Small places, large issues an introduction to social and cultural anthropology
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland
Small places, large issues an introduction to social and cultural anthropology - 2nd - London Pluto Press 2001 - x,342p. ill. ; 23 cm. - Anthropology, culture, and society .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-331) and index.
Introduction : comparison and context -- A brief history of anthropology -- Fieldwork and its interpretation -- The social person -- Local organisation -- Person and society -- Kinship as descent -- Marriage and alliance -- Gender and age -- Social hierarchies -- Politics and power -- Exchange and consumption -- Production and technology -- Religion and ritual -- Modes of thought -- Complexity and change -- Ethnicity -- The politics of identity : nationalism and minorities -- The global, the local, and the glocal -- Epilogue : and so what?
9780745317724
00012920
Ethnology.
GN316 / .E75 2001
306 / ER-S
Small places, large issues an introduction to social and cultural anthropology - 2nd - London Pluto Press 2001 - x,342p. ill. ; 23 cm. - Anthropology, culture, and society .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-331) and index.
Introduction : comparison and context -- A brief history of anthropology -- Fieldwork and its interpretation -- The social person -- Local organisation -- Person and society -- Kinship as descent -- Marriage and alliance -- Gender and age -- Social hierarchies -- Politics and power -- Exchange and consumption -- Production and technology -- Religion and ritual -- Modes of thought -- Complexity and change -- Ethnicity -- The politics of identity : nationalism and minorities -- The global, the local, and the glocal -- Epilogue : and so what?
9780745317724
00012920
Ethnology.
GN316 / .E75 2001
306 / ER-S