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Shifting contexts : transformations in anthropological knowledge /

One way in which different orders of knowledge are brought together is through the transformation of context. This book is concerned with contexts of a particular kind. Claims to know 'more' or see 'further' or to be able to encompass local facts by a global perspective take on a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference
Otros Autores: Strathern, Marilyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Colección:The uses of knowledge
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Forgotten knowledge / Mary Douglas
  • Exhibiting knowledge : the trees of Dubois, Haeckel, Jesse and Rivers at the Pithecanthropus centennial exhibition / Mary Bouquet
  • Building, dwelling, living : how animals and people make themselves at home in the world / Tim Ingold
  • Transformations of identity in Sepik warfare / Simon Harrison
  • Human rights and moral knowledge : arguments of accountability in Zimbabwe / Richard Werbner
  • Globalisation and the new technologies of knowing : anthropological calculus or chaos? / Angela P. Cheater.
  • Cultures in collision : the emergence of a new localism in academic research / Stephen Hill and Tim Turpin
  • The nice thing about culture is that everyone has it / Marilyn Strathern.