The Politics of Anthropology
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The Politics of Anthropology

From Colonialism and Sexism Toward a View from Below

  1. 532 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Politics of Anthropology

From Colonialism and Sexism Toward a View from Below

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Yes, you can access The Politics of Anthropology by Gerrit Huizer, Bruce Mannheim, Gerrit Huizer,Bruce Mannheim in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Philosophy History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9789027977502
eBook ISBN
9783110806458
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. General Editor's Preface
  2. SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
  3. Anthropology and Politics: From Naïveté Toward Liberation?
  4. SECTION TWO: COLONIALISM IN ANTHROPOLOGY
  5. The Counterrevolutionary Tradition in African Studies: The Case of Applied Anthropology
  6. Anthropologists and Their Terminologies: A Critical Review
  7. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
  8. SECTION THREE: SEXISM IN ANTHROPOLOGY
  9. Viricentrism and Anthropology
  10. Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives
  11. Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions
  12. SECTION FOUR: "ETHICAL QUESTION" OR "POLITICAL CHOICE"?
  13. Colonial and Postcolonial Anthropology of Africa: Scholarship or Sentiment?
  14. Social Reality and the Anthropologists
  15. The Relevance of Contemporary Economic Anthropology
  16. Notes on the Present-Day State of Anthropology in the Third World
  17. Anthropology = Ideology, Applied Anthropology = Politics
  18. SECTION FIVE: FROM "ACADEMIC COLONIALISM" TO "COMMITTED ANTHROPOLOGY"
  19. The Social Responsibility of Anthropological Science in the Context of Contemporary Brazil
  20. The Meaning of Wounded Knee, 1973: Indian Self-Government and the Role of Anthropology
  21. From Applied to Committed Anthropology: Disengaging from Our Colonialist Heritage
  22. SECTION SIX: DILEMMAS OF ACTION RESEARCH AND COMMITMENT
  23. Anthropology, "Snooping," and Commitment: A View from Papua New Guinea
  24. Anthropology in Melanesia: Retrospect and Prospect
  25. Is Useful Action Research Possible?
  26. How Can Revolutionary Anthropology Be Practiced?
  27. The Role of the Anthropologist in Minority Education: The Chicano Case
  28. SECTION SEVEN: TOWARD A VIEW FROM BELOW AND FROM WITHIN
  29. Participant Observation or Partisan Participation?
  30. On Objectivity in Fieldwork
  31. Breaking Through the Looking Glass: The View from Below
  32. On Being a Native Anthropologist
  33. Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting
  34. SECTION EIGHT: ATTEMPTS AT LIBERATION ANTHROPOLOGY
  35. On the Participant Study of Women's Movements: Methodological, Definitional, and Action Considerations
  36. Research-Through-Action: Some Practical Experiences with Peasant Organization
  37. Anthropology of the Multinational Corporation
  38. Nationalism, Race-Class Consciousness, and Action Research on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea
  39. Research from Within and from Below: Reversing the Machinery
  40. APPENDIX
  41. Foundations on the Move
  42. Biographical Notes
  43. Index of Names
  44. Index of Subjects