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Outsider within : reworking anthropology in the global age / Faye V. Harrison.

Penn Museum Library GN345 .H43 2008
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Harrison, Faye Venetia.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ethnology--Philosophy.
Ethnology.
Applied anthropology.
Physical Description:
xii, 361 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Summary:
Outsider Within presents an approach to critically reconstructing the discipline of anthropology to better encompass issues of gender and race. Among the nine key changes to the field that Faye V. Harrison advocates are researching in an ethically and politically responsible manner, promoting greater diversity in the discipline, rethinking theory, and committing to a genuine multicultural dialogue. Drawing from materials developed during her distinguished twenty-five-year career in Caribbean and African American studies, Harrison analyzes anthropology's limits and possibilities from an African American woman's perspective while challenging anthropologists to work together to transcend gender, racial, and national hierarchies.
Contents:
Reworking anthropology from the "outside within"
Unburying theory, repositioning practice : anthropological praxis in peripheral predicaments
Remapping routes, unearthing roots : rethinking Caribbean connections with the U.S. South
Writing against the grain : cultural politics of difference in Alice Walker's fiction
Probing the legacy of empire : reflexive notes on Caribbeanist Gordon K. Lewis
Gangs, politics, and dilemmas of global restructuring in Jamaica
The gendered violence of structural adjustment
Everyday neoliberalism in Cuba : a glimpse from Jamaica
Global apartheid at home and abroad
Justice for all : the challenges of advocacy research in the global age
Teaching philosophy
Academia, the free market, and diversity
A labor of love : an emancipated woman's legacy.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-345) and index.
ISBN:
9780252032615
0252032616
9780252074905
0252074904
OCLC:
173498760

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