Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau

Index

Index Almada, Andre, 88 Appadurai, Arjun 101, 219 Appiah, Anthony, 107, 154, 219 Asad, Talal, 215, 219 authenticity, 11, 98–99, 101, 112, 124 Azande, 9–10, 30, 132, 143, 220 Benedict, Ruth, 7, 29–30, 126, 161, 183, 187, 211, 219 Bennett, Tony, 44, 45, 211, 213, 219 Bernal, Victoria, 216, 219 Bertrande-Bocande, 93, 177, 181 Bhaba, Homi, 214, 219 biology, 158, 212; in relation to theories of culture, 6, 14; Lauje biological models, 78; as a vernacular model, 3, 158, 160, 164, 182 biological essentialism, 69–72 Boas, Franz, 7, 67, 76, 121–122, 123, 211, 219 Bourdieu, Pierre, 45, 75, 211, 213, 219 Briggs, Jean, 213, 219 Brodie, Fawn, 52, 127, 214, 219 Bruner, Edward, 214, 219 Buffon, Compte de, 65–66, 68 Chagas, Frederico Pinheiro, 91, 95, 219 Chase-Riboud, Barbara, 52, 220 Clifford, James, 212, 220 Collier, Jane, 169–170, 216, 220 Colonial Williamsburg, 8, 10, 13, 61, 98, 241commoroff 225 colonialism, 8, 13, 23, 27, 78–79, 85, 88, 154–155, 170; and anthropology , 121–122, 123–125, 187, 214; as a theory of cultural development 92, 96 Comaroff, Jean and John 217, 220 cosmopolitanism, 33–34, 108, 125, 220 culture, xi–xiii, 2, 24, 64; by contrast, xiv, 2–3, 5–6, 13–14, 29, 76, 166, 212; critiques of, 212, 216; culture of modernity, 99–101; culture shock, 124; cultural essentialism, 79; Geertz’s theory of cultural difference , 125–126, 212, 216; Lauje theories of, 78; Manjaco theories of, 78, 146–147, 152–153; opposed to civilized or cultured 81–84; opposed to history, 83–84; revealed in clothing 84–91, theory in anthropology , 4–9, 29–30, 43, 55, 76, 121, 130, 132, 155, 159, 164, 172, 180, 183, 186–187, 211; Thomas Jefferson and a theory of, 64–74, 80–84; universal discourses of, 79, vernacular theories of, 4, 76, 175 cultural anthropology, xiii, 1, 3, 4–8, 67–68, 155, 189, 211, 212, 213, 214 cultural relativism, 33, 64, 67–72, 129, 188–189, 212 cultural studies, 217 Deloria, Philip, 73, 213, 217, 220 Index 226 215, 216–217 gift, 17–23, 25, 32, 40, 105, 169, 179, anthropology of the, 213 Godelier, Maurice, 213, 221 Golberry, Sivestre, 86, 88, 89–90, 129, 214, 221 Gordon-Reed, Annette, 213, 221 Gould, Stephen 213, 220 Gregory, Christopher, 213, 221 Grimshaw, Anna, 214, 221 Grossberg, Lawrence, 214, 221 Guinea-Bissau, 26, 86, 92, 96, 107, 203, 214 Handler, Richard, 8, 98, 212, 220, 221 Hebdige, Dick, 217, 221 Hemings, Sally 52–53, 213; liaison with Thomas Jefferson, 53–56; race and, 58–60, 76; racial politics and, 63–64; sexual imaginaries and, 127, 157–163 Herdt, Gilbert, 182–183, 215, 221 Herrnstein, Richard, 75, 221 Ho, Karen, 216, 221 holism, 8, 30, 212, 213 Hobbes, Thomas, 1–2, 6, 165, 167; Hobbesian , 92 95, 96, 180 homosexuality, 158, 161, 182 Hume, David, 89 identity, 44–46, 95; mimicry and, 156; racial and ethnic, 58–60, 72, 84; sexuality and, 183 Indians, 80–81, 121–122; American identity and, 73, 82–84, 188 Indonesia, 8, 15, 17, 23–24, 30, 38, 58, 126, 140, 196 Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 11–12, 13, 41–42, 87, 188, 207–208, 214; cultural relativist, 83; egalitarianism, 55–56, 194; liaison with Sally Hemings and, 52–54, 58, 157–166; MontiDouglas , Mary, 213, 220 Dumont, Jean-Paul, 213, 220 Eagleton, Terry, 212, 220 ecology, 14, 198, 216–217 Edwards, Elizabeth, 214, 220 egalitarianism, 8–9, 13, 41–42, 46, 47, 55, 67, 210 Enlightenment, 2, 84, 90, 128–130, 134 equality (human), xii, 8, 9, 13, 41–42, 54, 58, 60, 64, 67, 169, 180, 186 Evans-Pritchard, E. E., 6, 187, 189, 211, 214, 220; colonial era anthropology and, 122–125; fieldwork and 9–10, 30; religion and, 132, 143; visual imagery and, 97 ethnography, xi, xii, 5, 121, 141 as confession , 5, 29–30; muckraking and, 186; the personal and, xii; philosophy and, 5, 9, 29–30 ethnocentrism, 13, 67–68, 133, 155, 187–188, 212 ethos, xii, 9–10, 14, 17, 29, 155; capitalist , 65; individualist pluralism, 133; Manjaco, 143; modernity, 126 Fabian, Johannes, 101, 215, 220 Ferguson, James, 216, 220 fieldwork, 8–9, 20, 26, 29, 31, 33, 57, 212; as cultural critique, 159–160, 183; colonialism and, 121–122, defined , 4, 7, 30, 33, 57, 58, 126; moral dilemmas of, 37 Fisher, Mark, 212, 222 Gambia, 86, 92, 93, 107, 129, 148, 181 Geertz, Clifford, xii 1, 9, 11, 183, 189...