Shifting Contexts
Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge
Published on 24. August 1995
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-415-10794-5 (ISBN)
Description
To suppose anthropological analysis can shift between global and local perspectives may well imply that the two co-exist as broader and narrower horizons or contexts of knowledge. The proof for this can be found in ethnographic accounts where contrasts are repeatedly drawn between the encompassing realm and everyday life or in value systems which sumultaneously trivialise and aggrandise or in shifts between what pertains to the general or to the particular.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-10794-5 (9780415107945)
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Book
08/1995
Routledge
€72.20
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Person
Strathern, Marilyn
Content
Introduction Foreword; Chapter 1 Forgotten knowledge, Mary Douglas; Chapter 2 Exhibiting knowledge, Mary Bouquet; Chapter 3 Building, dwelling, living, Tim Ingold; Chapter 4 Transformations of identity in Sepik warfare, Simon Harrison; Chapter 5 Human rights and moral knowledge, Richard Werbner; Chapter 6 Globalisation and the new technologies of knowing, Angela P. Cheater; Chapter 7 Cultures in collision, Stephen Hill, Tim Turpin; Chapter 8 The nice thing about culture is that everyone has it, Marilyn Strathern; Chapter 9 Afterword;