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The Politics of Anthropology : From Colonialism and Sexism Toward a View from Below.
Title:
The Politics of Anthropology : From Colonialism and Sexism Toward a View from Below.
Author:
Huizer, Gerrit.
ISBN:
9783110806458
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (532 pages)
Series:
World Anthropology
Contents:
General Editor's Preface -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION -- Anthropology and Politics: From Naïveté 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, and Action Research on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea -- Research from Within and from Below: Reversing the Machinery -- APPENDIX -- Foundations on the Move -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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