Conceptualizing SocietyAdam Kuper Routledge, 11.3.2002 - 164 sivua The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the postmodernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view that no theory could possibly do justice to the insights and complex descriptions of ethnography. In this volume, the first papers taken from the first conference of the newly-formed European Association of Social Anthropologists, the contributors discuss the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Their concerns range through structuralism, postmodernism and world systems theory, and the volume as a whole offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today. |
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... Western intellectuals. The one theory which escapes this relativizing process is, of course, the relativist theory which puts out of bounds all other theories (including the point of view which would marginalize it as 'relativist'). The ...
... Western intellectuals. The one theory which escapes this relativizing process is, of course, the relativist theory which puts out of bounds all other theories (including the point of view which would marginalize it as 'relativist'). The ...
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... Western vision with a counter-theory which bears witness to the experience of his subjects. Life is not like that, he tells the theorist; you are working on the preposterous assumption that everyone in the world behaves like late ...
... Western vision with a counter-theory which bears witness to the experience of his subjects. Life is not like that, he tells the theorist; you are working on the preposterous assumption that everyone in the world behaves like late ...
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... which Dumont instructs us to compare, arguing that only whole systems of this sort are truly comparable, and then only if we transcend the ideological bias of Western individualism. Dumont achieves the necessary distance.
... which Dumont instructs us to compare, arguing that only whole systems of this sort are truly comparable, and then only if we transcend the ideological bias of Western individualism. Dumont achieves the necessary distance.
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... Western notions of 'representation', contrasting the idea of representation as symbol or substitution, which has been adopted by those sociologies which would divide a presumed social reality from its ideological images, and the more ...
... Western notions of 'representation', contrasting the idea of representation as symbol or substitution, which has been adopted by those sociologies which would divide a presumed social reality from its ideological images, and the more ...
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... Western perspective, and one which cannot be generalized. THE STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE Maurice Bloch and Philippe Descola are less ready to specify actors' models in propositional form as though they constituted full-blown alternatives to ...
... Western perspective, and one which cannot be generalized. THE STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE Maurice Bloch and Philippe Descola are less ready to specify actors' models in propositional form as though they constituted full-blown alternatives to ...
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