Originally published in 1982, James Clifford's analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878-1954)--missionary, anthropologist, founder of French Oceanic studies, historian of religion, and colonial reformer--received wide critical acclaim for its insight into the colonial history of anthropology. Drawing extensively on unpublished letters and journals, Clifford traces Leenhardt's life from his work as a missionary on the island of New Caledonia (1902-1926) to his subsequent return to Paris where he became an academic ...
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Originally published in 1982, James Clifford's analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878-1954)--missionary, anthropologist, founder of French Oceanic studies, historian of religion, and colonial reformer--received wide critical acclaim for its insight into the colonial history of anthropology. Drawing extensively on unpublished letters and journals, Clifford traces Leenhardt's life from his work as a missionary on the island of New Caledonia (1902-1926) to his subsequent return to Paris where he became an academic anthropologist at the ???cole Practique des Hautes ???tudes, where he followed Marcel Mauss and was succeeded in 1951 by Claude L???vi-Strauss. Clifford sees in Leenhardt's career a foreshadowing of contemporary anthropological concerns with reflexivity, cultural hybridity, and colonial and post-colonial entanglements.
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Like New. Size: 5x0x8; A nice, unread copy: Binding firm, cover shiny, interior clean and unmarked. Biography and analytic study of Leenhardt (1878-1954) in New Caledonia and Paris. Looks deep into the time and mind-set of Leenhardt and his colleagues during the critical period of anthropology's formation of the image of melanesians. An important contribution to the deconstruction movement. 270pp. Index, bibliography. 19 b/w illus. Reprint.
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