Changing Fields of Anthropology

From Local to Global

AvMichael Kearney

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The title phrase 'changing fields' can be read in two ways: One meaning refers to how, since the mid-1960s, the larger national and global social, intellectual, and political fields within which American anthropology is situated have profoundly changed. The second meaning refers to how, in response to these changing fields, the author, like many other anthropologists, changed the locations of his fieldwork along with his research problems and theoretical perspectives. The book engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is destined to confront (or at its peril, avoid): becoming more self-reflexive, achieving theoretical and methodological holism, and defense of universal human rights.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-06-10
Mått:143 x 231 x 21 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780847693733

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Michael Kearney is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

Recensioner i media

This is a welcome collection that will prove useful for anthropological research across the changing borders and indigenous struggles of this hemisphere.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 Part I: Fieldwork in the Classic ModeChapter 2 The Concept ofAire andSusto: Symbolic Representations of Perceived Social and Geographic EnvironmentChapter 3 A Very Bad Disease of the ArmsChapter 4 Drunkenness and Religious Conversion in a Mexican VillageChapter 5 La Trucha: A Short StoryPart 6 Part II: Transitional Fieldwork in the Border AreaChapter 7 From the Invisible Hand to the Visible Feet: Anthropological Studies of Migration and DevelopmentChapter 8 Our Misunderstood TerroristsChapter 9 Spiritualist Healing in MexicoChapter 10 Oral Performance by Mexican Spiritualists in Possession TranceChapter 11 Integration of the Mixteca and the Western U.S.-Mexico Border Region via Migratory Wage LaborPart 12 Part III: Transnational and Practical AnthropologyChapter 13 The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and TransnationalismChapter 14 Mixtec Political Consciousness: From Passive to Active ResistanceChapter 15 Borders and Boundaries of the State and Self at the End of EmpireChapter 16 Mixtec Ethnicity: Social Identity, Political Consciousness, and Political ActivismChapter 17 Class and Identity: The Jujitsu of Domination and Resistance in OaxacaliforniaChapter 18 The Race to Deterritorialize in the Game of Value