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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... perhaps burnt by theoretical misadventures, who would also be content with a particularist, descriptive enterprise. Others would argue that, while ethnography cannot pretend to produce objective 'truth', it remains the only plausible ...
... perhaps burnt by theoretical misadventures, who would also be content with a particularist, descriptive enterprise. Others would argue that, while ethnography cannot pretend to produce objective 'truth', it remains the only plausible ...
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... perhaps all the more powerful for that, is that ethnography constitutes the rock on which is founded the special contribution of social anthropology to the human sciences. The typical refusal of social anthropologists to countenance a ...
... perhaps all the more powerful for that, is that ethnography constitutes the rock on which is founded the special contribution of social anthropology to the human sciences. The typical refusal of social anthropologists to countenance a ...
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... roles were now ideally combined in one person). If the actor constructs a world of meaning within which actions are generated and interpreted, then it can be argued that a fresh theory must be minted for every culture—or, perhaps, that the.
... roles were now ideally combined in one person). If the actor constructs a world of meaning within which actions are generated and interpreted, then it can be argued that a fresh theory must be minted for every culture—or, perhaps, that the.
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Adam Kuper. theory must be minted for every culture—or, perhaps, that the ethnographer, at once witness and interpreter, must reconstruct the particular theory of the actors under study. At the same time, sociological generalizations ...
Adam Kuper. theory must be minted for every culture—or, perhaps, that the ethnographer, at once witness and interpreter, must reconstruct the particular theory of the actors under study. At the same time, sociological generalizations ...
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... (perhaps mistakenly) as being purposeful by an onlooker. Social interactions are sequences of acts and responses. Each act entails an attempt to interpret and predict responses, and in consequence 'there will tend to be a certain ...
... (perhaps mistakenly) as being purposeful by an onlooker. Social interactions are sequences of acts and responses. Each act entails an attempt to interpret and predict responses, and in consequence 'there will tend to be a certain ...
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