Shifting Contexts
1st Edition
Published on 10. September 2012
208 pages
978-0-203-45090-1 (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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Content
- Cover
- Shifting Contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Series editor's preface
- Foreword
- 1. Forgotten knowledge
- 2. Exhibiting knowledge: the trees of Dubois, Haeckel, Jesse and Rivers at the Pithecanthropus centennial exhibition
- 3. Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world
- 4. Transformations of identity in Sepik warfare
- 5. Human rights and moral knowledge: arguments of accountability in Zimbabwe
- 6. Globalisation and the new technologies of knowing: anthropological calculus or chaos?
- 7. Cultures in collision: the emergence of a new localism in academic research
- 8. The nice thing about culture is that everyone has it
- Afterword
- Name Index
- Subject index
