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Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle - Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology (Paperback, New)
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Lively, forceful, and impassioned, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle is
a major intervention in debates about the configuration of the
discipline of anthropology. In the essays brought together in this
provocative collection, prominent anthropologists consider the
effects of and alternatives to the discipline's standard four-field
structure based on the integration of archaeology and biological,
socio-cultural, and linguistic anthropology. While the contributors
are not in full agreement with one another, their critiques all
diverge from official definitions of anthropology as having a
fixed, four-field core. They argue for the historical contingency
of the discipline's present configuration and question its
efficacy. other disciplines and the public sphere beyond academia,
the significance of the convergence of linguistic and cultural
anthropology, and whether or not anthropology is the best home for
archaeology. Daniel A. Segal and Sylvia J. Yanagisako provide a
powerful introduction to the volume. Unabashed in their criticism
of the four-field structure, they trace its origins to
nineteenth-century social evolutionary thought. Urging active
engagement with other disciplines, they address the fears that
anthropology will cede its claim to empirical integrity if it
embraces the humanities. The editors are keenly aware that
anthropology is too protean and complex to be remade along the
lines of any master plan, and this volume does not offer one. It
does open discussions of anthropology's institutional structure to
all possible outcomes, including the refashioning of the discipline
as it now exists. Silverstein Sylvia J. Yanagisako
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