European Association of Social Anthropologists
Recasting Ritual: Performance, Media, Identity
1st Edition
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By Mary M. Crain, Felicia Hughes-Freeland
October 01, 1998
Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own ...
Anthropology of Policy: Perspectives on Governance and Power
1st Edition
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By Cris Shore, Susan Wright
September 18, 1997
Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight ...
The Ethnography of Moralities
1st Edition
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By Signe Howell
December 26, 1996
Focusing on the social construction of morality, The Ethnography of Moralities discusses a topic which is complex but central to the study and nature of anthropology. With the recent shift towards an interest in indigenous notions of self and personhood, questions pertaining to the moral and ...
Inside and Outside the Law
1st Edition
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By Olivia Harris
December 06, 1996
Inside and Outside the Law analyses the relationship between the law, the state and its citizens. Drawing on general theories and specific case-studies, it examines the diverse ways in which people in different cultural and historical settings have experienced the ambiguities of law. Its theme ...
Civil Society: Challenging Western Models
1st Edition
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By Elizabeth Dunn, Chris Hann
October 02, 1996
Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable ...
Grasping the Changing World
1st Edition
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By Vaclav Hubinger
September 03, 1996
As different societies merge into one global society and face the concomitant crisis of identity, of purpose and interest, social anthropology urgently needs to bring its methodology up to date: new methods are needed to analyse, compare and understand different cultures across space and ...
Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives
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By Philippe Descola, Gisli Palsson
August 21, 1996
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic ...
Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology
1st Edition
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By Arturo Alvarez Roldan, Han Vermeulen
January 18, 1995
The history of anthropology has great relevance for current debates within the discipline, offering a foundation from which the professionalisation of anthropology can evolve. The authors explore key issues in the history of social and cultural anthropological approaches in Germany, Great Britain, ...
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis
1st Edition
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By Rosalind Shaw, Charles Stewart
December 01, 1994
Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not ...
Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
1st Edition
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By Kirsten Hastrup, Peter Hervik
September 08, 1994
Anthropology poses an explicit challenge to standard notions of scientific knowledge. It claims to produce genuine insights into the workings of culture in general on the basis of individual social experience in the field. Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge traces the process from the ...
Gendered Anthropology
1st Edition
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By Teresa del Valle
June 25, 1993
In the last three decades, a remarkable degree of progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. Gendered Anthropology offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which...
Other Histories
1st Edition
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By Kirsten Hastrup
November 17, 1992
The historization of anthropology has entailed a radically new view upon history and the nature of history. This collection of papers from the first conference of the newly formed European Association of Social Anthropologists demonstrate how ways of thinking about history are important features of...