Screen LibrarySmall places, large issues：an introduction to social and cultural anthropology
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| Published: |
Pluto Press,
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| Publisher Address: | London Sterling, Va. |
| Publication Dates: | 2001. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: |
Anthropology, culture, and society |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 342 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0745317731 (hardback) 0745317723 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | C912 |
| CLC: | C912.4 |
| Call Number: | C912.4/E687/2nd.ed. |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-331) and index. Introduction : comparison and context -- A brief history of anthropology -- Fieldwork and its interpretation -- The social person -- Local organisation -- Person and society -- Kinship as descent -- Marriage and alliance -- Gender and age -- Social hierarchies -- Politics and power -- Exchange -- Production and technology -- Religion and ritual -- Modes of thought -- The challenge of multiple traditions -- Ethnicity -- The politics of identity : nationalism and minorities -- The global, the local, and the glocal -- Epilogue : and so what? |