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Culture Wars : Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts / ed. by Deborah James, Christina Toren, Evelyn Plaice.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: EASA Series ; 12Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845456412
  • 9781845458119
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  • 306 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Culture, Context and Anthropologists’ Accounts -- Chapter 1 Alliances and Avoidance: British Interactions with German-speaking Anthropologists, 1933–1953 -- Chapter 2 Serving the Volk? Afrikaner Anthropology Revisited -- Chapter 3 ‘Making Indians’: Debating Indigeneity in Canada and South Africa -- Chapter 4 Culture in the Periphery: Anthropology in the Shadow of Greek Civilization -- Chapter 5 Culture: the Indigenous Account -- Chapter 6 We are All Indigenous Now: Culture versus Nature in Representations of the Balkans -- Chapter 7 Which Cultures, What Contexts, and Whose Accounts? Anatomies of a Moral Panic in Southall, Multi-ethnic London -- Chapter 8 ‘What about White People’s History?’: Class, Race and Culture Wars in Twenty-first-Century Britain -- Chapter 9 A Cosmopolitan Anthropology? -- Chapter 10 The Door in the Middle: Six Conditions for Anthropology -- Chapter 11 Adam Kuper: an Anthropologist’s Account -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: The relationship between anthropologists’ ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable “cultural worlds.” Instead they investigate the relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists’ models and accounts in new ways. In doing so, they offer fresh insights into this key area of anthropological research.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Culture, Context and Anthropologists’ Accounts -- Chapter 1 Alliances and Avoidance: British Interactions with German-speaking Anthropologists, 1933–1953 -- Chapter 2 Serving the Volk? Afrikaner Anthropology Revisited -- Chapter 3 ‘Making Indians’: Debating Indigeneity in Canada and South Africa -- Chapter 4 Culture in the Periphery: Anthropology in the Shadow of Greek Civilization -- Chapter 5 Culture: the Indigenous Account -- Chapter 6 We are All Indigenous Now: Culture versus Nature in Representations of the Balkans -- Chapter 7 Which Cultures, What Contexts, and Whose Accounts? Anatomies of a Moral Panic in Southall, Multi-ethnic London -- Chapter 8 ‘What about White People’s History?’: Class, Race and Culture Wars in Twenty-first-Century Britain -- Chapter 9 A Cosmopolitan Anthropology? -- Chapter 10 The Door in the Middle: Six Conditions for Anthropology -- Chapter 11 Adam Kuper: an Anthropologist’s Account -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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The relationship between anthropologists’ ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable “cultural worlds.” Instead they investigate the relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists’ models and accounts in new ways. In doing so, they offer fresh insights into this key area of anthropological research.

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