Reverse Anthropology
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Reverse Anthropology
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Author : Stuart Kirsch
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2006
Reverse Anthropology written by Stuart Kirsch and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
Stuart Kirsch is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has consulted widely on environmental issues and land rights in the Pacific, and was actively involved in the political campaign and legal case against the environmental impact of the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea.
Utopian Cannibal
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Author : Enrique Chagoya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Utopian Cannibal written by Enrique Chagoya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Engaged Anthropology
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Author : Stuart Kirsch
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-03-30
Engaged Anthropology written by Stuart Kirsch and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-30 with Social Science categories.
Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can—and why it should—become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author’s experiences working with indigenous peoples fighting for their environment, land rights, and political sovereignty. Including both short interventions and collaborations spanning decades, it recounts interactions with lawyers and courts, nongovernmental organizations, scientific experts, and transnational corporations. This unflinchingly honest account addresses the unexamined “backstage” of engaged anthropology. Coming at a time when some question the viability of the discipline, the message of this powerful and original work is especially welcome, as it not only promotes a new way of doing anthropology, but also compellingly articulates a new rationale for why anthropology matters.
Finding The Feather
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Author : David J. Krupa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Finding The Feather written by David J. Krupa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Anthropology categories.
"This dissertation outlines and analyzes Interior Athabaskan Chief Peter John's critique and reverse anthropology of the 'white man way.' Peter argues that the dominant culture has 'fallen' from a 'true understanding' of received tradition (Tr'oottha kenaga') into the confusion of self-created knowledge (ch'ughu kenayh). He argues further that both Athabaskan stories and the bible chart the practical and moral consequences of this fall. An apparent failure of the 'white man way' to recognize that its history conforms to a tragic plot outlined in myth is taken as proof of its expulsion from the garden of true knowledge. He uses traditional narratives not only to establish a meaningful relationship between Indian and white man ways, but even more importantly, to redeem that relationship through the healing power of the spoken word. I argue that Peter's philosophy and practice exemplify a distinctly if not exclusively Athabaskan epistemology which promotes the conscious linking of received tradition to practical experience: in Cruikshank's (1990) terms, 'life lived like a story.' Moreover, in keeping with Athabaskan conceptions of knowledge as super sensible 'power, ' Peter advocates the need for individuals to redistribute the benefits of their knowledge through socially beneficial action. I term this 'collective' versus 'atomistic' individualism, linking Peter's religious vision with anthropological theories about the pronounced 'individualism' of Athabaskan culture. I show that Peter's view of an epistemological 'fall' from this personal encompassment of 'collective' truths (received tradition) is believed to beget a practical 'fall' into selfish and socially divisive, or 'atomistic' behaviors. I link this alternate epistemology with contemporary social science discourse and show that it contradicts anti-foundational trends in postmodern theories of meaning: Athabaskan epistemology presumes a fundamental (though ambiguous) correspondence between symbols and reference. I discuss how Athabaskan premises about the power of words and speech not only explain indigenous reticence over the journalistic pretense of the 'white man way, ' but also contribute to anthropological debates surrounding knowledge and representation. Finally, I show that Peter's 'reverse anthropology' contributes intriguing indigenous support to structuralist theories of history and culture"--Leaves vi-vii
Reversed Gaze
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Author : Mwenda Ntarangwi
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-12-03
Reversed Gaze written by Mwenda Ntarangwi and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-03 with Social Science categories.
Annotation Illustrating how life circumstances can influence ethnographic fieldwork, Mwenda Ntarangwi uses his experiences as a Kenyan anthropology student & professional anthropologist in the U.S. & Africa as the basis of this study of the Western culture of anthropology.
Savage Kin
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Author : Margaret M. Bruchac
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2018-04-10
Savage Kin written by Margaret M. Bruchac and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Illuminating the complex relationships between tribal informants and twentieth-century anthropologists such as Boas, Parker, and Fenton, who came to their communities to collect stories and artifacts"--Provided by publisher.
Reverse Angle Cinema And Anthropology
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Author : Andy Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Reverse Angle Cinema And Anthropology written by Andy Davies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Alternative Art And Anthropology
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Author : Arnd Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-14
Alternative Art And Anthropology written by Arnd Schneider and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-14 with Social Science categories.
While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate. Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground-breaking new approach to the subject. Entirely dedicated to perspectives from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the book advances our understanding of the connections between anthropology and contemporary art on a global scale. Across ten chapters, a range of anthropologists, artists, and curators from countries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador, and the Philippines discuss encounters between anthropology and contemporary art from their points of view, presenting readers with new vantage points and perspectives. Arnd Schneider, a leading scholar in the field, draws together the various threads to provide readers with a clear conceptual and theoretical narrative. The first to map the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art from a global perspective, this is a key text for students and academics in areas such as anthropology, visual anthropology, anthropology of art, art history, and curatorial studies.
Contours Of South Asian Social Anthropology
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Author : Swatahsiddha Sarkar
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-04-28
Contours Of South Asian Social Anthropology written by Swatahsiddha Sarkar and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-28 with Social Science categories.
This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and social anthropology in India and Nepal. It provides a new imagination of South Asia by connecting historical, political, religious and cultural divides of the region. Drawing from the experiences of Indian and Nepali social anthropology, the book discusses the presence of Nepal studies in Indian social anthropology and vice versa. It highlights Nepal or South Asia as a subject for social anthropological research and stresses on pluriversal knowledge production through regional scholarship, dialogic social anthropology, South Asian episteme, post-Western social anthropology and the decolonisation of disciplines. In exploring the themes and problems of doing social anthropology in Nepal by Indian scholars, the book assesses the scope of developing the South Asian social anthropological worldview. It explains why social anthropological and sociological inquiry in India has failed to surpass its focus beyond the territorial limits of the nation state. The book examines the issues of methodological nationalism and social anthropological research tradition in South Asia. By using the Saidian framework of travelling theory and Bhambra’s idea of connected sociologies, it shows how social anthropology can develop disciplinary crossroads within South Asia. This book will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of South Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, social anthropology, South Asian sociology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, area studies, cultural studies, Nepal studies and Global South studies.
On The Emic Gesture
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Author : Iracema H. Dulley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-15
On The Emic Gesture written by Iracema H. Dulley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with Social Science categories.
Roy Wagner’s work deals with two fundamental issues in anthropology: how to describe difference, and where to place it in anthropological discourse. His discussion and displacement of anthropological concepts such as ‘group’ and ‘culture’ in the 1970s and 1980s have arguably encouraged a deconstructive undertaking in the discipline. Yet Wagner’s work, although part of the radicalizing move of the 1970s and 1980s in anthropology, was until some years ago not a central reference for anthropological theory. The question Dulley asks throughout her engagement with Wagner’s main essays is whether it is possible for the emic gesture to account for difference within difference without falling into the closure of totalization. Wagner’s work contains this potentiality but is hindered by its very foundation: the emic gesture, in which difference is circumscribed through a name that others. If this gesture is one of the pillars of anthropology, and one that allows for the inscription of difference, the reflection proposed in this book concerns anthropology as a whole: How can one inscribe difference within difference? Dulley argues that this can only be accomplished through an erasure of the emic. Offering a comprehensive discussion of Wagner’s concepts and a detailed reading of his most important work, this book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to reflect on the relationship between ethnography and difference, and especially those who in various ways engage with the ‘ontological turn’. As the book reflects on how Derridean différance can be appropriated by anthropology in its search for subtler and more critical ethnographic accounts, anthropologists interested in post-structuralist theory and methodology will also find it useful.