Imperfect Interpreters
Author | : W. D. Hammond-Tooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1997 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105021513937 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Imperfect Interpreters written by W. D. Hammond-Tooke and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and accessible book, W.D. Hammond-Tooke takes a critical look at anthropology and anthropologists and examines the uneasy relationship between anthropological scholarship and national politics in a fundamentally divided and rapidly changing society. Imperfect Interpreters is an account of seventy years of professional anthropological study in South Africa. It is not a history of university departments or a who's who of the academic community. Rather it is a critical (and often very personal) examination of the protagonists, the theoretical ideas that guided their researches, and, especially their relationships to those in power.