Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences

George E. Marcus together with Michael M. J. Fischer uses cultural anthropology as a lens on debates that run through the wider human sciences. They look back at what the discipline has achieved, at the problems it faces now, and at the direction it might take next.

The authors argue that anthropology has insights that matter beyond its own boundaries. Their discussion reaches into art, literature and history, and it treats the discipline's methods as a subject for critical scrutiny rather than settled practice.

Scholars who take a critical approach to social science, and students of anthropology who want to see how the field argues with itself, will find the book most useful. It is a work for close reading rather than a survey of the discipline.

Edition note: published by the University of Chicago Press. Subtitle: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. ISBN-13: 9780226504506.