Anthropology and Egalitarianism - Ethnographic Encounters From Monticello to Guinea-Bissau

Informationen zum Autor Eric Gable teaches anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. He is author (with Richard Handler) of The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. Klappentext Gable weaves together vignettes from the field and discussion of major works as he explores the development of the idea of culture through the experience of cultural contrast, anthropology's fraught relationship to racism and colonialism, and other enduring themes. Zusammenfassung A provocative introduction to fieldwork and the concept of culture Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Culture by Contrast and Theory in Anthropology 1. Supping with Savages 2. Standing in a Line 3. Jefferson's Ardor 4. The Colonialist's Dress Code 5. Taking Pictures in the Field, or the Anthropologist's Dress Code 6. Beyond Belief 7. The Sex Life of Savages Conclusion: Tending to Nature, Tending to Culture, or Is Anthropology History? Notes on Sources References Index

Product details

• Authors: Eric Gable, Gable Eric
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2010
• EAN: 9780253222756
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22275-6
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories