Anthropology and the politics of representation /

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Imprint:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2013.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 303 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Ethnology -- Methodology. Ethnology -- Philosophy. Representation (Philosophy) Political anthropology. Ethnology -- Methodology. Ethnology -- Philosophy. Political anthropology. Representation (Philosophy) Anthropology. Ethnology. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11182157

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Other authors / contributors:	Vargas Cetina, Gabriela.
ISBN:	9780817386245 0817386246 0817357173 9780817357177 9780817357177
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English.
Summary:	Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole. In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume editor Gabriela Vargas-Cetina brings together a group of international scholars who, through their fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political, and personal implications of their own work. To do so, they focus on such topics as ethnography, anthropo.
Other form:	Print version: Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela. Anthropology and the Politics of Representation. Alabama : University of Alabama Press, ©2013 9780817357177

Table of Contents:

Double trouble: implications of historicizing identity discourses / Les W. Field
Strategic essentialism, scholarly inflation, and political litmus tests: the moral economy of hyping the contemporary Mayas / David Stoll
Yucatecan food and the postcolonial politics of representation / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
Subverting stereotypes: the visual politics of representing indigenous modernity / Beth A. Conklin
Labels, genuine and spurious: anthropology and the politics of otherness in the United States / Vilma Santiago-Irizarry
"Gone anthropologist": epistemic slippage, Native anthropology, and the dilemmas of representation / Bernard C. Perley
Matthew the Canadian journalist: engagement and representation in highland Guatemala / Timothy J. Smith
Performing music, silence, noise, and anthropology in Yucatan, Mexico / Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
Ethnography and the cultural politics of environmentalism / Tracey Heatherington
Notes on the use and abuse of cultural knowledge / Frederic W. Gleach
Rooted or extinct? Post-Soviet anthropology and the construction of indigenousness / Sergey Sokolovskiy
Anthropology on trial: Australian anthropology and Native title litigation / Katie Glaskin
The politics of Europeanization, representation, and anthropology in Northern Ireland / Thomas M. Wilson
Epilogue: identities and politics of representation / June C. Nash.

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