Other People's Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins

Published by Berghahn Books 2008

Other People's Anthropologies

Ethnographic Practice on the Margins

Edited by: Aleksandar Bošković

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450203

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Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral scholarship. With contributions from leading anthropologists and social scientists from different countries and anthropological traditions, this volume gives voice to scholars outside these "great" traditions. It shows the immense variety of methodologies, training, and approaches that scholars from these regions bring to anthropology and the social sciences in general, thus enriching the disciplines in important ways at an age marked by multiculturalism, globalization, and transnationalism.

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Aleksandar Bošković is Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade and Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). His research areas include ethnicity and nationalism, popular culture, and he has also published widely on the history and theory of anthropology. In recent years, he published on anthropology in former Yugoslavia (Anthropology Today, 2005), Brazil (Dialectical Anthropology, 2005), South Africa (with Ilana van Wyk, Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 2005), and "world anthropologies" (Anthropos, 2007). Bošković is the author or editor of several books, including, most recently, Myth, Politics, Ideology (Belgrade, 2006).

Reviews

"A valuable resource for teaching and research alike, Other People’s Anthropologies rethinks canonical accounts of the discipline’s history." · Anthropos

"The collection is a very welcome addition to the growing but still inadequate number of books and articles on world anthropologies. It is clearly written with concise chapters that give the reader a sense of the richness, diversity, commonalities and potentials of anthropology in the world today. Although the value goes beyond the classroom, this volume should be of interest particularly to those teaching anthropological theory who want to increase students’ awareness of the significant anthropological scholarship beyond the so-called ‘center’." · Anthropology News

"At last! A volume that exposes the ethnocentric underbelly of Anglo-American anthropology. The practice and history of anthropology is far more interesting and engaging than most English-speakers know. This volume, combining reflective essays from prominent scholars and cutting-edge work by younger anthropologists will change the way many think of anthropology." · Robert Gordon

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Other People’s Anthropologies Aleksandar Bošković and Thomas Hylland Eriksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Russian Anthropology: Old Traditions and New Tendencies Anatoly M. Kuznetsov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Chapter 2 Anthropology in the Netherlands: Past, Present, and Future Han F. Vermeulen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter 3 Sociocultural Anthropology in Bulgaria: Desired and Contested Magdalena Elchinova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 4 Refacing Mt. Kenya or Excavating the RiftValley? Anthropology in Kenya and the Question of Tradition Mwenda Ntarangwi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 5 Anthropology in Turkey: Impressions for an Overview Zerrin G. Tandoğan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 6 Committed or Scientific? The Southern Whereabouts of Social Anthropology and Antropología Social in 1960–70 Argentina Rosana Guber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Chapter 7 Themes and Legacies: Anthropology’s Trajectories in Cameroon Jude Fokwang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chapter 8 Japanese Anthropology and Desire for the West Kaori Sugishita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Chapter 9 Anthropology in Unlikely Places: Yugoslav Ethnology Between the Past and the Future Aleksandar Bošković Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter 10 The Otherness of Norwegian Anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 11 Anthropology with No Guilt— A View from Brazil Mariza G.S. Peirano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Postscript: Developments in US Anthropology Since the 1980s, a Supplement The Reality of Center-Margin Relations, To Be Sure, But Changing (and Hopeful) Affinities in These Relations George E. Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Afterword: Anthropology’s Global Ecumene Ulf Hannerz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 254
Keywords: Theory and Methodology

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Published: March 1, 2008
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