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Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa (2001)

Schumaker, Lyn (Author)

Duke University Press

Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xii + 376 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

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Biology Ethnology Anthropology Field work Scientific communities; interprofessional relations Theories of knowledge 20th century Africa Zambia Rhodesia

Description Discusses the story of the anthropological fieldwork centered at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the mid-twentieth century.

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Review Barnes, J. A. (2002) Review of "Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 336). unapi

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