Author Question: What right do ethnographers have to represent a people or culture to which they don't belong? This ... (Read 51 times)

sheilaspns · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

What right do ethnographers have to represent a people or culture to which they don't belong? This question illustrates

A. anthropology's crisis in representationquest ions about the role of the ethnographer and the nature of ethnographic authority.
B. the threat that the World Wide Web poses to anthropologists who are less and less needed to write about and publish accounts of cultural diversity.
C. the fact that anthropologists are, after all, colonial agents of the industrialized West.
D. a lack of leadership in the American Anthropological Association.
E. the problem inherent in anthropology's overspecialization.

Question 2

This chapter mentions the work of Wolf and Mintz, both students of Julian Steward, as illustrations of approaches that

A. put human agency at the center of cultural analysis.
B. focus on the study of cultures as closed systems, untouched by regional and even global dynamics.
C. ignore the role of history in shaping culture as we know it.
D. consider the relevance of world-system theory and political economy to anthropology.
E. are just as deterministic as the old evolutionary models, but for different reasons.