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Anthropology and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: A Discourse on the Definition and Ideals of a Threatened Discipline
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The knowledge practices of social and cultural anthropology can be conceived as undergoing constant methodological reconsideration or reformulation as a consequence of internal critique and of institutional change effected in the larger educational and political environment. Neo-liberal shifts affecting the institutional context may have influenced a deepening of the crisis in anthropology where the nature of its project has become less certain or has threatened a reconfiguration of such prop...
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A mutual interest? Ethnography in anthropology and cultural studies
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
; Anthropology and cultural studies share a concern with ethnographic method. Cultural studies increasingly uses ethnography in its analyses of popular culture as it seeks to balance earlier preoccupations with text. Where cultural studies diverges from anthropology is in its encompassment within an
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Anthropology in the postmodern landscape: The importance of cultural brokers and their trade
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
; This paper proposes that an anthropology of postmodern Australia should accord some priority to the analysis of cultural brokerage. In the first instance, cultural brokers are simply defined as those who trade in popular culture at a national/international level. They are located between the core
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Disappearing Worlds: Anthropology and Cultural Studies in Hawai`i and the Pacific.
The Contemporary Pacific
; Throughout most of the twentieth century, western audiences took for granted the role of anthropology as the field through which indigenous societies were studied and represented in scholarly literature. In recent decades this role has taken on an increasingly public and self-conscious posture.
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The art of cultural studies.(Forum on the Arts)
Phi Kappa Phi Forum
; The emerging field of cultural studies has provided a new lens through which to view and think about the arts and culture. Since its beginnings in the 1960s in England at the University of Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, the field of cultural studies has garnered much
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Le Tour du Monde: Towards an anthropology of the global mega-event
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
; This paper explores some of the ethnographic possibilities offered by the engagement of anthropologists in significant realms of global popular culture. It takes as its point of departure the increasing presence of mega-events on the landscape of contemporary social life. Specifically, the paper
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Cultural studies and anthropology. (response to Sandy Toussaint's review of the book 'Textual Spaces,' Oceania, vol. 66, issue 2)
Oceania
; In light of current debates and academic rivalries between cultural studies and anthropology, the editor of Oceania invited Professor Muecke to respond to the critical review of his book in the last issue of the journal. His response provides a further challege to anthropology. Toussaint's mistakes
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From cultural studies to cultural research: Engaged Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century
Cultural Studies Review
; - INTRODUCTION: THE CONTEMPORARY CRISIS OF CULTURAL STUDIES As the first decade of the new century marches on, cultural studies has become an established global presence in the intellectual landscape of the humanities and the social sciences. At the same time, what it stands for, and what its
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Is there any hope for cultural studies?
Monthly Review
; Cultural studies has developed as a significant new academic discipline at the end of the 20th century. An important spawning ground for contemporary cultural studies was the intellectual ferment surrounding the British new left of the 1950s and 1960s. Associated with such figures as Richard
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Texture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary Studies.(Review)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; DANIEL, E. VALENTINE & JEFFREY M. PECK (eds). viii, 410 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Berkeley, London: Univ. of California Press, 1996. [pounds]40.00 (cloth), [pounds]12.95 (paper) This volume takes up the very important task of exploring the exchanges across the borders of anthropology and literary
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Cultural studies and its impact on composition.(Panoramas and Vistas: New Directions in Writing Instruction)
The Clearing House
; One of the most interesting developments in composition theory in the last five years has been its movement into cultural studies. Although cultural studies has been around for four decades--first in Britain and then in America--composition studies has only recently developed ways in which to link
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