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The best of Anthropology today

edited by Jonathan Benthall ; with a preface by Marshall Sahlins

Routledge, 2002

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780415262552

Description

The articles in this influential journal placed it in the thick of a turbulent period for anthropology. Reacting to current research interests and launching what were often heated debates, it set the agenda for disciplinary change and new research. Once described the American Anthropological Association as creating 'a strong voice for anthropology in the public arena', the Founder Editor, Jonathan Benthall, introduces here a personal selection of articles and letters with his own candid retrospect, arguing that the discipline's greatest strength and potential lies in testing and refining the ideas of other disciplines. Once described by the American Anthropological Association as creating 'a strong voice for anthropology in the public arena', the founder editor, Jonathan Benthall, introduces here a personal selection of articles and letters with his own candid retrospect, arguing that the discipline's greatest strength and potential lies in telling and refining the ideas of other disciplines.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements. List of Figures. Preface Marshall Sahlins Introduction Jonathan Benthall Part I: Feminine Power 1. Feminine Power at Sea Silvia Rodgers 2. 'Ladies' Behind Bars: A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror John M. Coggeshall 3. Dyke to Dyke: Ritual Reproduction at a US Men's Military College Abigail E. Adams 4. Formal Men, Informal Women: How the Fulani Support Their Anthropologists Daniele Kintz POT POURRI 1: TOWARDS A RADICAL REFORM OF EDUCATION Part II: Indigenes' Rights, Anthropologists' Roots 5. Ethnocide: A Report from Columbia Stephen Corry 6. 'Ethnocide' Lucy Mair 7. Ethnocide and Ethnocentricity - Correspondence Stephen Corry and Lucy Mair 8. Critical Re-vision: Clastres' Chronicle and the Optic of Primitivism Bartholomew Dean 9. Doing Justice to Clastres Jon Abbink POT POURRI 2: A NEW OCCULT SCIENCE Part III: Fieldwork as Intervention 10. Nomadism and its Future: the Afar Glynn Flood 11. Anthropology and the Nomad: Another View of the Afar A. F. Robertson 12. Development in Ethiopia Glynn Flood 13. The Flood-Robertson Exchange: A Brief Comment Christopher Clapham 14. 'The Mountain People' as Tribal Mirror John Knight 15. The White 'Helpers': Anthropologists, Development Workers and Local Imaginations POT POURRI 3: FEBRUARY 1988 Part IV: Markets of Desire 16. In and Out of Polyester: Desire, Disdain and Global Fibre Competitions Jane Schneider 17. 'Caritas' and the Reconceptualization of Money in Romania Katherine Verderey POT POURRI 4: AUGUST 1988 Part V: Anthropology in the Mass Media 18. Aliens, Apemen and Whacky Savages: the Anthropologist in the Tabloids Mark Allen Peterson 19. Anthropology's Identity Crisis Chris Shore 20. 'We Are All Neighbours Pat Caplan 21. Ancient Mysteries and the Modern World Marcus Banks POT POURRI 5: THE GREAT ANT-EATER'S ATTRACTIONS Part VI
  • New Social Movements 22 Fission and Fusion in Nuclear Society Michael Thompson 23. Correspondence Lionel Caplan, Michael Thompson, Charles Leslie 24. Whale Politics and Green Legitimacy: a Critique of the Anti-whaling Campaign Arne Kalland 25. Return of Love: Everyday Life and African Divination in Paris Liliane Kuczyniski 26. The Sacrifice of 'Id al-kabir: Islam in the French Suburbs Anne-Marie Brisebaree POT POURRI 6: MUSEUMS OF THE UNDERSIDE Part VII: Human Sciences in Authoritarian States 27. The Schwidetzky Affair Jonathan Benthall 28. Two Separate Developments: Anthropology in South Africa, 1980 John Sharp 29. Mythologized Representations in Soviet Thinking on the Nationalities Problem Slawoj Szynkiewicz 30. Human Origins, Myanmafication and 'Disciplined' Burmese Democracy POT POURRI 7: THE RAW, THE COOKED AND THE MARILYNATED Part 8: The Technology of Enchantment 31. Technology and Magic Al
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: pbk ISBN 9780415262569

Description

The articles in this influential journal placed it in the thick of a turbulent period for anthropology. Reacting to current research interests and launching what were often heated debates, it set the agenda for disciplinary change and new research. Once described the American Anthropological Association as creating 'a strong voice for anthropology in the public arena', the Founder Editor, Jonathan Benthall, introduces here a personal selection of articles and letters with his own candid retrospect, arguing that the discipline's greatest strength and potential lies in testing and refining the ideas of other disciplines. Once described by the American Anthropological Association as creating 'a strong voice for anthropology in the public arena', the founder editor, Jonathan Benthall, introduces here a personal selection of articles and letters with his own candid retrospect, arguing that the discipline's greatest strength and potential lies in telling and refining the ideas of other disciplines.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements. List of Figures. Preface Marshall Sahlins Introduction Jonathan Benthall Part I: Feminine Power 1. Feminine Power at Sea Silvia Rodgers 2. 'Ladies' Behind Bars: A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror John M. Coggeshall 3. Dyke to Dyke: Ritual Reproduction at a US Men's Military College Abigail E. Adams 4. Formal Men, Informal Women: How the Fulani Support Their Anthropologists Daniele Kintz POT POURRI 1: TOWARDS A RADICAL REFORM OF EDUCATION Part II: Indigenes' Rights, Anthropologists' Roots 5. Ethnocide: A Report from Columbia Stephen Corry 6. 'Ethnocide' Lucy Mair 7. Ethnocide and Ethnocentricity - Correspondence Stephen Corry and Lucy Mair 8. Critical Re-vision: Clastres' Chronicle and the Optic of Primitivism Bartholomew Dean 9. Doing Justice to Clastres Jon Abbink POT POURRI 2: A NEW OCCULT SCIENCE Part III: Fieldwork as Intervention 10. Nomadism and its Future: the Afar Glynn Flood 11. Anthropology and the Nomad: Another View of the Afar A. F. Robertson 12. Development in Ethiopia Glynn Flood 13. The Flood-Robertson Exchange: A Brief Comment Christopher Clapham 14. 'The Mountain People' as Tribal Mirror John Knight 15. The White 'Helpers': Anthropologists, Development Workers and Local Imaginations POT POURRI 3: FEBRUARY 1988 Part IV: Markets of Desire 16. In and Out of Polyester: Desire, Disdain and Global Fibre Competitions Jane Schneider 17. 'Caritas' and the Reconceptualization of Money in Romania Katherine Verderey POT POURRI 4: AUGUST 1988 Part V: Anthropology in the Mass Media 18. Aliens, Apemen and Whacky Savages: the Anthropologist in the Tabloids Mark Allen Peterson 19. Anthropology's Identity Crisis Chris Shore 20. 'We Are All Neighbours Pat Caplan 21. Ancient Mysteries and the Modern World Marcus Banks POT POURRI 5: THE GREAT ANT-EATER'S ATTRACTIONS Part VI
  • New Social Movements 22. Fission and Fusion in Nuclear Society Michael Thompson 23. Correspondence Lionel Caplan, Michael Thompson, Charles Leslie 24. Whale Politics and Green Legitimacy: a Critique of the Anti-whaling Campaign Arne Kalland 25. Return of Love: Everyday Life and African Divination in Paris Liliane Kuczyniski 26. The Sacrifice of 'Id al-kabir: Islam in the French Suburbs Anne-Marie Brisebaree POT POURRI 6: MUSEUMS OF THE UNDERSIDE Part VII: Human Sciences in Authoritarian States 27. The Schwidetzky Affair Jonathan Benthall 28. Two Separate Developments: Anthropology in South Africa, 1980 John Sharp 29. Mythologized Representations in Soviet Thinking on the Nationalities Problem Slawoj Szynkiewicz 30. Human Origins, Myanmafication and 'Disciplined' Burmese Democracy POT POURRI 7: THE RAW, THE COOKED AND THE MARILYNATED Part 8: The Technology of Enchantment 31. Technology and Magic A

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