Social and Cultural Anthropology: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Social and Cultural Anthropology: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192853462

ISBN-10: 0192853465

ISBN-13: 9780192853462

Edition: 2000

Authors: John Monaghan, Peter Just

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"If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropology's most important contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its doctrine of cultural relativism, and its methodology of fieldwork and ethnography. Drawing on examples from their own fieldwork in Indonesia and…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.85" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English




Fieldwork and Ethnography



Culture



Society



Sex and blood



Class and caste, village and city, home and the world



Language and social life



The culturally constructed self 8. The future of anthropology


Further Reading


Index