animic
Animic Systems
anthropological methodology
anthropology
Au Pair Girls
Bertrand Du Guesclin
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cognatic
Cognatic Kinship
Cognatic Systems
Communal Social Dimension
contemporary social theory debates
Daniel De Coppet
De Coppet
descola
Direct Positive Action
dumont
Ego's Spouse
Ego’s Spouse
Empty Coffin
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Firth's Work
Firth’s Work
Folk Sociology
Funeral Litter
Global Ecumene
Holistic Sociologies
King's Dead Body
King’s Dead Body
kinship
louis
Mass Media Photography
network analysis in anthropology
Network Anthropology
Ocular Metaphors
philippe
Regional Comparison
Royal Funeral Ceremony
social
Solomon Islands
structuralism theory
systems
value hierarchies
Vice Versa
world systems analysis
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415755672
- Weight: 330g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the postmodernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view that no theory could possibly do justice to the insights and complex descriptions of ethnography. In this volume, the first papers taken from the first conference of the newly-formed European Association of Social Anthropologists, the contributors discuss the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Their concerns range through structuralism, postmodernism and world systems theory, and the volume as a whole offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today.
Adam Kuper (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
