1st Edition

Arguments with Ethnography Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion Volume 70

By Ioan Lewis Copyright 1999
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

A critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples.

Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. History 'Functionalised', 2. A historico-functionalist debate: (Ernesto De Martino, Michel Leiris and E.E. Evans-Pritchard), 3. Deconstructing Descent, 4. Frontier Fetishism and the 'Ethiopianisation' of Africa, 5. Writing Nationalism in the Horn of Africa, 6. Present and Past in North-East African Spirit-Possession, 7. The 'Wise Man's Choice': Conversion Theories, 8. Shamans and Sex: a Comparative Perspective, 9. Ethnography and Theory in Anthropology, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Ioan Lewis (Author)