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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy <1990
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (520 p.)
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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