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Partial connections / Marilyn Strathern.
Penn Museum Library GN307.7 .S77 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strathern, Marilyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Authorship.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology--Melanesia.
- Manners and customs.
- Melanesia.
- Melanesia--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 153 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Available with a new Preface, Marilyn Strathern's seminal book challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials, focusing on a problem normally thought of as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. Revealing unexpected replications in modes of thought and in the presentation of ambiguous images, Strathern has fashioned a unique contribution to the anthropological corpus.
- Contents:
- Wright Anthropology xiii
- 1 Wright Anthropology 1
- 1 Ethnography as evocation 5
- 2 Complex society, incomplete knowledge 17
- 1 Feminist critique 29
- 2 Intrusions and comparisons 41
- 2 Partial Connections 57
- 1 Full of trees, full of flutes 61
- 2 Center and periphery 77
- 1 Historical critique 91
- 2 Prosthetic extensions 105.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-149) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0759107599
- 0759107602
- OCLC:
- 59553934
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