@article{1461632,
      recid = {1461632},
      author = {D'Agostino, Gabriella, and Matera, Vincenzo,},
      title = {Histories of anthropology /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 676 pages).},
      year = {2023},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {"The book offers a fresh analysis of the disciplines  unfolding in different nation states by tracing the  historical trajectories of lesser known anthropological  traditions in terms of theoretical and methodological  practices." Soumendra Patnaik, Professor of Anthropology,  University of Delhi This edited volume presents, for the  first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only  the well-known European and American traditions, but also  lesser-known traditions, extending its scope beyond the  Western world. It focuses on the results of these  traditions in the present. Taking into account the  distinction between empire-building and nation-building  anthropology, introduced by G. Stocking and taken up by U.  Hannerz, the book investigates different histories of  anthropology, especially in ex-colonial and marginal  contexts. It highlights how the hegemonic anthropologies  have been accepted and assimilated in local contexts, which  approaches have been privileged by institutions and  academies in different locations, how the anthropological  approach has been modelled and adapted according to  specific knowledge requirements related to the cultural  features of different areas, and which schools emerge as  the most consolidated today. Each chapter presents a  cultural history of one of the historical-cultural and  geo-political contexts that influenced and produced the  specific disciplinary traditions. The chapters highlight  the local contributions to the discipline, the influences  that the world centres have on the peripheries, but also  the ways in which the peripheries have learned from the  centres in order to re-elaborate meaningful or otherwise  recognisable disciplinary lines. Gabriella DAgostino is  Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Palermo  University, Department of Cultures and Societies, Italy.  She is author of the book Sous le traces. Anthropologie et  contemporanit (ditions Ptra 2018), and Editor-in-Chief of  the journal Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo. Vincenzo  Matera is Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the  University of Milan, Department of Languages, Literatures,  Cultures and Mediations, Italy. He is also a professor at  USI (Universit della Svizzera Italiana). He is co-editor of  Ethnography: A Theoretically Oriented Practice (Palgrave  Macmillan 2021).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1461632},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21258-1},
}