Questions Of Anthropology (PDF)

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Synopsis

Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns. Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from the quest to control the future and to find one's "true" identity to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question posed by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame this question in a broader, comparative context.

Book details

Author:
Charles Stafford, Jonathan Parry, Rita Astuti
ISBN:
9781845207489
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing / Berg Publishers
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-01-11
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2007
Copyright by:
Charles Stafford, Jonathan Parry, Rita Astuti 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies