Closed Systems and Open Minds: The Limits of Naivety in Social Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780202308593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 276 str.

Max Gluckman

Opis

Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom. When a social anthropologist's research leads him into any field which belongs to other disciplines, what line should he adopt? What use may he make of the results that other scholars have already achieved? Must he knowingly make naive assumptions concerning events which they have regarded as complex?

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION 2 SYMBOLS IN NDEMBU RITUAL (written I957) 3 TWO VILLAGES IN ORISSA (INDIA) (written I958) 4 URBAN COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA (written I957) 5 WORKSHOP BEHAVIOUR (written I957) 6 SOCIAL MOBILITY AND SOCIAL CLASS IN INDUS[1]TRIAL COMMUNITIES (written 1957) 7 CONCLUSION: MODES AND CONSEQUENCES OF LIMITING A FIELD OF STUDY

O autorze

Szasz, Thomas