Modernist Anthropology : From Fieldwork to Text.
Recent insights into the nature of representation and power relations have signaled an important shift in perspective on anthropology: from a fieldwork-based ""science"" of culture to an interpretive activity bound to the discursive and ideological process called ""text...
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Textual Play, Power, and Cultural Critique: An Orientation to Modernist Anthropology; Farzer: Textual Reevaluations ; Frazer and the Elegiac: The Modernist Connection; Sir James Frazer's the Golden Bough: A Reading Lesson; Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology Comments ; Ethnography as Discourse: The Era of the Monograph; Irony in Anthropology: The Work of Franz Boas; The Politics of Ethnographic Authority: Race and Writing in the Ethnography of Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston; Ruth Benedict and the Modernist Sensibility.
- Anthropological Modernism: Language, Theory, and PraxisAnthropology and Modernism in France: From Durkheim to the Collège De Sociologie; Anthropology, Literary Theory, and the Traditions of Modernism; Marxism and the ""Subject"" of Anthropology; The Historical Materialist Critique of Surrealism and Postmodernist Ethnography; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index.