Anthropology and the Politics of Representation /

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This book examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole. In this book, the editor brings together a group of international scholars who, through their fieldwork experien...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Vargas Cetina, Gabriela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Representation (Philosophy)
Political anthropology.
Ethnology > Philosophy.
Ethnology > Methodology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
anthropology.
Ethnologie.
Anthropologie.
Anthropologie politique.
Representation (Philosophie)
Ethnologie > Philosophie.
Ethnologie > Methodologie.
Ethnology
Anthropology
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Anthropology and the politics of representation / Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
  • Double trouble : implications of historicizing identity discourses / Les W. Field
  • Strategic essentialism, scholarly inflation, and political litmus tests : the moral economy of hyping the contemporary Mayas / David Stoll
  • Yucatecan food and the postcolonial politics of representation / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
  • Subverting stereotypes : the visual politics of representing indigenous modernity / Beth A. Conklin
  • Labels, genuine and spurious : anthropology and the politics of otherness in the United States / Vilma Santiago-Irizarry
  • "Gone anthropologist" : epistemic slippage, Native anthropology, and the dilemmas of representation / Bernard C. Perley
  • Matthew the Canadian journalist : engagement and representation in highland Guatemala / Timothy J. Smith
  • Performing music, silence, noise, and anthropology in Yucatan, Mexico / Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
  • Ethnography and the cultural politics of environmentalism / Tracey Heatherington
  • Notes on the use and abuse of cultural knowledge / Frederic W. Gleach
  • Rooted or extinct? : Post-Soviet anthropology and the construction of indigenousness / Sergey Sokolovskiy
  • Anthropology on trial : Australian anthropology and Native title litigation / Katie Glaskin
  • The politics of Europeanization, representation, and anthropology in Northern Ireland / Thomas M. Wilson
  • Epilogue : identities and politics of representation / June C. Nash.

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