The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic
investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate
is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only
native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence
that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point
out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific
cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical
discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise
that ethnographer and informant occupy different and
incommensurable "cultural worlds." Instead they investigate the
relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists' models
and accounts in new ways. In doing so, they offer fresh insights
into this key area of anthropological research.
Deborah James is Professor of Anthropology at the London School
of Economics. Her research interests, focused on South Africa,
include migration, ethnomusicology, ethnicity, property relations
and the politics of land reform. She is author of Songs of the
Women Migrants: Performance and Identity in South Africa (Edinburgh
University Press, 1999) and of Gaining Ground? "Rights" and
"Property" in South African Land Reform (Routledge, 2007).
Evelyn Plaice is Associate Professor of Anthropology jointly
appointed to the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education at
the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Her interests include
land, identity and the ethnopolitics of land restitution, and the
anthropology of education. She has conducted research in both South
Africa and Canada and is the author of .The Native Game:
Indian-Settler Relations in Central Labrador (ISER, 1990).
Christina Toren is Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of St Andrews. Her fieldwork areas are Fiji and the
Pacific, and Melanesia, and her theoretical interests include
exchange processes; spatio-temporality as a dimension of human
being; sociality, kinship and ideas of the person; the analysis of
ritual; epistemology; ontogeny as a historical process. Her books
include Making Sense of Hierarchy: cognition as social process in
Fiji (Athlone, 1990) and Mind, Materiality and History:
Explorations in Fijian Ethnography (Routledge, 1999).
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