392 Pages
by
Routledge
392 Pages
by
Routledge
392 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements with fresh readings of major figures and approaches, the work develops a larger vantage point for... Read more
Aperture; 1: Stories, histories, and theories; 2: Critically humanist sensibilities; 3: Pushing anthropology past the posts; 4: Practices; 5: Moments of knowledge and power; 6: Gramsci and bakhtin; 7: Gender, ethnography, and critical query; 8: Multicultural speaking; 9: Conclusions and criticisms
Biography
Bruce Knauft is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University and co-editor of the Melanesian Studies Series for the University of California Press. He is the author of two books: Good Company and Violence (1985), and South Coast New Guinea Cultures (1993).
