Among the social sciences, anthropology relies most fundamentally on "fieldwork"--the long-term immersion in another way of life as the basis for knowledge. In an era when anthropologists are studying topics that resist geographical localization, this book initiates a long-overdue discussion of the political and epistemological implications of the disciplinary commitment to fieldwork.

These innovative, stimulating essays--carefully chosen to form a coherent whole--interrogate the notion of "the field," showing how the concept is historically constructed and exploring the consequences of...

Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist, postcolonial world, the contributors to this volume examine shifts in anthropological thought regarding issues of identity, place, power, and resistance.
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After graduating from Harvard Business School, James L. Ferguson worked at Procter & Gamble for a decade. Both tenures served to prepare him for success at General Foods Corporation in White Plains, New York. Looking back to his childhood in Evanston, Ilinois, Ferguson sees the influence of his parents and grandparents. Although his father was a very successful advertising executive in New York, it is Ferguson's mother, the former Justine Dickson, who was his model for business success. This memoir is filled with fascinating tales of Depression-era Chicago, the parallel challenges of the...