320 Pages
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Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
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Routledge
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Every year, leading social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject and this book includes the first six of these debates, spanning the period from 1988 to 1993. Each debate has four principal speakers: one to propose the motion, another to oppose it, and two seconders. The first debate addresses the disciplinary character of social... Read more
Preface, General introduction, 1988 debate Social anthropology is a generalizing science or it is nothing, 1989 debate The concept of society is theoretically obsolete, 1990 debate Human worlds are culturally constructed, 1991 debate Language is the essence of culture, 1992 debate The past is a foreign country, 1993 debate Aesthetics is a cross-cultural category, Index
Biography
Tim Ingold is the Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester
