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Inside African Anthropology
Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into her personal and intellectual life. Beginning with her origins in the remote Eastern Cape, the authors follow Wilson to the University of Cambridge and back into the field among the Mpondo of South Africa, where her studies resulted in her 1936 book Reaction to Conquest. Her fieldwork focus then shifted to Tanzania, where she teamed up with her husband, Godfrey Wilson. In the 1960s, Wilson embarked on a new urban ethnography with a young South African anthropologist, Archie Mafeje, one of the many black scholars she trained. This study also provides a meticulously researched exploration of the indispensable contributions of African research assistants to the production of this famous woman scholar's cultural knowledge about mid-twentieth-century Africa.
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Fieldwork Connections
Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American anthropologist, a male researcher raised in a village in Liangshan, and a highly educated woman from an elite Nuosu/Chinese family. As decades of mutual ethnographic research unfold, the authors enter one another's narratives and challenge the reader to ponder the nature of ethnographic truth.
The book begins with short accounts of the process by which each of the authors became involved in anthropological field research. It then proceeds to describe the research itself, and the stories begin to connect as they become active collaborators. The scene shifts in the course of the narrative from China to America, and the relationship between the authors shifts from distant, wary, and somewhat hierarchical to close, egalitarian, and reciprocal.
The authors share their histories through personal stories, not technical analyses; their aim is to entertain while addressing the process of ethnography and the dynamics of international and intercultural communication.
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Anthropology in the East : founders of Indian sociology and anthropology
Contributed seminar articles on some of the founding figures of anthropology and sociology in India, held at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, Apr. 19-21, 2000.
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20 lat „słownika etnografów”. Od idei do cyfrowego portalu
This article outlines the history of the Ethnographers and Folklorists of Poland: Profiles, Biographical Sketches series, commonly referred to as the “ethnographers’ dictionaries”. The series constitutes a form of the discipline’s memory within the community of ethnologists and cultural anthropologists in Poland, since the dictionary offers a unique opportunity to analyse the achievements of its representatives, trace the evolution of anthropological thought, and promote the profiles and contributions of researchers and theorists; moreover, it plays a significant role in shaping and reinforcing professional identity. The development and transformation of the series over the past two decades are analysed, with attention given to the profiles of the editors of individual volumes, as well as statistical data concerning both the authors of the entries and their subjects. The article also presents the etnoznawcy.pl knowledge portal (https://etnoznawcy.pl), which serves as a natural extension of the dictionary and a continuation of biographical work undertaken by the ethnographic community. Additionally, the article discusses editorial experiences related to the preparation of the series. The conclusion reflects on the technical aspects of compiling the dictionary and building the associated digital knowledge portal.
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The dynamics of social relations
Znaniecki uses the term \"social relation\" to denote a system of functionally interdependent actions performed by two cooperating individuals who evaluate each other positively and assume definite duties toward each other. Anthropologists, ethnologists, historians, sociologists, and social psychologists have collected more factual material about social relations than about the other, more complex, social systems, and thousands of generalizations based on this material have been made. Almost all these relations are found in communities, that is, collectivities of people who live in limited areas sufficiently near so that each individual can at least occasionally get into contact with every other individual. Many investigators have based their conclusions about social relations upon evaluative and normative judgments which they obtain from those people who control the social life of the participants in a community, instead of ascertaining what a social relation means to the individuals themselves who are active partners in it.
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