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Susan Kent's Vision of a Genuinely Integrated Anthropology
Author(s) -
Patterson Thomas C.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
archeological papers of the american anthropological association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1551-8248
pISSN - 1551-823X
DOI - 10.1525/ap3a.2006.16.1.13
Subject(s) - articulation (sociology) , anthropology , sociology , sociocultural anthropology , cultural anthropology , ecological anthropology , applied anthropology , ethnic group , digital anthropology , anthropology of art , history , art history , political science , contemporary art , politics , performance art , law
Susan Kent advocated an integrated, integrative, and integrating anthropology at a time when some practitioners championed fragmentation. Her anthropology was a critical, engaged one that recognized the importance of class structures constituted in economic terms and their articulation and interplay with socially and culturally constituted gender, ethnic, and racial hierarchies. This chapter explores how she conceptualized this integrated, critically engaged anthropology—theoretically, methodologically, and practically. It also explores how the traditional subfields were integrated into and constitutive of the larger whole.