Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach

473 Pages·2022·6.834 MB·English

by  A. Lynn Bolles, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Bernard C. Perley, Keri Vacanti Brondo

ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL
THEORY
FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
A CRITICAL APPROACH
Edited by A. Lynn Bolles, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz,
Bernard C. Perley, and Keri Vacanti Brondo
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Contents
Timeline xv
Introduction: A Contested Canon 1
Section One: On Roots of Social Difference 5
1.1 An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man 10
william apess
1.2 The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered 14
frederick douglass
1.3 Bourgeois and Proletarians 18
karl marx and friedrich engels
1.4 Ethnical Periods 23
lewis henry morgan
1.5 Afternoon Session, June 29: Speeches at the Founding Convention of the Industrial
Workers of the World 28
lucy e. parsons
1.6 Excerpt from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 32
max weber
Section One Glossary 36
Contents
Section Two: On Methods of Fieldwork 37
2.1 Language and Environment 40
edward sapir
2.2 The Origin of the Iroquois as Suggested by Their Archeology 44
arthur c. parker
2.3 The Methods of Ethnology 48
franz boas
2.4 The Methodology of Racial Testing: Its Significance for Sociology 52
margaret mead
2.5 Excerpt from Mules and Men 56
zora neale hurston
Section Two Glossary 60
Section Three: On Hidden Logics of Culture 61
3.1 The Essentials of the Kula 64
bronislaw malinowski
3.2 Excerpt from The Gift 68
marcel mauss
3.3 The Science of Custom 72
ruth benedict
3.4 Excerpt from Facing Mt. Kenya 76
jomo kenyatta
3.5 Language and the Analysis of Social Laws 80
claude lévi-strauss
Section Three Glossary 85
Section Four: On History, Power, and Inequality 87
4.1 The White Worker 90
w.e.b. du bois
4.2 On the Social Phenomenon of “Transculturation” and Its Importance in Cuba 94
fernando ortiz
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Contents
4.3 The World in 1400 97
eric wolf
4.4 Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-
Century Colonial Cultures 101
ann l. stoler
4.5 An Anthropology of Structural Violence 107
paul farmer
Section Four Glossary 112
Section Five: On Writing Cultures 113
5.1 Twenty-Seventh Day: Journey to Accompong 117
katherine dunham
5.2 Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 121
clifford geertz
5.3 Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage 127
renato rosaldo
5.4 Writing against Culture 133
lila abu-lughod
5.5 Sensuous Stories in the Indian Ocean Islands 139
rosabelle boswell
Section Five Glossary 145
Section Six: On Colonialism and Anthropological “Others” 147
6.1 Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining “Native” 150
beatrice medicine
6.2 Knowing the Oriental 155
edward w. said
6.3 Anthropologies of the South: Their Rise, Their Silencing, Their Characteristics 159
esteban krotz
6.4 Anthropology and the Savage Slot: Poetics and Politics of Otherness 164
michel-rolph trouillot
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