Collège de sociologie / Richman, Michèle
  • Anthropology, Literary Theory, and the Traditions of Modernism / Loriggio, Francesco
  • Marxism and the "Subject" of Anthropology / Sullivan, Robert
  • The Historical Materialist Critique of Surrealism and Postmodernist Ethnography / Webster, Steven
  • Afterword / Crapanzano, Vincent
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index.