Culture, Power, Place
Subtitle: Explorations in Critical Anthropology
Contributors: Akhil Gupta (Editor); James Ferguson (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780822319405
Subjects: Philosophy; Anthropology - General; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology/Ethnography; Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Anthropology; Geographical perception; Methodology
First sentence: For a subject whose central rite of passage is fieldwork, whose romance has rested on its exploration of the remote ("the most other of others"[Hannerz 1986]), whose critical function is seen to lie in its juxtaposition of radically different ways of being (located "elsewhere") with that of the anthropologists' own, usually Western culture, there has been surprisingly little self-consciousness about the issue of space in anthropological theory.