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Sydel Silverman - The Beast on the Table. Conferencing with Anthropologists.  - 9780759102392 - V9780759102392
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The Beast on the Table. Conferencing with Anthropologists.

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Description for The Beast on the Table. Conferencing with Anthropologists. Hardback. Memoirs of Wenner-Gren Foundation anthropological conferences by the former president of the foundation. Series: Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBT; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
From intimate workshops and modest gatherings to meetings in exotic places, conferences are a mainstay of academic life. The conferences that are the subject of this book are the week-long international symposia sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, over 150 of which were held between 1952 and 2000. In their totality, they closely parallel the development of anthropology during this period, and indeed played a large part in shaping that development. In revisiting her experiences with the Wenner-Gren symposia over a thirteen-year period, Sydel Silverman examines the conference process as it relates to the production of knowledge and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9780759102392
SKU
V9780759102392
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About Sydel Silverman
Sydel Silverman is Professor Emerita at City University, New York and former president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Reviews for The Beast on the Table. Conferencing with Anthropologists.
The array of symposia covered offers at least something of interest to any anthropologist and plenty of interest to those seeking a synoptic grasp of the discipline as a whole.
Joel Wallman
American Anthropologist
The beast celebrates the conferences convened by the Wenner-Gren Foundation under the authoress's direction, including 'Critical approaches in archaeology'
Antiquity, Vol. 77, ... Read more

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