Small places, large issues an introduction to social and cultural anthropology /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eriksen, Thomas Hylland
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, c2001.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : comparison and context
  • A brief history of anthropology
  • Fieldwork and its interpretation
  • The social person
  • Local organisation
  • Person and society
  • Kinship as descent
  • Marriage and alliance
  • Gender and age
  • Social hierarchies
  • Politics and power
  • Exchange
  • Production and technology
  • Religion and ritual
  • Modes of thought
  • The challenge of multiple traditions
  • Ethnicity
  • The politics of identity : nationalism and minorities
  • The global, the local, and the global
  • Epilogue : and so what?