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Anthropology through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe

By Michael Herzfeld

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
0521389089, 9780521389082
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8441452 bytes)
Pages
276\273
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Using Greek ethnography as a mirror for an ethnography of anthropology itself, this book reveals the ways in which the discipline of anthropology is ensnared in the same political and social symbolism as its object of study. The author pushes the comparative goals of anthropology beyond the traditional separation of tribal object from detached scientific observer, and offers the discipline a critical source of reflexive insight based on empirical ethnography rather than on ideological speculation alone.

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