The relationship between anthropologists ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable cultural worlds. Instead they investigate the relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists models and accounts in new ways. In doing so, they offer fresh insights into this key area of anthropological research.

Deborah James is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her research interests, focused on South Africa, include migration, ethnomusicology, ethnicity, property relations and the politics of land reform. She is author ofSongs of the Women Migrants: Performance and Identity in South Africa (Edinburgh University Press, 1999) and ofGaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform(Routledge, 2007).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Culture, context and anthropologists accountsDeborah James andChristina Toren

Chapter 1. Alliances And Avoidance: British Interactions with German-Speaking Anthropologists, 19331953Andre Gingrich

Chapter 2. Serving the Volk? Afrikaner anthropology revisitedJohn Sharp

Chapter 3. Making Natives: debating indigeneity in Canada and South AfricaEvie Plaice

Chapter 4. Culture in the Periphery: Anthropology in the Shadow of Greek CivilisationDimitra Gefou-Madianou

Chapter 5. Culture: the Indigenous AccountAlan Barnard

Chapter 6. We are All Indigenous Now: Culture vs. Nature in representations of the BalkansAleksandar Bo¨kovi

Chapter 7. Which cultures, what contexts, and whose accounts? Anatomies of a moral panic in Southall, multi-ethnic LondonGerd Baumann

Chapter 8. What about White Peoples History? Class, Race and Culture Wars in 21st Century BritainGillian Evans

Chapter 9. A Cosmopolitan Anthropology?Stephen Gudeman

Chapter 10. The door in the middle: six conditions for anthropologyJoão de Pina-Cabral

Chapter 11. Adam Kuper: An Anthropologists AccountIsak Niehaus

Notes on Contributors References Index