Critical anthropology
Subtitle: foundational works
By: Stephen Nugent, editor
Publisher: Left Coast Press; Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781611321784
Subjects: Anthropology; Fieldwork; Research; Methodology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CONTENTS; title: Introduction; title: I. Marxism in the American anthropological tradition; title: 1. On defining the Marxist tradition in anthropology: a response to the American Anthropologist, Stanley Diamond, Bob Scholte and Eric R. Wolf (1975) 2. The worst of architects is better than the best of bees: a debate between Eric Wolf and Maurice Godelier, As rendered by Jojada Verrips (1985); title: II. The debate about the articulation of modes of production; title: 2. Production and reproduction: a critique of Meillassoux's Femmes, Greniers et Capitaux, Bridget O'Laughlin (1977); title: III. Dependency theory, World Systems Theory and Pre-history; title: 3. Transitional Ideological Modes: Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism, Andre Gunder Frank 4. World System versus World Systems (a response to Frank), Immanuel Wallerstein (1991); title: V. The development of peasantries under capitalism; title: 6. Indonesia After the Demise of Involution: Critique of a debate, Joel Kahn (1985) 7. Something About Peasants, History and Capitalism, William Roseberry (1985); title: VI. The crisis of representation and Writing Culture; title: 8. The Literary Turn in Contemporary Anthropology, Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Bob Scholte (1987) 9. Still Rayting (response to Scholte), Stephen Tyler (1987); title: VII. Working over history: cultural idealism and materialism; title: 11. No History Is an Island, Jonathan Friedman (1988) 12. Deserted Islands of History, Marshall Sahlins (1988); title: VIII. Fighting over commodities and history; title: 13. History as Commodity: In Some Recent American (Anthropological) Literature, Michael Taussig (1989) 14. Reply to Michael Taussig, Sidney Mintz and Eric R. Wolf (1989) .