Changing Fields of Anthropology: From Local to Global - Rilegato

Kearney, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0847693724 ISBN 13: 9780847693726

Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2004

Riassunto

This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The title phrase 'changing fields' can be read in two ways: One meaning refers to how, since the mid-1960s, the larger national and global social, intellectual, and political fields within which American anthropology is situated have profoundly changed. The second meaning refers to how, in response to these changing fields, the author, like many other anthropologists, changed the locations of his fieldwork along with his research problems and theoretical perspectives. The book engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is destined to confront (or at its peril, avoid): becoming more self-reflexive, achieving theoretical and methodological holism, and defense of universal human rights.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael Kearney is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0847693724
• ISBN 13: 9780847693726
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 365