Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Prologue; Part 1 The Ethnographic Present; Part 2 The Language Paradox; Part 3 The Empirical Foundation; Part 4 The Anthropological Imagination; Part 5 The Motivated Body; Part 6 The Inarticulate Mind; Part 7 The Symbolic Violence; Part 8 The Native Voice; Part 9 The Realist Quest; Part 10 Epilogue;

'Hastrup's book is fascinating a highly interesting account of the state of anthropological theorizing after the post-modernist attack on the empirical foundations of the subject.' - Michael Bollig, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 124(1999)

Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Prologue; Part 1 The Ethnographic Present; Part 2 The Language Paradox; Part 3 The Empirical Foundation; Part 4 The Anthropological Imagination; Part 5 The Motivated Body; Part 6 The Inarticulate Mind; Part 7 The Symbolic Violence; Part 8 The Native Voice; Part 9 The Realist Quest; Part 10 Epilogue;

'Hastrup's book is fascinating a highly interesting account of the state of anthropological theorizing after the post-modernist attack on the empirical foundations of the subject.' - Michael Bollig, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 124(1999)

Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Prologue; Part 1 The Ethnographic Present; Part 2 The Language Paradox; Part 3 The Empirical Foundation; Part 4 The Anthropological Imagination; Part 5 The Motivated Body; Part 6 The Inarticulate Mind; Part 7 The Symbolic Violence; Part 8 The Native Voice; Part 9 The Realist Quest; Part 10 Epilogue;

'Hastrup's book is fascinating a highly interesting account of the state of anthropological theorizing after the post-modernist attack on the empirical foundations of the subject.' - Michael Bollig, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 124(1999)