ISBN:
9780415150057
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (284 p)
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs
Parallel Title:
Print version After Writing Culture : Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
With fourteen articles written by well-known anthropologists, this book addresses the theme of representation in anthropology and explores the directions in which anthropology is moving following the debates of the 1980s
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: the road from Santa Fe; Representing the anthropologist's predicament; Identifying versus identifying with 'the Other': reflections on the siting of the subject in anthropological discourse; Representations and the re-presentation of family: an analysis of divorce narratives; The tooth butterfly, or rendering a sensible account from the imaginative present; Crossing a representational divide: from west to east in Scottish ethnography
Description / Table of Contents:
Deconstructing colonial fictions? Some conjuring tricks in the recent sociology of IndiaRepresenting and translating people's place in the landscape of northern Australia; Echoing the past in rural Japan; The Museum as mirror: ethnographic reflections; Edifying anthropology: culture as conversation; representation as conversation; Who is representing whom? Gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan; Representing identity; Some political consequences of theories of Gypsy ethnicity: the place of the intellectual
Description / Table of Contents:
Appropriate anthropology and the risky inspiration of 'Capability' Brown: representations of what, by whom, and to what end?Name index; Subject index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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