Anthropology Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society

Name: Anthropology Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society
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ISBN: 9780631206590

ISBN-10: 0631206590

ISBN-13: 9780631206590

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael Herzfeld

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Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society builds on a collaborative, international project sponsored by UNESCO to offer an overview of social and cultural anthropology. Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this volume explores the militant middle ground between theory and practice, humanistic and scientific approaches, and symbolic and materialist perspectives. Rejecting conventional layout, noted anthropologist Michael Herzfeld brings his collaborators - specialists in their various fields - into a broader conversation about the ways in which social and cultural anthropology can illuminate aspects of the human condition that less intimate approaches cannot reveal. This…

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List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/14/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.496



Preface



Orientations: Anthropology as a Practice of Theory



Epistemologies



Histories



Economies



Politics



Borders/Nodes/Groupings



Developmentalisms



Environmentalisms



Cosmologies



Sufferings and Disciplines



Senses



Displays of Order



Aesthetics



Media


Bibliography


Index