Reinventing Anthropology,

By Dell H. Hymes

Book Overview

Originally published in 1972, Dell Hymes's edited collection of essays brought together a host of leaders in anthropology who were passionate about the need to "reinvent" the discipline in which they were all involved. Having determined that the scientific approach fostered by anthropologists earlier in the century disavowed the subjectivity inherent in observation, Hymes and his colleagues called for a more reflexive approach to ethnography. They also sought a solution to the fragmentation that they felt was splintering their field and proposed a progressive political awareness that embraced a liberatory, not a materialistic, end.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394719530
• ISBN13: 9780394719535
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.