Anthropology in the context that produced it

Abstract

This paper evaluates a definition of anthropology at home formulated by Marilyn Strathern in her book contribution ‘The Limits of Auto-Anthropology’. According to the definition, anthropology at home is anthropology carried out in the social context that produced this discipline. I argue that this is not an adequate definition of anthropology at home.

Keywords

• Marilyn Strathern
• anthropology at home
• auto-anthropology
• social context
• essential premises
• self-knowledge