Anthropology : theoretical practice in culture and society
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Anthropology : theoretical practice in culture and society
Blackwell Publishers, 2001
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-353) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780631206583
Description
Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society builds on a collaborative, international project sponsored by UNESCO to offer an overview of social and cultural anthropology. Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this volume explores the "militant middle ground" between theory and practice, humanistic and scientific approaches, and symbolic and materialist perspectives. Rejecting conventional layout, noted anthropologist Michael Herzfeld brings his collaborators - specialists in their various fields - into a broader conversation about the ways in which social and cultural anthropology can illuminate aspects of the human condition that less intimate approaches cannot reveal. This volume is not just about an academic discipline; it is about the theoretical and ethical commitments that have enabled anthropologists to play a leading role in the critique of racism and other forms of intolerance. The wide range of topics that Herzfeld covers has produced a book that will provide students with a vital overview of the state of the field.
But, perhaps more important, readers will find their eyes opened to the complexities of culture and society at a time of vastly intensified communication and contact.
Table of Contents
Preface. 1. Orientations: Anthropology as a Practice of Theory. 2. Epistemologies. 3. Histories. 4. Economies. 5. Politics. 6. Borders/Nodes/Groupings. 7. Developmentalisms. 8. Environmentalisms. 9. Cosmologies. 10. Sufferings and Disciplines. 11. Senses. 12. Displays of Order. 13. Aesthetics. 14. Media. Bibliography. Index.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780631206590
Description
Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this work offers a vision of how anthropology - a discipline that operates through intimate knowledge of local societies - can offer vastly increased understanding of society and culture even in this age of mass communication. In its examination of topics ranging as far afield as the mass media, environmental and development issues, kinship and suffering in transnational settings, the politics of both the nation-state and the local community, the arts, cosmologies of science as well as religion, and the relationship between social life and history, this book is not just about an academic discipline; it is about the theoretical as well as ethical commitments that have enabled anthropologists to play a leading role in the critique of racism and other forms of intolerance.
Table of Contents
Foreword. Preface.
1. Orientations: Anthropology as a Practice of Theory.
2. Epistemologies.
3. Histories.
4. Economies.
5. Politics.
6. Borders/Nodes/Groupings.
7. Developmentalisms.
8. Environmentalisms.
9. Cosmologies.
10. Sufferings and Disciplines.
11. Senses.
12. Displays of Order.
13. Aesthetics.
14. Media.
Bibliography.
Index.
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