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Passage To Anthropology Between Experience & Theory
Hardback Edition: 1/1995
The postmodernist critique of objectivism, realism and essentialism has somewhat shattered the foundations of anthropology, seriously questioning the legitimacy of studying others. By confronting the critique and turning it into a vital part of the anthropological debate, this study provides a discussion of central theoretical
problems in anthropology. It makes the case for a renewed and invigorated scholarly anthropology with reference to recent anthropological debates in Europe and the US, as well as to new developments in linguistic theory and, especially, newer American philosophy. Through discussions of the relationship between language and the world, of "the empirical", of the nature of the anthropological imagination, of the point of raising cultural and theoretical awareness, this study argues that far from invalidating the scholarly, even scientific, ambition of anthropology, the recent insights into subjectivity, reflexivity and the writing of culture give the discipline a new life and a new pertinence in the world.
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