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Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education
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Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education

Wesley Shumar and Shabana Mir
A Companion to the Anthropology of Education, pp 445-460
15 Apr 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396713.ch26
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Abstract

anthropology, coming to higher education cultural anthropology ‐ looking at higher education cultural anthropology, not being a well‐known discipline ‐ outside of academy functionalism and higher education ‐ individuals in higher education circles growth of anthropology of higher education ‐ in United States, development within educational anthropology Michael Moffat's Coming of Age in New Jersey ‐ interesting ruse, taking advantage of youthful looks nice example of the kind of re‐invented ritual ‐ ideas like Tinto's, ritual of convocation postmodern perspectives on higher education ‐ between “critical” and “postmodern” perspectives Van Gennep's work, re‐introduced ‐ into core of anthropological thinking by Victor Turner “critical perspectives” and “postmodern perspectives” ‐ real break between these two moments
This chapter contains sections titled: Anthropology Comes to Higher Education Functionalism and Higher Education Higher Education as the Other Critical Perspectives on Higher Education Postmodern Perspectives on Higher Education Conclusion References

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