Small Places, Large Issues - Second Edition: An Introduction to Social and Cultural AnthropologyRanging from the Pacific islands to the Arctic north and from small villages to modern nation states, this concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology reveals the rich global variation in social life and culture. The text also provides a clear overview of anthropology, focusing on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Unlike previous texts on the subject, Small Places, Large Issues broadens the study to incorporate the anthropology of complex modern societies, thus providing a unique key text for all students of social and cultural anthropology. Using reviews of key monographs to illustrate his argument, Eriksen's lucid and accessible text remains an established introductory text in anthropology. This new edition is updated throughout and includes a new chapter on the history of anthropology. It also shows clearly and comprehensively, through numerous new examples, why classic studies of small-scale societies are relevant for the study of complex phenomena such as nationalism, consumption and the Internet. In this way, the book bridges an often perceived gap between "classic" and "contemporary" anthropology. |
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... AZANDE The Azande are a patrilineal people of agriculturalists who live largely in southern Sudan , a few hundred kilometres south - west of Nuerland ( Evans- Pritchard 1983 [ 1937 ] ) . Their cosmology presumes ( in the ethnographic ...
... AZANDE The Azande are a patrilineal people of agriculturalists who live largely in southern Sudan , a few hundred kilometres south - west of Nuerland ( Evans- Pritchard 1983 [ 1937 ] ) . Their cosmology presumes ( in the ethnographic ...
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... Azande possess this ability . Unlike magic , which involves medicines and magical formulas , witchcraft is a purely spiritual , generally involuntary activity : the witchcraft power frequently commits its acts while the carrier ( the ...
... Azande possess this ability . Unlike magic , which involves medicines and magical formulas , witchcraft is a purely spiritual , generally involuntary activity : the witchcraft power frequently commits its acts while the carrier ( the ...
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... Azande ; they too trust blindly in forces they do not fully understand . One of his examples is drawn from meteorology . How many of us really understand its principles ? Yet we watch the weather forecasts . Winch agrees that ideas and ...
... Azande ; they too trust blindly in forces they do not fully understand . One of his examples is drawn from meteorology . How many of us really understand its principles ? Yet we watch the weather forecasts . Winch agrees that ideas and ...
Contents
Comparison and Context | 1 |
A Brief History of Anthropology | 9 |
Fieldwork and its Interpretation | 24 |
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