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Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Culture, context and anthropologists' accounts Deborah James and Christina Toren Chapter 1. Alliances And Avoidance: British Interactions with German-Speaking Anthropologists, 1933-1953 Andre Gingrich Chapter 2. Serving the Volk? Afrikaner anthropology revisited John Sharp Chapter 3. 'Making Natives': debating indigeneity in Canada and South Africa Evie Plaice Chapter 4. Culture in the Periphery: Anthropology in the Shadow of Greek Civilisation Dimitra Gefou-Madianou Chapter 5. Culture: the Indigenous Account Alan Barnard Chapter 6. We are All Indigenous Now: Culture vs. Nature in representations of the Balkans Aleksandar BoA'kovi Chapter 7. Which cultures, what contexts, and whose accounts? Anatomies of a moral panic in Southall, multi-ethnic London Gerd Baumann Chapter 8. What about White People's History? - Class, Race and Culture Wars in 21st Century Britain Gillian Evans Chapter 9. A Cosmopolitan Anthropology? Stephen Gudeman Chapter 10. The door in the middle: six conditions for anthropology Joao de Pina-Cabral Chapter 11. Adam Kuper: An Anthropologist's Account Isak Niehaus Notes on Contributors References Index
Deborah James is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her research interests, focused on South Africa, include migration, ethnomusicology, ethnicity, property relations and the politics of land reform. She is author of Songs of the Women Migrants: Performance and Identity in South Africa (Edinburgh University Press, 1999) and of Gaining Ground? RightsA" and PropertyA" in South African Land Reform (Routledge, 2007). Evelyn Plaice is Associate Professor of Anthropology jointly appointed to the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Her interests include land, identity and the ethnopolitics of land restitution, and the anthropology of education. She has conducted research in both South Africa and Canada and is the author of .The Native Game: Indian-Settler Relations in Central Labrador (ISER, 1990). Christina Toren is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Her fieldwork areas are Fiji and the Pacific, and Melanesia, and her theoretical interests include exchange processes; spatio-temporality as a dimension of human being; sociality, kinship and ideas of the person; the analysis of ritual; epistemology; ontogeny as a historical process. Her books include Making Sense of Hierarchy: cognition as social process in Fiji (Athlone, 1990) and Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Ethnography (Routledge, 1999).
- Encuadernación Otros
- ISBN13 9781845456412
- ISBN10 1845456416
- Páginas 219
- Año de Edición 2010
- Idioma Inglés
Culture Wars: Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts
- Autor/a Christina Toren , Evelyn Plaice , James DeBorah
- Editorial BERGHAHN
- ISBN 9781845456412
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