Africanizing anthropology Fieldwork, networks, and the making of cultural knowledge in Central Africa

Africanizing Anthropology tells the story of the anthropological fieldwork centered at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, Lyn Schumaker gives t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schumaker, Lyn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham & London Duke University Press 2001
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. ‘‘The Water Follows the Stream’’
  • 2. Contexts and Chronologies
  • 3. Archetypal Experiences
  • 4. The Laboratory in the Field
  • 5. ‘‘A Lady and an American’’
  • 6. Atop the Central African Volcano
  • 7. Africanizing Anthropology
  • 8. The Culture of Fieldwork
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index