The Politics of Anthropology: From Colonialism and Sexism Toward a View from Below

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The Politics of Anthropology

From Colonialism and Sexism Toward a View from Below

Edited by: Gerrit Huizer and Bruce Mannheim

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1979

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World Anthropology

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I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
General Editor's Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
SECTION ONE: Introduction
Anthropology and Politics: From Naivete Toward Liberation? GERRIT HUIZER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
SECTION TWO: Colonialism in Anthropology
The Counterrevolutionary Tradition in African Studies: The Case of Applied Anthropology OMAFUME F. ONOGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
Anthropologists and Their Terminologies: A Critical Review IKENNA NZIMIRO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter TALAL ASAD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
SECTION THREE: Sexism in Anthropology
Viricentrism and Anthropology JOKE SCHRIJVERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives RUBY ROHRLICH-LEAVITT, BARBARA SYKES and ELIZABETH WEATHERFORD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions ELEANOR LEACOCK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
SECTION FOUR: "Ethical Question" or "Political Choice"?
Colonial and Postcolonial Anthropology of Africa: Scholarship or Sentiment? MAXWELL OWUSU Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Social Reality and the Anthropologists RAMKRISHNA MUKHERJEE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
The Relevance of Contemporary Economic Anthropology ABDEL GHAFFAR M. AHMED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Notes on the Present-Day State of Anthropology in the Third World GEORGES CONDOMINAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
Anthropology = Ideology, Applied Anthropology = Politics ANDRÉ GUNDER FRANK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
SECTION FIVE: From "Academic Colonialism" to "Committed Anthropology"
The Social Responsibility of Anthropological Science in the Context of Contemporary Brazil SHELTON H. DAVIS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
The Meaning of Wounded Knee, 1973: Indian Self-Government and the Role of Anthropology STEVE TALBOT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
From Applied to Committed Anthropology: Disengaging from our Colonialist Heritage STEVEN POLGAR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
SECTION SIX: Dilemmas of Action Research and Commitment
Anthropology, "Snooping," and Commitment: A View from Papua New Guinea ANDREW STRATHERN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
Anthropology in Melanesia: Retrospect and Prospect ROGER M. KEESING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Is Useful Action Research Possible? NICO KIELSTRA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
How Can Revolutionary Anthropology Be Practiced? ROBERT BUIJTENHUIJS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
The Role of the Anthropologist in Minority Education: The Chicano Case D. R. PORATH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
SECTION SEVEN: Toward a View from Below and from Within
Participant Observation or Partisan Participation? ΜΙΝΑ DAVIS CAULFIELD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
On Objectivity in Fieldwork CAROL LOPATE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319
Breaking Through the Looking Glass: The View from Below BROOKE GRUNDFEST SCHOEPF Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	325
On Being a Native Anthropologist KHALIL NAKHLEH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting JUNE NASH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
SECTION EIGHT: Attempts at Liberation Anthropology
On the Participant Study of Women's Movements: Methodological, Definitional and Action Considerations GAIL OMVEDT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
Research-Through-Action: Some Practical Experiences with Peasant Organization GERRIT HUIZER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Anthropology of the Multinational Corporation JUNE NASH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	421
Nationalism, Race-Class Consciousness, Action Research on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea ALEXANDER F. MAMAK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
Research from Within and from Below: Reversing the Machinery AL GEDICKS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	461
APPENDIX: Foundations on the Move
Foundations on the Move Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	481
Biographical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	495
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	503
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	511

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June 1, 2011

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9783110806458

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February 1, 1979

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9789027977502

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Reprint 2011

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12

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520

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806458

eBook ISBN: 9783110806458

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Anthropologie; Soziologie; Welt

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