ISBN:
9780415102018
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (140 p)
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Grasping the Changing World
DDC:
301
Keywords:
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Anthropology Congresses
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Ethnology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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