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VISIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY: WHAT'S THE GODDAMN POINT OF IT ALL?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1998

SHARON MACDONALD
SHARON MACDONALD
Affiliation:
Department of Social Studies, University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Rd, Sheffield, S10 2TU
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Abstract

Lawrence A. Kuznar, Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology. London: AltaMira, 1997, £35.00 (£16.50 pbk), xi+284 pp (ISBN: 0-7619-9114-X).

Jeremy MacClancy and Chris McDonaugh (eds.), Popularizing Anthropology. London: Routledge, 1996, £45.00 (£14.99 pbk), xi+253 pp. (ISBN: 0-415-13613-X).

Jerry D. Moore, Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists. London: AltaMira, 1997, £35.00 (£16.50 pbk), 283 pp. (ISBN: 0-8039-7097-8).

We start off with Edward Tylor, but Professor X tells us that Tylor was just an armchair anthropologist. So we read Malinowski who everyone says was a good fieldworker, but then Professor X says Malinowski was a racist. And then we read Margaret Mead, and Professor X says Mead was a liar ... What's the goddamn point of it all?

(Jerry D. Moore 1997. Visions of Culture, p. 9)

Type
REVIEW ESSAY
Information
Sociology , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , November 1998 , pp. 875 - 880
Copyright
© 1998 BSA Publications Ltd

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