World Anthropologies, Disciplinary Transformations in Systems of

Since its inception, anthropology´s authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutation across the globe. ´World Anthropologies´ is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse.