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The pursuit of certainty : religious and cultural formulations /
"The peoples of the world are now facing economic integration and social interaction on a wider scale than ever before. But has this produced a greater sense of common reason, or shared world citizenship? Contemporary global communication, itself celebrating diversity, has paradoxically stimula...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1995.
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| Colección: | Uses of knowledge.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The peoples of the world are now facing economic integration and social interaction on a wider scale than ever before. But has this produced a greater sense of common reason, or shared world citizenship? Contemporary global communication, itself celebrating diversity, has paradoxically stimulated local commitments to exclusive ethnic, cultural and religious identity. The chapters in this book explore the ways in which anthropology can throw light on these diverging new 'certainties', often possessive of place, bodily substance or cultural heritage and often claiming divine justification." "The Pursuit of Certainty is a convincing demonstration of anthropology's relevance to the contemporary world and its turbulence. It offers ground-level insights into a growing global consensus about the primacy of cultural difference; into the shrill new certainties which are spreading in some areas though being resisted in others: and into the 'post-Enlightenment' rise of religious justification in human affairs."--Jacket |
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| Notas: | Based on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 316 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0203450841 9780203450840 9780415107907 0415107903 9780415107914 0415107911 9786610057603 6610057605 9781134840885 1134840888 9781134840830 1134840837 9781134840878 113484087X |