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Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties

Ortner, Sherry B.·1984·Comparative Studies in Society and History
DOI 10.1017/s0010417500010811
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Every year, around the time of the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, the New York Times asks a Big Name anthropologist to contribute an op-ed piece on the state of the field. These pieces tend to take a rather gloomy view. A few years ago, for example, Marvin Harris suggested that anthropology was being taken over by mystics, religious fanatics, and California cultists; that the meetings were dominated by panels on shamanism, witchcraft, and “abnormal phenomena”; and that “scientific papers based on empirical studies” had been willfully excluded from the program (Harris 1978). More recently, in a more sober tone, Eric Wolf suggested that the field of anthropology is coming apart. The sub-fields (and sub-sub-fields) are increasingly pursuing their specialized interests, losing contact with each other and with the whole. There is no longer a shared discourse, a shared set of terms to which all practitioners address themselves, a shared language we all, however idiosyncratically, speak (Wolf 1980).

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Authors
Ortner, S. B.
Venue
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1984-01
Volume
26
Issue
1
Pages
126-166
ISSN
  • 0010-4175 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-2999
DOI
10.1017/s0010417500010811
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W2097379326
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2,853
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139.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
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