Up close and personal : on peripheral perspectives and the production of anthropological knowledge / edited by Cris Shore and Susanna Trnka.

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9780857458469
0857458469

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DDC classification:

301.01 23

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GN33 .U6 2013

Contents:

Introduction: Observing Anthropologists: Professional Knowledge, Practice and Lives -- Michael Jackson Chapter 1. Suffering, Selfhood and Anthropological Encounters -- Anne Salmond, Chapter 2. Anthropology, Ontology and the Maori World -- Joan Metge, Chapter 3. Building Bridges: Maori and Pakeha Relations -- Gillian Cowlishaw, Chapter 4. 'Culture', 'Race' and 'Me': Living the Anthropology of Inidgenous Australians -- Nicolas Peterson, Chapter 5. Finding One's Way in Arnhem Land -- Howard Morphy, Chapter 6. Art as Action: The Yolngu -- David Trigger, Chapter 7. Rethinking Nature and Nativeness -- Christopher Pinney, Chapter 8. More than Local, Less than Global: Anthropology in the Contemporary World -- Nelson Graburn, Chapter 9. Beyond Selling Out: Art, Tourism and Indigenous Self-representation -- Nigel Rapport, Chapter 10. Sovereign Individuals and the Ontology of Selfhood -- Susan Wright, Chapter 11. Hidden Histories and Political Transformations -- Marilyn Strathern, Chapter 12 . Gender Ideology, Property Relations and Melanesia: The Field of 'M' -- Conclusion -- Looking Ahead: Past Connections and Future Directions.

Summary: Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm shifts. Particular focus is given to how 'peripheral perspectives' can help re-shape the discipline and the ways that anthropologists think about contemporary culture and society. From urban Maori communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, from Arnhem Land in Austra.

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Anne Ssalmond and Joan Metge are new Zealand authors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm shifts. Particular focus is given to how 'peripheral perspectives' can help re-shape the discipline and the ways that anthropologists think about contemporary culture and society. From urban Maori communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, from Arnhem Land in Austra.

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