Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age

by Faye V. Harrison

Outsider Within presents an approach to critically reconstructing the anthropology discipline to better encompass issues of gender and race. Among the nine key changes to the field that Faye V. Harrison advocates are researching in an ethically and politically responsible manner, promoting greater diversity in the discipline, rethinking theory, and committing to a genuine multicultural dialogue. In drawing from materials developed during her distinguished twenty-five year career in Caribbean and African American studies, Harrison analyzes anthropology’s limits and possibilities from an African American woman’s perspective, while also recognizing similarities between peoples, despite social, cultural, and political differences. In seeking to productively engage anthropologists of diverse geographical, cultural, and national origins, Harrison challenges them to work together to transcend stark gender, racial, and national hierarchies.

Genres: Anthropology

376 pages, Paperback

First published February 19, 2007

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

my advisor is the author of this book...she's amazing! This book has been really helpful to me as I write my paper for admission to the PhD program... as always, another excellent piece of scholarship, and something I aspire to but will likely never attain...