Benthall The Best of Anthropology Today

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-41808-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

The articles in this influential journal placed it in the thick of a turbulent period for anthropology. Reacting to current research interests and launching what were often heated debates, it set the agenda for disciplinary change and new research.
Once described the American Anthropological Association as creating 'a strong voice for anthropology in the public arena', the Founder Editor, Jonathan Benthall, introduces here a personal selection of articles and letters with his own candid retrospect, arguing that the discipline's greatest strength and potential lies in testing and refining the ideas of other disciplines. Once described by the American Anthropological Association as creating 'a strong voice for anthropology in the public arena', the founder editor, Jonathan Benthall, introduces here a personal selection of articles and letters with his own candid retrospect, arguing that the discipline's greatest strength and potential lies in telling and refining the ideas of other disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benthall, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. List of Figures. Preface Marshall Sahlins Introduction Jonathan Benthall Part I: Feminine Power 1. Feminine Power at Sea Silvia Rodgers 2. 'Ladies' Behind Bars: A Liminal Gender as Cultural Mirror John M. Coggeshall 3. Dyke to Dyke: Ritual Reproduction at a US Men's Military College Abigail E. Adams 4. Formal Men, Informal Women: How the Fulani Support Their Anthropologists Danièle Kintz POT POURRI 1: TOWARDS A RADICAL REFORM OF EDUCATION Part II: Indigenes' Rights, Anthropologists' Roots 5. Ethnocide: A Report from Columbia Stephen Corry 6. 'Ethnocide' Lucy Mair 7. Ethnocide and Ethnocentricity - Correspondence Stephen Corry and Lucy Mair 8. Critical Re-vision: Clastres' Chronicle and the Optic of Primitivism Bartholomew Dean 9. Doing Justice to Clastres Jon Abbink POT POURRI 2: A NEW OCCULT SCIENCE Part III: Fieldwork as Intervention 10. Nomadism and its Future: the Afar Glynn Flood 11. Anthropology and the Nomad: Another View of the Afar A. F. Robertson 12. Development in Ethiopia Glynn Flood 13. The Flood-Robertson Exchange: A Brief Comment Christopher Clapham 14. 'The Mountain People' as Tribal Mirror John Knight 15. The White 'Helpers': Anthropologists, Development Workers and Local Imaginations POT POURRI 3: FEBRUARY 1988 Part IV: Markets of Desire 16. In and Out of Polyester: Desire, Disdain and Global Fibre Competitions Jane Schneider 17. 'Caritas' and the Reconceptualization of Money in Romania Katherine Verderey POT POURRI 4: AUGUST 1988 Part V: Anthropology in the Mass Media 18. Aliens, Apemen and Whacky Savages: the Anthropologist in the Tabloids Mark Allen Peterson 19. Anthropology's Identity Crisis Chris Shore 20. 'We Are All Neighbours Pat Caplan 21. Ancient Mysteries and the Modern World Marcus Banks POT POURRI 5: THE GREAT ANT-EATER'S ATTRACTIONS Part VI; New Social Movements 22 Fission and Fusion in Nuclear Society Michael Thompson 23. Correspondence Lionel Caplan, Michael Thompson, Charles Leslie 24. Whale Politics and Green Legitimacy: a Critique of the Anti-whaling Campaign Arne Kalland 25. Return of Love: Everyday Life and African Divination in Paris Liliane Kuczyniski 26. The Sacrifice of 'Id al-kabir: Islam in the French Suburbs Anne-Marie Brisebaree POT POURRI 6: MUSEUMS OF THE UNDERSIDE Part VII: Human Sciences in Authoritarian States 27. The Schwidetzky Affair Jonathan Benthall 28. Two Separate Developments: Anthropology in South Africa, 1980 John Sharp 29. Mythologized Representations in Soviet Thinking on the Nationalities Problem Slawoj Szynkiewicz 30. Human Origins, Myanmafication and 'Disciplined' Burmese Democracy POT POURRI 7: THE RAW, THE COOKED AND THE MARILYNATED Part 8: The Technology of Enchantment 31. Technology and Magic Alfred Gell 32. Lying and Deceit Mary Douglas 33. A Murderous Fascination James Lewton-Brain 34. 'Bye-bye Ted.' Community Response in Florida to the Execution of Theodore Bundy J. Anthony Paredes and Elizabeth D. Purdum 35. The Paradoxes of Monarchy Declan Quigley 36. Dry Bones: Nationalism and Symbolism in Contemporary Israel Alex Weingrod POT POURRI 8: HARD-WIRED HUMAN SCIENCE, OR COGNITIVE FLUIDITY Part IX: War and Civil Strife 37. Genocide in Rwanda Alex de Waal 38. Correspondance and Commentary Johan Pottier and Alex de Waal 39. Anthropological Knowledge and Collective Violence Veena Das 40. Argentina and the 'Islas Malvinas': Symbolism and the Threat to Nationhood Julie Taylor 41. Anthropologists in the Midst of Conflicts Anatoly M. Khazanov. Notes on the contributors. Index art I: Feminine Power

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Benthall was Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1974-2000) and Founder Editor of Anthropology Today which succeeded RAINews (1974-84). In 1983 he was awarded the Anthropology in Media Award by the American Anthropological Association.