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The anthropological lens : harsh light, soft focus /

"Anthropology is a complex, wide-ranging, and ever-changing field. This clear, coherent, and well crafted book is a revised version of a very successful text first published in 1986, designed to supplement standard textbooks and monographs. It covers the central concepts, distinctive methodolog...

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Основен автор: Peacock, James L.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Издание: 2nd ed.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112327
Подобни документи: Print version:: Anthropological lens.
Съдържание:
  • 1
  • Substance
  • 1
  • It's real! Culture beheld
  • 1
  • Anthropology defined: a holistic discipline
  • 8
  • Perceiving holistically
  • 11
  • Wholes differentiated into parts: analytical constructs
  • 20
  • Culture and experience
  • 23
  • The concept of culture in relation to nature
  • 24
  • Society
  • 36
  • The exotic location of community and culture
  • 42
  • Culture and community in relation to individual and meaning
  • 45
  • Globalization, power, and gender
  • 49
  • Power
  • 55
  • Essentialism and gender
  • 57
  • Travel
  • 64
  • Fieldwork
  • 69
  • Fieldwork and related endeavors
  • 78
  • Interpretation
  • 85
  • Generalization
  • 95
  • The middle ground: ethnographic generalization
  • 100
  • Deduction, experimentation, and introspection
  • 104
  • Fieldwork, ethnography, and theory
  • 109
  • 3
  • Significance
  • 113
  • The greatest story ever told
  • 114
  • The evolutionary and the interpretive perspectives
  • 120
  • Implications for practice: the mastery of our future and the future of our mastery
  • 123
  • Harsh light and soft focus
  • 144.