The Politics of Anthropology : : From Colonialism and Sexism Toward a View from Below / / ed. by Bruce Mannheim, Gerrit Huizer.

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• MitwirkendeR: AHMED, ABDEL GHAFFAR M.,; ASAD, TALAL,; BUIJTENHUIJS, ROBERT,; CAULFIELD, ΜΙΝΑ DAVIS,; CONDOMINAS, GEORGES,; DAVIS, SHELTON H.,; FRANK, ANDRÉ GUNDER,; GEDICKS, AL,; HUIZER, GERRIT,; KEESING, ROGER M.,; KIELSTRA, NICO,; LEACOCK, ELEANOR,; LOPATE, CAROL,; MAMAK, ALEXANDER F.,; MUKHERJEE, RAMKRISHNA,; NAKHLEH, KHALIL,; NASH, JUNE,; NZIMIRO, IKENNA,; OMVEDT, GAIL,; ONOGE, OMAFUME F.,; OWUSU, MAXWELL,; POLGAR, STEVEN,; PORATH, D. R.,; ROHRLICH-LEAVITT, RUBY,; SCHOEPF, BROOKE GRUNDFEST,; SCHRIJVERS, JOKE,; STRATHERN, ANDREW,; SYKES, BARBARA,; TALBOT, STEVE,; WEATHERFORD, ELIZABETH,
• HerausgeberIn: Huizer, Gerrit,; Mannheim, Bruce,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (520 p.)

Table of Contents

I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- SECTION ONE: Introduction -- Anthropology and Politics: From Naivete Toward Liberation? -- SECTION TWO: Colonialism in Anthropology -- The Counterrevolutionary Tradition in African Studies: The Case of Applied Anthropology -- Anthropologists and Their Terminologies: A Critical Review -- Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter -- SECTION THREE: Sexism in Anthropology -- Viricentrism and Anthropology -- Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives -- Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions -- SECTION FOUR: "Ethical Question" or "Political Choice"? -- Colonial and Postcolonial Anthropology of Africa: Scholarship or Sentiment? -- Social Reality and the Anthropologists -- The Relevance of Contemporary Economic Anthropology -- Notes on the Present-Day State of Anthropology in the Third World -- Anthropology = Ideology, Applied Anthropology = Politics -- SECTION FIVE: From "Academic Colonialism" to "Committed Anthropology" -- The Social Responsibility of Anthropological Science in the Context of Contemporary Brazil -- The Meaning of Wounded Knee, 1973: Indian Self-Government and the Role of Anthropology -- From Applied to Committed Anthropology: Disengaging from our Colonialist Heritage -- SECTION SIX: Dilemmas of Action Research and Commitment -- Anthropology, "Snooping," and Commitment: A View from Papua New Guinea -- Anthropology in Melanesia: Retrospect and Prospect -- Is Useful Action Research Possible? -- How Can Revolutionary Anthropology Be Practiced? -- The Role of the Anthropologist in Minority Education: The Chicano Case -- SECTION SEVEN: Toward a View from Below and from Within -- Participant Observation or Partisan Participation? -- On Objectivity in Fieldwork -- Breaking Through the Looking Glass: The View from Below -- On Being a Native Anthropologist -- Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting -- SECTION EIGHT: Attempts at Liberation Anthropology -- On the Participant Study of Women's Movements: Methodological, Definitional and Action Considerations -- Research-Through-Action: Some Practical Experiences with Peasant Organization -- Anthropology of the Multinational Corporation -- Nationalism, Race-Class Consciousness, Action Research on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea -- Research from Within and from Below: Reversing the Machinery -- APPENDIX: Foundations on the Move -- Foundations on the Move -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects