Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
- ISBN-10
- 0226504492
- ISBN-13
- 9780226504490
- Category
- Ethnologie
- Pages
- 205
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Authors
- Michael M. J. Fischer, George E. Marcus, Michael M. Fischer
Description
Anthropologists George Marcus and Michael Fischer argue that, since the 1960s, anthropological writing has evolved into a critical function for the purpose of using knowledge of other cultures to examine hidden assumptions about our own. In surveying this development of anthropological writing, the authors gives us a fascinating sweep across the whole history of 20th-century anthropology.
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