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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1995.
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| Series: | The uses of knowledge
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.