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Anthropological Conversations
Talking Culture across Disciplines
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2014
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Cultural anthropologists can be an intellectually adventurous crowd: open—even eager—to building bridges across disciplines in the name of understanding human behavior and the human experience more broadly. In this first-of-its-kind book, Caroline Brettell explores the cross-disciplinary conversations that have engaged cultural anthropologists both past and present.
Brettell highlights a handful of conversations between the discipline of anthropology on the one hand and history, geography, literature, biology, psychology and demography on the other. She also pinpoints how these exchanges address three enduring issues of anthropological concern: the temporal and the spatial dimensions of human experience; the scientific and the humanistic dimensions of the anthropological enterprise; and the individual and the group/population as units of analysis in research. Anthropological Conversations offers detailed accounts of particular ethnographic methodologies and findings (and the theoretical trends informing them) as a means of grasping the big-picture issues. Brettell clearly shows that, by engaging with other fields, cultural anthropologists have been able to think more deeply about what they mean by culture; through this book, she invites readers to continue the conversation.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-2382-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-2383-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
226
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Fieldwork in the Archives: Tackling the Methodology of History No access
The Presence of the Past:Anthropological History No access
The Presence of the Past: The Anthropologyof History No access
Conclusion: The Presence of the Past: An Engaged Historical Anthropology No access
Anthropology and Geography:Early Conversations No access
The Anthropology of Space and Place No access
Gendered Space and Feminist Geography No access
The New Anthropology of Landscape andthe Environment No access
Conclusion: From the Etics of Region to the Emics of Space and Place No access
Ethnography as Genre: Experimenting with Forms of Writing No access
The Literary Observer: Novelists with an Anthropological Eye No access
Conclusion: The Craft ofWriting Anthropology No access
Biology and Culture in the Twentieth Century: From Boas to Sociobiology to Bioculturalism No access
New Directions in the Integration of Biology and Culture No access
Conclusion No access
Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and Neo-Freudianism: Seeds of Interaction, Seeds of Cross-Disciplinarity No access
Stress, Trauma, and Meaning-Centered Psychology Anthropology No access
Conclusion: A Cross-Cultural Psychology No access
Bridging the Divide: Methods, Concepts, and Epistemology No access
The Problems Explored byAnthropological Demographers No access
Conclusion: Toward Convergence andCross-Disciplinarity? No access
