190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Future of Anthropological Knowledge the chapters explore the question of the nature of social knowledge from a variety of perspectives and locations such as China, Africa, the USA and elsewhere. By examining the changing nature of anthropological knowledge and of the production of that knowledge, this book challenges the notion that only western societies have produced social theories of... Read more
1 The Changing Nature of Anthropological Knowledge: An Introduction, Henrietta Moore 2 Interpreting Electron Micrographs, Emily Martin 3 Globalization and Localization: New Challenges to Rural Research 4 Anthropology, China, and the Modernities: The Geopolitics of Cultural Knowledge, Aihwa Ong 5 Traceling Theory, Anthropology, and the Discourse of Modernity in China, Mayfair Yang 6 Anthropology without Tears: How a `Local' Sees the `Local' and the `Global', Wazir Jahan Karim 7 Chimpanzees, Diamonds and war: Debating Local-Global Interaction on the Liberia-Sierra Leone Border, Paul Richards Afterwards, Peter Harries-Jones
Biography
Henrietta L.Moore is Reader in Social Anthropology and Director of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
