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.