ISBN:
9780759123830
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (234 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
301
Keywords:
Anthropology - Methodology
Abstract:
Brettell explores the cross-disciplinary exchanges, both past and present, which have engaged cultural anthropologists--and invites readers to continue the conversations.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Presence of the Past in Culture -- Fieldwork in the Archives: Tackling the Methodology of History -- The Presence of the Past:Anthropological History -- The Presence of the Past: The Anthropologyof History -- Conclusion: The Presence of the Past: An Engaged Historical Anthropology -- 2 Space, Place, and Culture -- Anthropology and Geography:Early Conversations -- The Anthropology of Space and Place -- Gendered Space and Feminist Geography -- The New Anthropology of Landscape andthe Environment -- Conclusion: From the Etics of Region to the Emics of Space and Place -- 3 Writing Culture -- Ethnography as Genre: Experimenting with Forms of Writing -- The Literary Observer: Novelists with an Anthropological Eye -- Conclusion: The Craft ofWriting Anthropology -- 4 The Science in Culture -- Biology and Culture in the Twentieth Century: From Boas to Sociobiology to Bioculturalism -- New Directions in the Integration of Biology and Culture -- Conclusion -- 5 The Individual and Culture -- Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and Neo-Freudianism: Seeds of Interaction, Seeds of Cross-Disciplinarity -- Stress, Trauma, and Meaning-Centered Psychology Anthropology -- Conclusion: A Cross-Cultural Psychology -- 6 Culture and Population -- Bridging the Divide: Methods, Concepts, and Epistemology -- The Problems Explored byAnthropological Demographers -- Conclusion: Toward Convergence andCross-Disciplinarity? -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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