Culture Wars

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).

"an important and very interesting contribution to, first of all, critical and reflexive anthropology…Every chapter offers fresh insights into a key area of critical anthropology. Undoubtedly, the volume is very well organized, thoroughly substantiated, and interestingly written. I believe that the reviewed collection of articles is a distinguished, very useful, and sometimes provocative reading for all scholars concerned with a critical approach to social science and especially to social anthropology"  ·  Anthropos

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Culture, context and anthropologists’ accountsDeborah James and Christina TorenChapter 1. Alliances And Avoidance: British Interactions with German-Speaking Anthropologists, 1933–1953Andre GingrichChapter 2. Serving the Volk? Afrikaner anthropology revisitedJohn SharpChapter 3. ‘Making Natives’: debating indigeneity in Canada and South AfricaEvie Plaice Chapter 4. Culture in the Periphery: Anthropology in the Shadow of Greek CivilisationDimitra Gefou-MadianouChapter 5. Culture: the Indigenous AccountAlan BarnardChapter 6. We are All Indigenous Now: Culture vs. Nature in representations of the BalkansAleksandar BoškovićChapter 7. Which cultures, what contexts, and whose accounts? Anatomies of a moral panic in Southall, multi-ethnic LondonGerd BaumannChapter 8. “What about White People’s History?” Class, Race and Culture Wars in 21st Century BritainGillian EvansChapter 9. A Cosmopolitan Anthropology?Stephen GudemanChapter 10. The door in the middle: six conditions for anthropologyJoão de Pina-CabralChapter 11. Adam Kuper: An Anthropologist’s AccountIsak NiehausNotes on ContributorsReferencesIndex