Exotic No More, Second Edition: Anthropology for the Contemporary World

by Jeremy MacClancy (editor)

In this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today’s most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological theory and ethnographic methods can make to the study of contemporary society. With chapters covering a wide variety of subjects—the economy, religion, the sciences, gender and sexuality, human rights, music and art, tourism, migration, and the internet—this volume shows how anthropologists grapple with a world that is in constant and accelerating transformation. Each contributor uses examples from their adventurous fieldwork to challenge us to rethink some of our most firmly held notions. This fully updated edition reflects the best that anthropology has to offer in the twenty-first century. The result is both an invaluable introduction to the field for students and a landmark achievement that will set the agenda for critical approaches to the study of contemporary life.Ruben Andersson, Philippe Bourgois, Catherine Buerger, James G. Carrier, Marcus Colchester, James Fairhead, Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Katy Gardner, Faye Ginsburg, Roberto J. González, Tom Griffiths, Chris Hann, Susan Harding, Faye V. Harrison, Laurie Kain Hart, Richard Jenkins, George Karandinos, Christopher M. Kelty, Melissa Leach, Margaret Lock, Jeremy MacClancy, Sally Engle Merry, Fernando Montero, Matt Sakakeeny, Anthony Alan Shelton, Christopher B. Steiner, Richard Ashby Wilson

Genres: Anthropology, Nonfiction, Academic

408 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2002

Reviews

[Killthehumans Savetheforest · Rating 1 out of 5]

The authors are in love with the nobel savages.
a collection of uninformed essays, lacking worldview, a background in colonialism, economics, politics, or anything that this book covers. non-academic, packed full of unbacked and unjustified opinions, assumptions, and pseudo-racist earnestly gushing ideas like "wow, i just loooove how indigenous people can know things about their environments without white people or science having told them."

actually, if you're racist, and it's just occurring to you now that this might be a stupid standpoint, this book will probably help to ease you away from your beliefs. for the rest of us, the surprise in the authors' voices makes makes me want to rip this book up.

this book is sexist and xenophobic. it alienates and infantilizes indigenous people and depicts them as sensationalist novelties.
it lists "homosexual prostitution" as a separate negative effect of tourism, in addition to "prostitution".
god that's magic.

[Mills College Library]

301 E9642 2002