Culture wars : context, models and anthropologists' accounts

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Culture wars : context, models and anthropologists' accounts

edited by Deborah James, Evelyn Plaice and Christina Toren

(The EASA series, v. 12)

Berghahn Books, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-208) and index

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The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable "cultural worlds." Instead they investigate the relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists' models and accounts in new ways. In doing so, they offer fresh insights into this key area of anthropological research.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Culture, context and anthropologists' accounts Deborah James and Christina Toren Chapter 1. Alliances And Avoidance: British Interactions with German-Speaking Anthropologists, 1933-1953 Andre Gingrich Chapter 2. Serving the Volk? Afrikaner anthropology revisited John Sharp Chapter 3. 'Making Natives': debating indigeneity in Canada and South Africa Evie Plaice Chapter 4. Culture in the Periphery: Anthropology in the Shadow of Greek Civilisation Dimitra Gefou-Madianou Chapter 5. Culture: the Indigenous Account Alan Barnard Chapter 6. We are All Indigenous Now: Culture vs. Nature in representations of the Balkans Aleksandar Boskovic Chapter 7. Which cultures, what contexts, and whose accounts? Anatomies of a moral panic in Southall, multi-ethnic London Gerd Baumann Chapter 8. "What about White People's History?" Class, Race and Culture Wars in 21st Century Britain Gillian Evans Chapter 9. A Cosmopolitan Anthropology? Stephen Gudeman Chapter 10. The door in the middle: six conditions for anthropology Joao de Pina-Cabral Chapter 11. Adam Kuper: An Anthropologist's Account Isak Niehaus Notes on Contributors References Index

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