Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines

Philippe Bourgois; Nancy Scheper-Hughes; Jane Schneider; Chris Hann; Michael Gilsenan; Richard Jenkins; William O. Beeman; Faye V. Harrison; Alma Gottlieb; Margaret Lock

ISBN 10: 0226500136 / ISBN 13: 9780226500133

Edité par University Of Chicago Press, 2002

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First Edition. first edition, heavy creasing on the cover of the book, some creasing on the top corners of a few pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines
• Éditeur: University Of Chicago Press
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226500136
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226500133
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

Since its founding in the nineteenth century, social anthropology has been seen as the study of exotic peoples in faraway places. But today more and more anthropologists are dedicating themselves not just to observing but to understanding and helping solve social problems wherever they occur - in international aid organizations, British TV studios, American hospitals, or racist enclaves in Eastern Europe, for example. In Exotic No More, an initiative of the Royal Anthropological Institute, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate, in clear, unpretentious prose, the tremendous contributions that anthropology can make to contemporary society. They cover issues ranging from fundamentalism to forced migration, child labor to crack dealing, human rights to hunger, ethnicity to environmentalism, intellectual property rights to international capitalisms. But Exotic No More is more than a litany of gloom and doom; the essays also explore topics usually associated with leisure or "high" culture, including the media, visual arts, tourism, and music. The authors use specific examples from their fieldwork to illustrate their discussions, and 62 photographs enliven the text. Throughout the book, the contributors highlight anthropology's commitment to taking people seriously on their own terms, paying close attention to what they are saying and doing, and trying to understand how they see the world and why. Sometimes this bottom-up perspective makes the strange familiar, but it can also make the familiar strange, exposing the cultural basis of seemingly "natural" behaviors and challenging us to rethink some of our most cherished ideas - about gender, "free" markets, "race," and "refugees," among many others.

À propos de l?auteur

Jeremy MacClancy is professor in social anthropology at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Consuming Culture, Popularizing Anthropology, and The Decline of Carlism.