783197551     

978319755X                        

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Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2002

Online-Ressource (140 p)

Englisch

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 The temporalities of tradition: Reflections on a changing anthropolog; 2 The present: A bridge between the past and the future; 3 The 'Bogoras enigma': Bounds of culture and formats of anthropologists; 4 The concept of culture between modernity and postmodernity; 5 Circumscribing the environment: Sustainable development, ethnography and applied anthropology in southern Africa; 6 Anthropology and the contemporary construction of ethnicity in Indonesia and Britain; Index

The temporalities of tradition: reflections on a changing anthropology / Olivia HarrisThe present: a bridge between the past and the future / Vaclav Hubinger -- The 'Bogoras enigma': bounds of culture and formats of anthropologists / Igor Krupnik -- The concept of culture between modernity and postmodernity / Carla Pasquinelli -- Circumscribing the environment: sustainable development, ethnography and applied anthropology in southern Africa / Tim Quinlan -- Anthropology and the contemporary construction of ethnicity in Indonesia and Britain / C.W. Watson.

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Grasping the Changing World

978-0-415-10201-8

978-0-415-10201-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

646766198

978-0-203-42488-9 ( : 120.45 (NL))

GN25.G73 1996eb ; GN325

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LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Ethnology -- Congresses ; Anthropology -- Congresses

Ethnology ; Electronic books

Resulting from the EASA conference in Prague, this book addresses the crises of identity, purpose and interest in the changing world examineing how social anthropology must update its methodology as it is applied to comparisons across space and time