Arguments with ethnography : comparative approaches to history, politics and religion
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Bibliographic Information
Arguments with ethnography : comparative approaches to history, politics and religion
(London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology, v. 70)
Berg, 2004
- : cloth
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  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
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
First published: London : Athlone Press, 1999
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples.
Table of Contents
Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. History 'Functionalised', 2. A historico-functionalist debate: (Ernesto De Martino, Michel Leiris and E.E. Evans-Pritchard), 3. Deconstructing Descent, 4. Frontier Fetishism and the 'Ethiopianisation' of Africa, 5. Writing Nationalism in the Horn of Africa, 6. Present and Past in North-East African Spirit-Possession, 7. The 'Wise Man's Choice': Conversion Theories, 8. Shamans and Sex: a Comparative Perspective, 9. Ethnography and Theory in Anthropology, Bibliography, Index
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