Small places, large issues : an introduction to social and cultural anthropology / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, author.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society.

Anthropology, culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

FOURTH EDITION.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The classic introduction to social and cultural anthropology, now updated.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Series Preface

Preface to the Fourth Edition

1. Anthropology: Comparison and Context

2. A Brief History of Anthropology

3. Fieldwork and Ethnography

4. The Social Person

5. Local Organisation

6. Person and Society

7. Kinship as Descent

8. Marriage and Relatedness

9. Gender and Age

10. Caste and Class

11. Politics and Power

12. Exchange and Consumption

13. Production, Nature and Technology

14. Religion and Ritual

15. Language and Cognition

16. Complexity and Change

17. Ethnicity

18. Nationalism and Minorities

19. Anthropology and the Paradoxes of Globalisation

20. Public Anthropology

Epilogue: Making Anthropology Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 8, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

hardback:

ISBN:

9781783715183 (ebook)

9780745336954 (hardback)

9781783715183

1783715189

9781783715176

1783715170

OCLC:

919479211