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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... theorists. Indeed, they are likely to reject on principle the characteristic division of labour in the social sciences between ... theorist. Each aspect of this double role deserves sceptical scrutiny, but attention has recently focused ...
... theorists. Indeed, they are likely to reject on principle the characteristic division of labour in the social sciences between ... theorist. Each aspect of this double role deserves sceptical scrutiny, but attention has recently focused ...
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... theorists of post-modernism would render ethnography impossibly problematic, some prominent social anthropologists have taken a contrary point of view. In certain moods, revolting against modish theories, EvansPritchard and Schapera ...
... theorists of post-modernism would render ethnography impossibly problematic, some prominent social anthropologists have taken a contrary point of view. In certain moods, revolting against modish theories, EvansPritchard and Schapera ...
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... theorist is doubly curious in that it is a relatively modern development. The founding fathers assumed that there should be a division of labour between the theorist (metropolitan, detached, study-bound) and the fieldworker (colonial ...
... theorist is doubly curious in that it is a relatively modern development. The founding fathers assumed that there should be a division of labour between the theorist (metropolitan, detached, study-bound) and the fieldworker (colonial ...
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... theorists and ethnographers, but they insisted that their observations be kept separate from their theories. Description and analysis were distinct operations, susceptible to mutual contamination. The breaching of this boundary between ...
... theorists and ethnographers, but they insisted that their observations be kept separate from their theories. Description and analysis were distinct operations, susceptible to mutual contamination. The breaching of this boundary between ...
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... theorist. This heroic task was legitimated by the argument that the fieldworker, uniquely placed to appreciate the function of institutions in action, was in a privileged position to develop a theoretical understanding of a society. In ...
... theorist. This heroic task was legitimated by the argument that the fieldworker, uniquely placed to appreciate the function of institutions in action, was in a privileged position to develop a theoretical understanding of a society. In ...
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