Four books and an article on the insights that an underappreciated discipline can offer
anthropologists what they do you could easily get 101 different answers. The Greek roots of the word anthropology mean “human being” and “study”. Its central method of conducting fieldwork in communities is unlike those of other academic disciplines, including sociology, which draws on large data sets. Anthropologists spend years gathering their findings and their results are not replicable.
Before Bronislaw Malinowski, who worked mainly in the early 20th century, anthropologists mostly worked from “the veranda” or the “armchair”, using second-hand sources to study cultures in lands that their countries had colonised. They stayed away from the field to preserve their “objectivity”. Malinowski did the opposite. In June 1915, he pitched up in the Trobriand Islands, off the east coast of New Guinea.
Muslim women do not need saving, contends Lila Abu-Lughod in a book that she wrote in response to the “war on terror”. Western countries used the oppression of women as one justification for invading Muslim ones. Ms Abu-Lughod’s work challenges what she views as the Islamophobic assumptions underlying that pretext. The women she encounters in her fieldwork in Egypt are devout and accept the norms of conservative Islam.
Although anthropologists are not at the centre of the academic conversation in the West, they command attention in China. That is in large part due to the work of Xiang Biao, a professor at Oxford University who is also director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.
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