Arguments with ethnography : comparative approaches to history, politics and religion
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Arguments with ethnography : comparative approaches to history, politics and religion
（London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology, v. 70）
Berg, 2004
- : cloth
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First published: London : Athlone Press, 1999
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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