Deviance: Anthropological PerspectivesMorris Freilich, Douglas Raybeck, Joel Savishinsky In this volume composed of a number of cross-cultural case studies in deviance, the authors show how an anthropological comparative study can shed new light on the subject. Anthropologists have tended to avoid studying deviance as a phenomena in and of itself, concentrating instead on particular sorts of deviance such as sorcery, alcoholism, and suicide. Anthropology's total immersion in the culture being studied is well suited to a fuller understanding of deviance. An anthropology of deviance is likely to create new models that challenge many of the sociological assumptions currently used to interpret and understand deviance. |
Contents
A Journey Through | 27 |
Anthropology and Labeling | 51 |
Staged Deviance in | 73 |
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