AAA ANNUAL MEETING, SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 1996 - Ⅰ

摘要

logical Annual Meeting held in San Francisco from 20 to 24 November was 'Anthropology: A Critical Retrospective'. In this spirit Robert Borofsky (Hawaii) had organized an invited session on 'How Others See us: American Cultural Anthropology as the Observed Rather than the Observer'. The otherness of 'others' such as Frederick Barth, Margaret Jolly and David Parkin was of course contentious. Mariza Peirano (Brasilia), puzzled by what it meant to be 'other' to 'American' anthropology, decided to visit the bookshop to get a more substantive sense of what 'American anthropology' might be: there she would find not just what was being written, but also what Americans were prepared to buy.