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- Title: Popular Anthropology and the State: David Maybury-Lewis and Pluralism (Personal REFLECTIONS ON A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: DAVID MAYBURY-LEWIS)
- Author : Anthropological Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 223 KB
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In 1982, David Maybury-Lewis convened a plenary session of the American Ethnological Society on the theme "The Prospects for Plural Societies" and in 1984 published an edited volume of essays of the same name [rom the symposium. As a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard, I worked as David Maybury-Lewis's research assistant and helped to organize the meetings and edit the papers; as a postgraduate in 1991, I contributed research to David's public television series and book, Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World. Be was a supportive mentor and a meticulous editor, setting a high bar for the correct use of language and avoidance of professional jargon and academic obfuscation of any kind. The two projects, separated by a decade but also linked in their objectives, do, I think, contribute a substantive sense of Maybury-Lewis's career as a public intellectual who was committed to reaching well beyond the boundaries of academia's ivory tower. The theme of "Plural Societies," already topical in 1982, was prescient given the rising tempo of ethno-political conflict during the last twenty years of the century. Maybury-Lewis aimed to collect an international group of scholars to cover a broad spectrum of geographical cases (Indonesia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, China, the Pacific Islands, South Asia, Africa) from diverse national perspectives. M.G. Smith's The Plural Society in the British West Indies (1965) and Fredrik Barth's Ethnic Groups and Boundaries (1969) were already part of the anthropological canon. Both authors contributed essays to the book, and their approach to ethnicity was comparative and constructionist. In his introduction, Maybury-Lewis cited Joan Vincent's apt characterization of ethnicity as an "ascriptive mask of confrontation;" ethnicity was to be understood, he argued, "as a latent qualification to be circumstantially activated" (ibid.: 5) under political conditions which facilitate or indeed demand it.
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