John Monaghan

Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction

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If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do, write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology withabundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropology's most important contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its doctrine of cultural relativism, and its methodology of fieldwork and ethnography. Drawing on examples fromth… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Just, Peter

ISBN: 978-0-19-285346-2
EAN: 9780192853462
Produktnummer: 8331491
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Ausstattung: A-Format Paperback
Masse: H17.1 cm x B10.8 cm x D1.0 cm 149 g
Abbildungen: halftones, line drawings
Gewicht: 149

Über den Autor

Peter Just is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. His research and teaching interests include law and dispute settlement, religion and magic, and the cross-cultural study of personality and emotions. He is the author of Dou Donggo Justice: Conflict and Morality in an Indonesian Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).John Monaghan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, and author of The Covenants With Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995).