The Making of Anthropology: The Semiotics of Self and Other in the Western Tradition"This book offers an interpretation of anthropology as a discourse that contrasts the western self and the non-western other and shows that the organizing principle of this discourse was the Judeo-Christian episteme of the "Other in Us" that the Christian Church Fathers developed to define why the pagan others were endowed with negative, ungodly attributes of humanity. It is pointed out that the anthropological application of this episteme to represent and explain the colonized non-western others resulted in the emergence of eurocentric, hierarchical models of humanity, and that although these models of humanity were largely replaced by pluralistic models in the late 20 century, anthropology has continued to be linked with the episteme of the other in us"--Dust jacket. |
Contents
The Semiotics of Participant Observation | 42 |
The Semiotics of AnthropoCartography | 53 |
The Global Expansion of Europe | 89 |
iii | 99 |
European Expansion in the New World | 111 |
The Discourse on Culture and Globalism | 221 |
The Future of Anthropology and | 238 |
| 261 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Making of Anthropology: The Semiotics of Self and Other in the Western Tradition |
| Authors | Jacob Pandian, Susan Parman |
| Publisher | Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, 2004 |
| ISBN | 8179360148, 9788179360149 |
| Length | 308 pages |
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