American anthropology, 1971-1995 : papers from the American anthropologist

American anthropology, 1971-1995 : papers from the American anthropologist / edited and with an introduction by Regna Darnell.

American anthropology in the late twentieth century interrogated and depicted the worlds of others, past and present, in subtle and incisive ways while increasingly questioning its own authority to do so. Marxist, symbolic, and structuralist thought shaped the fieldwork and conclusions of many resea...

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Other Authors: Darnell, Regna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Arlington, VA : Lincoln : American Anthropological Association ; University of Nebraska Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Anthropology.
anthropology.
Anthropology
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Editor's Introduction
  • Ritual, Sanctity, and Cybernetics
  • Brazilian Racial Terms: Some Aspects of Meaning and Learning
  • The Potlatch: A Structural Analysis
  • Prejudice and Its Intellectual Effect in American Anthropology: An Ethnographic Report
  • On Key Symbols
  • Sheep in Navajo Culture and Social Organization
  • Verbal Art as Performance
  • World Picture, Anthropological Frame
  • The Anthropologist as Expert Witness
  • Whatever Happened to the Id?
  • Linguistic Knowledge and Cultural Knowledge: Some Doubts and Speculations
  • Tibetan Fraternal Polyandry: A Test of Sociobiological Theory
  • The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable for the Archeology of the 1980s
  • Types Distinct from Our Own: Franz Boas on Jewish Identity and Assimilation
  • Other Times, Other Customs: The Anthropology of History
  • Anti Anti-Relativism
  • Hominoid Evolution and Hominoid Origins
  • Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy
  • A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture
  • Knowledge, Power, and the Individual in Subarctic Hunting Societies
  • Theories of Social Honor
  • Kalapalo Biography: Psychology and Language in a South American Oral History
  • The Making of the Maori: Culture Invention and Its Logic
  • Facing PowerOld Insights, New Questions
  • Evolution of the Human Capacity for Beliefs
  • Art, Science, or Politics? The Crisis in Hunter-Gatherer Studies
  • Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality
  • Our Ancestors the Gauls'': Archaeology, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Manipulation of Celtic Identity in Modern Europe
  • How Native Is a Native'' Anthropologist?

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