Conceptualizing Society (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415061247)

The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the postmodernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view that no theory could possibly do justice to the insights and complex descriptions of ethnography. In this volume, the first papers taken from the first conference of the newly-formed European Association of Social Anthropologists, the contributors discuss the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Their concerns range through structuralism, postmodernism and world systems theory, and the volume as a whole offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today.

Author: Adam Kuper
ISBN-10: 0415061245
ISBN-13: 9780415061247
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/02/1992
Pages: 162
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d