Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
Inga Clendinnen We are all subtly dominated by tacit presuppositions. âW. E. H. Stanner, 1958 A Synopsis In what follows, I take a moleâs view of a large postcolonial problem: the difï¬culties in the way of keeping cultural differences steadily âin mindââand the cascading consequences of failure. The Setting Toward the end of the 1950s, the anthropologist Joseph Casagrande was moved to assemble a collection of essays, written by ranking anthropologists and focusing not on scientiï¬c theories or ï¬ndings but on their own personal relationships with particularly valued informants. In the Company of Man appeared in 1960, and both the title and the tone of the introduction suggest Casagrande had been ï¬red by Edward Steichenâs âFamily of Manâ exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955. (The MoMA collection of photographs was then published Common Knowledge 11:3 Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press as a large, beautiful, and remarkably fast-breeding coffee-table book.)1 Those radiant photographs assumed that behind trivial variations in color, customs, and costumes, we are brothers (and sisters, parents, children) under the skin. Here is Casagrandeâs description of an anthropologistâs incorporation into the life of âhisâ tribe: âWith luck and in good
Common Knowledge – Duke University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2005
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.