Purity and Power

Anthropology From Colonialism to the Global Hierarchy of Value

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5811036
AutoresM Herzfeld (0000-0002-8080-2542, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen39
Número4
Páginas288-312
Fecha de publicación2010-11-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReviews in Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0093-8157 • E-ISSN: 1556-3014
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00938157.2010.524868
OpenAlexW1988104759
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas43

These four books focalize the links between sociocultural anthropology and the national or cultural identities of its theoreticians and empirical practitioners. Historically caught between the forces of nationalism and colonialism, the subdiscipline has largely transcended its now rejected past, of which significant traces nonetheless remain embedded in its conceptual inheritance. Ranging from vernacular as well as English-language Indian writings to the compromised achievements of German scholars and to the sharp divergences within and among the dominant traditions, the material of these books indexes the emergence of a self-conscious marginality that has engendered a distinctive and productive idiom of sociocultural critique

Archaeology · Colonialism · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Vernacular · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies