Constructing Knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Science

Foreword - Dell Hymes Introduction - Lorraine Nencel and Peter Pels Critique and the Deconstruction of Anthropological Authority PART ONE: RATIONALITY AND ETHNOCENTRISM Anthropological Doubt - Ton Lemaire Participatory Research and Healing Witchcraft - Gerrit Huizer An Essay in the Anthropology of Crisis PART TWO: POSTMODERN INSTANCES 'Oh, Research, Very Good!' - Robert Pool On Fieldwork and Representation A Post-Modern In-stance - Stephen A Tyler PART THREE: CRITICAL CONFRONTATIONS WITH POSTMODERNISM Further Notes on the Adventures of Phallus in Blunderland - Jonathan Friedman Women and the Orient - Annelies Moors A Note on Difference Fighting Symbols and Structures - Annemiek Richters Postmodernism, Feminism and Women's Health PART FOUR: GRASPING THE SUBJECT: 'OUR' DILEMMAS Time and Difference in Anthropological Writing - Olivia Harris Dialectics of a Dialogical Ideal - Joke Schrijvers Studying Down, Studying Sideways and Studying Up Dilemmas of Critical Anthropology - Johannes FabianNencel, Lorraine is the author of 'Constructing Knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Science' with ISBN 9780803984028 and ISBN 0803984022.