TY  - GEN
AU  - Rao, P. Venkat
TI  - Anthropology and post-modernism: An appraisal
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - post-modernism
N2  - The post-modernists have been raising important questions about established practices of field work, ethnographic presentations, and interpretations. Treating conventional ethnographies as fiction, a post-modern way of doing ethnography has been proposed. The post-modern criticism lead to varied responses. While post-modern trend has been considered as an ephemeral phenomenon by many, others see the possibility of a profound reshaping of the discipline and its methods. While the followers of this trend strated introspection about the role of the discipline by re-examining earlier works, good number of anthropologists countered the post-modern criticism by pointing to the inadequacies and contradictons in the   post-modern deconstructions. Drawing from varios published works, the present paper attempts an appraisal of the issues raised by post-modernists, and the ongoing debate
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