Anthropological conversations : talking culture across disciplines / Caroline B. Brettell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brettell, Caroline, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Physical Description:

vi, 226 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Summary:

Cultural anthropologists can be an intellectually adventurous crowd: open-even eager-to building bridges across disciplines in the name of understanding human behavior and the human experience more broadly. In this first-of-its-kind book, Caroline Brettell explores the cross-disciplinary conversations that have engaged cultural anthropologists both past and present. Brettell highlights a handful of conversations between the discipline of anthropology on the one hand and history, geography, literature, biology, psychology and demography on the other. She also pinpoints how these exchanges address three enduring issues of anthropological concern: the temporal and the spatial dimensions of human experience; the scientific and the humanistic dimensions of the anthropological enterprise; and the individual and the group/population as units of analysis in research. Anthropological Conversations offers detailed accounts of particular ethnographic methodologies and findings (and the theoretical trends informing them) as a means of grasping the big-picture issues. Brettell clearly shows that, by engaging with other fields, cultural anthropologists have been able to think more deeply about what they mean by culture; through this book, she invites readers to continue the conversation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : anthropological conversations across disciplines

The presence of the past in culture : anthropology and history

Space, place and culture : anthropology and geography

Writing culture : anthropology and literature

The science in culture : anthropology and biology

The individual and culture : anthropology and psychology

Culture and population : anthropology and demography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780759123823

0759123829

OCLC:

892055777