Marginaal: De Wilde Antropologie

Samenvatting

Anthropology is faced with the glaring gap between its great potential & comparatively meager achievements. Traditionally, anthropologists have focused on primitive cultures lacking a written language. However, in the 1960s & 1970s, studies began to appear about disadvantaged minority groups in advanced Western countries. In many instances, the traditional vocabulary & concepts used by anthropologists were extended to these groups. The tendency to view Western urban life as containing many exotic elements was given a new impulse in Dutch anthropology by Jojanda Verrips's Op weg naar een antropologie van het wilde westen ([On the Road to an Anthropology of the Wild West] 1993), which was influenced by the paradigms of Norbert Elias & by work conducted at the U of Amsterdam. 6 References. M. Meeks