Exotic no more : anthropology on the front lines /

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Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (456 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11361132
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Other authors / contributors:MacClancy, Jeremy.
ISBN:9780226500140
0226500144
0226500128
0226500136
9780226500126
9780226500133
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:Since its founding in the nineteenth century, social anthropology has been seen as the study of exotic peoples in faraway places. But today more and more anthropologists are dedicating themselves not just to observing but to understanding and helping solve social problems wherever they occur--in international aid organizations, British TV studios, American hospitals, or racist enclaves in Eastern Europe, for example. In Exotic No More, an initiative of the Royal Anthropological Institute, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate, in clear, unpretentious prose, the tremendous co.
Other form:Print version: Exotic no more. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 9780226500126