Culture Wars

Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts

230 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable "cultural worlds." Instead they investigate the relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists' models and accounts in new ways. In doing so, they offer fresh insights into this key area of anthropological research.

• Reihe: EASA Series
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie
• ISBN: 9780857456618
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2012
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Evelyn Plaice, Deborah James, Christina Toren