Anthropology: A Student's Guide to Theory and Method - Softcover

Barrett, Stanley R.

 
9780802078339: Anthropology: A Student's Guide to Theory and Method
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802078338 ISBN 13: 9780802078339
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This is the first book to provide an overview of theory and method in anthropology which is specifically aimed at students. Starting with anthropology's foundations in the late nineteenth century, Stanley R. Barrett brings the reader up to date on such topics as the influence of postmodern and feminist criticism, changes in ethnographic style, and the shift from scientific to humanistic discourse. He discusses the power relationships between anthropologists and their subjects, from the era of colonialism through that of contemporary cultural pluralism. Barrett shows that, in recent decades, a serious gap has emerged between theory and method - a gap that will ultimately have to be addressed by today's students.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stanley R. Barrett is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph. He is the author of Is God a Racist? and The Rebirth of Anthropological Theory.

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'Barrett's book weaves ably through the uncertainty of its own time, positing that conventional ethnography may outlast the assault from postmodernism and feminist anthropology, much of which Barrett sees as 'meta-theory and meta-method'(p.180). In the meantime this book provides tangible assistance in guiding approaches to field research, namely by avoiding an overly scientistic methodology while asserting that there is 'more going on in the discipline than postmodernism and feminist anthropology' (p. 177).'

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'Barrett's book weaves ably through the uncertainty of its own time, positing that conventional ethnography may outlast the assault from postmodernism and feminist anthropology, much of which Barrett sees as 'meta-theory and meta-method'(p.180). In the meantime this book provides tangible assistance in guiding approaches to field research, namely by avoiding an overly scientistic methodology while asserting that there is 'more going on in the discipline than postmodernism and feminist anthropology' (p. 177).'

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802078338
ISBN 13 
9780802078339
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
270
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