Recapturing Anthropology
Working in the Present Edited by Richard G. Fox 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.” 1991. 264 pp., notes, references, index, 6 x 9 Contributors: Lila Abu-Lughod, Arjun Appadurai, Richard G. Fox, Jose F. Limon, Sherry B. Ortner, Paul Rabinow, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Joan Vincent, Graham Watson Download an excerpt.“Product of a 1989 seminar of leading ethnologists, these nine essays explore the revitalization of contemporary anthropology in response to postmodern criticism… [T]his will interest those concerned with new directions in the social sciences. For faculty and students in departments of anthropology, for larger public libraries, and essential for university libraries associated with both undergraduate and graduate programs in the social sciences.”
—R. B. Clay, Choice (September 1992)
“[Recapturing Anthropology] is a first class ticket to new times in anthropology.” —Roger Slack, Sociology, vol. 27, no. 4 November 1993
“[Recapturing Anthropology] is a first class ticket to new times in anthropology.” —Roger Slack, Sociology, vol. 27, no. 4 November 1993
- Introduction: Working in the Present Richard G. Fox
- Anthropology and the Salvage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness Michael-Rolph Trouillet
- Engaging Historicism Joan Vincent
- For Hire: Resolutely Late Modern Paul Rabinow
- Rewriting Culture Graham Watson
- For a Nearly New Culture History Richard G. Fox
- Representation, Ethnicity, and the Precursory Ethnography: Notes of a Native Anthropologist José E. Limón
- Writing Against Culture Lila Abu-Lughod
- Reading America: Preliminary Notes on Class and Culture Sherry B. Ortner
- Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology Arjun Appadurai
There are no working papers for this book at the present time.