1st Edition
A Passage to Anthropology Between Experience and Theory
By Kirsten Hastrup
Copyright 1995
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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The postmodernist critique of Objectivism, Realism and Essentialism has somewhat shattered the foundations of anthropology, seriously questioning the legitimacy of studying others. By confronting the critique and turning it into a vital part of the anthropological debate, A Passage to Anthropology provides a rigorous discussion of central theoretical problems in anthropology that will find a... Read more
Prologue; Part 1 The Ethnographic Present; Part 2 The Language Paradox; Part 3 The Empirical Foundation; Part 4 The Anthropological Imagination; Part 5 The Motivated Body; Part 6 The Inarticulate Mind; Part 7 The Symbolic Violence; Part 8 The Native Voice; Part 9 The Realist Quest; Part 10 Epilogue;
Biography
Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
'Hastrup's book is fascinating a highly interesting account of the state of anthropological theorizing after the post-modernist attack on the empirical foundations of the subject.' - Michael Bollig, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 124(1999)
