Other People's Anthropologies : : Ethnographic Practice on the Margins / / ed. by Aleksandar Bošković.

Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral s...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgements --
List of Contributors --
Introduction: Other People’s Anthropologies --
Chapter 1 Russian Anthropology: Old Traditions and New Tendencies --
Chapter 2 Anthropology in the Netherlands: Past, Present, and Future --
Chapter 3 Sociocultural Anthropology in Bulgaria: Desired and Contested --
Chapter 4 Refacing Mt. Kenya or Excavating the RiftValley? Anthropology in Kenya and the Question of Tradition --
Chapter 5 Anthropology in Turkey: Impressions for an Overview --
Chapter 6 Committed or Scientific? The Southern Whereabouts of Social Anthropology and Antropología Social in 1960–70 Argentina --
Chapter 7 Themes and Legacies: Anthropology’s Trajectories in Cameroon --
Chapter 8 Japanese Anthropology and Desire for the West --
Chapter 9 Anthropology in Unlikely Places: Yugoslav Ethnology Between the Past and the Future --
Chapter 10 The Otherness of Norwegian Anthropology --
Chapter 11 Anthropology with No Guilt— A View from Brazil --
Postscript: Developments in US Anthropology Since the 1980s, a Supplement The Reality of Center-Margin Relations, To Be Sure, But Changing (and Hopeful) Affinities in These Relations --
Afterword: Anthropology’s Global Ecumene --
Index
Summary:Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral scholarship. With contributions from leading anthropologists and social scientists from different countries and anthropological traditions, this volume gives voice to scholars outside these "great" traditions. It shows the immense variety of methodologies, training, and approaches that scholars from these regions bring to anthropology and the social sciences in general, thus enriching the disciplines in important ways at an age marked by multiculturalism, globalization, and transnationalism.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780857450203
DOI:10.1515/9780857450203
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Aleksandar Bošković.