Central Sites, Peripheral Visions
Cultural and Institutional Crossings in the History of Anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19977154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Handler |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Central Sites, Peripheral Visions (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| OpenAlex | W635599408 |
| Open Library | OL10317282M |
| ISBN | 9780299219208 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Central Sites, Peripheral Visions presents five case studies that explore the dilemmas, moral as well as political, that emerge out of anthropology's unique position as both central and peripheral. From David Koester's analysis of how ethnographic descriptions of Iceland marginalized that country's population, to Kath Weston's account of an offshore penal colony where officials mixed prison work with ethnographic pursuits, from Brad Evans' reflections on the bohemianism of both the Harlem vogue and American anthropology, to Arthur J. Ray's study of anthropologists who serve as expert witnesses in legal cases, the essays in the eleventh volume of the History of Anthropology series reflect on anthropology's always problematic status as centrally peripheral, or peripherally central. Finally, George W. Stocking, Jr., in contribution that is almost book in its own right, traces the professional trajectory of American anthropologist, Robert Gelston Armstrong, who was unceremoniously expelled from his position at the University of Chicago because of his communist sympathies in the 1950s. By taking up Armstrong's unfinished business decades later, Stocking engages in an extended meditation on the relationship between center and periphery and offers a kind of posthumous reparation, page in the history of the discipline for distant colleague who might otherwise have remained in the footnotes
Cultural anthropology · Ethnography · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociocultural anthropology · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Anthropology - General · Archaeology · Philosophy · Social Science
To wake the nations
They Called It Prairie Light
The Harlem renaissance in black and white
A Sense of Things
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Race, culture, and evolution
Europe and the people without history
The Wages of Whiteness
Cultural Capital
The History of Anthropology
Adieu, Culture
Anthropological Locations
White Love and Other Events in Filipino History
Patterns for America
The Volkerpsychologie of Lazarus and Steinthal and the Modern Concept of Culture
Whiteness of a Different Color
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |