Anthropological Theory Today

by Moore, Henrietta L.

• ISBN13: 9780745620237
• ISBN10: 074562023X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-12
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

This important book makes a bold statement about the nature and value of anthropological theory at the beginning of the 21st century.

Author Biography

Henrietta Moore is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Table of Contents

The Contributors	vii
Anthropological Theory at the Turn of the Century	1	(23)
Henrietta L. Moore
From Private Virtue to Public Vice	24	(24)
James G. Carrier
Daniel Miller
Clash of Civilizations or Asian Liberalism? An Anthropology of the State and Citizenship	48	(25)
Aihwa Ong
The Economies of Violence and the Violence of Economies	73	(41)
Catherine Lutz
Donald Nonini
Toward an Ethics of the Open Subject: Writing Culture in Good Conscience	114	(37)
Debbora Battaglia
Whatever Happened to Women and Men? Gender and other Crises in Anthropology	151	(21)
Henrietta L. Moore
The Body's Career in Anthropology	172	(34)
Thomas J. Csordas
Human Cognition and Cultural Evolution	206	(28)
Pascal Boyer
Psychoanalysis and Anthropology: On the Temporality of Analysis	234	(28)
James Weiner
Becoming Undisciplined: Anthropology and Cultural Studies	262	(18)
Nicholas Thomas
Index	280