Anthropology In Theory: Issues in Epistemology - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0631229159 ISBN 13: 9780631229155

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2005

Riassunto

The 57 articles collected in this volume---together with the editors’ introduction---provide an overview of the key debates in anthropological theory over the past century.

• Provides the most comprehensive selection of readings and insightful overview of anthropological theory available
  
• Identifies crucial conceptual signposts and new theoretical directions for the discipline
  
• Discusses broader debates in the social sciences: debates about society and culture; structure and agency; identities and technologies; subjectivities and translocality; and meta-theory, ontology and epistemology

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Recensione:

Anthropology in Theory is a dazzling collection and Moore and Sanders have impeccable taste in theory. Their selection of readings–––an exhibit of famous voices (from Boas to Bourdieu), visionary positions (from functionalism to poststructuralism) and clarion and root concepts (from cultural pattern to cultural hybridity)–––is not only well–designed; the book is certain to be a boon to the practice of teaching anthropology in the new millennium. Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago

This volume offers intellectual questions and debates by which anthropology has come to know itself as a discipline. The editors challenge us to recognize new forms of imagination emerging within and outside of anthropological practice. In this effort, they surpass themselves. Debbora Battaglia, Mt. Holyoke College

"This book breaks fascinating ground in its breadth of coverage and depth of analysis. The editors have done an exemplary job of engaging the study of Anthropology from myriad angles in an attempt to show the student that mastery of this discipline takes a keen eye and a mind willing to go beyond surface debate into the core of each ′theory′."
The Electric Review

L'autore:

Henrietta L. Moore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her publications include: Space, Text and Gender (Cambridge, 1986; Guilford, 1996), Feminism and Anthropology (Polity, 1988), A Passion for Difference (Polity, 1994), Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 (with Megan Vaughan; James Currey, 1994), The Future of Anthropological Knowledge (1996), Anthropological Theory Today (Polity, 1999), Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa (with Todd Sanders and B. Kaare, 1999), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (with Todd Sanders, 2001), and The Subject of Anthropology: Essays on Lacan and Lévi-Strauss (Polity, 2005).

Todd Sanders is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His publications include: Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa (with H. L. Moore and B. Kaare, 1999), Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (with H. L. Moore, 2001), and Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order (with Harry West, 2003).

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• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0631229159
• ISBN 13: 9780631229155
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 656
• Redattore: Moore Henrietta L., Sanders Todd