1st Edition
Anthropological Controversies The “Crimes” and Misdemeanors that Shaped a Discipline
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore the origins, ethics, key moments, and people in the history of anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity in "human zoos", Malinowski’s diaries, and the Human Terrain System to explore how anthropological controversies act as a driving force for change, how they offer a window into the history of and... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Human zoos and social Darwinism
3. Malinowski and his diaries
4. Whose side are you on? Colonial & military complicity
5. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
6. Mead versus Freeman
7. Napoleon Chagnon & the ‘fierce’ controversy
8. Carlos Castaneda & Fakery
9. Rebekah Nathan & Covert ethnography
10. Alice Goffman
11. Conclusion
Biography
Gavin Weston is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Natalie Djohari is a Research Associate in the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK.
