An Anthropological Toolkit

An Anthropological ToolkitPresenting sixty theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument. David Zeitlyn has written a wryly engaging, short book on, essentially, why we should not become theoretical partisansthat, indeed, being a serious theorist means accepting precisely that principle.Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University To answer, he offers a series of mini essays about an eclectic collection

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It looks at the contrasting Indian and Sri Lankan responses to Western influence and delineates the Indian tradition in a new way

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giving legislators and medical people alike free rein to manipulate them at will

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Spurious Coin constructs a cultural history of technical writing in the United States and the system of scientific knowledge and power it controls

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with several new chapters that focus on telehealth

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