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Decolonisation, modernisation, globalisation, the crisis of representation, and the 'cultural turn' in neighbouring disciplines have unsettled anthropology to such an extent that the field's foundations, the subjects of its study as well as its methods and concepts, appear to be eroded. It is now time to take stock and either abandon anthropology as a fundamentally untenable or superfluous project, or to set it on more solid foundations. In this volume some of the world's leading anthropologists - including Vincent Crapanzano, Maurice Godelier, Ulf Hannerz and Adam Kuper - do just that. Reflecting on how to meet the manifold institutional, theoretical, methodological, and epistemological challenges to the field, as well as on the continued, if not heightened, importance of anthropology in a world where diversity and cultural difference are becoming ever more important economically, politically, and legally, they set upon the task of reconstructing anthropology's foundations and firming up its stance vis-à-vis these challenges. 'With a backward glance at earlier predictions of the demise of anthropology, the essays present a confident account of the future of the discipline. Defining in clear terms what it is that anthropologists do, a well-chosen group of distinguished contributors confront the diversity and internal distinctions that characterize the field, weigh the seriousness of the trend toward interdisciplinary studies in the human sciences, and redefine the strengths of the anthropological mode of knowledge production'. (Shirley Lindenbaum, Professor Emerita, City University of New York)
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Holger Jebens (Editor) is Senior Research Fellow at the Frobenius Institute and Managing Editor of Paideuma. His fieldwork research has focused on Highland and Seaboard Papua New Guinea. Karl-Heinz Kohl (Editor)holds the chair of Cultural Anthropology at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main and is Director of the Frobenius Institute. He has done field-research in East Indonesia, Nigeria and New Guinea. Contributors - John Comaroff is the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Vincent Crapanzano is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature at City University of New York. Andre Gingrich is Full Professor for Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna, and directs the Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA). Maurice Godelier is Professor of Social Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, Ulf Hannerz is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Signe Howell is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Adam Jonathan Kuper is Professor of Social Anthropology and head of the Anthropology Department at Brunel University, United Kingdom. Patricia Spyer holds the chair of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Contemporary Indonesia at Leiden University and is Global Distinguished Visiting Professor at New York University's Center for Religion & Media and the Department of Anthropology.
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