Anthropology and the will to meaning: a postcolonial critique / Vassos Argyrou.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Of Scholars, Gamblers and Thieves 1 -- 2. Has There Ever Been a Crisis in Ethnological Representation? 10 -- The Ethnographer as 'Man' 11 -- The Ethnological Representation Par Excellence 19 -- 3. The Salvation Intent 28 -- The Three Strategies of Redemption 28 -- Christian Ethnology and Victorian Anthropology 34 -- Twentieth-Century Paradigms 43 -- The Ethnological Complicity 56 -- 4. What the Natives Don't Know 60 -- The Sociocultural Unconscious 60 -- Heterodox Consciousness 74 -- The 'Heroisation' of the Thinking Subject 82 -- 5. The Ethnological Will to Meaning 92 -- The Impossible 92 -- Sameness and the Beyond 105 -- The Will to Meaning 112 -- At the End of the Game 117.