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ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY This page intentionally left blank ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY A CRITICAL APPROACH Edited by A. Lynn Bolles, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Bernard C. Perley, and Keri Vacanti Brondo UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press 2022 Toronto Buffalo London utorontopress.com Printed in the U.S.A. ISBN 978-1-4875-0884-5 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4875-3907-8 (EPUB) ISBN 978-1-4875-2637-5 (paper) ISBN 978-1-4875-3906-1 (PDF) All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher – or in the case of photocopying, a licence from Access Copyright, the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency – is an infringement of the copyright law. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Anthropological theory for the twenty-first century : a critical approach / edited by A. Lynn Bolles, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Bernard C. Perley, and Keri Vacanti Brondo. Names: Bolles, Augusta Lynn, editor. | Gomberg-Muñoz, Ruth, editor. | Perley, Bernard C., editor. | Brondo, Keri Vacanti, editor. Description: Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210391154 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210391219 | ISBN 9781487526375 (paper) | ISBN 9781487508845 (cloth) | ISBN 9781487539078 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781487539061 (PDF) Subjects: LCSH: Anthropology – Philosophy. Classification: LCC GN33 .A42 2022 | DDC 301.01 – dc23 We welcome comments and suggestions regarding any aspect of our publications – please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or visit us at utorontopress.com. Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders; in the event of an error or omission, please notify the publisher. 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This page intentionally left blank Contents Timeline xv Introduction: A Contested Canon 1 Section One: On Roots of Social Difference 5 1.1 An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man 10 william apess 1.2 The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered 14 frederick douglass 1.3 Bourgeois and Proletarians 18 karl marx and friedrich engels 1.4 Ethnical Periods 23 lewis henry morgan 1.5 Afternoon Session, June 29: Speeches at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World 28 lucy e. parsons 1.6 Excerpt from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 32 max weber Section One Glossary 36 Contents Section Two: On Methods of Fieldwork 37 2.1 Language and Environment 40 edward sapir 2.2 The Origin of the Iroquois as Suggested by Their Archeology 44 arthur c. parker 2.3 The Methods of Ethnology 48 franz boas 2.4 The Methodology of Racial Testing: Its Significance for Sociology 52 margaret mead 2.5 Excerpt from Mules and Men 56 zora neale hurston Section Two Glossary 60 Section Three: On Hidden Logics of Culture 61 3.1 The Essentials of the Kula 64 bronislaw malinowski 3.2 Excerpt from The Gift 68 marcel mauss 3.3 The Science of Custom 72 ruth benedict 3.4 Excerpt from Facing Mt. Kenya 76 jomo kenyatta 3.5 Language and the Analysis of Social Laws 80 claude lévi-strauss Section Three Glossary 85 Section Four: On History, Power, and Inequality 87 4.1 The White Worker 90 w.e.b. du bois 4.2 On the Social Phenomenon of “Transculturation” and Its Importance in Cuba 94 fernando ortiz viii Contents 4.3 The World in 1400 97 eric wolf 4.4 Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth- Century Colonial Cultures 101 ann l. stoler 4.5 An Anthropology of Structural Violence 107 paul farmer Section Four Glossary 112 Section Five: On Writing Cultures 113 5.1 Twenty-Seventh Day: Journey to Accompong 117 katherine dunham 5.2 Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 121 clifford geertz 5.3 Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage 127 renato rosaldo 5.4 Writing against Culture 133 lila abu-lughod 5.5 Sensuous Stories in the Indian Ocean Islands 139 rosabelle boswell Section Five Glossary 145 Section Six: On Colonialism and Anthropological “Others” 147 6.1 Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining “Native” 150 beatrice medicine 6.2 Knowing the Oriental 155 edward w. said 6.3 Anthropologies of the South: Their Rise, Their Silencing, Their Characteristics 159 esteban krotz 6.4 Anthropology and the Savage Slot: Poetics and Politics of Otherness 164 michel-rolph trouillot ix
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