Arguments with Ethnography

Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion Volume 70

Ioan Lewis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

186 Seiten

1999
Berg Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-84520-280-4 (ISBN)

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A critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples.

Ioan Lewis (Author)

Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. History 'Functionalised', 2. A historico-functionalist debate: (Ernesto De Martino, Michel Leiris and E.E. Evans-Pritchard), 3. Deconstructing Descent, 4. Frontier Fetishism and the 'Ethiopianisation' of Africa, 5. Writing Nationalism in the Horn of Africa, 6. Present and Past in North-East African Spirit-Possession, 7. The 'Wise Man's Choice': Conversion Theories, 8. Shamans and Sex: a Comparative Perspective, 9. Ethnography and Theory in Anthropology, Bibliography, Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.1999
Reihe/Serie	LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	252 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-84520-280-5 / 1845202805
ISBN-13	978-1-84520-280-4 / 9781845202804
Zustand	Neuware