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The Politics of Anthropology : From Colonialism and Sexism Toward a View from Below / ed. by Bruce Mannheim, Gerrit Huizer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1979Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (520 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027977502
  • 9783110806458
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.2 22
LOC classification:
  • GN345
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- SECTION ONE: Introduction -- Anthropology and Politics: From Naivete Toward Liberation? -- SECTION TWO: Colonialism in Anthropology -- The Counterrevolutionary Tradition in African Studies: The Case of Applied Anthropology -- Anthropologists and Their Terminologies: A Critical Review -- Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter -- SECTION THREE: Sexism in Anthropology -- Viricentrism and Anthropology -- Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives -- Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions -- SECTION FOUR: "Ethical Question" or "Political Choice"? -- Colonial and Postcolonial Anthropology of Africa: Scholarship or Sentiment? -- Social Reality and the Anthropologists -- The Relevance of Contemporary Economic Anthropology -- Notes on the Present-Day State of Anthropology in the Third World -- Anthropology = Ideology, Applied Anthropology = Politics -- SECTION FIVE: From "Academic Colonialism" to "Committed Anthropology" -- The Social Responsibility of Anthropological Science in the Context of Contemporary Brazil -- The Meaning of Wounded Knee, 1973: Indian Self-Government and the Role of Anthropology -- From Applied to Committed Anthropology: Disengaging from our Colonialist Heritage -- SECTION SIX: Dilemmas of Action Research and Commitment -- Anthropology, "Snooping," and Commitment: A View from Papua New Guinea -- Anthropology in Melanesia: Retrospect and Prospect -- Is Useful Action Research Possible? -- How Can Revolutionary Anthropology Be Practiced? -- The Role of the Anthropologist in Minority Education: The Chicano Case -- SECTION SEVEN: Toward a View from Below and from Within -- Participant Observation or Partisan Participation? -- On Objectivity in Fieldwork -- Breaking Through the Looking Glass: The View from Below -- On Being a Native Anthropologist -- Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting -- SECTION EIGHT: Attempts at Liberation Anthropology -- On the Participant Study of Women's Movements: Methodological, Definitional and Action Considerations -- Research-Through-Action: Some Practical Experiences with Peasant Organization -- Anthropology of the Multinational Corporation -- Nationalism, Race-Class Consciousness, Action Research on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea -- Research from Within and from Below: Reversing the Machinery -- APPENDIX: Foundations on the Move -- Foundations on the Move -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
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I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- SECTION ONE: Introduction -- Anthropology and Politics: From Naivete Toward Liberation? -- SECTION TWO: Colonialism in Anthropology -- The Counterrevolutionary Tradition in African Studies: The Case of Applied Anthropology -- Anthropologists and Their Terminologies: A Critical Review -- Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter -- SECTION THREE: Sexism in Anthropology -- Viricentrism and Anthropology -- Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives -- Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions -- SECTION FOUR: "Ethical Question" or "Political Choice"? -- Colonial and Postcolonial Anthropology of Africa: Scholarship or Sentiment? -- Social Reality and the Anthropologists -- The Relevance of Contemporary Economic Anthropology -- Notes on the Present-Day State of Anthropology in the Third World -- Anthropology = Ideology, Applied Anthropology = Politics -- SECTION FIVE: From "Academic Colonialism" to "Committed Anthropology" -- The Social Responsibility of Anthropological Science in the Context of Contemporary Brazil -- The Meaning of Wounded Knee, 1973: Indian Self-Government and the Role of Anthropology -- From Applied to Committed Anthropology: Disengaging from our Colonialist Heritage -- SECTION SIX: Dilemmas of Action Research and Commitment -- Anthropology, "Snooping," and Commitment: A View from Papua New Guinea -- Anthropology in Melanesia: Retrospect and Prospect -- Is Useful Action Research Possible? -- How Can Revolutionary Anthropology Be Practiced? -- The Role of the Anthropologist in Minority Education: The Chicano Case -- SECTION SEVEN: Toward a View from Below and from Within -- Participant Observation or Partisan Participation? -- On Objectivity in Fieldwork -- Breaking Through the Looking Glass: The View from Below -- On Being a Native Anthropologist -- Ethnology in a Revolutionary Setting -- SECTION EIGHT: Attempts at Liberation Anthropology -- On the Participant Study of Women's Movements: Methodological, Definitional and Action Considerations -- Research-Through-Action: Some Practical Experiences with Peasant Organization -- Anthropology of the Multinational Corporation -- Nationalism, Race-Class Consciousness, Action Research on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea -- Research from Within and from Below: Reversing the Machinery -- APPENDIX: Foundations on the Move -- Foundations on the Move -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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