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Anthropology on the boundary and the boundary in anthropology

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The following thoughts grew through a year of seminars with Dr. Michael Herzfeld (Indiana University). Readers of his forthcoming book entitled Anthropology through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe (Cambridge 1987) may note some ideas strikingly similar to those expressed in these pages. I am indebted to him for much of the stimulus and inspiration, as well as for concrete suggestions for revision, and to him I offer this sincere dedication.

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Martin, D. Anthropology on the boundary and the boundary in anthropology. Hum Stud 13, 119–145 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142742

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