Constructing Anthropologists: Culture learning and culture making in U.S. doctoral education
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Learning and Teaching
ISSN
1755-2273
Volume
5
Issue
1
DOI
10.3167/latiss.2012.050103
First Page
32
Last Page
68
Publication Date
1-28-2012
Abstract
In the tradition of anthropological reflexivity, this article examines how the structure of early doctoral training contributes to the construction of particular kinds of anthropologists. Based on research conducted in an anthropology department in the U.S.A. during the late 1990s, the experience of the transition from undergraduate to doctoral studies is explored as simultaneously a process of culture learning and culture making, with power relations expressed, imposed, and contested through language. The implications for questions animating current anthropological debates, including calls for 'public anthropology', are considered.
Recommended Citation
Bathurst, Laura, "Constructing Anthropologists: Culture learning and culture making in U.S. doctoral education" (2012). School of International Studies Faculty Articles. 1.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/sis-facarticles/1
