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Volume 37, Number 1, January-June - Special Issue on the
Ethnography
of Healing Guest Editor: Laurent Pordie |
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Classic Symptoms of Liminality:
Notes on Problems and Prospects of Anthropology by Farid Uddin
Ahamed & Nasir Uddin
Currently anthropology is thought to be in doubt of its future
and prospects. It is often said that anthropology is
encountering some predicaments with its ground theories and
disciplinary landscape. The present paper sheds lights on two
broad objectives which are supplementary to each other. First is
to examine the problems of contemporary anthropology going
through its intellectual background and disciplinary foundation.
The paper addresses the historical background of ethnographic
trends in social science, the gradual development of
anthropology as a discipline, contemporary problems of
anthropology. Secondly, the paper addresses the future and
prospects of anthropology based on research engages happening
around the world. Indeed, it deliberately concerns with its
problems of praxis and epistemology to conceptualise the future
and prospects of anthropology.
Key Words: Anthropology, Praxis, Epistemology, Theory,
Anthropological Knowledge. |
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