Other People's Anthropologies

Ethnographic Practice on the Margins
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-702-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral scholarship. With contributions from leading anthropologists and social scientists from different countries and anthropological traditions, this volume gives voice to scholars outside these "great" traditions. It shows the immense variety of methodologies, training, and approaches that scholars from these regions bring to anthropology and the social sciences in general, thus enriching the disciplines in important ways at an age marked by multiculturalism, globalization, and transnationalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bo¿kovi¿, Aleksandar

Boškovic, Aleksandar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Other Peoples’ Anthropologies

Aleksandar Boškovic and Thomas Hylland Eriksen

“Other” Anthropologies

Chapter 1. Russian Anthropology: Old Traditions and New Tendencies

A.M. Kuznetsov

Chapter 2. Anthropology in the Netherlands: Past, Present and Future

Han F. Vermeulen

Chapter 3. Sociocultural Anthropology in Bulgaria: Desired and Contested

Magdalena Elchinova

Chapter 4. Refacing Mt. Kenya or Excavating the Rift Valley? Anthropology in Kenya and the Question of Tradition

Mwenda Ntarangwi

Chapter 5. Anthropology in Turkey: Impressions for an Overview

Zerrin G. Tandogan

Chapter 6. Committed or Scientific? The Southern whereabouts of Social Anthropology and Antropología Social in 1960s to 1970s Argentina

Rosana Guber

Chapter 7. Themes and Legacies: Anthropology’s Trajectories in Cameroon

Jude Fokwang

Chapter 8. Japanese Anthropology and Desire for the West

Kaori Sugishita

Chapter 9. Anthropology in Unlikely Places: Yugoslav Ethnology Between the Past and the Future

Aleksandar Boškovic

Chapter 10. The Otherness of Norwegian Anthropology

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Chapter 11. Anthropology with no Guilt—A View from Brazil

Mariza Peirano

Postscript: Developments in US Anthropology Since the 1980s, a Supplement: The Reality of Center-Margin Relations, To Be Sure, But Changing (and Hopeful) Affinities in These Relations

George E. Marcus

Afterword: Anthropology’s Global Ecumene

Ulf Hannerz

List of Contributors

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Boškovic, Aleksandar
Aleksandar Boškovic is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade (Serbia) and Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). His research areas include ethnicity and nationalism, popular culture, and he has also published widely on the history and theory of anthropology. In recent years, he published on anthropology in former Yugoslavia (Anthropology Today, 2005), Brazil (Dialectical Anthropology, 2005), South Africa (with Ilana van Wyk, Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 2005), and "world anthropologies" (Anthropos, 2007). Boškovic is the author or editor of several books, including, most recently, Myth, Politics, Ideology (Belgrade, 2006).