Counterworks - Managing the Diversity of Knowledge

Informationen zum Autor Richard Fardon is Reader in West African Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Chairman of the Centre of African Studies, University of London. Klappentext Counterworks argues that the apparent oppostion between strong westernizing forces and a weak concept of culture needs rethinking in a world where a sense of culture has become a wide spread property of people's social knowledge. Zusammenfassung Counterworks argues that the apparent oppostion between strong westernizing forces and a weak concept of culture needs rethinking in a world where a sense of culture has become a wide spread property of people's social knowledge. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Richard Fardon; Chapter 1 Introduction, Richard Fardon; Chapter 2 Self and other in contemporary anthropology, Anne Salmond; Chapter 3 As I lay laughing, Mark Hobart; Chapter 4 Against syncretism, Stephan Palmié; Chapter 5 Knowing the past, Olivia Harris; Chapter 6 It takes one to know one, Michael Herzfeld; Chapter 7 Latticed knowledge, David Parkin; Chapter 8 Whose knowledge and whose power?, Signe Howell; Chapter 9 From cosmology to environmentalism, Piers Vitebsky; Chapter 10 The production of locality, Arjun Appadurai;

Product details

• Authors: Richard Fardon
• Assisted by: Richard Fardon (Editor), Fardon Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.1995
• EAN: 9780415107921
• ISBN: 978-0-415-10792-1
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sociology, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Society and culture: general