144 Pages
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Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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As different societies merge into one global society and face the concomitant crisis of identity, of purpose and interest, social anthropology urgently needs to bring its methodology up to date: new methods are needed to analyse, compare and understand different cultures across space and time. Grasping the Changing World collects papers read at the second biannual EASA conference in Prague in... Read more
List of contributors; Preface; 1 The temporalities of tradition: Reflections on a changing anthropolog, Olivia Harris; 2 The present: A bridge between the past and the future, Václav Hubinger; 3 The ‘Bogoras enigma’: Bounds of culture and formats of anthropologists, Igor Krupnik; 4 The concept of culture between modernity and postmodernity, Carla Pasquinelli; 5 Circumscribing the environment: Sustainable development, ethnography and applied anthropology in southern Africa, Tim Quinlan; 6 Anthropology and the contemporary construction of ethnicity in Indonesia and Britain, C.W. Watson; Index;
Biography
Václav Hubinger
