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Introduzione Per una storia dell’antropologia al plurale
2022
Unlike all the others works concerning the history of anthropology as a single discipline in relation to a range of different traditions, this volume, Histories of Anthropology, offers a representation of anthropology at the plural. In addition to what is widely known, this approach embraces some disciplinary traditions that are still mostly unknown to non-specialists. The aim is to offer a privileged insight as to how the main traditions have been accepted, adapted and adjusted in different cultural and historical-geographical contexts, as well as to define the current role of the anthropological approach in such contexts. It is both a book of anthropology and cultural history, in which th…
Storie dell'Antropologia
2022
Unlike all the others works concerning the history of anthropology as a single discipline in relation to a range of different traditions, this volume, Histories of Anthropology, offers a representation of anthropology at the plural. In addition to what is widely known, this approach embraces some disciplinary traditions that are still mostly unknown to non-specialists. The aim is to offer a privileged insight as to how the main traditions have been accepted, adapted and adjusted in different cultural and historical-geographical contexts, as well as to define the current role of the anthropological approach in such contexts. It is both a book of anthropology and cultural history, in which th…
Histories of Anthropology
2023
This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but also lesser-known traditions, extending its scope beyond the Western world. It focuses on the results of these traditions in the present. Taking into account the distinction between empire-building and nation-building anthropology, introduced by G. Stocking and taken up by U. Hannerz, the book investigates different histories of anthropology, especially in ex-colonial and marginal contexts. It highlights how the hegemonic anthropologies have been accepted and assimilated in local contexts, which approaches have been privileged by institutions and…