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Tiger in an african palace : and other thoughts about identification and transformation /
Tiger in an African palace collects eight essays about kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon wrote to complement his monographs on West Africa. The essays extend those book-length descriptions by pursuing their wider implications for theory in social anthropology: exploring the relationship betw...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon :
Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Tiger in an African palace collects eight essays about kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon wrote to complement his monographs on West Africa. The essays extend those book-length descriptions by pursuing their wider implications for theory in social anthropology: exploring the relationship between comparison and historical reconstruction, and questioning the fit between personal, ethnic and cosmopolitan identities in contemporary West African nations. In an Introduction written specially for this Langaa collection, Richard Fardon retraces the career-long development of his preoccupation w. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789956792252 995679225X |