ASA Monographs
After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Dawson, Jenny Hockey, Allison James
May 05, 1997
This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s.It includes discussion of issues such as:* the ...
Questions of Consciousness
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony P. Cohen, Nigel Rapport
December 18, 1995
A pioneering attempt to formulate an anthropological approach to consciousness, Questions of Consciousness explores the importance of the conscious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process. It thereby explicitly raises ...
Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology
1st Edition
By Kay Milton
December 06, 1993
Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, enviromental law and policy, and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their enviroments in hunter/gatherer societies, ...
Socialism: Ideals, Ideologies, and Local Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By C. M. Hann
January 19, 1993
Socialism as a political system may be on the wane, yet no one can doubt that its cultural legacies will make themselves felt for years to come, and on a worldwide scale. The contributors to this volume adopt a variety of anthropological approaches to illuminate changes which have removed ...
Contemporary Futures: Perspectives from Social Anthropology
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Wallman
December 12, 1992
In industrial societies imagining the future is a serious business; our assumptions about the future govern the present management of domestic, national and global resources, and are projected, some would say inflicted, on societies whose visions are different. Contemporary Futures focuses not so ...
Reason and Morality
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanna Overing
November 21, 1985
First Published in 1985. What is the place of reason and conversely of the unreasonable, the contradictory, the emotional and the chaotic in social life? What is the nature of general human rationality? Are there such things as incommensurable world views? How efficacious are typologies or 'modes ...