Anthropology's Wake : Attending to the End of Culture.

By:

Johnson, David

Contributor(s):

Michaelsen, Scott

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780823228799

Subject(s):

Anthropology - Philosophy

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Anthropology's WakeDDC classification:

306.01

LOC classification:

GN33 -- .M48 2008eb

Online resources:

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Contents:

Intro -- contents -- preface -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- Descartes' Corps -- Our Sentiments -- Ex-Cited Dialogue -- An Other Voice -- ''Unworkable Monstrosities'' -- Hybrid Bound -- CODA: Anthropology's Present -- notes -- bibliography -- index.

Summary: Posing a powerful challenge to dominant trends in cultural analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of culture, providing the broadest study of this notion to date. Johnson and Michaelsen examine the principal methodological strategies or metaphors of anthropology in the past two decades, embodied in works by Edward Said, James Clifford, George Marcus, V. Y. Mudimbe, and others, and argues that they do not manage to escape anthropology's grounding in representational practices. To the extent that it remains a practice of representation, however complex, critical, or self-reflexive, anthropology cannot avoid objectifying its others. Although there is no chance, the authors argue, for a new anthropology that would not repeat the old anthropology's problem of disciplining the other, they also recognize that there may be no way out of anthropology. We are always writing, thinking, and living in anthropology's wake, within its specific compass or horizon.

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Posing a powerful challenge to dominant trends in cultural analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of culture, providing the broadest study of this notion to date. Johnson and Michaelsen examine the principal methodological strategies or metaphors of anthropology in the past two decades, embodied in works by Edward Said, James Clifford, George Marcus, V. Y. Mudimbe, and others, and argues that they do not manage to escape anthropology's grounding in representational practices. To the extent that it remains a practice of representation, however complex, critical, or self-reflexive, anthropology cannot avoid objectifying its others. Although there is no chance, the authors argue, for a new anthropology that would not repeat the old anthropology's problem of disciplining the other, they also recognize that there may be no way out of anthropology. We are always writing, thinking, and living in anthropology's wake, within its specific compass or horizon.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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