Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions
Handler, Richard History-making can be used both to bolster and to contest the legitimacy of established institutions and canons. "Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions" seeks to widen the anthropological past and, in doing so, to invigorate contemporary anthropological practice. In the past decade, anthropologists have become increasingly aware of the ways in which participation in professional anthropology has depended and continues to depend on categori...