04157nam 2200649 a 450 991082573250332120240313181611.00-8173-8624-6(CKB)2670000000340127(EBL)1153510(OCoLC)831118450(SSID)ssj0000855752(PQKBManifestationID)11488938(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000855752(PQKBWorkID)10811697(PQKB)11504124(MiAaPQ)EBC1153510(OCoLC)840607708(MdBmJHUP)muse19107(Au-PeEL)EBL1153510(CaPaEBR)ebr10678103(EXLCZ)99267000000034012720120913d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnthropology and the politics of representation /edited by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina1st ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20131 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-5717-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Anthropology and the Politics of Representation / Gabriela Vargas-Cetina; I. Identity Strategies; 1. Double Trouble: Implications of Historicizing Identity Discourses / Les W. Field; 2. Strategic Essentialism, Scholarly Inflation, and Political Litmus Tests: The Moral Economy of Hyping the Contemporary Mayas / David Stoll; 3. Yucatecan Food and the Postcolonial Politics of Representation / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz; 4. Subverting Stereotypes: The Visual Politics of Representing Indigenous Modernity / Beth A. Conklin5. Labels, Genuine and Spurious: Anthropology and the Politics of Otherness in the United States / Vilma Santiago-IrizarryII. Decentering the Ethnographic Self; 6. "Gone Anthropologist": Epistemic Slippage, Native Anthropology, and the Dilemmas of Representation / Bernard C. Perley; 7. Matthew the Canadian Journalist: Engagement and Representation in Highland Guatemala / Timothy J. Smith; 8. Performing Music, Silence, Noise, and Anthropology in Yucatan, Mexico / Gabriela Vargas-Cetina; 9. Ethnography and the Cultural Politics of Environmentalism / Tracey Heatherington10. Notes on the Use and Abuse of Cultural Knowledge / Frederic W. GleachIII. Anthropology in Crucial Places; 11. Rooted or Extinct? Post-Soviet Anthropology and the Construction of Indigenousness / Sergey Sokolovskiy; 12. Anthropology on Trial: Australian Anthropology and Native Title Litigation / Katie Glaskin; 13. The Politics of Europeanization, Representation, and Anthropology in Northern Ireland / Thomas M. Wilson; Epilogue: Identities and the Politics of Representation / June C. Nash; References; List of Contributors; IndexAnthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole. In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume editor Gabriela Vargas-Cetina brings together a group of international scholars who, through their fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political, and personal implications of their own work. To do so, they focus on such topics as ethnography, anthropoEthnologyMethodologyEthnologyPhilosophyRepresentation (Philosophy)Political anthropologyEthnologyMethodology.EthnologyPhilosophy.Representation (Philosophy)Political anthropology.305.8001Vargas-Cetina Gabriela1592815Vargas-Cetina Gabriela1592815MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825732503321Anthropology and the politics of representation3912656UNINA