Anthropology and the will to meaning : a postcolonial critique /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Sterling, Virginia :
Pluto Press,
c2002
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| Series: | Anthropology, culture and society
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Of Scholars, Gamblers and Thieves 1
- 2. Has There Ever Been a Crisis in Ethnological Representation? 10
- The Ethnographer as 'Man' 11
- The Ethnological Representation Par Excellence 19
- 3. The Salvation Intent 28
- The Three Strategies of Redemption 28
- Christian Ethnology and Victorian Anthropology 34
- Twentieth-Century Paradigms 43
- The Ethnological Complicity 56
- 4. What the Natives Don't Know 60
- The Sociocultural Unconscious 60
- Heterodox Consciousness 74
- The 'Heroisation' of the Thinking Subject 82
- 5. The Ethnological Will to Meaning 92
- The Impossible 92
- Sameness and the Beyond 105
- The Will to Meaning 112
- At the End of the Game 117.