A collection that debates and studies how to revise the four-field approach of anthropology.

Daniel A. Segal is Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Historical Studies at Pitzer College. He is a coauthor of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities and editor of Crossing Cultures: Essays in the Displacement of Western Civilization. He is a former editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology (1995–2001).

Sylvia J. Yanagisako is Professor and former Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of Producing Culture and Capital: Family Firms in Italy and coeditor of Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis.

Introduction / Daniel A. Segal and Sylvia J. Yanagisako 1
Rearticulating Anthropology / James Clifford 24
Unchosen Grounds: Cultivating Cross-Subfield Accents for a Public Voice / Rena Lederman 49
Flexible Disciplinarity: Beyond the Americanist Tradition / Sylvia J. Yanagisako 78
Languages/Cultures Are Dead! Long Live the Linguistic-Cultural! / Michael Silverstein 99
An Archaeology of the Four-Field Approach in Anthropology in the United States / Ian Hodder 126
References 141
Contributors 161
Index 163