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Books Can Be Deceiving: Edith Turner and the Problem of Categories in Anthropology
Author(s) -
Engelke Matthew
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.2001.26.2.124
Subject(s) - postmodernism , relation (database) , sociology , anthropology , work (physics) , epistemology , art history , psychoanalysis , art , philosophy , psychology , computer science , database , mechanical engineering , engineering
This article situates Edith Turner's first book, The Spirit and the Drum, in relation to feminist and postmodern work within anthropology. Drawing on each tradition, the author shows how Turner's work fits easily into neither, suggesting, rather, that such categorizations fail to capture the richness and depth of the work.