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Anthropology as cultural critique : an experimental moment in the human sciences

Using cultural anthropology to analyse debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, this text looks at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, future direction, and its insights for other fields of study
Print Book, English, 1999
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999
xxxiv, 194 pages ; 23 cm
9780226504506, 0226504506
40632374
A crisis of representation in the human sciences
Ethnography and interpretive anthropology
Conveying other cultural experience: the person, self, and emotions
Taking account of world historical political economy: knowable communities in larger systems
The repatriation of anthropology as cultural critique
Two contemporary techniques of cultural critique in anthropology