In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to radically reconsider the nature, process, and outcomes of fieldwork: what should we be doing, how, for whom, and to what end? In this volume, practitioners from across anthropological disciplines--social and biological anthropology and primatology--come together to question and compare the ethical regulation of fieldwork, what is common to their practices, and what is distinctive to each discipline. Contributors probe a rich variety of...
In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to...
This articulate and authoritative survey of both the popular and academic trends in anthropology demonstrates the broad relevance of anthropological knowledge and argues for a more inclusive conception of the discipline that engages the public imagination.
Demonstrates the evolving social contexts of British anthropological theory and practice from the mid-19th century
Highlights the importance of popular anthropology in forming and sustaining the professional discipline
Explores the past and present cross-fertilization of anthropologists, scientists and...
This articulate and authoritative survey of both the popular and academic trends in anthropology demonstrates the broad relevance of anthropologica...
..".contains fascinating material on the social, political, nutritional, and evolutionary aspects of human food choice...Scholars and students in food studies will find Consuming the Inedible useful for its variety of approaches to 'unusual' eating practices, and several of the chapters should also find their way onto reading lists for courses in the anthropology of food." - JRAI
Throughout the world, everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This...
..".contains fascinating material on the social, political, nutritional, and evolutionary aspects of human food choice...Scholars and students in food...
Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the ways others represent them. At a time of increasing intercultural exchange, art has become a primary means through which groups reinforce their challenged sense of culture.This pioneering book breaks with the tradition of the anthropology of art as the depoliticized study of aesthetics in exotic settings. Transcending artificial distinctions between the West and the Rest, it examines the increasingly significant relations among art, identity and politics in the...
Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the ways others repres...
"Everyone who has anything to do with fieldwork should read this book. To my knowledge there is no other work, which so clearly demonstrates the kinds of ethical dilemmas that occur routinely in the field, in all their everyday, messiness...It will appeal to anyone working within anthropological or conservation based disciplines, but it will encourage scholars and students of virtually any discipline, even journalists, to think about the effects of their work. More, much more, this volume should be required reading for anyone who ever sits on an ethics committee." - Qualitative Research...
"Everyone who has anything to do with fieldwork should read this book. To my knowledge there is no other work, which so clearly demonstrates the ki...
