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Conceptualizing society / edited by Adam Kuper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuper a Staff, Corporate Author.
- Series:
- European Association of Social Anthropologists
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Ethnology.
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (163 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first collection of papers taken from the first conference of the EASA, discussing the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; Towards greater naturalism in conceptualizing societies; The global ecumene as a network of networks; Comparison, a universal for anthropology:; Parts and wholes: refiguring relationships in; Societies of nature and the nature of society; What goes without saying: the conceptualization; Name index; Subject index
- Notes:
- The first of six volumes of papers from the first conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists held in the summer of 1990 in Coimbra, Portugal.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contains:
- Conceptualising society.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-92648-0
- 1-134-92649-9
- 1-280-33109-7
- 0-203-31630-4
- 0-203-03224-1
- 9780203032244
- OCLC:
- 427311732
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