Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-208) and index

"The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable 'cultural worlds'. Instead they investigate the relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists' models and accounts in new ways. In doing so, they offer fresh insights into this key area of anthropological research."--Publisher's description

Introduction : culture, context and anthropologists' accounts --Deborah James and Christina Toren --Alliances and avoidance : British interactions with German-speaking anthropologists, 1933-1953 --Andre Gingrich --Serving the volk? Afrikaner anthropology revisited --John Sharp --'Making Indians' : debating indigeneity in Canada and South Africa --Evie Plaice --Culture in the periphery : anthropology in the shadow of Greek civilisation --Dimitra Gefou-Madianou --RCulture : the indigenous account --Alan Barnard --We are all indigenous now : culture vs. nature in representations of the Balkans --Aleksandar Boškovic --Which cultures, what contexts, and whose accounts? Anatomies of a moral panic in Southall, multi-ethnic London --Gerd Baumann --'What about white people's history?' : class, race and culture wars in 21st century Britain --Gillian Evans --A cosmopolitan anthropology?Stephen Gudeman --The door in the middle : six conditions for anthropology --João de Pina-Cabral --Adam Kuper : an anthropologist's account --Isak Niehaus