Anthropology and the politics of representation /edited by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina. 

 - Tuscaloosa :  University of Alabama Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 303 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Double trouble: implications of historicizing identity discourses /  Strategic essentialism, scholarly inflation, and political litmus tests: the moral economy of hyping the contemporary Mayas /  Yucatecan food and the postcolonial politics of representation /  Subverting stereotypes: the visual politics of representing indigenous modernity /  Labels, genuine and spurious: anthropology and the politics of otherness in the United States /  "Gone anthropologist": epistemic slippage, Native anthropology, and the dilemmas of representation /  Matthew the Canadian journalist: engagement and representation in highland Guatemala /  Performing music, silence, noise, and anthropology in Yucatan, Mexico /  Ethnography and the cultural politics of environmentalism /  Notes on the use and abuse of cultural knowledge /  Rooted or extinct? Post-Soviet anthropology and the construction of indigenousness /  Anthropology on trial: Australian anthropology and Native title litigation /  The politics of Europeanization, representation, and anthropology in Northern Ireland /  Epilogue: identities and politics of representation /  Les W. Field --  David Stoll --  Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz --  Beth A. Conklin --  Vilma Santiago-Irizarry --  Bernard C. Perley --  Timothy J. Smith --  Gabriela Vargas-Cetina --  Tracey Heatherington --  Frederic W. Gleach --  Sergey Sokolovskiy --  Katie Glaskin --  Thomas M. Wilson --  June C. Nash. 
<br/><br/> Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole. In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume editor Gabriela Vargas-Cetina brings together a group of international scholars who, through their fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political, and personal implications of their own work. To do so, they focus on such topics as ethnography, anthropo. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780817386245 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Methodology.<br/>Ethnology--Philosophy.<br/>Representation (Philosophy)<br/>Political anthropology.<br/>Anthropology.<br/>Ethnology.<br/>Anthropology<br/>Ethnology
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN345  / .A584 2013