Lyn Schumaker

Africanizing Anthropology

Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tells the story of anthropological fieldwork centred at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia during mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, this book places anthropologists' assistants and informants in a central role in the making of anthropological knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 158mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326731
• ISBN-10: 0822326736
• Artikelnr.: 21148412

Autorenporträt

Lyn Schumaker is Wellcome Research Lecturer at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. “The Water Follows the Stream”
> 2. Contexts and Chronologies
3. Archetypal Experiences
4. The Laboratory in the Field
5. “A Lady and an American”
6. Atop the Central African Volcano
7. Africanizing Anthropology
8. The Culture of Fieldwork
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index