ISBN:
9780415136129
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (266 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Popularizing Anthropology
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Anthropology ; Popular works
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Human beings
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Anthropology written for a popular audience is the most neglected branch of the discipline. In the 1980s postmodernist anthropologists began to explore the literary and reflective aspects of their work. Popularizing Anthropology advances that trend by looking at a key but previously marginalized genre of anthropology.The contributors, who are well known anthropologists, explore such themes as: why so many anthropologists are women; how the Japanese have reacted to Ruth Benedict; why Margaret Mead became so successful; how the French media promote Levi-Strauss and Louis Dumont; Why Bruce Chatwi
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Popularizing anthropology; Tricky tropes: styles of the popular and the pompous; Typecasting: anthropology's dramatis personae; The chrysanthemum continues to flower: Ruth Benedict and some perils of popular anthropology; Communicating culture: Margaret Mead and the practice of popular anthropology; Enlarging the context of anthropology: the case of Anthropology Today; Claude Levi-Strauss and Louis Dumont: media portraits; Proximity and distance: representations of Aboriginal society in the writings of Bill Harney and Bruce Chatwin
Description / Table of Contents:
Women readers: other utopias and own bodily knowledgeA bricoleur's workshop: writing Les lances du crepuscule; Fieldwork styles: Bohannan, Barley, and Gardner; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
