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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494724603321

Titolo

Culture wars [[electronic resource] ] : context, models and anthropologists' accounts / / edited by Deborah James, Evelyn Plaice and Christina Toren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010

ISBN

1-282-62718-X

9786612627187

1-84545-811-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

EASA series ; ; 12

Altri autori (Persone)

JamesDeborah, Dr.

PlaiceEvelyn Mary <1955->

TorenChristina <1947->

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Anthropology - Fieldwork

Anthropology - Research

Anthropology - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Culture Wars; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Alliances and Avoidance; Chapter 2: Serving the Volk?; Chapter 3: 'Making Indians'; Chapter 4: Culture in the Periphery; Chapter 5: Culture; Chapter 6: We are All Indigenous Now; Chapter 7: Which Cultures, What Contexts and Whose Accounts?; Chapter 8: 'What about White People's History?'; Chapter 9: A Cosmopolitan Anthropology?; Chapter 10: The Door in the Middle; Chapter 11: Adam Kuper; References; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical discussions. The contributors to this



volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable "cultural wor