Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture

by Scott Michaelsen

Book Overview

Posing a powerful challenge to dominant trends in cultural analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of culture, providing the broadest study of this notion to date. Johnson and Michaelsen examine the principal methodological strategies or metaphors of anthropology in the past two decades (embodied in works by Edward Said, James Clifford, George Marcus, V. Y. Mudimbe, and others) and argues that they do not manage to escape anthropology's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823228789
• ISBN13: 9780823228782
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"