Reinventing anthropology / ed. by Dell Hymes

• Paperback: 470 pages
• Publisher: Vintage Books; 1st US - 1st Printing edition (1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394719530
• ISBN-13: 978-0394719535
• Package Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces

Originally published in 1972, Dell Hymes's edited collection of essays brought together a host of leaders in anthropology who were passionate about the need to "reinvent" the discipline in which they were all involved. Having determined that the scientific approach fostered by anthropologists earlier in the century disavowed the subjectivity inherent in observation, Hymes and his colleagues called for a more reflexive approach to ethnography. They also sought a solution to the fragmentation that they felt was splintering their field and proposed a progressive political awareness that embraced a liberatory, not a materialistic, end.