Contrarian Anthropology : : The Unwritten Rules of Academia / / Laura Nader.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Nader, Laura,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 p.)

Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking and to stimulate boundary crossing in others.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1960s to 1980s -- Chapter 1. Up the Anthropologist -- Chapter 2. Barriers to Thinking New about Energy -- Chapter 3. The Vertical Slice -- Chapter 4. A User Theory of Law -- Chapter 5. The Subordination of Women in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 6. The ADR Explosion -- Chapter 7. Post-Interpretive Anthropology -- Chapter 8. Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Control of Women -- 1990s to 2000s -- Chapter 9. From Legal Process to Mind Processing -- Chapter 10. Civilization and Its Negotiations -- Chapter 11. Coercive Harmony -- Chapter 12. The Three-Cornered Constellation -- Chapter 13. The Phantom Factor -- Chapter 14. Postscript on the Phantom Factor -- Chapter 15. Controlling Processes -- Chapter 16. Pushing the Limits -- Chapter 17. In a Woman’s Looking Glass -- 2000s to 2010s -- Chapter 18. Crime as a Category -- Chapter 19. Breaking the Silence -- Chapter 20. Iraq and Democracy -- Chapter 21. Law and the Theory of Lack -- Chapter 22. Promise or Plunder? -- Chapter 23. What the Rest Think of the West -- Chapter 24. The Words We Use -- Chapter 25. Vengeance, Barbarism, and Osama bin Laden -- Chapter 26. Three Jihads -- Chapter 27. The Anthropologist, the State, the Empire and the “Tribe” -- Chapter 28. Whose Comparative Law? -- INDEX