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Title: | The counterrevolutionary tradition in African studies: the case of applied anthropology |
Author: | Onoge, Omafume F. |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 325-345 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa South Africa Zambia |
Subject: | physical anthropology |
Abstract: | Several scholars, i.a. Kathleen Gough, Marvin Harris, Alvin Gouldner, have been systematically diagnosing the conservative tradition of anthropology (and sociology) with regard to the political aspirations of peoples in the Third World. In America, this growing school of critical anthropology has crystallized around the movement 'Anthropologists For Radical Action''. Africanist anthropology has not been immune from this radical re-evaluation. The author extends this critical re-evaluation to the particular subfield of applied anthropology, especially with regard to the Britisch School. Sections: Introduction (applied (Africanistic) anthropology and the Dual Mandate; Malinowski's colonial ideology; Malinowski's theoretical equipment, culture-contact functionalism; culture-contact ethnography, blaming the victim) - The future of the Mpondo, pre-Sharpeville views - Why the Bemba are hungry - Lucy Mair's lament (revising Malinowski, the Wilsons 'revolution'; the Mpondo revisited, post-Sharpeville) - Conclusion: toward a liberation anthropology. Ref., notes. |