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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... theoretical studies, among which is Cultural Complexity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992). Adam Kuper is Professor of Social Anthropology at Brunel University. He has done fieldwork in the Kalahari desert and in Jamaica, and ...
... theoretical studies, among which is Cultural Complexity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992). Adam Kuper is Professor of Social Anthropology at Brunel University. He has done fieldwork in the Kalahari desert and in Jamaica, and ...
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... 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 theoretical project ...
... 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 theoretical project ...
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... theoretical argument is by no means a doomed, sterile exercise in projection. Together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single plausible enterprise. This brings us back to the most curious and also the ...
... theoretical argument is by no means a doomed, sterile exercise in projection. Together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single plausible enterprise. This brings us back to the most curious and also the ...
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... theoretical contributions to the discipline. The evocation of personal ethnographic experience is a routine— almost ritualized—preliminary to theoretical discourse. The orthodoxy, usually implicit but perhaps all the more powerful for ...
... theoretical contributions to the discipline. The evocation of personal ethnographic experience is a routine— almost ritualized—preliminary to theoretical discourse. The orthodoxy, usually implicit but perhaps all the more powerful for ...
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... theoretical debates, moving directly from Trobriand ethnography to questions of grand theory. Malinowski would put some general thesis about human nature, or about 'savages' to the test of his own observations on a remote Pacific island ...
... theoretical debates, moving directly from Trobriand ethnography to questions of grand theory. Malinowski would put some general thesis about human nature, or about 'savages' to the test of his own observations on a remote Pacific island ...
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