Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 269 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780823228782
,
9780823228775
Content:
Posing a powerful challenge to dominant trends in cultural analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of culture, providing the broadest study of this notion to date. Johnson and Michaelsen examine the principal methodological strategies or metaphors of anthropology in the past two decades, embodied in works by Edward Said, James Clifford, George Marcus, V. Y. Mudimbe, and others, and argues that they do not manage to escape anthropology's grounding in representational practices. To the extent that it remains a practice of representation, however complex, critical, or self-reflexive, anthropology cannot avoid objectifying its others. Although there is no chance, the authors argue, for a new anthropology that would not repeat the old anthropology's problem of disciplining the other, they also recognize that there may be no way out of anthropology. We are always writing, thinking, and living in anthropology's wake, within its specific compass or horizon.
Content:
Intro -- contents -- preface -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- Descartes' Corps -- Our Sentiments -- Ex-Cited Dialogue -- An Other Voice -- ''Unworkable Monstrosities'' -- Hybrid Bound -- CODA: Anthropology's Present -- notes -- bibliography -- index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-263) and index
,
""contents""; ""preface""; ""acknowledgments""; ""introduction""; ""Descartes� Corps""; ""Our Sentiments""; ""Ex-Cited Dialogue""; ""An Other Voice""; ""��Unworkable Monstrosities��""; ""Hybrid Bound""; ""CODA: Anthropology�s Present""; ""notes""; ""bibliography""; ""index""
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823228775
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Anthropology's Wake : Attending to the End of Culture
Language:
English
