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Anthropology's world : life in a twenty-first century discipline /

A work that reassesses the issues that have always affected anthropology: what is anthropology for; how do anthropologists want their work to be understood; for whom do they write, and in what language? In his panoramic new book, Ulf Hannerz cements his reputation as one of anthropology's fines...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hannerz, Ulf (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : New York : Pluto Press ; Distributed exclusively in U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
©2010
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : In the world, and a world in itself
  • Editing anthropology : two experiences in space and time
  • Diversity is our business
  • Field worries : studying down, up, sideways, through, backward, forward, early or later, away and at home
  • Making the world transparent
  • Flat world and the Tower of Babel : linguistic practices in a global discipline
  • Before and after : exploring the usable past
  • And next, briefly : toward 2050.