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Author Schumaker, Lyn, author.

Title Africanizing anthropology : fieldwork, networks, and the making of cultural knowledge in central Africa / Lyn Schumaker
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 376 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents 1 "The Water Follows the Stream" -- 2 Contexts and Chronologies -- 3 Archetypal Experiences -- 4 The Laboratory in the Field -- 5 "A Lady and an American" -- 6 Atop the Central African Volcano -- 7 Africanizing Anthropology -- 8 The Culture of Fieldwork -- Epilogue
Summary An innovative cultural study of a major site of British anthropology, done with methods from the history of science, detailing the development of methods, practices, and work culture in the colonial context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-362) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Rhodes-Livingstone Institute -- History
SUBJECT Rhodes-Livingstone Institute fast
Subject Ethnology -- Zambia -- History
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Zambia
Ethnology -- Africa, Southern -- History
Ethnology -- Zambia -- Fieldwork
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ethnology
Ethnology -- Fieldwork
Feldforschung
Anthropologie
Antropologen.
Afrikanen.
Veldwerk.
Kolonialisme.
Southern Africa
Zambia
Sambia
Zentralafrika
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 082238079X
9780822380795
9786612903656
6612903651
1282903659
9781282903654