Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
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A crisis of representation in the human sciences -- Ethnography and interpretive anthropology -- Conveying other cultural experience: the person, self, and emotions -- Taking account of world historical political economy: knowable communities in larger systems -- The repatriation of anthropology as cultural critique -- Two contemporary techniques of cultural critique in anthropology.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Using cultural anthropology to analyse debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, this text looks at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, future direction, and its insights for other fields of study.