1st Edition
Closed Systems and Open Minds The Limits of Naivety in Social Anthropology
By Max Gluckman
Copyright 1964
276 Pages
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Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
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Routledge
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Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom. When a social anthropologist's research leads him into any field, which belongs to other disciplines, what line should he adopt? What use may he make of the... Read more
INTRODUCTION 2 SYMBOLS IN NDEMBU RITUAL (written I957) 3 TWO VILLAGES IN ORISSA (INDIA) (written I958) 4 URBAN COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA (written I957) 5 WORKSHOP BEHAVIOUR (written I957) 6 SOCIAL MOBILITY AND SOCIAL CLASS IN INDUS[1]TRIAL COMMUNITIES (written 1957) 7 CONCLUSION: MODES AND CONSEQUENCES OF LIMITING A FIELD OF STUDY
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Szasz, Thomas
