Anthropology and the will to meaning : a postcolonial critique / / Vassos Argyrou.

• Superior document: Anthropology, culture, and society
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Argyrou, Vassos.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology, culture, and society.
• Physical Description: v, 129 p.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Of Scholars, Gamblers and Thieves 1 -- 2. Has There Ever Been a Crisis in Ethnological Representation? 10 -- The Ethnographer as 'Man' 11 -- The Ethnological Representation Par Excellence 19 -- 3. The Salvation Intent 28 -- The Three Strategies of Redemption 28 -- Christian Ethnology and Victorian Anthropology 34 -- Twentieth-Century Paradigms 43 -- The Ethnological Complicity 56 -- 4. What the Natives Don't Know 60 -- The Sociocultural Unconscious 60 -- Heterodox Consciousness 74 -- The 'Heroisation' of the Thinking Subject 82 -- 5. The Ethnological Will to Meaning 92 -- The Impossible 92 -- Sameness and the Beyond 105 -- The Will to Meaning 112 -- At the End of the Game 117.