[<i>Recapturing Anthropology</i> is] a first class ticket to new times in anthropology." —Roger Slack, Sociology Vol. 27, no. 4 (November 1993)<br /><br />"Product of a 1989 seminar of leading ethnologists, these nine essays explore the revitalization of contemporary anthropology in response to postmodern criticism . . . [T]his will interest those concerned with new directions in the social sciences. For faculty and students in departments of anthropology, for larger public libraries, and essential for university libraries associated with both undergraduate and graduate programs in the social sciences." —R.B. Clay, <i>Choice</i> (September 1992)<br /><br />"The studies in this volume offer new and original work that will help develop research agendas in this important, emergent field." —Jacqueline Urla, University of Massachusetts

The ten papers in this volume offer different versions of how and where anthropologists might work usefully in today's world, converging on the issue of how anthropology can best recapture the progressive character its basic concepts, such as "culture," once had. Together the authors demonstrate that a reinvigorated anthropology must recognize how the profession labors under an existing intellectual discipline, with its own political and economic history, on a global "shop floor.
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The ten papers in this volume offer different versions of how and where anthropologists might work usefully in today's world, converging on the issue of how anthropology can best recapture the progressive character its basic concepts, such as ""culture"", once had.
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Product details

ISBN
9780933452787
Published
1991-11-30
Publisher
SAR Press; School of American Research Press,U.S.
Weight
432 gr
Height
228 mm
Width
170 mm
Thickness
18 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
264

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