Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe

ISBN-13: 9780521389082 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 276 str.

Michael Herzfeld

Opis

Using Greek ethnography as a mirror for an ethnography of anthropology itself, this book reveals the ways in which the discipline of anthropology is ensnared in the same political and social symbolism as its object of study. The author pushes the comparative goals of anthropology beyond the traditional separation of tribal object from detached scientific observer, and offers the discipline a critical source of reflexive insight based on empirical ethnography rather than on ideological speculation alone.

Recenzje

'… a book which may be one of those few which change a landscape.' Anthropology Today

Spis treści

1. Romanticism and Hellenism: burdens of otherness; 2. A secular cosmology; 3. Aboriginal Europeans; 4. Difference as identity; 5. The double-headed eagle: self-knowledge and self-display; 6. Strict definitions and bad habits; 7. The practice of relativity; 8. Etymologies of a discipline.