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Outsider within : reworking anthropology in the global age / Faye V. Harrison.

Author/creator Harrison, Faye Venetia
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxii, 361 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Reworking anthropology from the "outside within" -- Unburying theory, repositioning practice : anthropological praxis in peripheral predicaments -- Remapping routes, unearthing roots : rethinking Caribbean connections with the U.S. South -- Writing against the grain : cultural politics of difference in Alice Walker's fiction -- Probing the legacy of empire : reflexive notes on Caribbeanist Gordon K. Lewis -- Gangs, politics, and dilemmas of global restructuring in Jamaica -- The gendered violence of structural adjustment -- Everyday neoliberalism in Cuba : a glimpse from Jamaica -- Global apartheid at home and abroad -- Justice for all : the challenges of advocacy research in the global age -- Teaching philosophy -- Academia, the free market, and diversity -- A labor of love : an emancipated woman's legacy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-345) and index.
LCCN 2007044080
ISBN9780252032615 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252032616 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780252074905 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0252074904 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN 345 .H43 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold