Anthropology & egalitarianism : ethnographic encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau / Eric Gable.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gable, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--Philosophy.

Equality.

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Anthropology and egalitarianism

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anthropology and Egalitarianism is an artful and accessible introduction to key themes in cultural anthropology. Writing in a deeply personal style and using material from his fieldwork in three dramatically different locales -- Indonesia, West Africa, and Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson -- Eric Gable shows why the ethnographic encounter is the core of the discipline's method and the basis of its unique contribution to understanding the human condition. Gable weaves together vignettes from the field and discussion of major works as he explores the development of the idea of culture through the experience of cultural contrast, anthropology's fraught relationship to racism and colonialism, and other enduring themes.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Culture by Contrast and Theory in Anthropology

1 Supping with Savages

2 Standing in a Line

3 Jefferson's Ardor

4 The Colonialist's Dress Code

5 Taking Pictures in the Field, or the Anthropologist's Dress Code

6 Beyond Belief

7 The Sex Life of Savages

Conclusion: Tending to Nature, Tending to Culture

or, Is Anthropology History?

Notes on Sources

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-97579-X

9786612975790

0-253-00484-5

OCLC:

695996366