{"product_id":"africanizing-anthropology-lyn-schumaker-9780822326731","title":"Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa","description":"\u003ci\u003eAfricanizing Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the anthropological fieldwork centered at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, Lyn Schumaker gives the assistants and informants of anthropologists a central role in the making of anthropological knowledge.\u003cbr\u003eSchumaker shows how local conditions and local ideas about culture and history, as well as previous experience of outsiders' interest, shape local people's responses to anthropological fieldwork and help them, in turn, to influence the construction of knowledge about their societies and lives. Bringing to the fore a wide range of actors-missionaries, administrators, settlers, the families of anthropologists-Schumaker emphasizes the daily practices of researchers, demonstrating how these are as centrally implicated in the making of anthropological knowlege as the discipline's methods. Selecting a prominent group of anthropologists-The Manchester School-she reveals how they achieved the advances in theory and method that made them famous in the 1950s and 1960s.\u003cbr\u003eThis book makes important contributions to anthropology, African history, and the history of science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyn Schumaker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822326736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822326731\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.24w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 1283","brand":"Lyn Schumaker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44128568541439,"sku":"9780822326731","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_732deadb-7be2-471c-9951-7a4b3f087d9f.jpg?v=1687459328","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/africanizing-anthropology-lyn-schumaker-9780822326731","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}