ANTH 2200 Lecture Notes - Hortense Powdermaker, Moral Relativism, Fredric Jameson
13 Mar 2014
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Sandinista cannot be an anthropologist and a companion at the same time, can"t be dispassionate observer and involved in their political struggle realized this was colonialist, what she was doing: summarize the arguments of edward said. 30s and 40s studied the deep south, relations between aristocratic whites and the poor blacks. Jewish background, writes about how she had to negotiate her entrance to both groups. American anthropology is drawing on literary/language specialists/theorists this whole postmodern trend is rooted in the school to which. People without history the ethnography/witness as clerk is a minor historian of the ordinary lives of a people often presumed to have no history comes out of eric woolf famous american marxist anthropologist, latin america, Taking an ethical stance does not make you an active observer stay politically committed: is it conservative, liberal, libertarian, fascist? but, in the references, she draws on john berger it"s a vague type of marxism, but not exactly.
