Reinventing Anthropology. Book

Explores the situation in American anthropology, showing that the assumptions of the discipline and its institutional setting have been irreversibly undermined. ' discusses why the separation of anthropology from the other social sciences has broken down; how the role of the interviewer and fieldworker, once unique to anthropology, has spread to other social sciences.; how formerly colonial relationships, at home on Indian reservations, as well as abroad, have been increasingly challenged; how attitudes of potential anthropology students have changed toward the desire to study their own society instead of a foreign one. CONTENTS: 1) INTRO: Use of Anthropology: Critical, Political, Personal (D. Hymes) 2) THE ROOT IS MAN: 'Bringing it all Back Home': Malaise in Anthroplogy (G. Berreman) * This is the Time for Radical Anthropology (K. Wolff) 3) STUDYING DOMINATED CULTURES: * Skeletons in the Anthropological Closet (W. Willis, Jr.) * An American Anthropological Dilemma: The Politics of Afro-American Culture (J. Szwed) * Culture and Imperialism: Proposing a New Dilectic (M. Caulfield) * Resistance & the Revitalization of Anthropologists: A New Perspective on Cultural Change & Resistance (R. Clemmer) 4) STUDYING THE CULTURES OF POWER: * American Anthropologists and American Society (E. Wolf) * The Life and Culture of Ecotopia (E.Anderson, Jr.) * Up the Anthropologist-Perspectives gained from Studying Up (L. Nader) * Counter Culture and Cultural Hegemony: Some Notes on the Youth Rebellion of the 1960s (A. Norman Klein) * Toward an Anthropological Political of Symbolic Forms (S. Worth) 5) RESPONSIBILITIES OF ETHNOGRAPHY: * Personal & Extrapersonal Vision Vision in Anthropology (R. Jay) * Some Questions about Anthropological Linguistics: The Role of Native Language (K. Hale) 6) THE ROOT IS MAN: CRITICAL TRADITIONS: * Anthropology in Question (S. Diamond) * Toward a Reflexive and Critical AnthropologyRead More