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Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology (Hardcover, New): Bruce M. Knauft Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology (Hardcover, New)
Bruce M. Knauft
R3,910 Discovery Miles 39 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology?
In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements with fresh readings of major figures and approaches, the work develops a larger vantage point for considering the dispersing influence of practice theories, postmodernism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, modern/post-positive feminism, and multicultural criticisms. The larger relationship between culture, power, and representation is critically recast in the course of the analysis, and through frontal engagement with ethical considerations as well as ethnographic specifics, Knauft shows how contemporary anthropology begs for a critical revaluation of humanist sensibilities. Ultimately, anthropology can draw upon past strengths as well as future potentials to combine ethical grounding, ethnographic rigor, and intellectual power.

Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology (Paperback): Bruce M. Knauft Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology (Paperback)
Bruce M. Knauft
R1,614 Discovery Miles 16 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This work critically evaluates a range of perspectives that implicate culture, power, and representation in anthropology and examines how cultural anthropology can remain both ethically committed and ethnographically rigorous.

South Coast New Guinea Cultures - History, Comparison, Dialectic (Paperback): Bruce M. Knauft South Coast New Guinea Cultures - History, Comparison, Dialectic (Paperback)
Bruce M. Knauft
R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

South coast New Guinea has long been a focus of ethnographic attention, with its varied cultures, its reputation for flamboyant sexual practices, and its traditions of headhunting. Dr. Knauft examines previous ethnographic material to reanalyze the region's seven major language-culture areas, covering a range of topics including sexuality, social inequality, the status of women, religion, politics and violence. Ethnographically rich and theoretically sophisticated, this book will be essential reading for all those interested in Melanesia, and should be read by anyone concerned with the problems of cultural comparison.

South Coast New Guinea Cultures - History, Comparison, Dialectic (Hardcover): Bruce M. Knauft South Coast New Guinea Cultures - History, Comparison, Dialectic (Hardcover)
Bruce M. Knauft
R2,653 Discovery Miles 26 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

South coast New Guinea has long been a focus of ethnographic attention, with its varied cultures, its reputation for flamboyant sexual practices, and its traditions of headhunting. Dr. Knauft examines previous ethnographic material to reanalyze the region's seven major language-culture areas, covering a range of topics including sexuality, social inequality, the status of women, religion, politics and violence. Ethnographically rich and theoretically sophisticated, this book will be essential reading for all those interested in Melanesia, and should be read by anyone concerned with the problems of cultural comparison.

Returns to the Field - Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology (Paperback): Signe Howell, Aud Talle Returns to the Field - Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology (Paperback)
Signe Howell, Aud Talle; Contributions by Terence Turner, Howard Morphy, David Holmberg, …
R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Many anthropologists return to their original fieldwork sites a number of times during their careers, but this experience has seldom been subjected to analytic and theoretical scrutiny. The contributors to Returns to the Field have all undertaken multitemporal fieldwork repeated visits to the same place over periods ranging from 20 to 40 years among minority groups in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Melanesia. Over the years of contact, these anthropologists have witnessed dramatic changes, but also the perseverance of the people they have worked with. In vivid and personal essays, the authors examine the ramifications of this type of fieldwork practice the kind of knowledge it produces, what methodological tools are appropriate, and how relationships with people in the field site change over time."

Critically Modern - Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies (Paperback): Bruce M. Knauft Critically Modern - Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies (Paperback)
Bruce M. Knauft
R638 R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Save R67 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Critically Modern makes a critical intervention in one of the great debates of the moment. It offers a variety of rich and fascinating empirical analyses of 'modern' phenomena from diverse societies, and contributes a powerful (and largely missing) voice to the growing literature on globalization and modernity outside anthropology." -Charles Piot "In these essays theory and ethnography are presented in ways that make them mutually enriching. The volume should appeal to scholars across the entire range of disciplines that deal with modernity and/or globalization." -Edward LiPuma Are there multiple ways of being "modern" in the world today? How do people in various parts of the world become modern in their own distinct ways? Does the current focus on modernity in the social sciences resurrect a series of dichotomies ("traditional" and "modern," "the West" and "the Rest," "developed" and "undeveloped") that social theorists have sought to move beyond in recent years? Or do inflections of modernity capture key features of ideology and influence in the contemporary world? Combining rich ethnographic analysis with incisive theoretical critiques, this timely volume is certain to make an important mark in anthropology and in all related fields in which modernity is a central problematic. Contributors: Donald L. Donham, Robert J. Foster, Jonathan Friedman, Ivan Karp, John D. Kelly, Bruce M. Knauft, Lisa B. Rofel, Debra A. Spitulnik, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Holly Wardlow.

Returns to the Field - Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology (Hardcover): Signe Howell, Aud Talle Returns to the Field - Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology (Hardcover)
Signe Howell, Aud Talle; Contributions by Terence Turner, Howard Morphy, David Holmberg, …
R1,332 Discovery Miles 13 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Many anthropologists return to their original fieldwork sites a number oftimes during their careers, but this experience has seldom been subjected toanalytic and theoretical scrutiny. The contributors to Returns to the Field have allundertaken multitemporal fieldwork -- repeated visits to the same place -- overperiods ranging from 20 to 40 years among minority groups in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Melanesia. Over the years of contact, these anthropologists have witnesseddramatic changes, but also the perseverance of the people they have worked with. Invivid and personal essays, the authors examine the ramifications of this type offieldwork practice -- the kind of knowledge it produces, what methodological toolsare appropriate, and how relationships with people in the field site change overtime.

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