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Title Popularizing anthropology / edited by Jeremy MacClancy and Chris McDonaugh.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Popularizing anthropology; Tricky tropes: styles of the popular and the pompous; Typecasting: anthropology's dramatis personae; The chrysanthemum continues to flower: Ruth Benedict and some perils of popular anthropology; Communicating culture: Margaret Mead and the practice of popular anthropology; Enlarging the context of anthropology: the case of Anthropology Today; Claude Levi-Strauss and Louis Dumont: media portraits; Proximity and distance: representations of Aboriginal society in the writings of Bill Harney and Bruce Chatwin.
Summary Popularizing Anthropology unearths a submerged tradition within anthropology and reveals that anthropologists have always looked beyond academic recognition.
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Subject Anthropology -- Popular works.
Anthropology.
Genre/Form Popular works.
Subject Human beings.
Human beings.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author MacClancy, Jeremy.
McDonaugh, Chris, 1953-
Other Form: Print version: Popularizing anthropology. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 (DLC) 96007567
ISBN 9780203436752
020343675X
9780415136129 (hardback)
0415136121 (hardback)
9780415136136 (paperback)
041513613X (paperback)
0203285441 (electronic book)
9780203285442 (electronic book)
020343675X
0415136121 (hardback)
041513613X (paperback)