This article moves from Sir James Frazer, through successive generations (British for the most part) of social anthropologists, and onto the post-modern present-day of James Clifford and Marilyn Strathern, among others, and to the place that an advocacy anthropology may have in it. It enquires, in each case, about (i) the nature of the “authority” which the anthropologist appropriates and (ii) strategies used to persuade and/or assuage readers of anthropology (among whom are included its subjects). It is, then, a commentary on the kind of issues brought to us most notably in Writing Culture (eds. Clifford and Marcus, 1986) and, in particular, on some changes in the presentation of the anthropological “self.”Cet article a pour point de dépar...
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hesitates to enumerate recent ’classics’, representative ’readers’, or crucial journals in contempor...
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Writing is key in anthropology, as one of its main modes of communication. Teaching, research, publi...
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International audienceIn the present paper, I do not spend time on the real intrinsic qualities of F...
The article begins with an exploration of sociology´s historical development, always in close connec...
The article presents Writing Culture as a groundwork, which continues to be a signifi cant point of ...
This paper considers the challenges that faced the discipline at a time when the European Associatio...
The actual crisis of anthropology is examined in relation to its wide public success. Anthropology h...
The article concerns the problem of the boundary between the disciplines of anthropology and sociolo...
This paper is primarily concerned with the origin and consequence of the so-called “crisis of repres...
Field-working anthropologists must navigate the complex relationship between their empirical observa...
hesitates to enumerate recent ’classics’, representative ’readers’, or crucial journals in contempor...
International audienceThis article aims at describing the forms and stakes of the ways in which ethn...
Anthropology and knowledge : theory and reality This article proposes food for thought on the pres...
This article is an account of different experiences, reflections and impressions that have arisen wh...
This paper examines the debate between Marilyn Strathern and I.C. Jarvie. Writing in 1987, Strathern...
Writing is key in anthropology, as one of its main modes of communication. Teaching, research, publi...
The article analyzes modern western projects to update anthropology. The projects are united by the...
International audienceIn the present paper, I do not spend time on the real intrinsic qualities of F...
The article begins with an exploration of sociology´s historical development, always in close connec...
The article presents Writing Culture as a groundwork, which continues to be a signifi cant point of ...
This paper considers the challenges that faced the discipline at a time when the European Associatio...
The actual crisis of anthropology is examined in relation to its wide public success. Anthropology h...
The article concerns the problem of the boundary between the disciplines of anthropology and sociolo...
This paper is primarily concerned with the origin and consequence of the so-called “crisis of repres...
Field-working anthropologists must navigate the complex relationship between their empirical observa...