Conceptualising Society by Adam Kuper

Conceptualising Society by Adam Kuper

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Intended for undergraduates, academics and researchers in the fields of social anthropology, history and cultural studies, this book provides an account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today.

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Conceptualising Society by Adam Kuper

The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the post-modernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view that no theory could possibly do justice to the insights and complex descriptions of ethnography. In this view, the first six collections of papers taken from the first conference of the newly-formed European Association of Social Anthropologists, the contributors discuss the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Their concerns range through structuralism, post-modernism and world systems theory, and the volume as a whole offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, academics and researchers in the field of social anthropology, history and cultural studies.
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ISBN 13 9780415061254
ISBN 10 0415061253
Title Conceptualising Society
Author Adam Kuper
Series European Association Of Social Anthropologists
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1992-07-02
Number of pages 164
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