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Title

Reinventing anthropology / edited by Dell Hymes ; with a new introduction by the editor.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hymes, Dell H.

Description

lii, 470 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Dell Hymes's edited collection of essays, originally published in 1972, brought together a host of leading voices in anthropology passionate about the need to "reinvent" the discipline in which they were all involved. Having determined that the scientific approach fostered by anthropologists earlier in the century disavowed the subjectivity inherent in observation, Hymes and his colleagues called for a more reflexive approach to ethnography. They also sought a solution to the fragmentation that they felt was splintering their field and proposed a progressive political awareness that embraced a liberatory rather than a materialistic end. Knowing that there was no single institutional structure or formulated doctrine the could foster this, they looked within their discipline for answers. Their call to arms: to keep attention focused on the fundamental questions."--Jacket.

Subject

• Anthropology > Study and teaching > United States
• Ethnology

Note

• Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, [c1972]. With new introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The use of anthropology / Dell Hymes -- "Bringing it all back home" : malaise in anthropology / Gerald D. Berreman -- This is the time for radical anthropology / Kurt H. Wolff -- Skeletons in the anthropological closet / William S. Willis -- An American anthropological dilemma : the politics of Afro-American culture / John F. Szwed -- Culture and imperialism : proposing a new dialectic / Mina Davis Caulfield -- Resistance and the revitalization of anthropologists / Richard O. Clemmer -- American anthropologists and American society / Eric R. Wolf -- The life and culture of ecotopia / E.N. Anderson -- Up the anthropologist / Laura Nader -- Counter culture and cultural hegemony : some notes on the youth rebellion of the 1960s / A. Norman Klein.
• Toward an anthropological politics of symbolic forms / Sol Worth -- Personal and extrapersonal vision in anthropology / Robert Jay -- Some questions about anthropological linguistics : the role of native knowledge / Kenneth Hale -- Anthropology in question / Stanley Diamond -- Toward a reflexive and critical anthropology / Bob Scholte.

ISBN

0472086073 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^99055250^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library