On ghosts and mirrors: A contribution on studying anthropology of difference
Starting from the premise that contemporary social sciences are involved in producing and chasing ghosts, the paper presents several key debates in contemporary social and cultural anthropology. One of them is the issue of colonialism, and the other one is the uneasy relationship between feminism an...
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Sociological Scientific Society of Serbia
2009-01-01
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| description | Starting from the premise that contemporary social sciences are involved in producing and chasing ghosts, the paper presents several key debates in contemporary social and cultural anthropology. One of them is the issue of colonialism, and the other one is the uneasy relationship between feminism and anthropology. Taking the paradigm of Strathern's 'partial connections,' it is claimed that the only way to increase our understanding of the world we live in, is accepting its complexities and ambiguities, and understanding contexts and concrete situations they arise from. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f2bcb435992248fa8c33228c4ab9a1402022-12-22T03:06:51ZengSociological Scientific Society of SerbiaSociologija0038-03182009-01-01511839210.2298/SOC0901083BOn ghosts and mirrors: A contribution on studying anthropology of differenceBošković AleksandarStarting from the premise that contemporary social sciences are involved in producing and chasing ghosts, the paper presents several key debates in contemporary social and cultural anthropology. One of them is the issue of colonialism, and the other one is the uneasy relationship between feminism and anthropology. Taking the paradigm of Strathern's 'partial connections,' it is claimed that the only way to increase our understanding of the world we live in, is accepting its complexities and ambiguities, and understanding contexts and concrete situations they arise from.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0038-0318/2009/0038-03180901083B.pdfanthropology and differenceanthropology and feminismanthropology and colonialismPartial Connections |
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| title | On ghosts and mirrors: A contribution on studying anthropology of difference |
| title_full | On ghosts and mirrors: A contribution on studying anthropology of difference |
| title_fullStr | On ghosts and mirrors: A contribution on studying anthropology of difference |
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| title_short | On ghosts and mirrors: A contribution on studying anthropology of difference |
| title_sort | on ghosts and mirrors a contribution on studying anthropology of difference |
| topic | anthropology and difference anthropology and feminism anthropology and colonialism Partial Connections |
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