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6%OFFEric Gable - Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau - 9780253222756 - V9780253222756
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Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau

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Description for Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau paperback. A provocative introduction to fieldwork and the concept of culture Num Pages: 246 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.

Anthropology and Egalitarianism is an artful and accessible introduction to key themes in cultural anthropology. Writing in a deeply personal style and using material from his fieldwork in three dramatically different locales—Indonesia, West Africa, and Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson—Eric Gable shows why the ethnographic encounter is the core of the discipline's method and the basis of its unique contribution to understanding the human condition. Gable weaves together vignettes from the field and discussion of major works as he explores the development of the idea of culture through the experience of cultural contrast, anthropology's fraught relationship to racism ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253222756
SKU
V9780253222756
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99-50

About Eric Gable
Eric Gable teaches anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. He is author (with Richard Handler) of The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg.

Reviews for Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau
Overall, this book is a success and a useful text for ethnographers of all types. Its self-reflective nature should make any researcher think deeply on her or his own process, and the accessibility of the writing makes it useful for classrooms of all levels. . . . Gable's writing is always pleasant and at times beautifully eloquent.
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