What is Good for Anthropology in Canada?

Abstract

This paper examines the nature of Canadian Anthropology in terms of a fundamental bicentricity. It is argued that the binarism of Canadian Anthropology reflects the constitution of Canadian society and marks it off from its American counterpart where difference in general, and binarism in particular, are submerged in a "unity of we". The argument is constructed in the context of a consideration of which texts might be rightfully installed in a Canadian anthropological canon.