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Questions of Anthropology (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology)
Rita Astuti
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Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from the quest to control the future and to find one's 'true' identity to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question posed by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame this ... Read more
Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from the quest to control the future and to find one's 'true' identity to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question posed by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845207489
SKU
V9781845207489
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99-2
About Rita Astuti
Rita Astuti is co-author of Constraints On Conceptual Development. Jonathan Parry is author of Death in Banaras. Charles Stafford is author of Separation and Reunion in Modern China. All the editors teach Anthropology at the London School of Economics.
Reviews for Questions of Anthropology (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology)
'This fascinating volume addresses large existential questions through the specifics of real people in real places. We hear an extraordinary diversity of voices, from Scottish adoptees on the anxieties of parentage, to Chinese farmers on anxieties about the future, to the president of Madagascar on the anxieties of power. Without embracing any simplistic universalism, Questions of Anthropology reminds us that ... Read more