Arguments with Ethnography
Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion Volume 70
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1999
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Paperback/Softback
186 pages
978-1-84520-280-4 (ISBN)
Description
A critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
252 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84520-280-4 (9781845202804)
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Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion Volume 70
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Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion
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Content
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