Africanizing Anthropology

Fieldwork, Networks and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa

Autor: Lyn Schumaker

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"Africanizing Anthropology" tells the story of the anthropological fieldwork centred at the Rhodes-L...

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Autor

Lyn Schumaker

Limbă

engleză

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Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2001

Pagini

392

EAN

9780822326786

ISBN

0822326787

Enbook ID

04937401

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

780

Dimensiuni

154 x 228 x 34

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"Africanizing Anthropology" tells the story of the anthropological fieldwork centred at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, Lyn Schumaker places anthropologists' assistants and informants in a central role in the making of anthropological knowledge. Schumaker shows how local conditions and local ideas about culture and history, as well as local people's previous experience of outsiders' interest, shape their responses to anthropological fieldwork and help them, in turn, to influence the construction of knowledge about their societies and lives. Bringing to the fore a wide range of actors-missionaries, administrators, settlers, the families of anthropologists - Schumaker places emphasis on the daily practices of researchers, demonstrating how these are as centrally implicated in the making of anthropological knowledge as the discipline's recognised methods. Using a prominent group of anthropologists - The Manchester School - she reveals, in particular, how they achieved the advances in theory and method that made them famous in the 1950s and 1960s. This book makes important contributions to anthropology, African history, and the history of science.

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