Anthropology and the will to meaning : a postcolonial critique / / Vassos Argyrou
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| Autore: |
Argyrou Vassos
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| Titolo: |
Anthropology and the will to meaning : a postcolonial critique / / Vassos Argyrou
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | v, 129 p |
| Disciplina: | 301/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Anthropology - Philosophy |
| Ethnology - Philosophy | |
| Meaning (Philosophy) | |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A powerful critique of both modern and postmodern anthropology. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Anthropology and the will to meaning |
| ISBN: | 1-84964-141-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825284703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Anthropology, culture, and society.