Against the Anthropological Grain

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Transaction Publishers, 1998 - 211 páginas
"Readers can benefit from exposure to a cross-grained critic, especially one who write well and accessibly as Washburn does." -- Choice

Washburn critically examines key anthropological beliefs, especially the importance of cultural relativism and Western colonialism's harmful effects on Third World cultures. He turns the tables on theorists from the discipline. The questions raised force us to rethink our entrenched assumptions about the human condition, national identity and the future of anthropology.

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Against the Anthropological Grain
Wilcomb E. Washburn
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Wilcomb E. Washburn (1925-1997) was Senior Historian Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution where he held a number of positions from 1958 to 1997. He directed a graduate program in American Material Culture. He has edited numerous books on Native American,s including the Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of North America and The History of Indian-White Relations Volume 4 in the twenty-volume Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians.

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TítuloAgainst the Anthropological Grain
AutorWilcomb E. Washburn
EditorTransaction Publishers, 1998
ISBN1560003367, 9781560003366
Largo211 páginas
  
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