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Anthropology and the will to meaning : a postcolonial critique / Vassos Argyrou.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Argyrou, Vassos.
- Series:
- Anthropology, culture, and society.
- Anthropology, culture, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Meaning (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- v, 129 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A powerful critique of both modern and postmodern anthropology.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Of Scholars, Gamblers and Thieves 1
- 2. Has There Ever Been a Crisis in Ethnological Representation? 10
- The Ethnographer as 'Man' 11
- The Ethnological Representation Par Excellence 19
- 3. The Salvation Intent 28
- The Three Strategies of Redemption 28
- Christian Ethnology and Victorian Anthropology 34
- Twentieth-Century Paradigms 43
- The Ethnological Complicity 56
- 4. What the Natives Don't Know 60
- The Sociocultural Unconscious 60
- Heterodox Consciousness 74
- The 'Heroisation' of the Thinking Subject 82
- 5. The Ethnological Will to Meaning 92
- The Impossible 92
- Sameness and the Beyond 105
- The Will to Meaning 112
- At the End of the Game 117.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781849641418
- 1849641412
- OCLC:
- 654103845
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