The craft of social anthropology / A.L. Epstein, editor ; with an introduction by Max Gluckman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Ethnology.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 274 pages: illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, 2012.

Summary:

British, American, and Australian anthropologists who had worked together at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute (Zambia) or Manchester University presented a set of essays that could be used to teach methods of anthropological research, and that research workers could use as a guide when they were actually in the field. The topics include the intensive study of small sample communities, the frequency of divorce, the extended-case method and situational analysis, the data of economics in anthropological analysis, the case method in the field of law, and the study of witchcraft. The book was first published in 1967, and is reproduced here from the 1978 edition. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Part 1 Orientations and Techniques

The Intensive Study of Small Sample Communities / Elizabeth Colson Colson, Elizabeth 3

On Quantification in Social Anthropology / J. Clyde Mitchell Mitchell, J. Clyde 17

The Frequency of Divorce / J. A. Barnes Barnes, J. A. 47

Genealogies / J. A. Barnes Barnes, J. A. 101

The Extended-case Method and Situational Analysis / J. Van Velsen Velsen, J. Van 129

Part 2 Selected Problems: Data and Methods

The Data of Economics in Anthropological Analysis / T. S. Epstein Epstein, T. S. 153

Aspects of Saora Ritual and Shamanism: An Approach to the Data of Ritual / V. W. Turner Turner, V. W. 181

The Case Method in the Field of Law / A. L. Epstein Epstein, A. L. 205

The Study of Witchcraft / M. G. Marwick Marwick, M. G. 231

Part 3.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: London ; New York : Tavistock, 1967.

ISBN:

9781412845878

1412845874