Africa - African Peoples - West, Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous, Epistemology (Theory of Knowledge), Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Ethnology
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Overview
Michael Jackson explores our shifting sense of ourselves as subjects and as objects without arresting either mode of experience in order to make it foundational to a theory of knowledge."a magisterial and compelling work that should not only be significant to professionals but draw students experentially into the content of other cultures."--Ivan Karp
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edition (unseen), $12.95. traditions, bringing into being new modes of understanding. Paper Anthropology, and particularly ethnography, is torn between two quests, one to capture the diversity of social life and the other to discover universal principles structuring that diversity. Jackson examines these quests within the context of ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on the relationship between ethnographers and the people they study. He is concerned with defining the anthropological project as something more than the projection of the anthropologist's traditions and concerns onto an alien culture. Rather, he would have the project open a genuine dialogue between people from different cultures or Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
October 1, 1989
Publisher
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1989.
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780253205346