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

Name: Africanizing Anthropology Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
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ISBN: 9780822326731

ISBN-10: 0822326736

ISBN-13: 9780822326731

Edition: 2001

Authors: Lyn Schumaker

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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…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 7/12/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.386



Acknowledgments



"The Water Follows the Stream"



Contexts and Chronologies



Archetypal Experiences



The Laboratory in the Field



"A Lady and an American"



Atop the Central African Volcano



Africanizing Anthropology



The Culture of Fieldwork


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index