Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 417 g
Working in the Present
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 417 g
Reihe: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
ISBN: 978-0-933452-78-7
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
The ten papers in this volume offer different versions of how and where anthropologists might work usefully in today's world, converging on the issue of how anthropology can best recapture the progressive character its basic concepts, such as "culture," once had. Together the authors demonstrate that a reinvigorated anthropology must recognize how the profession labors under an existing intellectual discipline, with its own political and economic history, on a global "shop floor.
