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Small places, large issues : an introduction to social and cultural anthropology / Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, 1962- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Revised fifth edition

London : Pluto Press, 2023 [©2023]

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Englisch

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978-0-7453-4818-6 ; 978-0-7453-4820-9

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LOC-SH: Ethnology ; Sociology

Fully updated fifth edition of the classic introduction to social and cultural anthropology.

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- 1. Anthropology: Comparison and Context -- 2. A Brief History of Anthropology -- 3. Fieldwork and Ethnography -- 4. The Social Person -- 5. Local Organisation -- 6. Person and Society -- 7. Kinship as Descent -- 8. Marriage and Relatedness -- 9. Social Differentiation 1: Gender and Age -- 10. Social Differentiation 2: Caste and Class -- 11. Religion and Ritual -- 12. Language and Cognition -- 13. Politics and Power -- 14. Political Identity 1: Ethnicity and the Politics of Identity -- 15. Political Identity 2: Nationalism and Minorities -- 16. Economic Anthropology 1: Exchange and Consumption -- 17. Economic Anthropology 2: Production and Technology -- 18. Humanity and the Biosphere -- 19. Complexity and Change -- 20. Medical Anthropology -- 21. Anthropology and the Paradoxes of Globalisation -- 22. The Anthropology of Climate Change -- Epilogue: Making Anthropology Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.