Synopses & Reviews
provides a most-needed analysis of the benefits and limitations of the new cultural anthropology. Bolles American Ethnologist, 1994 groundbreaking Levinson The Teachers College Record, 2008DECOLONIZING ANTHROPOLOGY is part of a broader effort that aims to advance the critical reconstruction of the discipline devoted to understanding humankind in all its diversity and commonality. The utility and power of a decolonized anthropology must continue to be tested and developed. May the results of ethnographic probes--the data, the social and cultural analysis, the theorizing, and the strategies for knowledge application--help scholars envision clearer paths toincreased understanding, a heightened sense of intercultural and international solidarity, and last, but certainly not least, world transformation.TABLE OF CONTENTSForeword by Yolanda T MosesPreface by Kimberly Eison SimmonsAnthropology as an Agent of Transformation: Introductory Comments and Queries by Faye V HarrisonMan and Nature, White and Other by Michael L BlakeyColonized Anthropology: Cargo-Cult Discourse by Pem Davidson BuckOn Ethnography in an Intertextual Situation: Reading Narratives or Desconstructing Discourse? by Glenn H JordanUndoing Fieldwork: Personal, Political, Theoretical and Methodological Implications by Deborah D'Amico-SamuelsEthnography as Politics by Faye V HarrisonConfronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons from Fieldwork in Central American by Philippe BourgeoisThey Exploited Us But We Didn't Feel It Hegemony, Ethnic Militancy, and the Miskitu-Sandinista Conflict by Charles R HaleAnthropology and Liberation by Edmund T GordonMilitarism and Accumulation as Cargo Cult by Angelia GilliamEpilogue by Delmos J Jones