Small Places, Large Issues

An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

AvThomas Hylland Eriksen

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world.Presenting a clear overview of anthropology, it focuses on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Using reviews of key works to illustrate his argument, for over 25 years Thomas Hylland Eriksen's lucid and accessible textbook has been a much respected and widely used undergraduate-level introduction to social anthropology.This fully updated fifth edition features brand new chapters on climate and medical anthropology, along with rewritten sections on ecology, nature and the Anthropocene. It also incorporates a more systematic engagement with gender and digitalisation throughout the text.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-07-20
Mått:153 x 234 x 34 mm
Vikt:606 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthropology, Culture and Society
Antal sidor:496
Upplaga:5
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745348193

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Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962 – 2024) was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). He was among the most highly cited anthropologists of his generation, and his classic and accessible textbook Small Places, Large Issues remains a cornerstone in anthropology courses. His later books, including Overheating, tackled the important issue of climate change within the discipline.

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'A masterful introduction to the wide range of subjects studied by anthropologists as well as to the distinctive perspectives they bring to bear on these matters.'

Innehållsförteckning

Series PrefacePreface to the fifth edition1. Anthropology: Comparison and Context2. A Brief History of Anthropology3. Fieldwork and Ethnography4. The Social Person5. Local Organisation6. Person and Society7. Kinship as Descent8. Marriage and Relatedness9. Social differentiation 1: Gender and Age10. Social differentiation 2: Caste and Class11. Religion and Ritual12. Language and Cognition13. Politics and Power14. Political identity 1: Ethnicity and the Politics of Identity15. Political identity 2: Nationalism and Minorities16. Economic Anthropology 1: Exchange and Consumption17. Economic Anthropology 2: Production and Technology18. Humanity and the Biosphere19. Complexity and Change20. Medical Anthropology21. Anthropology and the Paradoxes of Globalisation22. The Anthropology of Climate ChangeEpilogue: Making Anthropology MatterBibliographyIndex