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Tragedy of the Field
2015
Overview
The “field” is a real place, but it is also, paradoxically, an expression of the human imagination. It is an area selected within the natural range of a particular nonhuman species or, in the case of cultural anthropology, a particular (stereotypi-cally preindustrial) human society. But the field is bounded artifi cially from the outside; individuals and collective entities within it are named and classified from an outside perspec-tive. The field exists in linear human time, not earth time; it is mapped from a human perspective; and it is remade from the inside, the space invariably altered by technological presence, the
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN
027106630X, 9780271066301
