Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History circles around the conscious recognition of margins and suggests it is time to bring the margins to the center, both in terms of a changing theoretical openness and a supporting body of scholarship.
DIVState-of-the-art volume by the major voices in historical anthropology./div ""From the Margins " exemplifies the best of current thinking in anthropology.
With contributions from leading anthropologists and social scientists from different countries and anthropological traditions, this volume gives voice to scholars outside these "great" traditions.
The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization.
Topics in this volume include anti-imperialism; racism in Guatemala; the study of peasants; the Carnegie Institution, Mayan archaeology and espionage; Cold War anthropology; African studies; literary influences; church and religion; and ...
This book is the first comprehensive history of American anthropology. Crucially, Patterson relates the development of anthropology in the United States to wider historical currents in society.
A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America Regna Darnell. to confound the role urged on him by colleagues from Chicago sociology and psychiatry as a purveyor of the exotic. Indeed, Sapir had long argued that the challenge ...
... Anthropology's History through Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction and Contemporary Native Amer- ican Oral Tradition . " In Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History , edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach , 201-217 ...
From David Koester's analysis of how ethnographic descriptions of Iceland marginalized that country's population, to Kath Weston's account of an offshore penal colony where officials mixed prison work with ethnographic pursuits; from Brad ...
We may summarize our discussion of energy and tools in the following law of cultural development: culture advances as the ... The energy factor is much more fundamental and important. ... Sahlins, marshall D., and Elman R. Service, eds.
Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Désveaux, Emmanuel. 2007a. Spectres de l'anthropologie: Suite nord américaine. Paris: Aux lieux-d'être (“Sciences contemporaines”). —.