Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences (Paperback)

by George E. Marcus (Author), Michael M. J. Fischer (Author) "The present is a time of reassessment of dominant ideas across the human sciences (a designation broader than and inclusive of the conventional social sciences),..." (more)
Key Phrases: ethnographic research process, other cultural experience, experimental ethnographies, United States, Frankfurt School, Clifford Geertz (more...)

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Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study. The result is a provocative work that is important for scholars interested in a critical approach to social science, art, literature, and history, as well as anthropology. This second edition considers new challenges to the field which have arisen since the book's original publication.

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Product Details Paperback: 228 pages Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (May 1, 1999) Language: English ISBN-10: 0226504506 ISBN-13: 978-0226504506 Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #159,323 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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ethnographic research process, other cultural experience, experimental ethnographies, ethnographic subjects, historical political economy, interpretive anthropology, ethnographic writing, epistemological critique, experimental ethnography

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United States, Frankfurt School, Clifford Geertz, World War, Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, New Guinea, Victor Turner, Marcel Mauss, Raymond Williams, Repatriation of Anthropology, Coming of Age, Conveying Other Cultural Experience, June Nash, Talcott Parsons, The Nuer, Walter Benjamin, World Historical Political Economy, Critical Legal Studies, Eric Wolf, Vincent Crapanzano's Tuhami

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• Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Perennial Classics) by Margaret Mead on 4 pages
• Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers by Mary Douglas on page 111, page 146, and Back Matter
• The Conquest of America by Tzvetan Todorov on page 98, and page 105
• Learning to Labour by Paul E. Willis on page 81, and page 132
• America Now by Marvin harris on page 111, and Back Matter

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• Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice by Michael Fischer in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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• Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany by John P. Hawkins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
• Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict and Culture by Susan Gillman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (May 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226504506
• ISBN-13: 978-0226504506
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #159,323 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Toward Critical/Alternative Forms of Ethnography, September 8, 2001

By	Michael Spivey, Ph.D. (Kean a horror movie fan from Wagram ,NC) - See all my reviews

This classic work by Marcus and Fischer is still important to an understanding of changing global and local conditions in postmodernity and how we, as ethnographers, might proceed. This text was very helpful in the researching and writing of my ethnography (now a book: Native Americans in the Carolina Borderlands: A Critical Ethnography, Carolinas Press, 2000). I needed help in conceptualizing hybrid cultural forms and found it in Marcus's and Fisher's text. I also found the text useful for helping me think through the popular cultural critique that needed to be articulated from the everyday discourses of my participants. If you are interested in critical ethnography, this is a must read. Anthropologists, Sociologists, and folks in Cultural Studies and Communications will want to have this text in their reference libraries.