Grasping the Changing World: Anthropological Concepts in the Postmodern Era

ISBN-13: 9780415102025 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 144 str.

Vaclav Hubinger

Opis

As various societies increasingly merge into one global society and consequently have to address crises of identity, purpose and interest, so must social anthropology re-examine and update its methodology. This book concerns itself with European anthropology from an Eastern perspective rather than focusing exclusively on Eastern European anthropology. It offers comparative material analyzing social situations in Russia, Indonesia, Britain, Central Europe, Southern Africa and the Arctic as a means to determine the success or failure of the same concepts in the understanding of present Central Europe.

Spis treści

List of contributors; Preface; 1 The temporalities of tradition: Reflections on a changing anthropolog, Olivia Harris; 2 The present: A bridge between the past and the future, Václav Hubinger; 3 The ‘Bogoras enigma’: Bounds of culture and formats of anthropologists, Igor Krupnik; 4 The concept of culture between modernity and postmodernity, Carla Pasquinelli; 5 Circumscribing the environment: Sustainable development, ethnography and applied anthropology in southern Africa, Tim Quinlan; 6 Anthropology and the contemporary construction of ethnicity in Indonesia and Britain, C.W. Watson; Index;

O autorze

Václav Hubinger