American anthropology, 1971-1995 : papers from the American anthropologist / edited and with an introduction by Regna Darnell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Darnell, Regna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (825 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Arlington, VA : American Anthropological Association ; Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American anthropology in the late twentieth century interrogated and depicted the worlds of others, past and present, in subtle and incisive ways while increasingly questioning its own authority to do so. Marxist, symbolic, and structuralist thought shaped the fieldwork and conclusions of many researchers around the globe. Practicing anthropology blossomed and grew rapidly as a subdiscipline in its own right. There emerged a keener appreciation of both the history of the discipline and the histories of those studied. Archaeologists witnessed a resurgence of interest in the concept of culture.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Editor's Introduction; Ritual, Sanctity, and Cybernetics; Brazilian Racial Terms: Some Aspects of Meaning and Learning; The Potlatch: A Structural Analysis; Prejudice and Its Intellectual Effect in American Anthropology: An Ethnographic Report; On Key Symbols; Sheep in Navajo Culture and Social Organization; Verbal Art as Performance; World Picture, Anthropological Frame; The Anthropologist as Expert Witness; Whatever Happened to the Id?; Linguistic Knowledge and Cultural Knowledge: Some Doubts and Speculations

Tibetan Fraternal Polyandry: A Test of Sociobiological Theory The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable for the Archeology of the 1980's; Types Distinct from Our Own: Franz Boas on Jewish Identity and Assimilation; Other Times, Other Customs: The Anthropology of History; Anti Anti-Relativism; Hominoid Evolution and Hominoid Origins; Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy; A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture; Knowledge, Power, and the Individual in Subarctic Hunting Societies; Theories of Social Honor

Kalapalo Biography: Psychology and Language in a South American Oral History The Making of the Maori: Culture Invention and Its Logic; Facing Power-Old Insights, New Questions; Evolution of the Human Capacity for Beliefs; Art, Science, or Politics? The Crisis in Hunter-Gatherer Studies; Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality; ''Our Ancestors the Gauls'': Archaeology, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Manipulation of Celtic Identity in Modern Europe; How Native Is a ''Native'' Anthropologist?; Archaeology, Anthropology, and the Culture Concept

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-42421-4

9786610424214

0-8032-0643-7

OCLC:

813224846