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Popularizing anthropology

Title
Popularizing anthropology / edited by Jeremy MacClancy and Chris McDonaugh.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Additional Authors
  • MacClancy, Jeremy.
  • McDonaugh, Chris, 1953-
Description
viii, 253 pages; 23 cm
Subject
Anthropology > Popular works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Popularizing anthropology / Jeremy MacClancy -- 2. Tricky tropes: styles of the popular and the pompous / Alan Campbell -- 3. Typecasting: anthropology's dramatis personae / Wendy James -- 4. The chrysanthemum continues to flower: Ruth Benedict and some perils of popular anthropology / Joy Hendry -- 5. Communicating culture: Margaret Mead and the practice of popular anthropology / William E. Mitchell -- 6. Enlarging the context of anthropology: the case of Anthropology Today / Jonathan Benthall -- 7. Claude Levi-Strauss and Louis Dumont: media portraits / Dominique Casajus -- 8. Proximity and distance: representations of Aboriginal society in the writings of Bill Harney and Bruce Chatwin / Howard Morphy -- 9. Women readers: others utopias and own bodily knowledge / Judith Okely -- 10. A bricoleur's workshop: writing Les lances du crepuscule / Philippe Descola -- 11. Fieldwork styles: Bohannan, Barley, and Gardner / Jeremy MacClancy.
ISBN
  • 0415136121
  • 041513613X (pbk.)
LCCN
96007567
OCLC
ocm34475180
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries