They Lie, We Lie Getting on with Anthropology

Name: They Lie, We Lie Getting on with Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780415262606

ISBN-10: 0415262607

ISBN-13: 9780415262606

Edition: 2002

Authors: Peter Metcalf

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This text examines the puzzles and contradictions of life in the field, drawing out what personal predicaments have to say about anthropology in a post-colonial world. The author sorts the issues into three areas: power, ethnicity and closure.

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/21/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.50" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




Lies



Something spoken which is not true



They lie, we lie



Getting on with anthropology



Struggle



Learning experiences



Kasi's pre-emptive strike



The polite fictions of research proposals



Kasi throws up her defenses



The siege



My fifth column



Power



Hearts and minds



Colonial involvements



Going into the villages



People invisible to the state



Ethnicity



Lelakness



The vanishing point



Foregrounding the Berawan



Lost tribes



The true Berawan



Keeping things in perspective



Closure



"Lelak"



Throwing away the old way



Kasi's vanishing



Cultural obituaries



Indignities



Demolishing "Upriver"



Constructing "Upriver People"



No closure


Footnotes


Bibliography