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Holistic Anthropology
Emergence and Convergence
Av David Parkin, Stanley Ulijaszek
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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"This book...presents a powerful case for anthropology that provides a full and whole account of the contemporary world, as well as some dilemmas...Taken together, the different approaches and case studies presented in this volume amount to an important and refreshing perspective...showing how …
Scope of Anthropology
Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context
Av Laurent Dousset, Serge Tcherkézoff
Inbunden, 2012
1880 kr
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Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier’s work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature–culture debate to the …
Anyone
The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology
Inbunden, 2012
1921 kr
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The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone – the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers …
Human Nature as Capacity
Transcending Discourse and Classification
Häftad, 2013
527 kr
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What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring “the human” to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as …
Up Close and Personal
On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm …
Existential Anthropology
Events, Exigencies, and Effects
Inbunden, 2005
1921 kr
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Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of …
Hunting the Gatherers
Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s
Av Michael O'Hanlon, Robert L. Welsch
Häftad, 2001
527 kr
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Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this …
Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition
Inbunden, 2003
1921 kr
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The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigenous …
Categories of Self
Louis Dumont's Theory of the Individual
Av André Celtel
Inbunden, 2005
1921 kr
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Drawing on anthropological, socio-psychological, religious, and philosophical material, this book engages in a discussion of what it means to be an ‘individual’ in relation to notions of selfhood, personality, and social role. This theme is explored with reference to the investigations of Louis …
Problem of Context
Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere
Av R.M. Dilley
Inbunden, 1999
1921 kr
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The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation of meanings construe context indifferent …
Marcel Mauss
A Centenary Tribute
Inbunden, 1999
2040 kr
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Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been translated into English, but of these, some, as for instance his "Essay on the Gift," have proved …
Marcel Mauss
A Centenary Tribute
Häftad, 1998
560 kr
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Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been translated into English, but of these, some, as for instance his "Essay on the Gift," have proved …
Taboo, Truth and Religion
Av Jeremy Adler, Richard Fardon
Inbunden, 1999
1399 kr
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Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's unpublished papers, this edition for the first time places the book in its context and offers a new reading of the text. More …
Taboo, Truth and Religion
Av Jeremy Adler, Richard Fardon
Häftad, 1999
548 kr
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Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's unpublished papers, this edition for the first time places the book in its context and offers a new reading of the text. More …
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization
Av Jeremy Adler, Richard Fardon
Inbunden, 1999
2040 kr
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This is the first collection of Franz Steiner's keynote papers on comparative economics and the classification of labor,complemented by major unpublished texts on politics, civilization, and cultural criticism. This enables a complete re-evaluation of Steiner's thought. His ideas on truth, value, …
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization
Av Jeremy Adler, Richard Fardon
Häftad, 1999
560 kr
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This is the first collection of Franz Steiner's keynote papers on comparative economics and the classification of labor,complemented by major unpublished texts on politics, civilization, and cultural criticism. This enables a complete re-evaluation of Steiner's thought. His ideas on truth, value, …
Religion in English Everyday Life
An Ethnographic Approach
Inbunden, 1999
1921 kr
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Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life. Three contemporary case studies - the life of a country church, an annual procession by the …
Religion in English Everyday Life
An Ethnographic Approach
Häftad, 1999
527 kr
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Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life. Three contemporary case studies - the life of a country church, an annual procession by the …
Problem of Context
Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere
Av R.M. Dilley
Häftad, 1999
511 kr
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The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover, different disciplines involved in the elucidation and interpretation of meanings construe context indifferent …
Anthropologists in a Wider World
Essays on Field Research
Av Paul Dresch, Wendy James m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1880 kr
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The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks. Some anthropologists have started their careers from the new vantage point, amidst a chorus of claims for innovative …
Anthropologists in a Wider World
Essays on Field Research
Av Paul Dresch, Wendy James m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
527 kr
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The tradition of intensive fieldwork by a single anthropologist in one area has been challenged by new emphasis on studying historical patterns, wider regions, and global networks. Some anthropologists have started their careers from the new vantage point, amidst a chorus of claims for innovative …
Categories and Classifications
Maussian Reflections on the Social
Av N. J. Allen
Inbunden, 2001
1880 kr
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Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), Durkheim's nephew, was a key figure among Durkheimians and helped to found the distinctive French tradition in the social sciences at the start of the 20th century. He dominated the teaching of social anthropology in Paris between the Wars, and his Essay on the Gift (1925) …
Hunting the Gatherers
Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s
Av Michael O'Hanlon, Robert L. Welsch
Inbunden, 2001
1880 kr
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Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this …
Categories and Classifications
Maussian Reflections on the Social
Av N. J. Allen
Häftad, 2000
444 kr
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Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), Durkheim's nephew, was a key figure among Durkheimians and helped to found the distinctive French tradition in the social sciences at the start of the 20th century. He dominated the teaching of social anthropology in Paris between the Wars, and his Essay on the Gift (1925) …
Durkheim in Dialogue
A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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One hundred years after the publication of the great sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim¹s theories still resonate with the study of contemporary and historical religious societies. The volume applies the Durkheimian model to …
Up Close and Personal
On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge
Häftad, 2015
527 kr
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Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm …
Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology
A Critical Synthesis
Av Roy Ellen, Stephen J. Lycett m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
601 kr
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The concept of "cultural transmission" is central to much contemporary anthropological theory, since successful human reproduction through social systems is essential for effective survival and for enhancing the adaptiveness of individual humans and local populations. Yet, what is understood by the …
Anyone
The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology
Häftad, 2014
527 kr
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The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone – the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers …
Scope of Anthropology
Maurice Godelier's Work in Context
Av Laurent Dousset, Serge Tcherkézoff
Häftad, 2014
527 kr
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Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature - culture debate to the …
Extraordinary Encounters
Authenticity and the Interview
Av Katherine Smith, James Staples m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Given the anthropological focus on ethnography as a kind of deep immersion, the interview poses theoretical and methodological challenges for the discipline. This volume explores those challenges and argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a …
