Modernist Anthropology : : From Fieldwork to Text / / ed. by Marc Manganaro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Crapanzano, Vincent,; Gordon, Deborah,; Handler, Richard,; Krupat, Arnold,; Loriggio, Francesco,; Manganaro, Marc,; Richman, Michèle,; Roth, Marty,; Strathern, Marilyn,; Sullivan, Robert,; Vickery, John B.,; Webster, Steven,
• HerausgeberIn: Manganaro, Marc,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1123
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

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-making." Thi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• INTRODUCTION
• Textual Play, Power, and Cultural Critique: An Orientation to Modernist Anthropology
• FRAZER: 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
• 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 PRAXIS
• Anthropology 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