Anthropology as Cultural Critique; An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences / Edition 2

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Overview


Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study. The result is a provocative work that is important for scholars interested in a critical approach to social science, art, literature, and history, as well as anthropology. This second edition considers new challenges to the field which have arisen since the book's original publication.
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Using cultural anthropology as an example of debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, Marcus (anthropology, Rice U.) and Fischer (anthropology and science and technology studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) looks at the discipline's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and what it has to offer other fields. The second edition updates the challenges and issues since 1986. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780226504506
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/1999
  • Edition description: 1
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 228
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author


George E. Marcus is professor of political science at Williams College.
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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction 1
1 A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences 7
2 Ethnography and Interpretive Anthropology 17
3 Conveying Other Cultural Experience: The Person, Self, and Emotions 45
4 Taking Account of World Historical Political Economy: Knowable Communities in Larger Systems 77
5 The Repatriation of Anthropology as Cultural Critique 111
6 Two Contemporary Techniques of Cultural Critique in Anthropology 137
A Concluding Note 165
Notes 169
References 179
Index 191
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