Culture still matters
notes from the field
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2018
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978-90-04-37557-4 (ISBN)
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Culture Still Matters: Notes from the Field is a critical defence of anthropology's contributions to analysis of significant social and cultural issues through ethnographic fieldwork, covering theoretical concepts about culture and their critiques in readable prose.
Varisco’s Culture Still Matters: Notes from the Field is on the relationship between ethnographic fieldwork and the culture concept in the ongoing debate over the future of anthropology, drawing on the history of both concepts. Despite being the major social science that offers a methodology and tools to understand diverse cultures worldwide, scholars within and outside anthropology have attacked this field for all manner of sins, including fostering colonialism and essentializing others. This book revitalizes constructive debate of this vibrant field’s history, methods and contributions, drawing on the author’s ethnographic experience in Yemen. It covers complicated theoretical concepts about culture and their critiques in readable prose, accessible to students and interested social scientists in other fields.
With forewords from Bryan S. Turner and Anouar Majid.
Varisco’s Culture Still Matters: Notes from the Field is on the relationship between ethnographic fieldwork and the culture concept in the ongoing debate over the future of anthropology, drawing on the history of both concepts. Despite being the major social science that offers a methodology and tools to understand diverse cultures worldwide, scholars within and outside anthropology have attacked this field for all manner of sins, including fostering colonialism and essentializing others. This book revitalizes constructive debate of this vibrant field’s history, methods and contributions, drawing on the author’s ethnographic experience in Yemen. It covers complicated theoretical concepts about culture and their critiques in readable prose, accessible to students and interested social scientists in other fields.
With forewords from Bryan S. Turner and Anouar Majid.
Daniel Martin Varisco, Ph.D. (1982), is an anthropologist and historian, currently President of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies. Among his previous books are Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid (2017) and Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation (2005).
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Bryan S. Turner
Foreword: Anouar Majid
Prologue: A Fable (with no apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche)
Introduction
1. Culture is Not a Text
2. On not Reading against Culture
3. On to the Logic of Being There
4. Beyond the End of Anthropology
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 121 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-37557-0 / 9004375570 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-37557-4 / 9789004375574 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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