Segal / Yanagisako Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle

Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8684-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

A collection that debates and studies how to revise the four-field approach of anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Segal, Daniel A.

Yanagisako, Sylvia J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Clifford, James

Lederman, Rena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Daniel A. Segal and Sylvia J. Yanagisako 1

Rearticulating Anthropology / James Clifford 24

Unchosen Grounds: Cultivating Cross-Subfield Accents for a Public Voice / Rena Lederman 49

Flexible Disciplinarity: Beyond the Americanist Tradition / Sylvia J. Yanagisako 78

Languages/Cultures Are Dead! Long Live the Linguistic-Cultural! / Michael Silverstein 99

An Archaeology of the Four-Field Approach in Anthropology in the United States / Ian Hodder 126

References 141

Contributors 161

Index 163

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel A. Segal is Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Historical Studies at Pitzer College. He is a coauthor of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities and editor of Crossing Cultures: Essays in the Displacement of Western Civilization. He is a former editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology (1995–2001).Sylvia J. Yanagisako is Professor and former Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of Producing Culture and Capital: Family Firms in Italy and coeditor of Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis.