Anthropology & Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau - Brossura

Gable, Eric

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ISBN 10: 0253222753 ISBN 13: 9780253222756

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Anthropology and Egalitarianism is an artful and accessible introduction to key themes in cultural anthropology. Writing in a deeply personal style and using material from his fieldwork in three dramatically different locales—Indonesia, West Africa, and Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson—Eric Gable shows why the ethnographic encounter is the core of the discipline's method and the basis of its unique contribution to understanding the human condition. Gable weaves together vignettes from the field and discussion of major works as he explores the development of the idea of culture through the experience of cultural contrast, anthropology's fraught relationship to racism and colonialism, and other enduring themes.

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L'autore:

Eric Gable teaches anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. He is author (with Richard Handler) of The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg.

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Book by Gable Eric

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0253222753
• ISBN 13: 9780253222756
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 228