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A critique of postmodern anthropology--in defense of disciplinary origins and traditions / H. Sidky.
Penn Museum Library GN345 .S55 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sidky, H., 1956-
- Series:
- Mellen studies in anthropology ; v. 10.
- Mellen studies in anthropology ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Methodology.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Interpretation (Philosophy).
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- v, 487 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Challenge to Disciplinary History and Traditions 1
- Chapter 2 Disciplinary Traditions and Interpretivist Objections 15
- Chapter 3 Epistemology 29
- Chapter 4 The Sins of the Past? The Interpretivists' Misleading Construal of the Historical Development of Anthropology 73
- Chapter 5 The Roots of Interpretivism: Franz Boas and the Unmaking of Scientific Anthropology 91
- Chapter 6 The Mead-Freeman Controversy: Interpretivist Misrepresentations of Science in Anthropology 141
- Chapter 7 Fieldwork and Writing Ethnographies: Bronislaw Malinowski and the Postmodernists 163
- Chapter 8 Symbolic Anthropology and the Interpretation of Culture: The Entrenchment of Anti-Science Anthropology 199
- Chapter 9 Postmodernism, Anti-Science and Anti-Reason 243
- Chapter 10 Postmodernism in Anthropology 299
- Chapter 11 Anthropology, Science, Anti-Science, and the Pursuit of Knowledge: Concluding Thoughts 381.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0773467815
- OCLC:
- 51558987
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