Explores the situation in American anthropology, showing that the assumptions of the discipline and its institutional setting have been irreversibly undermined. '
discusses why the separation of anthropology from the other social sciences has broken down; how the role of the interviewer and fieldworker, once unique to anthropology, has spread to other social sciences.; how formerly colonial relationships, at home on Indian reservations, as well as abroad, have been increasingly challenged; how attitudes of potential anthropology students have changed toward the desire to study their own society instead of a foreign one.
CONTENTS: 1) INTRO: Use of Anthropology: Critical, Political, Personal (D. Hymes)
2) THE ROOT IS MAN: 'Bringing it all Back Home': Malaise in Anthroplogy (G. Berreman) * This is the Time for Radical Anthropology (K. Wolff)
3) STUDYING DOMINATED CULTURES: * Skeletons in the Anthropological Closet (W. Willis, Jr.) * An American Anthropological Dilemma: The Politics of Afro-American Culture (J. Szwed) * Culture and Imperialism: Proposing a New Dilectic (M. Caulfield) * Resistance & the Revitalization of Anthropologists: A New Perspective on Cultural Change & Resistance (R. Clemmer)
4) STUDYING THE CULTURES OF POWER: * American Anthropologists and American Society (E. Wolf) * The Life and Culture of Ecotopia (E.Anderson, Jr.) * Up the Anthropologist-Perspectives gained from Studying Up (L. Nader) * Counter Culture and Cultural Hegemony: Some Notes on the Youth Rebellion of the 1960s (A. Norman Klein) * Toward an Anthropological Political of Symbolic Forms (S. Worth)
5) RESPONSIBILITIES OF ETHNOGRAPHY: * Personal & Extrapersonal Vision Vision in Anthropology (R. Jay) * Some Questions about Anthropological Linguistics: The Role of Native Language (K. Hale)
6) THE ROOT IS MAN: CRITICAL TRADITIONS: * Anthropology in Question (S. Diamond) * Toward a Reflexive and Critical Anthropology
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- PublisherPantheon Books
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0394468279
- ISBN 13 9780394468273
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages470
- EditorDell H Hymes
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