Search Results for Anthropology

..., of the enterprise of anthropology. Here, our orientation turns toward the “discipline” or project Marlon Riggs called “anthropology . . . the unending search for what is utterly precious.” Black gay lesbian Long 1980s intellectual history ...

... During the postwar 1940s and the 1950s American anthropology was transformed by new funding opportunities, and professional associations like the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Society for Applied Anthropology repositioned themselves to meet new governmental and foundational...

... This chapter of book explores the advantage that particular forms of anthropology have for comparative analysis and seeks to ground the study of the fragment theoretically. Anthropology is the only social science that reflects on Western ethnocentrism and takes the problem of translation...

... This chapter historically situates the writing culture moment in the 1980s, comparing it to developments in other anthropological subdisciplines at that time. It argues that twenty-five years later practitioners within different subfields tell very different histories of anthropology; a moment...

...Against the Grain<subtitle>Medical Anthropology in the Anthropocene</subtitle> ...