In Search of the Primitive
A Critique of Civilization
Published on 21. June 2017
300 pages
978-1-351-61545-7 (ISBN)
Description
Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities-a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Levi-Strauss. Above all it is reflective and self-critical, critical of the discipline of anthropology and of the civilization that produced that discipline. Diamond views the anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his own civilizations as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of Western civilization. He rejects the associations which have been made in the ideology of our civilization, consciously or unconsciously, between Western dominance and progress, imperialism and evolution, evolution and progress.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 Tables, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
File size
49,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-61545-7 (9781351615457)
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Person
Stanley Diamond was professor of anthropology in the graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, USA. He was the founder and editor of Dialectical Anthropology and a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health, USA.
Content
Foreword by Eric R. Wolf
1. Introduction: Civilization and Progress
2. The Politics of Field Work
3. Anthropology in Question
4. The Search for the Primitive
5. Plato and the Definition of the Primitive
6. The Uses of the Primitive
7. Schizophrenia and Civilization
8. The Rule of Law versus the Order of Custom
9. Job and the Trickster
10. The Inauthenticity of Anthropology: the Myth of Structuralism
11. What History Is
Epilogue
1. Introduction: Civilization and Progress
2. The Politics of Field Work
3. Anthropology in Question
4. The Search for the Primitive
5. Plato and the Definition of the Primitive
6. The Uses of the Primitive
7. Schizophrenia and Civilization
8. The Rule of Law versus the Order of Custom
9. Job and the Trickster
10. The Inauthenticity of Anthropology: the Myth of Structuralism
11. What History Is
Epilogue
