Reinventing Anthropology in the Seventies
Reinventing Anthropology in the Seventies
This chapter talks about Dell Hymes, who put together a book of collected essays called Reinventing Anthropology at the invitation of Pantheon Books' “anti-text” series. It describes Reinventing Anthropology as a volume about racism, ecology, community and disciplinary censorship, which was not universally well received as noted by the Chicago anthropologist Fred Eggan. It also looks at the letter that was written in response to a query to the Columbia University sociologist Robert Merton about Thorstein Veblen and his use of the concept of trained incapacity. The chapter questions the role of sociology in understanding the way in which white-collar crime escaped the national crime index. It mentions the sociologist James Short, who wrote and document the paradigms used that allowed corporate criminals to escape crime statistics.
Keywords: Dell Hymes, racism, Robert Merton, disciplinary censorship, Fred Eggan, white-collar crime, Robert Merton, James Short, letters, 1970s
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