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Up Close and Personal : On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge.

Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shore, Cris
Other Authors: Trnka, Susanna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Series:Methodology and history in anthropology.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations; Preface
  • Anthropologists Up Close and Personal; Acknowledgements; Introduction
  • Observing Anthropologists: Professional Knowledge, Practice and Lives; MICHAEL JACKSON; Chapter 1
  • Suffering, Selfhood and Anthropological Encounters; ANNE SALMOND; Chapter 2
  • Anthropology, Ontology and the Maori World; JOAN METGE; Chapter 3
  • Building Bridges: Maori and Pakeha Relations; GILLIAN COWLISHAW; Chapter 4
  • 'Culture', 'Race' and 'Me': Living the Anthropology of Inidgenous Australians; NICOLAS PETERSON; Chapter 5
  • Finding One's Way in Arnhem Land; HOWARD MORPHY.
  • Chapter 6
  • Art as Action: The YolnguDAVID TRIGGER; Chapter 7
  • Rethinking Nature and Nativeness; CHRISTOPHER PINNEY; Chapter 8
  • More than Local, Less than Global: Anthropology in the Contemporary World; NELSON GRABURN; Chapter 9
  • Beyond Selling Out: Art, Tourism and Indigenous Self-representation; NIGEL RAPPORT; Chapter 10
  • Sovereign Individuals and the Ontology of Selfhood; SUSAN WRIGHT; Chapter 11
  • Hidden Histories and Political Transformations; MARILYN STRATHERN; Chapter 12
  • Gender Ideology, Property Relations and Melanesia: The Field of 'M'
  • Conclusion
  • Looking Ahead: Past Connections and Future DirectionsIndex.