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Author Argyrou, Vassos.

Title Anthropology and the will to meaning [electronic resource] : a postcolonial critique / Vassos Argyrou.

Imprint London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, c2002.

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Description v, 129 p.
Series Anthropology, culture, and society
Anthropology, culture, and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Anthropology -- Philosophy.
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0745318606 (hardback)
0745318592 (pbk.)
9780745318608
9781849641418 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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