Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present (Advanced Seminar Series)

Richard G. Fox,Lila Abu-Lughod,Arjun Appadurai,Jose F. Limon,Sherry B. Ortner,Paul Rabinow,Michel-Rolph Trouillot,Joan Vincent,Graham Watson

ISBN 10: 0933452772 / ISBN 13: 9780933452770

Published by SAR Press, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present (Advanced Seminar Series)
• Publisher: SAR Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0933452772
• ISBN 13: 9780933452770
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

Anthropologist are in a funk these days: other fields, such as history and literary studies, are having a heyday with concepts anthropologists developed but have since discredited, and postmodernists just jeer at what they actually do believe in. Ten essays suggest remedies such as throwing everything out and starting over, limiting their study to the American middle-class, and undertaking an "archaeology" (or perhaps psychoanalysis) of the discipline. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About the Author

Richard G. Fox is President Emeritus, Wenner-Gren Foundation and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.