After society: anthropological trajectories out of Oxford

"In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Professionally, the immediate postcolonial period was over and neoliberal reforms were marginalizing the social scie...

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Other Authors: Pina-Cabral, João de 1954- (Editor), Bowman, Glenn ca. 20./21. Jh (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn 2020
Series:Methodology and history in anthropology Volume 39
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Professionally, the immediate postcolonial period was over and neoliberal reforms were marginalizing the social sciences. Analytically, the poststructuralist critique of the notion of 'society' challenged a discipline that dubbed itself as 'social'. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors' anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time"--
Physical Description:viii, 224 pages illustrations 24 cm
ISBN:9781789207682
1789207681

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