ISBN:
0226925064
,
0226925072
,
9780226925066
,
9780226925073
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 408 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Uniform Title:
Anthropologie. 〈engl.〉
Parallel Title:
Print version Anthropology : A Continental Perspective
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Anthropology History
;
Anthropology Philosophy
Abstract:
Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines-with breathtaking scope-all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years. Seeking a central way to understand anthropology in the midst of many different approaches to the discipline, Wulf concentrat
Description / Table of Contents:
Paradigms of anthropology -- Evolution-hominization-anthropology -- Philosophical anthropology -- Anthropology in the historical sciences: historical anthropology -- Cultural anthropology -- Historical cultural anthropology -- Core issues of anthropology -- The body as a challenge -- The mimetic basis of cultural learning -- Theories and practices of the performative -- The rediscovery of rituals -- Language-the antinomy between the universal and the particular -- Images and imagination -- Death and recollection of birth -- Future prospects.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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