After Writing Culture

Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-15005-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: ASA Monographs

This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s.
It includes discussion of issues such as:

* the concept of caste in Indian society
* scottish ethnography
* how dreams are culturally conceptualised
* representations of the family
* culture as conservation
* gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan
* representation in rural Japan
* people's place in the landscape of Northern Australia
* representing identity of the New Zealand Maori.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dawson, Andrew

Hockey, Jenny

James, Allison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: the road from Santa Fe 2 Representing the anthropologist’s predicament 3 Identifying versus identifying with ‘the Other’: reflections on the siting of the subject in anthropological discourse 4 Representations and the re-presentation of family: an analysis of divorce narratives 5 The tooth butterfly, or rendering a sensible account from the imaginative present 6 Crossing a representational divide: from west to east in Scottish ethnography 7 Deconstructing colonial fictions? Some conjuring tricks in the recent sociology of India 8 Representing and translating people’s place in the landscape of northern Australia 9 Echoing the past in rural Japan 10 The Museum as mirror: ethnographic reflections 11 Edifying anthropology: culture as conversation; representation as conversation 12 Who is representing whom? Gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan 13 Representing identity 14 Some political consequences of theories of Gypsy ethnicity: the place of the intellectual 15 Appropriate anthropology and the risky inspiration of ‘Capability’ Brown: representations of what, by whom, and to what end?

Über Autor(innen)

Allison James is Senior Lecturer in Applied Anthropology, Jenny Hockey is Lecturer in Social Policy and Andrew Dawson is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, all at the University of Hull.