ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge
About the Book Series
This series consists of books resulting from the Association of Social Anthropologists' Decennial Conference in 1993 which examined the manner in which anthropological knowledge is being shaped by - and is shaping - a new relationship between global and local phenomena.
The Future of Anthropological Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Henrietta Moore
April 08, 1996
The Future of Anthropological Knowledge the chapters explore the question of the nature of social knowledge from a variety of perspectives and locations such as China, Africa, the USA and elsewhere. By examining the changing nature of anthropological knowledge and of the production of that ...
Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Miller
December 22, 1995
Worlds Apart is concerned with one of the new futures of anthropology, namely the advances in technologies which r eate an imagination of new global and local forms. It also analyses studies of the consumption of these forms and attempts to go beyond the assumptions that consumption either ...
Shifting Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Marilyn Strathern
October 24, 1995
To suppose anthropological analysis can shift between global and local perspectives may well imply that the two co-exist as broader and narrower horizons or contexts of knowledge. The proof for this can be found in ethnographic accounts where contrasts are repeatedly drawn between the encompassing ...
Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Fardon
October 05, 1995
Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks, ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research. ...
The Pursuit of Certainty: Religious and Cultural Formulations
1st Edition
Edited
By Wendy James
August 28, 1995
Although the world population faces movement, mixing and displacement on a larger scale than ever before, the result has not been a collapse of boundaries but an increase in the rise of new forms of ethnic, cultural and religious identity. Those based in the highly developed countries can extend ...