Provocations of European Ethnology

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ID7565359
AuthorsTalal Asad (Johns Hopkins University), James W Fernandez (University of Chicago), M Herzfeld (0000-0002-8080-2542, Harvard University), Andrew La, Andrew Lass (Mount Holyoke College), Susan Carol Rogers (New York University), Jane Schneider (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Katherine Verdery (0000-0002-1254-852X, University of Michigan)
Year1997
Volume99
Issue4
Pages713-730
Publication date1997-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/aa.1997.99.4.713
OpenAlexW2002028497
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited61

What is the relevance of Europeanist ethnography for anthropological theory generally? Considering a region usually regarded as the source rather than an object of anthropology and colonialism alike, seven anthropologists reflexively address, inter alia, the implications of studying spaces already deeply explored by other disciplines, the potential of economic history to defamiliarize Eurocentric models and of recent events to illuminate such concepts as state and market, the meaning of "West" as a specific locus of power and reification, the limits of the "local" as the focus of ethnography, and the tensions among politically and culturally disparate entities within emergent ideologies of cultural unity

Archaeology · Colonialism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ethnology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Reification (Marxism · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy

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