The Best of Anthropology Today

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Jonathan Benthall
Routledge, 11 ott 2013 - 384 pagine

The articles in this influential journal placed it in the thick of a turbulent period for anthropology. Reacting to current research interests and launching what were often heated debates, it set the agenda for disciplinary change and new research.
Once described the American Anthropological Association as creating 'a strong voice for anthropology in the public arena', the Founder Editor, Jonathan Benthall, introduces here a personal selection of articles and letters with his own candid retrospect, arguing that the discipline's greatest strength and potential lies in testing and refining the ideas of other disciplines. Once described by the American Anthropological Association as creating 'a strong voice for anthropology in the public arena', the founder editor, Jonathan Benthall, introduces here a personal selection of articles and letters with his own candid retrospect, arguing that the discipline's greatest strength and potential lies in telling and refining the ideas of other disciplines.

 

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Introduction
1
Feminine Power
17
Indigenes Rights Anthropologists Roots
51
Fieldwork as Intervention
77
Markets of Desire
123
Anthropology in the Mass Media
159
New Social Movements
191
Human Sciences in Authoritarian States
239
The Technology of Enchantment
277
War and Civil Strife
325
Index
357
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Jonathan Benthall was Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1974-2000) and Founder Editor of Anthropology Today which succeeded RAINews (1974-84). In 1983 he was awarded the Anthropology in Media Award by the American Anthropological Association.

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