Shifting Contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 9
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Series editor\'s preface......Page 12
Foreword Shifting contexts......Page 14
Forgotten knowledge......Page 26
Exhibiting knowledge: the trees of Dubois, Haeckel, Jesse and Rivers at the Pithecanthropus centennial exhibition......Page 44
Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world......Page 70
Transformations of identity in Sepik warfare......Page 94
Human rights and moral knowledge: arguments of accountability in Zimbabwe......Page 112
Globalisation and the new technologies of knowing: anthropological calculus or chaos?......Page 130
Cultures in collision: the emergence of a new localism in academic research......Page 144
The nice thing about culture is that everyone has it......Page 166
Afterword Relocations......Page 190
Name index......Page 199
Subject index......Page 203