Outsider within : reworking anthropology in the global age

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Title:

Outsider within : reworking anthropology in the global age

Author:

Harrison, Faye Venetia.

ISBN:

9780252032615

9780252074905

Personal Author:

Harrison, Faye Venetia.

Publication Information:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

Physical Description:

xii, 361 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Reworking anthropology from the "outside within" -- Unburying theory, repositioning practice : anthropological praxis in peripheral predicaments -- Remapping routes, unearthing roots : rethinking Caribbean connections with the U.S. South -- Writing against the grain : cultural politics of difference in Alice Walker's fiction -- Probing the legacy of empire : reflexive notes on Caribbeanist Gordon K. Lewis -- Gangs, politics, and dilemmas of global restructuring in Jamaica -- The gendered violence of structural adjustment -- Everyday neoliberalism in Cuba : a glimpse from Jamaica -- Global apartheid at home and abroad -- Justice for all : the challenges of advocacy research in the global age -- Teaching philosophy -- Academia, the free market, and diversity -- A labor of love : an emancipated woman's legacy.

Subject Term:

Ethnology -- Philosophy.

Applied anthropology.

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Summary

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.