Post-modernism and anthropology
Subtitle: theory and practice
By: edited by Karin Geuijen, Diederick Raven, Jan de Wolf.
Contributors: Geuijen, Karin.; Raven, Diederick.; Wolf, Jan de.
Publisher: Van Gorcum
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Assen, Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Anthropology -- Methodology -- Congresses.; Anthropology -- Philosophy -- Congresses.; Postmodernism -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-217) and index.
Rev. versions of key papers presented at an international workshop entitled Postmodern Anthropology: Consequences for Empirical Research, held at Utrecht, the Netherlands, from 18 to 20 December 1991.
Table of contents: title: Notes on ideologies of reflexivity in contemporary efforts to remake the human sciences -- George Marcus; title: Historism and post-modernism -- Frank Ankersmit; title: ZIDJI, Junod's South African novel -- Jan de Wolf; title: The middle voice -- Stephen Tyler; title: Met of zonder? -- Richard Price; title: Post-modernism and ethnographic fieldwork -- Robert Pool; title: The complexity of the present -- Kirsten Hastrup; title: Who's afraid of post-, modern, and ism? -- Antonius Robben; title: On translating the world colour survey -- Barbara Saunders and Jaap van Brakel; title: The paradox of post-modern ethnocentrism -- Diederick Raven.