1999
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226229539.001.0001
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Anthropology as Cultural Critique

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“…Anthropologists themselves have from time to time come under heavy criticism for their lack of a sufficiently historical approach. For example, during anthropology's period of post-modern critical reflection in the 1980s, Marcus and Fischer (1986) questioned the tendency of anthropologists to focus on an ahistorical or exotic 'other' and instead argued for work on the ideas and institutions of anthropologists' own contexts, emphasizing the need to study power and history locally and globally. 3.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Anthropologists themselves have from time to time come under heavy criticism for their lack of a sufficiently historical approach. For example, during anthropology's period of post-modern critical reflection in the 1980s, Marcus and Fischer (1986) questioned the tendency of anthropologists to focus on an ahistorical or exotic 'other' and instead argued for work on the ideas and institutions of anthropologists' own contexts, emphasizing the need to study power and history locally and globally. 3.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Multi-sited ethnography of a discursive theme of comparison ought to be a companion of a globally engaged social science (cf. Marcus and Fischer 1986). Here we have to move beyond systemic comparisons and attend to complexities that lie in between and beyond.…”
Section: A Comparative Global Engagementmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…Since the late 1970s, anthropologists have examined ethnography as a form of textual production (Marcus and Cushman 1982;Clifford and Marcus 1986;Geertz 1988;Marcus and Fischer 1986) and as a politicised dialogue between ethnographer and 'other' (Crapanzano 1980;Dumont 1978;George 1995;Rabinow 1977). This literature suggests that ethnography is what you write and how you write it (Clifford 1986;Geertz 1973) but not a record of social realities (Marcus and Fischer 1986).…”
Section: Ethnographic Socialitymentioning
confidence: 96%