Aftermaths of Genocide: Cambodian Villagers
in Annihilating Difference
August 2002; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: anthropology. 10185 words.
This chapter takes a look at how anthropologists can provide an analysis of the devastation that follows genocide and how survivors try to rebuild their lives. The analysis presented in this chapter...
Afterthoughts: The Experience and Agony of Fieldwork
in Being There
February 2009; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: theory and practice of anthropology. 4715 words.
This chapter deals with the general practice of anthropology and fieldwork. Various accounts of fieldwork from diverse and converging angles make the case for a fresh look at fieldwork encounters....
Afterword
in International Migration and Human Rights
November 2009; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: anthropology. 7108 words.
Afterword
in The Ethnography of Reading
July 1993; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: anthropology. 2789 words.
The ethnography of reading is such a timely idea that one is tempted to ask why it has taken so long for students of society, history, and literature to come around it. This chapter notes that the...
Afterword
in What Is Medicine?
September 2009; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: medical anthropology. 705 words.
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Afterword: Boundaries and Horizons
in Conversion to Christianity
February 1993; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: anthropology of religion. 7118 words.
Conversion to Christianity means different things to different peoples and entails divergent social consequences. The Christianity that conversion produces in different human communities is complexly...
Afterword Language is Story
in Frontiers of Historical Imagination
July 1997; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: anthropology. 815 words.
This chapter argues that the quest for scientific certainty had led scholars through a series of linguistic turns which encoded historical narrative and knowledge as an antonym, and opened the doors...
Afterword: Marriage and Gender Inequality
in Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society
April 1991; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: anthropology. 10117 words.
This chapter is concerned specifically with the relation between marriage and gender inequality. While most of the contributors to this book have either touched on, or directly considered, this...
Afterword: Putting Gender at the Center
in Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities
January 2002; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: anthropology. 5078 words.
This chapter presents a gendered reading of a few of the main political stories of the twentieth century. It demonstrates how it might be possible to push the engendering of Chinese history further....
Afterword: The Challenge of Inalienable Possessions
in Inalienable Possessions
May 1992; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: anthropology. 2788 words.
This chapter summarizes the preceding arguments to show the cultural effort it takes to reconfigure the loss of sisters, the loss of inalienable possessions, and the loss of cosmological...