Central Sites, Peripheral Visions by Richard Handler

Central Sites, Peripheral Visions by Richard Handler

Central Sites, Peripheral Visions presents five case studies that explore the dilemmas, moral as well as political, that emerge out of anthropology's unique position as both central and peripheral. From David Koester's analysis of how ethnographic descriptions of Iceland marginalized that country's population, to Kath Weston's account of an offshore penal colony where officials mixed prison work with ethnographic pursuits, from Brad Evans' reflections on the ""bohemianism"" of both the Harlem vogue and American anthropology, to Arthur J. Ray's study of anthropologists who serve as expert witnesses in legal cases, the essays in the eleventh volume of the ""History of Anthropology"" series reflect on anthropology's always problematic status as centrally peripheral, or peripherally central. Finally, George W. Stocking, Jr., in a contribution that is almost a book in its own right, traces the professional trajectory of American anthropologist, Robert Gelston Armstrong, who was unceremoniously expelled from his position at the University of Chicago because of his communist sympathies in the 1950s. By taking up Armstrong's unfinished business decades later, Stocking engages in an extended meditation on the relationship between center and periphery and offers ""a kind of posthumous reparation,"" a page in the history of the discipline for a distant colleague who might otherwise have remained in the footnotes.

Four substantive, edgy essays are matched with George Stocking's tour de force depiction of an 'ordinary' midcentury anthropologist persecuted as a Communist by the FBIThe multiple avenues of exploration opened in this work will be traveled for some time to come. - Michael Lambek, University of Toronto

Richard Handler is professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is author of Critics Against Culture and Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec, and coauthor of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture and The New History in an Old Museum.

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ISBN 13	9780299219208
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Titel	Central Sites, Peripheral Visions
Autor	Richard Handler
Serie	History Of Anthropology
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-10-30
Seitenanzahl	448
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