Reinventing Anthropology (Pantheon antitextbooks) - Hardcover

Gerald D. Berreman; Kurt H. Wolff; William S. Willis, Jr.; John F. Szwed; Mina Davis Caufield; Richard O. Clemmer; Eric R. Wolf; E.N. Anderson, Jr.; Laura Nader

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394468279 ISBN 13: 9780394468273

Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1972

Synopsis

Explores the situation in American anthropology, showing that the assumptions of the discipline and its institutional setting have been irreversibly undermined. '

discusses why the separation of anthropology from the other social sciences has broken down; how the role of the interviewer and fieldworker, once unique to anthropology, has spread to other social sciences.; how formerly colonial relationships, at home on Indian reservations, as well as abroad, have been increasingly challenged; how attitudes of potential anthropology students have changed toward the desire to study their own society instead of a foreign one.

CONTENTS: 1) INTRO: Use of Anthropology: Critical, Political, Personal (D. Hymes)

2) THE ROOT IS MAN: 'Bringing it all Back Home': Malaise in Anthroplogy (G. Berreman) * This is the Time for Radical Anthropology (K. Wolff)

3) STUDYING DOMINATED CULTURES: * Skeletons in the Anthropological Closet (W. Willis, Jr.) * An American Anthropological Dilemma: The Politics of Afro-American Culture (J. Szwed) * Culture and Imperialism: Proposing a New Dilectic (M. Caulfield) * Resistance & the Revitalization of Anthropologists: A New Perspective on Cultural Change & Resistance (R. Clemmer)

4) STUDYING THE CULTURES OF POWER: * American Anthropologists and American Society (E. Wolf) * The Life and Culture of Ecotopia (E.Anderson, Jr.) * Up the Anthropologist-Perspectives gained from Studying Up (L. Nader) * Counter Culture and Cultural Hegemony: Some Notes on the Youth Rebellion of the 1960s (A. Norman Klein) * Toward an Anthropological Political of Symbolic Forms (S. Worth)

5) RESPONSIBILITIES OF ETHNOGRAPHY: * Personal & Extrapersonal Vision Vision in Anthropology (R. Jay) * Some Questions about Anthropological Linguistics: The Role of Native Language (K. Hale)

6) THE ROOT IS MAN: CRITICAL TRADITIONS: * Anthropology in Question (S. Diamond) * Toward a Reflexive and Critical Anthropology

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0394468279
• ISBN 13: 9780394468273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 470
• Editor: Dell H Hymes