Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0299131246 ISBN 13: 9780299131241

Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1994

Riassunto

As European colonies in Asia and Africa became independent nations, as the United States engaged in war in Southeast Asia and in covert operations in South America, anthropologists questioned their interactions with their subjects and worried about the political consequences of government-supported research. By 1970, some spoke of anthropology as the child of Western imperialism and as scientific colonialism. Ironically, as the link between anthropology and colonialism became more widely accepted within the discipline, serious interest in examining the history of anthropology in colonial contexts diminished.

This volume is an effort to initiate a critical historical consideration of the varying colonial situations in which (and out of which) ethnographic knowledge essential to anthropology has been produced. The essays comment on ethnographic work from the middle of the nineteenth century to nearly the end of the twentieth, in regions from Oceania through southeast Asia, the Andaman Islands, and southern Africa to North and South America.

The colonial situations also cover a broad range, from first contact through the establishment of colonial power, from District Officer administrations through white settler regimes, from internal colonialism to international mandates, from early pacification to wars of colonial liberation, from the expropriation of land to the defense of ecology. The motivations and responses of the anthropologists discussed are equally varied: the romantic resistance of Maclay and the complicity of Kubary in early colonialism; Malinowskis salesmanship of academic anthropology; Specks advocacy of Indian land rights; Schneiders grappling with the ambiguities of rapport; and Turners facilitation of Kaiapo cinematic activism.

Provides fresh insights for those who care about the history of science in general and that of anthropology in particular, and a valuable reference for professionals and graduate students.Choice

Among the most distinguished publications in anthropology, as well as in the history of social sciences.George Marcus,Anthropologica

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Informazioni sull'autore

George W. Stocking, Jr., is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago. His books includeThe Ethnographers Magic, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press,Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology, and Victorian Anthropology.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0299131246
• ISBN 13: 9780299131241
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 348
• Redattore: Stocking George W.
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