Small places, large issues [electronic resource] : an introduction to social and cultural anthropology / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
Series: Anthropology, culture, and societyPublication details: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, c2001.Edition: 2nd edDescription: x, 342 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 306 21
- GN316 .E75 2001eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-331) and index.
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?
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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