Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines
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Book Overview
Since its founding in the nineteenth century, social anthropology has been seen as the study of exotic peoples in faraway places. But today more and more anthropologists are dedicating themselves not just to observing but to understanding and helping solve social problems wherever they occur--in international aid organizations, British TV studios, American hospitals, or racist enclaves in Eastern Europe, for example. In Exotic No More,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226500136
ISBN13:9780226500133
Release Date:July 2002
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:464 Pages
Weight:1.74 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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Mao rules
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This is an excellent reader. Superb. Extremely funny essays from "publish or perish" series. As a student, I wasn't "frustrated by the lack of references, footnotes, and endnotes" at all. But, still, for a Stalinist/Maoist anthropology professor it may look so. (Talking about representation - who represents whom). I have no intentions, of course, of refuting Stalinist ravings. It is just as meaningless as these ridiculous "front lines" stories.
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