A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology
ISBN: 9781512806434
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Ethnology -- Methodology -- Addresses essays lectures; Ethnology -- Philosophy -- Addresses essays lectures;

This collection focuses on the concept of reflexivity and how it warps the portrayal of anthropological truth. The essays show how an understanding of reflexivity leads to cultural and methodological self-awareness.


Jay Ruby is Professor of Anthropology and director of a graduate program in the anthropology of visual communication at Temple University. He is the editor of Robert J. Flaherty, A Biography, written by Paul Rotha, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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