Up Close and Personal: On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Cris Shore (editor); Susanna Trnka (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology; 25
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm shifts. Particular focus is given to how ‘peripheral perspectives’ can help re-shape the discipline and the ways that anthropologists think about contemporary culture and society. From urban Maori communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, from Arnhem Land in Australia to the villages of Yorkshire, these accounts take us to the heart of the anthropological endeavour, decentring mainstream perspectives, and revealing the intimate relationships and processes that create anthropological knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
Preface ANTHROPOLOGISTS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction OBSERVING ANTHROPOLOGISTS Professional Knowledge, Practice and Lives
Michael Jackson
Chapter 1 SUFFERING, SELFHOOD AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS
Anne Salmond
Chapter 2 ANTHROPOLOGY, ONTOLOGY AND THE MAORI WORLD
Joan Metge
Chapter 3 BUILDING BRIDGES Maori and Pakeha Relations
Gillian Cowlishaw
Chapter 4 ‘CULTURE’, ‘RACE’ AND ‘ME’ Living the Anthropology of Indigenous Australians
Nicolas Peterson
Chapter 5 FINDING ONE’S WAY IN ARNHEM LAND
Howard Morphy
Chapter 6 ART AS ACTION The Yolngu
David Trigger
Chapter 7 RETHINKING NATURE AND NATIVENESS
Christopher Pinney
Chapter 8 MORE THAN LOCAL, LESS THAN GLOBAL Anthropology in the Contemporary World
Nelson Graburn
Chapter 9 BEYOND SELLING OUT Art, Tourism and Indigenous Self-representation
Nigel Rapport
Chapter 10 SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUALS AND THE ONTOLOGY OF SELFHOOD
Susan Wright
Chapter 11 HIDDEN HISTORIES AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Marilyn Strathern
Chapter 12 GENDER IDEOLOGY, PROPERTY RELATIONS AND MELANESIA The Field of ‘M’
Conclusion LOOKING AHEAD Past Connections and Future Directions
INDEX