American Fieldnotes: Collected Essays of an Existentialist Anthropologist - Softcover

Durrenberger, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1495202194 ISBN 13: 9781495202193

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

These essays are a candid look into the mind of an anarchist, existentialist activist anthropologist. Collected here are writings that span 40 years of one of the most prolific modern-day anthropologists, essays and commentaries that rarely made it into professional curriculum vitae and never got counted in reviews for pay raises or promotion. Writing now as emeritus, E. Paul Durrenberger says these radio commentaries, essays and speeches are at least as important as his many formal ethnographic, theoretical and methodological contributions. Together they define an alternative outlook crucial in a culture dominated by the ideology of markets and saturated by so-called merit evaluations and the practically in-bred belief that that we deserve what we get and get what we deserve. Durrenberger challenges those assumptions. His experience as a person, as a professor and as an ethnographer tells him this ideology is inherently, intrinsically wrong. These essays draw the picture of a lifetime of egalitarian practice and existentialist living that defines activist anthropology.

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Paul Durrenberger has done ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, Iceland, and the U.S. among tribal people, peasants, fishermen, farmers, and urban workers. He taught anthropology for twenty-five years at the University of Iowa and for fifteen years at Penn State and has been active in the governance of universities and scholarly associations. He has published many academic papers and books and has done a number of radio commentaries. In 2013 he was awarded the Society for Applied Anthropology’s Malinowski Award in recognition of his, “efforts to understand and serve the needs of the world’s societies.” He is married to Suzan Erem and, now retired, lives with her in rural Iowa.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1495202194
• ISBN 13: 9781495202193
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
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