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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manganaro, Marc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; Textual Play, Power, and Cultural Critique: An Orientation to Modernist Anthropology; Farzer: Textual Reevaluations ; Frazer and the Elegiac: The Modernist Connection; Sir James Frazer's the Golden Bough: A Reading Lesson; Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology Comments ; Ethnography as Discourse: The Era of the Monograph; Irony in Anthropology: The Work of Franz Boas; The Politics of Ethnographic Authority: Race and Writing in the Ethnography of Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston; Ruth Benedict and the Modernist Sensibility.
  • Anthropological Modernism: Language, Theory, and PraxisAnthropology and Modernism in France: From Durkheim to the Collège De Sociologie; Anthropology, Literary Theory, and the Traditions of Modernism; Marxism and the ""Subject"" of Anthropology; The Historical Materialist Critique of Surrealism and Postmodernist Ethnography; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index.