After Writing Culture : Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780415150057 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 256 str.

Allison James; Jennifer Lorna Hockey; Jenny Hockey

Opis

Resulting from the ASA conference in 1995, this text addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. With 14 articles written by anthropologists, the work explores some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the writing culture debates of the 1980s. Chapters cover topics such as: the concept of caste in Indian society; Scottish ethnography; how dreams are culturally conceptualized; representations of the family culture as conservation gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan; representation in rural Japan people's place in the landscape of Northern Australia; and representing identity of the New Zealand Maori. It should be useful reading to undergraduates in social anthropology, cultural studies and sociology.

Recenzje

'The accounts given are intrinsically interesting ...' - Sociology, Vol 33(1), February 1999

O autorze

Andrew Dawson, Jenny Hockey, Allison James