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Outsider Within

Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age

Faye V Harrison author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:19th Feb '08

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Envisioning new directions for an inclusive anthropology

Outsider Within presents an approach to critically reconstructing the anthropology discipline to better encompass issues of gender and race. Among the nine key changes to the field that Faye V. Harrison advocates are researching in an ethically and politically responsible manner, promoting greater diversity in the discipline, rethinking theory, and committing to a genuine multicultural dialogue. In drawing from materials developed during her distinguished twenty-five year career in Caribbean and African American studies, Harrison analyzes anthropology’s limits and possibilities from an African American woman’s perspective, while also recognizing similarities between peoples, despite social, cultural, and political differences. In seeking to productively engage anthropologists of diverse geographical, cultural, and national origins, Harrison challenges them to work together to transcend stark gender, racial, and national hierarchies.

"This book is intellectually stimulating and insightful, and its ideas are presented with intensity and passion. Harrison clearly relishes her engagement in the anthropology profession, but she also argues that her field must be transformed if it is to have any meaningful input into twenty-first-century scholarship. One of the most gifted and profound writers in anthropology today, it is imperative that her corpus of materials be shared."--Audrey Smedley, professor emerita of anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University

ISBN: 9780252032615

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376 pages