A Lynn Bolles, Gomberg-Mu &, Bernard C Perley

Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century

A Critical Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

This new collection of anthropological theory updates and diversifies the canon with contributions by important yet underrepresented scholars and theoretical discussions that reflect the state of the discipline today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1179g
• ISBN-13: 9781487508845
• ISBN-10: 1487508840
• Artikelnr.: 62191745

Autorenporträt

A. Lynn Bolles is a professor emerita in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Bernard C. Perley is an associate professor and director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. Keri Vacanti Brondo is a professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Memphis.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: A Contested Canon
SECTION ONE: On Roots of Social Difference
Editors’ Introduction
1. William Apess. 1833. An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man.
2. Frederick Douglass. 1854. The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically
Considered.
3. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. 1872. Bourgeois and Proletarians.
4. Lewis Henry Morgan. 1877. Ethnical Periods.
5. Lucy Parsons. 1905. Afternoon Session, June 29th, Speeches at the
Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World.
6. Max Weber. 1905. Excerpt from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism
SECTION TWO: On Methods of Fieldwork
Editors’ Introduction
1. Edward Sapir. 1912. Language and Environment 1.
2. Arthur Caswell Parker. 1916. The Origin of the Iroquois As Suggested by
their Archaeology.
3. Franz Boas. 1920. Methods of Ethnology.
4. Margaret Mead. 1926. The Methodology of Racial Testing: Its Significance
for Sociology.
5. Zora Neale Hurston. 1935. Excerpt from Mules and Men.
SECTION THREE: On Hidden Logics of Culture
Editors’ Introduction
1. Bronis¿aw Malinowski. 1922. The Essentials of the Kula.
2. Marcel Mauss. 1925. Excerpt from The Gift.
3. Ruth Benedict. 1935. The Science of Custom.
4. Jomo Kenyatta. 1938. Excerpt from Facing Mt. Kenya.
5. Claude Lévi-Strauss. 1951. Language and the Analysis of Social Laws.
SECTION FOUR: On Power, History, and Inequality
Editors’ Introduction
1. W.E.B DuBois. 1935. The White Worker.
2. Fernando Ortiz. 1940. On the Social Phenomenon of "Transculturation" and
Its Importance in Cuba.
3. Eric Wolf. 1982. The World in 1400.
4. Ann L. Stoler. 1989. Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and
Sexual Morality in 20th-Century Colonial Cultures.
5. Paul Farmer. 2004. An Anthropology of Structural Violence.
SECTION FIVE: On Writing Cultures
Editors’ Introduction
1. Katherine Dunham. 1946. Twenty-Seventh Day.
2. Clifford Geertz. 1973. Notes on the Balinese Cockfight.
3. Renato Rosaldo. 1989. Grief and the Headhunters Rage.
4. Lila Abu-Lughod. 1991. Writing Against Culture.
5. Rosabelle Boswell. 2017. Sensuous Stories in the Indian Ocean Islands.
SECTION SIX: On Colonialism and Anthropological "Others"
Editors’ Introduction
1. Beatrice Medicine. 1978. Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining
"Native."
2. Edward W. Said. 1979. Knowing the Oriental. 
3. Esteban Krotz. 1997. Anthropologies of the South: Their Rise, Their
Silencing, Their Characteristics.
4. Rolph-Michel Trouillot. 2003. Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The
Poetics and Politics of Otherness.
5. Epeli Hau’ofa. 2008. Our Sea of Islands.
SECTION SEVEN: On Anthropology and Gender
Editors’ Introduction
1. Eleanor Burke Leacock. 1972. Introduction to The Origin of the Family,
Private Property and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lewis H.
Morgan, by Frederick Engels.
2. Sylvia Junko Yanagisako and Jane Fishburne Collier. 1987. Toward a
Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship.
3. Ifi Amadiume. 1987. Excerpt from Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender
and Sex in an African Society.
4. Gloria Anzaldúa. 1987. La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a new
consciousness.
5. Philippe Bourgois. 1996. In Search of Masculinity: Violence, Respect and
Sexuality among Puerto Rican Crack Dealers in East Harlem.
SECTION EIGHT: On Queering Anthropological Knowledge Production
Editors’ Introduction
1. Michel Foucault. 1976. Excerpt from The History of Sexuality, Vol. I
2. Evan B. Towle and Lynn M. Morgan. 2002. Romancing the Transgender
Native: Rethinking the Use of the "Third Gender" Concept.
3. Susan Stryker. 2008. Transgender History, Homonormativity, and
Disciplinarity.
4. Jafari Allen. 2012. One Way or Another: Erotic Subjectivity in Cuba.
5. Savannah Shange. 2019. Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender,
Generation, and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship.
SECTION NINE: On Social Position and Ethnographic Authority
Editors’ Introduction
1. Donna Haraway. 1988. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in
Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.
2. Delmos Jones. 1995. Anthropology and the Oppressed: A Reflection on
"Native" Anthropology.
3. Dana-Ain Davis. 2003. What Did You Do Today? Notes From a Politically
Engaged Anthropologist.
4. Heike Becker, Emile Boonzaier, and Joy Owen. 2005. Fieldwork in Shared
Spaces: Positionality, Power and Ethics of Citizen Anthropologists in
Southern Africa.
5. Bernard Perley. 2013. "Gone Anthropologist": Epistemic Slippage, Native
Anthropology, and the Dilemmas of Representation.
SECTION TEN: On Theorizing Globalization
Editors’ Introduction
1. Arjun Appadurai. 1986. Theory in Anthropology: Center and Periphery.
2. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson. 1992. Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity,
and the Politics of Difference.
3. Aihwa Ong. 2006. Mutations in Citizenship.
4. Faye Harrison. 2008. Global Apartheid at Home and Abroad.
5. Gustavo Lins Ribeiro. 2009. Non-Hegemonic Globalizations: Alter-Native
Transnational Processes and Agents.
SECTION ELEVEN: On Environment, Pluriverse, and Power
Editors’ Introduction
1. Julian Steward. 1955. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology.
2. Paige West. 2005. Translation, Value, and Space: Theorizing an
Ethnographic and Engaged Environmental Anthropology. 
3. Zöe Todd. 2015. Indigenizing the Anthropocene. 
4. Arturo Escobar. 2018. Excerpt from Designs for a Pluriverse: Radical
Interdependence, Autonomy and the Making of Worlds.
5. Alaka Wali. 2020. Complicity and Resistance in the Indigenous Amazon:
Economía Indígena Under Siege. 
SECTION TWELVE: On State Power
Editors’ Introduction
1. Pierre Bourdieu. 1977. Symbolic Power
2. Begoña Aretxaga. 1998. What the Border Hides: Partition and Gender
Politics of Irish Nationalism
3. Katherine Verdery. 2002. Seeing like a mayor. Or, how local officials
obstructed Romanian land restitution
4. Achille Mbembé. 2003. Necropolitics.
5. Christen Smith. 2013. Strange Fruit: Brazil, Necropolitics, and the
Transnational Resonance of Torture and Death.
SECTION THIRTEEN: On Agency and Social Struggle
Editors’ Introduction
1. Saba Mahmood. 2005. The Subject of Freedom.
2. Shalini Shankar. 2008. Speaking like a Model Minority: "FOB" Styles,
Gender, and Racial Meanings among Desi Teens in Silicon Valley.
3. Victoria Redclift. 2013. Abjects or Agents? Camps, Contests, and the
Creation of "Political Space."
4. Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa. 2015. #Ferguson: Digital Protest,
Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United
States.
5. Audra Simpson. 2016. Consent’s Revenge.
SECTION FOURTEEN: On Critical Theory for the 21st Century
Editors’ Introduction
1. Lynn Bolles. 2001. Seeking the Ancestors: Forging a Black Feminist
Tradition in Anthropology.
2. Leith Mullings. 2005. Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist
Anthropology.
3. Ghassan Hage. 2016. Towards an Ethics of the Theoretical Encounter.
4. Jeff Maskovsky. At Home in the End Times.
5. Kim TallBear. 2019. Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming.
PROVOCATION: Going Native: A Satirical "End" to Anthropology Theory