Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology by Handler, Richard

Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299163945)

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Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology by Handler, Richard

Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology

$29.95
Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology by Handler, Richard

Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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History-making can be used both to bolster and to contest the legitimacy of established institutions and canons. Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions seeks to widen the anthropological past and, in doing so, to invigorate contemporary anthropological practice. In the past decade, anthropologists have become increasingly aware of the ways in which participation in professional anthropology has depended and continues to depend on categorical boundaries of race, class, gender, citizenship, institutional and disciplinary affiliation, and English-language proficiency. Historians of anthropology play a crucial role interrogating such boundaries; as they do, they make newly available the work of anthropologists who have been ignored.
Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions focuses on little-known scholars who contributed to the anthropological work of their time, such as John William Jackson, the members of the Hampton Folk-Lore Society, Charlotte Gower Chapman, and Lucie Varga. In addition, essays on Marius Barbeau and Sol Tax present figures who were centrally located in the anthropologies of their day. A final essay analyzes notions of "the canon" and considers the place of a classic ethnographic area, highland New Guinea, in anthropological canon-formation.

Author: Richard Handler
ISBN-10: 0299163946
ISBN-13: 9780299163945
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2015
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Richard Handler
By Richard Handler
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Richard Handler is a professor of anthropology and director of the Global Development Studies Program at the University of Virginia. His many books include Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society and HOA Volume 11, Central Sites, Peripheral Visions: Cultural and Institutional Crossings in the History of Anthropology, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

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