Breaking the frames : anthropological conundrums

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Breaking the frames : anthropological conundrums

Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern

P. Macmillan , Springer International, c2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized dichotomies between viewpoints. The authors advocate a mindful, nuanced, people-centered approach to all theorizing-one that avoids total system approaches (-isms) and suggest that theory should relate cogently to ethnography. Mindful anthropology, as this book envisages it, is not a specific theory but a philosophical aspiration for the discipline as a whole.

Table of Contents

1. Framing History2. Change3. Processes4. Individuals 5. Nature vs. Culture: A Mistaken Conundrum6. Retreat of the Social? Where to? 7. Language and Culture8. Against -isms9. For a Mindful Anthropology

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  • NCID
    BB23925614
  • ISBN
    • 9783319471266
  • Country Code
    sz
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    [S.l.],Cham
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 104 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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