Anthropology's Wake
Johnson, David E.; Michaelsen, Scott
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Description for Anthropology's Wake
Hardback. Posing a challenge to dominant trends in cultural analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of culture, providing the broadest study of this notion. It examines the principal methodological strategies or metaphors of anthropology and argues that they do not manage to escape anthropology's grounding in representational practices. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 505.
Posing a powerful challenge to dominant trends in cultural analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of culture, providing the broadest study of this notion to date. Johnson and Michaelsen examine the principal methodological strategies or metaphors of anthropology in the past two decades (embodied in works by Edward Said, James Clifford, George Marcus, V. Y. Mudimbe, and others) and argues that they do not manage to escape anthropology’s grounding in representational practices. To the extent that it remains a practice of representation, anthropology, however complex, critical, or self-reflexive, cannot avoid objectifying its others.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823228775
SKU
V9780823228775
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99-15
About Johnson, David E.; Michaelsen, Scott
David E. Johnson (Author) David E. Johnson is Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. With Michaelsen, he is the co-editor of Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics and of CR: The New Centennial Review, for which work they won the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council ... Read more
Reviews for Anthropology's Wake
Anthropology's Wake is an engaging and wide-ranging critical analysis of issues and problems endemic to the practice and logic of representation in contemporary anthropology. It effectively locates these contemporary discussions within the larger context of historical and philosophical attempts to evoke the presence of the other.
-—Stephen Tyler, ... Read more
-—Stephen Tyler, ... Read more