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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455350903321

Autore

Argyrou Vassos

Titolo

Anthropology and the will to meaning [[electronic resource] ] : a postcolonial critique / / Vassos Argyrou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, c2002

ISBN

1-84964-141-2

Descrizione fisica

v, 129 p

Collana

Anthropology, culture, and society

Disciplina

301/.01

Soggetti

Anthropology - Philosophy

Ethnology - Philosophy

Meaning (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Of Scholars, Gamblers and Thieves 1 -- 2. Has There Ever Been a Crisis in Ethnological Representation? 10 -- The Ethnographer as 'Man' 11 -- The Ethnological Representation Par Excellence 19 -- 3. The Salvation Intent 28 -- The Three Strategies of Redemption 28 -- Christian Ethnology and Victorian Anthropology 34 -- Twentieth-Century Paradigms 43 -- The Ethnological Complicity 56 -- 4. What the Natives Don't Know 60 -- The Sociocultural Unconscious 60 -- Heterodox Consciousness 74 -- The 'Heroisation' of the Thinking Subject 82 -- 5. The Ethnological Will to Meaning 92 -- The Impossible 92 -- Sameness and the Beyond 105 -- The Will to Meaning 112 -- At the End of the Game 117.