ISBN:
9780203450956
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 302 p)
Edition:
2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Key Debates in Anthropology
DDC:
306/.01
Keywords:
Ethnology Methodology
;
Ethnology Philosophy
Abstract:
Every year, leading anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject, and this book includes the first six of these debates, from 1988 to 1993
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; General introduction; 1998 debate Social anthropology is a generalizing science or it is nothing; 1989 debate The concept of society is theoretically obsolete; 1990 debate Human worlds are culturally constructed; 1991 debate Language is the essence of culture; 1992 debate The past is a foreign country; 1993 debate Aesthetics is a cross-cultural category; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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