Culture wars : context, models and anthropologists' accounts / edited by Deborah James, Evelyn Plaice and Christina Toren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James, Deborah, Dr.

Plaice, Evelyn Mary, 1955-

Toren, Christina, 1947-

Series:

EASA series ; v. 12.

EASA series ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Fieldwork.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Research.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable "cultural wor

Contents:

Culture Wars; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Alliances and Avoidance; Chapter 2: Serving the Volk?; Chapter 3: 'Making Indians'; Chapter 4: Culture in the Periphery; Chapter 5: Culture; Chapter 6: We are All Indigenous Now; Chapter 7: Which Cultures, What Contexts and Whose Accounts?; Chapter 8: 'What about White People's History?'; Chapter 9: A Cosmopolitan Anthropology?; Chapter 10: The Door in the Middle; Chapter 11: Adam Kuper; References; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-208) and index.

ISBN:

9786612627187

9780857456625

0857456628

9781282627185

128262718X

9781845458119

1845458117

OCLC:

781326725