| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 384 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
1. Stories, Histories, and Theories: Agendas in Cultural Anthropology -- 2. Critically Humanist Sensibilities -- 3. Pushing Anthropology Past the Posts: Critical Notes on Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies as Influenced by Postmodernism and Existentialism -- 4. Practices: Beyond Bourdieuian Legacies -- 5. Moments of Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Alterities of Sex and Violence -- 6. Gramsci and Bakhtin: Dialogues Against Hegemonies -- 7. Gender, Ethnography, and Critical Query -- 8. Multicultural Speaking: Beyond Essentialism and Relativism -- 9. Conclusions and Criticisms |
| Summary |
"In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements with fresh readings of major figures and approaches, the work develops a larger vantage point for considering the dispersing influence of practice theories, postmodernism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, modern/post-positive feminism, and multicultural criticisms. The larger relationship between culture, power, and representation is critically recast in the course of the analysis, and through frontal engagement with ethical considerations as well as ethnographic specifics, Knauft shows how contemporary anthropology begs for a critical revaluation of humanist sensibilities. Ultimately, anthropology can draw upon past strengths as well as future potentials to combine ethical grounding, ethnographic rigor, and intellectual power." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/96028099-d.html |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-375) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy
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Culturele antropologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136661273 |
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1136661271 |
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1299866743 |
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9781299866744 |
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