1st Edition
Counterworks Managing the Diversity of Knowledge
Edited By Richard Fardon
Copyright 1996
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks , ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research. They challenge the validity of anthropological concepts of culture in the light of the pervasive... Read more
Preface, Richard Fardon; Chapter 1 Introduction, Richard Fardon; Chapter 2 Self and other in contemporary anthropology, Anne Salmond; Chapter 3 As I lay laughing, Mark Hobart; Chapter 4 Against syncretism, Stephan Palmié; Chapter 5 Knowing the past, Olivia Harris; Chapter 6 It takes one to know one, Michael Herzfeld; Chapter 7 Latticed knowledge, David Parkin; Chapter 8 Whose knowledge and whose power?, Signe Howell; Chapter 9 From cosmology to environmentalism, Piers Vitebsky; Chapter 10 The production of locality, Arjun Appadurai;
Biography
Richard Fardon is Reader in West African Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Chairman of the Centre of African Studies, University of London.
