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American Anthropology as Foreign Policy
Author(s) -
Borneman John
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1995.97.4.02a00080
Subject(s) - foreign policy , anthropology , order (exchange) , sociology , relation (database) , applied anthropology , political science , law , computer science , politics , business , finance , database
In the United States, the discipline of English literature and language has cohered around modeling domestic policy, while anthropology has cohered around modeling foreign policy. This is illustrated by way of anthropology's relation to the conceptual apparatus created in United States Indian policy as part of a global strategy in mapping foreignness. The author suggests an alternative outline for a history and calls for an expanded and self‐conscious (re)vision of anthropology's role in constituting international order.