Anthropology and Egalitarianism Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau

Name: Anthropology and Egalitarianism Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau
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ISBN: 9780253222756

ISBN-10: 0253222753

ISBN-13: 9780253222756

Edition: 2010

Authors: Eric Gable

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Anthropology and Egalitarianismis an artful and accessible introduction to key themes in cultural anthropology. Writing in a deeply personal style and using material from his fieldwork in three dramatically different locales-highlands Sulawesi, rural Guinea-Bissau, and Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson-Eric Gable shows why the ethnographic encounter is the core of the discipline's method and the basis of its unique contribution to understanding the human condition. Gable weaves together vignettes from the field and discussion of major works as he explores the development of the idea of culture through the experience of cultural contrast, anthropology's fraught relationship…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: Culture by Contrast and Theory in Anthropology



Supping with Savages



Standing in a Line



Jefferson's Ardor



The Colonialist's Dress Code



Taking Pictures in the Field, or the Anthropologist's Dress Code



Beyond Belief



The Sex Life of Savages


Conclusion: Tending to Nature, Tending to Culture; or, Is Anthropology History?


Notes on Sources


References


Index