Michael Kearney

Changing Fields of Anthropology (eBook, PDF)

From Local to Global

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The title phrase 'changing fields' can be read in two ways: One meaning refers to how, since the mid-1960s, the larger national and global social, intellectual, and political fields within which American anthropology is situated have profoundly changed. The second meaning refers to how, in response to these changing fields, the author, like many other anthropologists, changed the locations of his fieldwork along with his research problems and theoretical perspectives. The book engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is destined to confront (or at its peril, avoid): becoming more self-reflexive, achieving theoretical and methodological holism, and defense of universal human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216320814
• Artikelnr.: 75640570

Autorenporträt

Michael Kearney is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part I: Fieldwork in the Classic Mode
Chapter 2 The Concept ofAire andSusto: Symbolic Representations of
Perceived Social and Geographic Environment
Chapter 3 A Very Bad Disease of the Arms
Chapter 4 Drunkenness and Religious Conversion in a Mexican Village
Chapter 5 La Trucha: A Short Story
Part 6 Part II: Transitional Fieldwork in the Border Area
Chapter 7 From the Invisible Hand to the Visible Feet: Anthropological
Studies of Migration and Development
Chapter 8 Our Misunderstood Terrorists
Chapter 9 Spiritualist Healing in Mexico
Chapter 10 Oral Performance by Mexican Spiritualists in Possession Trance
Chapter 11 Integration of the Mixteca and the Western U.S.-Mexico Border
Region via Migratory Wage Labor
Part 12 Part III: Transnational and Practical Anthropology
Chapter 13 The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and
Transnationalism
Chapter 14 Mixtec Political Consciousness: From Passive to Active
Resistance
Chapter 15 Borders and Boundaries of the State and Self at the End of
Empire
Chapter 16 Mixtec Ethnicity: Social Identity, Political Consciousness, and
Political Activism
Chapter 17 Class and Identity: The Jujitsu of Domination and Resistance in
Oaxacalifornia
Chapter 18 The Race to Deterritorialize in the Game of Value