(P/B) ANTHROPOLOGY AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE

Παρουσίαση

Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study. In surveying the developments of anthropological writing, the authors consider the entire history of twentieth-century anthropology, from British social anthropology, functionalism, and naive realism to structuralism, interpretive and psychoanalytic anthropology to more literary ethnography and finally to cultural critique. The result is a provocative work that is important for scholars interested in a critical approach not only to anthropology, but also to social science, art, literature, and history. This second edition considers new challenges to the field which have arisen since the book's original publication. (From the publisher)

"A remarkable and very important book. It considers the present state of anthropology, situating that state in its recent history and in relation to other social sciences - economics, politics, sociology, history - and, most importantly, to the major features of the social and intellectual scene - art, literature, literary criticism, cultural criticism, relativism, and the various states of Zeitgeist from the 1900s through today. It is thus not merely a book about anthropology but is in the widest sense about the major features of the intellectual climate of today" (David Schneider, University of California, Santa Cruz)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction
1 A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences
2 Ethnography and Interpretive Anthropology
3 Conveying Other Cultural Experience: The Person, Self, and Emotions
4 Taking Account of World Historical Political Economy: Knowable Communities in Larger Systems
5 The Repatriation of Anthropology as Cultural Critique
6 Two Contemporary Techniques of Cultural Critique in Anthropology
A Concluding Note
Notes
References
Index