The Problem of Anthropology in Historical Perspective
An Inquiry into the Growth of the Social Sciences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2139384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Archie Mafeje (The Hague, Netherlands., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 307-333 |
| Publication date | 1976-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00083968.1976.10803758 |
| OpenAlex | W2403194356 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
In times of crisis there is an inevitable return to fundamentals. Questions such as the relation of knowledge to the world of experience are revived, often in a disharmonious way. That such a state of affairs obtains in anthropology can only be judged by the frequence which divergent views concerning the status of their discipline have occurred among modern anthropologists. Starting with isolated individual and intuitive insights and misgivings in the mid-sixties, the process gathered momentum and had reached near-rebellious proportions by the end of the sixties. Whereas earlier writers such as Hooker, Maquet, and Levi-Strauss I represented a critical liberal reevaluation within traditional anthropology, the later and younger writers such as Gough (generational difference notwithstanding), Goddard, Magubane, Moore, Faris, Stauder, Banaji and Talal Asad represent a leftist denunciation of colonial (not to say positivist) anthropology.2 While historical instances have largely coincided, the theoretical nuances of the same movement have varied from country to country. In America the rebellion has tended to be more ideological than theoretical.3 In Britain, despite a sharper generational gap than in America, the ideological aspect has been played down in favour of what is called academic discussion. In practice this has led
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Dar es Salaam on the Frontline
The Concept of Ethnography in Mafeje
American Political Science and Tropical Africa Universalism vs. Relativism
On Decolonizing Anthropology
African History
L'Itinéraire d'un débat
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Rediscovering Archie Mafeje and How South Africa is Coming to Terms with its Ignored Intellectual Icon
Against Alterity – The Pursuit of Endogeneity
Bernard Magubane’s critique of anthropology in southern Africa
Kathleen Gough (1925-1990)
South African Social Science and the Azanian Philosophical Tradition
The Humanities to Come
Archie Mafeje and the Pursuit of Endogeny
Las antropologías hegemónicas y las antropologías del sur
The rhetoric of science and the critique of imperialism in British social anthropology, c. 1870–1940
The Scholar and the State
Making local knowledge
Chinua Achebe's postcolony
What happened to the theory of African capitalism
Understanding rural Zambia today
Hopeless Entanglement
The state of anthropology in the Sudan
Chthonic science
African Gnosis Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge
African Ideology and Belief
African Historical Studies Academic Knowledge as 'Usable Past' and Radical Scholarship
Decolonizing the Humanities in Africa
Great Was the Company of the Preachers
African Vernacular Archives of Senior Women as Foundation Stones of Global Critical Sociology
Education, Religion, and Anthropology in Africa
Privileged observers and colonial continuities
What is anthropology that decolonising scholarship should be mindful of it
African Studies Keyword
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2025 (45) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |