Holger Jebens

The End of Anthropology? Holger Jebens

Marc Notes: Contributions reproduced from American anthroplogist vol. 112, no. 4 (2010) and Paideuma vol. 56 (2010).; Includes bibliographical references and index. Publisher Marketing: Decolonisation, modernisation, globalisation, the crisis of representation, and the 'cultural turn' in neighbouring disciplines have unsettled anthropology to such an extent that the field's foundations, the subjects of its study as well as its methods and concepts, appear to be eroded. It is now time to take stock and either abandon anthropology as a fundamentally untenable or superfluous project, or to set it on more solid foundations. In this volume some of the world's leading anthropologists - including Vincent Crapanzano, Maurice Godelier, Ulf Hannerz and Adam Kuper - do just that. Reflecting on how to meet the manifold institutional, theoretical, methodological, and epistemological challenges to the field, as well as on the continued, if not heightened, importance of anthropology in a world where diversity and cultural difference are becoming ever more important economically, politically, and legally, they set upon the task of reconstructing anthropology's foundations and firming up its stance vis-a-vis these challenges. Review Citations: Choice 07/01/2012 (EAN 9781907774058, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Jebens, Holger Holger Jebens is research fellow at the Frobenius-Institut at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.