Genealogies for the Present in Cultural AnthropologyIn the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements with fresh readings of major figures and approaches, the work develops a larger vantage point for considering the dispersing influence of practice theories, postmodernism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, modern/post-positive feminism, and multicultural criticisms. |
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2 Critically Humanist Sensibilities | 41 |
3 Pushing Anthropology Past the Posts Critical Notes on Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies as Influenced by Postmodernism and Existential... | 63 |
4 Practices Beyond Bourdieuian Legacies | 105 |
5 Moments of Knowledge and Power Foucault and Alterities of Sex and Violence | 141 |
6 Gramsci and Bakhtin Dialogues Against Hegemonies | 177 |
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