Contrarian Anthropology
Subtitle: The Unwritten Rules of Academia
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated; Berghahn Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781785337086
Subjects: Anthropology
Description: Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist's work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking and to stimulate boundary-crossing in others.