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Deftly illustrating how life circumstances can influence ethnographic fieldwork, Mwenda Ntarangwi focuses on his experiences as a Kenyan anthropology student and professional anthropologist practicing in the United States and Africa. Whereas Western anthropologists often study non-Western cultures, Mwenda Ntarangwi reverses these common roles and studies the Western culture of anthropology from an outsider's viewpoint while considering larger debates about race, class, power, and the representation of the "other." Tracing his own immersion into American anthropology, Ntarangwi identifies textbooks, ethnographies, coursework, professional meetings, and feedback from colleagues and mentors that were key to his development. Reversed Gaze enters into a growing anthropological conversation on representation and self-reflexivity that ethnographers have come to regard as standard anthropological practice, opening up new dialogues in the field by allowing anthropologists to see the role played by subjective positions in shaping knowledge production and consumption. Mwenda Ntarangwi is an associate professor of anthropology at Calvin College and the author of East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization and Gender Identity and Performance.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Reversed Gaze
• Subtitle: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology
• Author: Mwenda Ntarangwi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 200
• EAN: 9780252035791
• ISBN: 0252035798
• ID: 04868251
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 453 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. December 2010

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