Global Transformations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Transformations write by M. Trouillot. This book was released on 2016-04-30. Global Transformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through an examination of such disciplinary keywords, and their silences, as the West, modernity, globalization, the state, culture, and the field, this book aims to explore the future of anthropology in the Twenty-first-century, by examining its past, its origins, and its conditions of possibility alongside the history of the North Atlantic world and the production of the West. In this significant book, Trouillot challenges contemporary anthropologists to question dominant narratives of globalization and to radically rethink the utility of the concept of culture, the emphasis upon fieldwork as the central methodology of the discipline, and the relationship between anthropologists and the people whom they study.
Decolonizing Anthropology
Decolonizing Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decolonizing Anthropology write by Faye Venetia Harrison. This book was released on 1997. Decolonizing Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Decolonizing Anthropology is part of a broader effort that aims to advance the critical reconstruction of the discipline devoted to understanding humankind in all its diversity and commonality. The utility and power of a decolonized anthropology must continue to be tested and developed. May the results of ethnographic probes--the data, the social and cultural analysis, the theorizing, and the strategies for knowledge application--help scholars envision clearer paths toincreased understanding, a heightened sense of intercultural and international solidarity, and last, but certainly not least, world transformation.
Historical Transformations
Historical Transformations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Transformations write by Kajsa Ekholm Friedman. This book was released on 2008. Historical Transformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Historical Transformations represents the work of two distinguished anthropologists over three decades on the history and importance of global thinking in the social sciences. The authors consider numerous examples for which local phenomena can only be understood within the contexts of global systems. Their multidisciplinary work touches on many aspects of social and individual life as well as long-term historical process."--BOOK JACKET.
The Work of Culture
The Work of Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Work of Culture write by Gananath Obeyesekere. This book was released on 1990-10-15. The Work of Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is the product of two decades of field research by one of Sri Lanka's distinguished anthropological interpreters.
Transformations
Transformations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformations write by Helen Schwartzman. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Transformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing a book about play leads to wondering. In writing this book, I wondered first if it would be taken seriously and then if it might be too serious. Eventually, I realized that these concerns were cast in terms of the major dichotomy that I wished to question, that is, the very perva sive and very inaccurate division that Western cultures make between play and seriousness (or play and work, fantasy and reality, and so forth). The study of play provides researchers with a special arena for re-thinking this opposition, and in this book an attempt is made to do this by reviewing and evaluating studies of children's transformations (their play) in relation to the history of anthropologists' transformations (their theories). While studying play, I have wondered in the company of many individuals. I would first like to thank my husband, John Schwartzman, for acting as both my strongest supporter and, as an anthropological colleague, my severest critic. His sense of nonsense is always novel as well as instructive. I am also very grateful to Linda Barbera-Stein for her Sherlock Holmes style help in locating obscure references, checking and cross-checking information, and patience and persistence in the face of what at times appeared to be bibliographic chaos. I also owe special thanks to my teachers of anthropology-Paul J. Bohannan, Johannes Fabian, Edward T. Hall, and Roy Wagner-whose various orientations have directly and indirectly influenced the approach presented in this book.
