Postmodern anthropology?

or, an anthropology of postmodernity?

Richard Fardon

pp. 24-38

in: Joe Doherty, Elspeth Graham, Mo Malek (eds), Postmodernism and the social sciences, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1992

Abstract

Few -isms have provoked as much perplexity and exasperation as postmodernism, no doubt because of the way in which the word ‘modern’ is squeezed in between both a prefix and a suffix, each as dubious as the other. (Adair, 1989: 40)