In Search of the Primitive

by Diamond,Stanley

• ISBN13: 9780878555826
• ISBN10: 087855582X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2017-05-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities -- a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. This brilliant, tough-minded book contains chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Levi-Strauss. Diamond views the anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his own civilization as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of Western civilization.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Eric R. Wolf
Introduction: Civilization and Progress	1	(48)
The Politics of Field Work	49	(44)
Anthropology in Question	93	(23)
The Search for the Primitive	116	(60)
Plato and the Definition of the Primitive	176	(27)
The Uses of the Primitive	203	(24)
Schizophrenia and Civilization	227	(28)
The Rule of Law versus the Order of Custom	255	(26)
Job and the Trickster	281	(11)
The Inauthenticity of Anthropology: The Myth of Structuralism	292	(40)
What History Is	332	(20)
Epilogue	352	(7)
Notes	359	(16)
Index	375