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200 00$aAnthropology and the politics of representation$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
210   $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2013
215   $a1 online resource (316 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; 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. Conklin
327   $a5. 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 Heatherington
327   $a10. 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; Index
330   $aAnthropology 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, anthropo
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