{"product_id":"the-retreat-of-the-social-bruce-kapferer-9781845451752","title":"The Retreat of the Social: The Rise and Rise of Reductionism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Kapferer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1845451759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781845451752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.28d","brand":"Bruce Kapferer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938936324351,"sku":"9781845451752","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0f620a58-2492-4ef9-886e-0bd99ef8561a.jpg?v=1681438542","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-retreat-of-the-social-bruce-kapferer-9781845451752","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}