Description:
This new collection of anthropological theory updates and diversifies the canon with contributions by important yet underrepresented scholars and theoretical discussions that reflect the state of the discipline today.
Brief description:
A. Lynn Bolles is a professor emerita in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland.
Review Quotes:
"This anthology offers a long-overdue and much-needed approach that takes its readers beyond canonical formulations and uses of theory. The volume remaps anthropology in a way that challenges dominant hierarchies of knowledge and the accompanying divisions of intellectual labor. How refreshing it is to encounter such diverse engagements with theory in its multiple modalities over historical time and transnational space."
--Faye V. Harrison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"How shall we create anew the anthropological canon? In this thoughtful and thorough volume, the reader is welcomed into a project of doing just that - of reading, rethinking, and provoking. Alternately serious and playful, the editors reassemble anthropology to acknowledge history and meet the needs of the present. A commitment to honesty and responsibility in representing what anthropology was, is, and can be. "
--Carole McGranahan, University of Colorado"Finally, a comprehensive survey of the rich and diverse anthropological canon. In this book, the editors decolonize anthropological theory and update it for the twenty-first century. We now have a new standard for a more inclusive and complete survey of anthropological theory that demonstrates the discipline's depth, breadth, and diversity."
--Lee D. Baker, Duke University