Conceptualizing society
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Conceptualizing society
（European Association of Social Anthropologists）
Routledge, 1992
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- : pbk
Available at 44 libraries
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Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library図
: pbk361.6/Ku49020365829,
036582
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"The first of six volumes of papers from the first conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists held in the summer of 1990 in Coimbra, Portugal"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographies and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780415061247
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I Individuals and networks 1 Towards greater naturalism in conceptualizing societies 2 The global ecumene as a network of networks Part II Parts and wholes: the individual and society 3 Comparison, a universal for anthropology: from 're-presentation' to the comparison of hierarchies of values 4 Parts and wholes: refiguring relationships in a post-plural world Part III Models of society, the individual, and nature 5 Societies of nature and the nature of society 6 What goes without saying: the conceptualization of Zafimaniry society
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: pbk ISBN 9780415061254
Description
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 post-modernist 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 view, the first six collections of 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, post-modernism and world systems theory, and the volume as a whole offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, academics and researchers in the field of social anthropology, history and cultural studies.
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