| Description |
viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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History of anthropology ; v. 7 |
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History of anthropology ; v. 7
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| Contents |
Maclay, Kubary, Malinowski: archetypes from the dreamtime of anthropology / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- Tools of the trade: the productions of ethnographic observations on the Andaman Islands, 1858-1922 / David Tkomas -- The construction of Algonquian huntilng territories: private property as moral lesson, policy advocacy, and ethnographic error / Harvey A. Feit -- Contested monuments: the politics of archeology in southern Africa / Henrika Kuklick -- The dynamics of rapport in a colonial situation: David Schneider's fieldwork on the islands of Yap / IZra Blashkow -- Mois and Maquis: the invention and appropriation of Vietnam's Montagnards from Sabatier to the CIA / Oscar Salemink -- Representing, resisting, rethinking: historical transformations of Kayapo culture and anthropological consciousness / Terence Turner -- Afterword: from the history of colonial anthropology to the anthropology of western hegemony / Tallal Asad |
| Summary |
The relation of anthropology to colonialism and imperialism became a burning issue for anthropologists in the mid-1960s. 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; Malinowski's salesmanship of academic anthropology; Speck's advocacy of Indian land rights; Schneider's grappling with the ambiguities of rapport; and Turner's facilitation of Kaiapo cinematic activism |
| Analysis |
Ethnocentrism Europe |
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Ethnology History |
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Ethnology Philosophy |
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Imperialism History Case studies |
| Notes |
(History of anthropology ; v.7) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnocentrism -- Europe.
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Ethnology -- History.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Imperialism -- History -- Case studies.
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Ethnology -- history.
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| Author |
Stocking, George W., Jr. (George Ward), 1928-2013.
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| LC no. |
91050327 |
| ISBN |
0299131203 |
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0299131246 |
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