Pattern in cultural anthropology
In: The Dorsey series in anthropology and sociology
In: The Dorsey series in anthropology and sociology
In: East European quarterly, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 319
ISSN: 0012-8449
This book engages young scholars, teachers and students in a critical dialogue with past and present directions in cultural-historical studies. More particularly, it prepares prospective anthropologists, as well as readers interested in human cultures for understanding basic theoretical and methodological ethnographic principles and pursuing further what has been known as cultural anthropological perspectives. The book discusses key, field-based studies in the discipline and places them in dialogue with related studies in social history, linguistics, philosophy, literature, and photography, among others.
The study of humanity -- Culture -- Culture and language -- Culture and globalization -- Studying cultures -- Environments and cultures -- Exchange and economic systems -- Marriage, family, and kinship -- Gender -- Ethnicity and social inequality -- Politics and law -- Religion and world view -- Globalization and indigenous peoples
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Critiques -- On Being Out of Words -- Tactility and Distraction -- The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism -- Putting Hierarchy in Its Place -- Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic -- Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography -- The Politics of Remembering: Notes on a Pacific Conference -- The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory -- A Broad(er)side to the Canon, Being a Partial Account of a Year of Travel Among Textual Communities in the Realm of Humanities Centers, and Including a Collection of Artificial Curiosities -- II. Reaction -- Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology -- III. Witnessing -- Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru -- Peru In Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's "Inquest in the Andes" Reexamined -- IV. Poetics -- "Speaking with Names": Language and Landscape Among the Western Apache -- V. What's Left, What's Emergent -- Nostalgia-A Polemic -- Fictions that Save: Migrants' Performance and Basotho National Culture -- VI. Circulations -- Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture -- Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings -- VII. Media -- Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village? -- VIII. Experiment -- Tango -- Index
In: Reference sources for the social sciences and humanities 11
Winthrop's dictionary describes the major concepts that have shaped the discipline of cultural anthropology, both historically and theoretically. Eighty entries review the key concepts that have established the fundamental problems and issues of the disci