Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780415912648 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 392 str.

Bruce M. Knauft

Opis

Considering recent theoretical developments, this volume takes stock of the relationship between culture, power and representation that informs fields such as anthropology. From the 1960s to the early 1990s, anthropology has struggled with the tense relation between modern and postmodern sensibilities. Today the field requires humanism to self-consciously mediate an appreciation of cultural diversity with a critique of representation and inequality. By so doing, important perspective is gained on theoretical initiatives such as postmodernism, cultural studies, post-Marxism, modern/postmodern feminism, and multiculturalism. This work critically evaluates a range of perspectives that implicate culture, power and representation in anthropology, and examines how cultural anthropology can remain both ethically committed and ethnographically rigorous.

Spis treści

Aperture; 1: Stories, histories, and theories; 2: Critically humanist sensibilities; 3: Pushing anthropology past the posts; 4: Practices; 5: Moments of knowledge and power; 6: Gramsci and bakhtin; 7: Gender, ethnography, and critical query; 8: Multicultural speaking; 9: Conclusions and criticisms

O autorze

Bruce Knauft is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University and co-editor of the Melanesian Studies Series for the University of California Press. He is the author of two books: Good Company and Violence (1985), and South Coast New Guinea Cultures (1993).