Reinventing Anthropology (Pantheon antitextbooks)

by Dell H. Hymes

Book Overview

Originally published in 1972, Dell Hymes's edited collection of essays brought together a host of leaders in anthropology who were passionate about the need to "reinvent" the discipline in which they were all involved. Having determined that the scientific approach fostered by anthropologists earlier in the century disavowed the subjectivity inherent in observation, Hymes and his colleagues called for a more reflexive approach to ethnography. They...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394468279
• ISBN13: 9780394468273
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.