Constructing Knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Science.

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Part 1 Rationality and ethnocentrism: anthropological doubt, Tom Lemaire participatory research and healing witchcraft - an essay in the anthropology of crisis, Gerrit Huizer. Part 2 Postmodern instances: Oh, Research. Very Good - on fieldwork and representation, Robert Pool a post-modern instance, Stephen Tyler. Part 3 Critical confrontations with postmodernism: further adventures of phallus in Blunderland, Jonathan Friedman a note on difference - feminist studies and the Orient, Annelies Moore fighting symbols and structure - postmodernism, feminism and women's health, Annemiek Richters. Part 4 Grasping the subject - Our dilemmas: time and difference in anthropological writing, Olivia Harris dialectics of a dialogical ideal - studying down, studying sideways and studying up, Joke Schrijvers dilemmas of critical anthropology, Johannes Fabian.