Other people's anthropologies : ethnographic practice on the margins

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Other people's anthropologies : ethnographic practice on the margins

edited by Aleksandar Bošković

Berghahn Books, 2008

1st ed

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Papers originally presented at a workshop at the 2004 EASA conference in Vienna

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral scholarship. With contributions from leading anthropologists and social scientists from different countries and anthropological traditions, this volume gives voice to scholars outside these "great" traditions. It shows the immense variety of methodologies, training, and approaches that scholars from these regions bring to anthropology and the social sciences in general, thus enriching the disciplines in important ways at an age marked by multiculturalism, globalization, and transnationalism.

Table of Contents

Dedication List of Maps Acknowledgements Introduction: Other Peoples' Anthropologies Aleksandar Boskovic and Thomas Hylland Eriksen "Other" Anthropologies Chapter 1. Russian Anthropology: Old Traditions and New Tendencies A.M. Kuznetsov Chapter 2. Anthropology in the Netherlands: Past, Present and Future Han F. Vermeulen Chapter 3. Sociocultural Anthropology in Bulgaria: Desired and Contested Magdalena Elchinova Chapter 4. Refacing Mt. Kenya or Excavating the Rift Valley? Anthropology in Kenya and the Question of Tradition Mwenda Ntarangwi Chapter 5. Anthropology in Turkey: Impressions for an Overview Zerrin G. Tandogan Chapter 6. Committed or Scientific? The Southern whereabouts of Social Anthropology and Antropologia Social in 1960s to 1970s Argentina Rosana Guber Chapter 7. Themes and Legacies: Anthropology's Trajectories in Cameroon Jude Fokwang Chapter 8. Japanese Anthropology and Desire for the West Kaori Sugishita Chapter 9. Anthropology in Unlikely Places: Yugoslav Ethnology Between the Past and the Future Aleksandar Boskovic Chapter 10. The Otherness of Norwegian Anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen Chapter 11. Anthropology with no Guilt-A View from Brazil Mariza Peirano Postscript: Developments in US Anthropology Since the 1980s, a Supplement: The Reality of Center-Margin Relations, To Be Sure, But Changing (and Hopeful) Affinities in These Relations George E. Marcus Afterword: Anthropology's Global Ecumene Ulf Hannerz List of Contributors Glossary Index

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  • NCID
    BA85443477
  • ISBN
    • 9781845453985
  • LCCN
    2007042675
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 238 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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