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Imagining the Future of the Anthropology of Education if We Take Laura Nader Seriously
Author(s) -
Hamann Edmund T.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2003.34.4.438
Subject(s) - sociology , scholarship , applied anthropology , anthropology , assertion , educational anthropology , cultural anthropology , sociocultural anthropology , ecological anthropology , ethnography , anthropology of art , political science , history , contemporary art , performance art , computer science , law , art history , programming language
The large corpus of scholarship of cultural anthropologist Laura Nader is relevant to the contemporary practice of the anthropology of education. In particular, her work is relevant to contemporary debates about methodology and what constitutes “scientifically based” education research; to the prospect and need for more crossfertilization within the discipline of anthropology; and for the proud assertion of anthropology's distinctive suitability for understanding and responding to many contemporary educational challenges, including how to have anthropologically derived insights more favorably compete in the “marketplace of ideas” against less empirically grounded claims and strategies.