ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropology Today: Contemporary Trends in Social and Cultural Anthropology
SHALINA MEHTA (Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)
2010 • Pages: 178 • Size: 180x240 • ISBN 81-85264-53-8 • Binding: Hard •
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(Anthropologist Special Issue No. 7)
Cyber space’s, technology, ecological changes and environmental crisis, proxy wars and remote technologies controlling these wars, changing definitions of international borders along with plethora of treaties and trade regulations are redefining human societies.
Anthropology has moved out of its nascent insecurities and is accepted among sciences, humanities and social sciences as a political discipline that has the unique advantage of providing alternatives to many established notions of structured world communities.
Anthropological methodologies and its unflinching faith in field work centered empirical data generation have become content of many grounded theories in several other disciplines. There is universal appeal in anthropological imagination.
We are no longer a tribe of marginalized scholars whose primary interest is to document communities that are on the verge of extinction because of historical, cultural or natural processes of extermination. If we want to accept the collectivism of ‘tribe’ to represent our unique ability, then we must move forward and say that we as a tribe are not only
engaged with ‘other tribes’ but with every community and social and cultural concern that processes of social and cultural transformations pose to our collective survival and sustainability of our ecosystems.
This volume is a beginner’s vision that reaches out to only few of these innumerable challenges.
CONTENTS
Editorial
iii-xi
List of Contributors
xiii
SECTION - 1
- Cities Full of Symbols • Peter J.M. Nas, Marlies de Groot and Michelle Schut,
1-11 - Tied to Each Other: Gazing on Networked Connectivity and Closure – Transnationalised Work and Workers -
Maheshvari Naidu,
13-24 - Understanding Urban Relocation and Rehabilitation Issues • Jyotsna Bapat
25-38 - Crossing Boundaries: Constructing New spaces for African Refugee Students in Greater Western Sydney • Loshini Naidoo
39-45 - Chinese Students in Paris • Jean Charles Lagree
47-57
SECTION - 2
- Western Psychology and Traditional Methodologies. Some Rational Considerations • R.E.S. Tanner
59-65 - Religious Belief and Perception of Illness in Esanland, Edo State of Nigeria • C.O. Aluede
67-74 - Social Science Perspectives on Invasive Species • Priscilla Weeks
75-86
SECTION – 3
- How Milind Soman Made Me Gay Exploring Issues of Belonging and Citizenship amongst Gay South Asian Men in Diaspora • Harjant Gill
87-96 - From Ethnopolitical Agitation to Terrorism: Interogating the Niger Delta Crisis in Nigeria • Ilufoye Sarafa Ogundiya
97-107
SECTION – 4
- Sociobiology: The Relevance of Biology in Social Inquiry • Krishan Sharma
109-120 - Symbolizing Human Life: Anthropological Explorations into Culture • Abhik Ghosh
121-133 - Global Encounters and Challenges of Human Development in Nigeria • Samuel Oluwole Ogundele
135-139 - The Challenge of Anthropology as Humanitarian Science in the Eternal Search of Originality between the Cultural Difference and the Societal Otherness • Nikos Gousgounis
141-157
Index
159-160
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