World anthropologies : disciplinary transformations within systems of power.

Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the gl...

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Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Gustavo Lins (éd.), Escobar, Arturo (éd.)
Formato: Ouvrage
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.
coleção:Wenner-Gren international symposium series
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Sumário:
  • World anthropologies : disciplinary transformations within systems of power / Gustavo Lins Ribeiro ; Arturo Escobar
  • Reshaping anthropology : a view from Japan / Shinji Yamashita
  • Transformations in Siberian anthropology : an insider's perspective / Nikolai Vakhtin
  • In search of anthropology in China : a discipline caught in a web of nation building, socialist capitalism, and globalization / Josephine Smart
  • Mexican anthropology's ongoing search for identity / Esteban Krotz
  • How many centers and peripheries in anthropology? : a critical view of France / Eduardo P. Archetti
  • The production of knowledge and the production of hegemony : anthropological theory and political struggles in Spain / Susana Narotzky
  • Anthropology in a postcolonial Africa : the survival debate / Paul Nchoji Nkwi
  • Generating nontrivial knowledge in awkward situations : anthropology in the United Kingdom / Eeva Berglund
  • The production of other knowledges and its tensions : from Andeanist anthropology to interculturalidad? / Marisol de la Cadena
  • A time and place beyond and of the center : Australian anthropologies in the process of becoming / Sandy Toussaint
  • Official hegemony and contesting pluralisms / Shiv Visvanathan
  • The pictographics of Tristesse : an anthropology of nation building in the tropics and its aftermath / Otavio Velho
  • "World anthropologies" : questions / Johannes Fabian.