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After Society

Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford
Buch | Hardcover
232 Seiten
2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-768-2 (ISBN)
169,95 inkl. MwSt
In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors’ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time.
In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Professionally, the immediate postcolonial period was over and neoliberal reforms were marginalizing the social sciences. Analytically, the poststructuralist critique of the notion of ‘society’ challenged a discipline that dubbed itself as ‘social’. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors’ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time.

João Pina-Cabral is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent and Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. He was co-founder and president both of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology and of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Introduction: After Society

João Pina-Cabral and Glenn Bowman



Part I: The Oxford Experience and Beyond



Chapter 1. Plodding Towards Prosopography: Oxford Anthropology from 1976 on

Jeremy MacClancy



Chapter 2. Amor Fati and the Institute of Social Anthropology

Glenn Bowman



Chapter 3. The Lucky Anthropologist? Becoming an Anthropologist of Japan in Oxford

Dolores P. Martinez



Chapter 4. Lost and Found in Oxford

Roger Just



Chapter 5. Is Necessity the Mother of Invention?

A. David Napier



Part II: Ethnography as a Vocation



Chapter 6. Changing Questions? Reflections on Anthropology in and out of Oxford since the 1980s

David N. Gellner



Chapter 7. The Fieldwork Tradition and the Quest for Essential Perplexities

Signe Howell



Chapter 8. Journeys of an Ethnographer: From Oxford to the Field and on to the Archives

Sandra Ott



Part III: Why Anthropology? Concluding Remarks



Chapter 9. Why Anthropology? Structuralism and Since

Timothy Jenkins



Chapter 10. From Oxford to Cambridge: Chasing the ‘Aka’

Maryon McDonald



Chapter 11. Mediterranean Equivoques at Oxford

João Pina-Cabral



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Methodology & History in Anthropology
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78920-768-1 / 1789207681
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-768-2 / 9781789207682
Zustand Neuware
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