Yanomami : the fierce controversy and what we might learn from it /
Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology - questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy - one of anthropology's most famous and explosive imbro...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0520244036 9780520244030 0520244044 9780520244047 9780520938564 0520938569 1417573694 9781417573691 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology - questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy - one of anthropology's most famous and explosive imbroglios - as its starting point, this books considers how fieldwork is done, how professional credibility and integrity are maintained, and how the discipline might change to address central theoretical and methodological problems. Both the most up-to-date and thorough public discussion of the Yanomami controve. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 372 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Series: | California series in public anthropology ;
12. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |