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From: "Vera Kovacovic" <kovac006-AT-maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: advocacy-anthropology.
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 22:13:51 -0600


In message <Pine.SOL.3.91.951129163202.4564A-100000-AT-orion>  writes:
> 
> Dear Bourdieu list subscribers,
> 
> Fully aware of the slightly unrelated nature of this request, I am looking
> for information about a school of anthropology called
> advocacy-anthropology.  From what I have heard, this discipline goes by
> other names as well.  Please forward any names or recommendations about
> these authors or works to me if at all possible. I hope to explore some of
> Bourdieu's interpretations of cultural-capital, texts, along with issues
> of representation, _through_ this discipline of advocacy anthropology. 
> Ethnography/activism/representation/practice.  How do these larger themes
> relate?  To tell you the truth, I am looking for thos epolitical practices
> I have had to leave behind in beginning school again. 
> 
> Sincerely,
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> 
> "We were in a large room.  Full of people.  All kinds.  And they had arrived
>  at the same time.  And they were all free and they were all asking 
> themselves
>  the same question:  What is behind that curtain?  They were all free.  And
>  they were all wondering what would happen next."   --Laurie Anderson
> ______________________________________________________________________________
>  
> Jules David Tuyes                               jdtantx-AT-sfsu.edu
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> 
Jules,

Try Renato Rosaldo, he is at Stanford, wrote Culture and Truth:The Remaking of 
Social Analysis. He was/is doing a research with the Latinos in San Jose area on
definig their sense of citizenship, community and belonging. I really don't know
if this is what you are looking for. Good luck.

Vera
> 


Vera Kovacovic
Department of Educational Policy
& Administration (CIDE)
University of Minnesota
330 Wulling Hall
86 Pleasant Street, SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0211
(612) 645-3229
kovac006-AT-maroon.tc.umn.edu




   

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