World anthropologies
Subtitle: disciplinary transformations within systems of power
By: edited by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Arturo Escobar.
Contributors: Ribeiro, Gustavo Lins.; Escobar, Arturo, 1952-
Series: Wenner-Gren international symposium series; Wenner-Gren international series.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781845201913; 9781845201906
Subjects: Anthropology -- Philosophy; Anthropology -- Methodology; Applied anthropology -- Philosophy; Applied anthropology -- Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: World anthropologies : disciplinary transformations within systems of power / Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Arturo Escobar; title: Reshaping anthropology : a view from Japan / Shinji Yamashita; title: Transformations in Siberian anthropology : an insider's perspective / Nikolai Vakhtin; title: In search of anthropology in China : a discipline caught in a web of nation building, socialist capitalism, and globalization / Josephine Smart; title: Mexican anthropology's ongoing search for identity / Esteban Krotz; title: How many centers and peripheries in anthropology? : a critical view of France / Eduardo P. Archetti; title: The production of knowledge and the production of hegemony : anthropological theory and political struggles in Spain / Susana Narotzky; title: Anthropology in a postcolonial Africa : the survival debate / Paul Nchoji Nkwi; title: Generating nontrivial knowledge in awkward situations : anthropology in the United Kingdom / Eeva Berglund; title: The production of other knowledges and its tensions : from Andeanist anthropology to interculturalidad? / Marisol de la Cadena; title: A time and place beyond and of the center : Australian anthropologies in the process of becoming / Sandy Toussaint; title: Official hegemony and contesting pluralisms / Shiv Visvanathan; title: The pictographics of tristesse : an anthropology of nation building in the tropics and its aftermath / Otavio Velho; title: "World anthropologies" : questions / Johannes Fabian.