Questions of Anthropology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Astuti, Rita; Stafford, Charles; Parry, Jonathan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from the quest to control the future and to find one's 'true' identity to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question posed by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame this question in a broader, comparative context. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Questions of Anthropology presents an exciting introduction to the purpose and value of Anthropology today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000183870
• Artikelnr.: 59596782

Autorenporträt

Rita Astuti is co-author of Constraints On Conceptual Development. Jonathan Parry is author of Death in Banaras. Charles Stafford is author of Separation and Reunion in Modern China. All the editors teach Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Jonathan Parry
LSE1. What Does It Mean To Be Alone? Catherine Allerton
LSE2. How Do We Know Who We Are? Janet Carsten
Edinburgh University3. What Is Going To Happen Next? Charles Stafford
LSE4. Why
Exactly
Is The World As It Is? Eva Keller
University of Zurich5. How Does Ritual Matter? Fenella Cannell
LSE6. What Makes People Work? Olivia Harris
LSE7. What Kind Of Sex Makes People Happy? Laura Rival
Oxford University8. How Do Women Give Birth? Michael Lambek
University of Toronto/LSE9. What Happens After Death? Rita Astuti
LSE10. How Does Genocide Happen? Michael Stewart
UCL11. Why Are Some People Powerful? Luke Freeman
LSE12. How Do We Know What Is True? Christina Toren
University of St AndrewsAfterword