Small Places, Large Issues An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Name: Small Places, Large Issues An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780745330495

ISBN-10: 0745330495

ISBN-13: 9780745330495

Edition: 3rd 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

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Ranging from Pacific islands to the Arctic north, and from small villages to modern nation states, this concise introduction to social anthropology reveals the rich global variation in social life and culture.

Book details

List price: $18.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 6/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and the Free University of Amsterdam. He is author of numerous works including Ethnicity and Nationalism, Small Places - Large Issues, Common Denominators and Engaging Anthropology.



Introduction to the third edition



Anthropology: Comparison and Context



A Brief History of Anthropology



Fieldwork and Ethnography



The Social Person



Local Organisation



Person and Society



Kinship as Descent



Marriage and Relatedness



Gender and Age



Caste and Class



Politics and Power



Exchange and Consumption



Production, Nature and Technology



Religion and Ritual



Language andCognition



Complexity and Change



Ethnicity



Nationalism and Minorities



Anthropology and the Paradoxes of Globalisation


Epilogue: Making Anthropology Matter


Bibliography


Index