Review article

Anthropology in the Modern World

Arthur J. Vidich ; New School for Social Research, New York, USA

Abstract

The underlying assumption of the approaches in vogue in American social anthropology was that the societies studied by anthropologists were qualitatively different from the advanced industrial societies to which they were frequently compared. In this paper we wish to reverse the perspective usually employed by the anthropologists. We will not assume a dichotomy between the primitive, pre-industrial world and the industrial world in which modern anthropology has itself developed. Instead, we will examine the ideological, intellectual, and historical factors that have governed the anthropologist's relationship with his own society and with the primitive world which was his subject matter. We will assume that modernizing tendencies have eroded most of anthropology's basic assumptions about itself and its subject matter, and we will try to indicate some implications that follow for the future of the craft

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Hrčak ID:

175179

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/175179

Publication date:

31.3.1974.

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