Other People's Anthropologies

Aleksandar Bošković is Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade and Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). His research areas include ethnicity and nationalism, popular culture, and he has also published widely on the history and theory of anthropology. In recent years, he published on anthropology in former Yugoslavia (Anthropology Today, 2005), Brazil (Dialectical Anthropology, 2005), South Africa (with Ilana van Wyk, Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 2005), and "world anthropologies" (Anthropos, 2007). Bošković is the author or editor of several books, including, most recently, Myth, Politics, Ideology (Belgrade, 2006).

"A valuable resource for teaching and research alike, Other People’s Anthropologies rethinks canonical accounts of the discipline’s history."   ·  Anthropos"The collection is a very welcome addition to the growing but still inadequate number of books and articles on world anthropologies. It is clearly written with concise chapters that give the reader a sense of the richness, diversity, commonalities and potentials of anthropology in the world today. Although the value goes beyond the classroom, this volume should be of interest particularly to those teaching anthropological theory who want to increase students’ awareness of the significant anthropological scholarship beyond the so-called ‘center’."  ·  Anthropology News"At last! A volume that exposes the ethnocentric underbelly of Anglo-American anthropology. The practice and history of anthropology is far more interesting and engaging than most English-speakers know. This volume, combining reflective essays from prominent scholars and cutting-edge work by younger anthropologists will change the way many think of anthropology."  ·  Robert Gordon

• DedicationList of MapsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Other Peoples’ AnthropologiesAleksandar Bošković and Thomas Hylland Eriksen“Other” AnthropologiesChapter 1. Russian Anthropology: Old Traditions and New TendenciesA.M. KuznetsovChapter 2. Anthropology in the Netherlands: Past, Present and FutureHan F. VermeulenChapter 3. Sociocultural Anthropology in Bulgaria: Desired and ContestedMagdalena ElchinovaChapter 4. Refacing Mt. Kenya or Excavating the Rift Valley? Anthropology in Kenya and the Question of TraditionMwenda NtarangwiChapter 5. Anthropology in Turkey: Impressions for an OverviewZerrin G. TandoğanChapter 6. Committed or Scientific? The Southern whereabouts of Social Anthropology and Antropología Social in 1960s to 1970s ArgentinaRosana GuberChapter 7. Themes and Legacies: Anthropology’s Trajectories in CameroonJude FokwangChapter 8. Japanese Anthropology and Desire for the WestKaori Sugishita Chapter 9. Anthropology in Unlikely Places: Yugoslav Ethnology Between the Past and the FutureAleksandar BoškovićChapter 10. The Otherness of Norwegian AnthropologyThomas Hylland Eriksen Chapter 11. Anthropology with no Guilt—A View from BrazilMariza PeiranoPostscript: Developments in US Anthropology Since the 1980s, a Supplement: The Reality of Center-Margin Relations, To Be Sure, But Changing (and Hopeful) Affinities in These RelationsGeorge E. MarcusAfterword: Anthropology’s Global EcumeneUlf HannerzList of ContributorsGlossaryIndex