Outsider within : reworking anthropology in the global age /
F aye V. Harrison.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
- xii, 361 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-345) and index.
Reworking anthropology from the "outside within" -- Unburying theory , repositioning practice : anthropological praxis in peripheral predica ments -- Remapping routes, unearthing roots : rethinking Caribbean conn ections with the U.S. South -- Writing against the grain : cultural pol itics of difference in Alice Walker's fiction -- Probing the legacy of empire : reflexive notes on Caribbeanist Gordon K. Lewis -- Gangs, poli tics, and dilemmas of global restructuring in Jamaica -- The gendered v iolence of structural adjustment -- Everyday neoliberalism in Cuba : a glimpse from Jamaica -- Global apartheid at home and abroad -- Justice for all : the challenges of advocacy research in the global age -- Teac hing philosophy -- Academia, the free market, and diversity -- A labor of love : an emancipated woman's legacy.