Anthropology: why it matters / Tim Ingold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingold, Tim, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

Series:

Why it matters.

Why it matters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

v, 145 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2018.

Summary:

Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? What are the possibilities, in such a world, of collective human life? These are urgent questions, and no discipline is better placed to address them than anthropology. It does so by bringing to bear the wisdom and experience of people everywhere, whatever their backgrounds and walks of life. In this passionately argued book, Tim Ingold relates how a field of study once committed to ideals of progress collapsed amidst the ruins of war and colonialism, only to be reborn as a discipline of hope, destined to take centre stage in debating the most pressing intellectual, ethical and political issues of our time. He shows why anthropology matters to us all. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface

On taking others seriously

Similarity and difference

A discipline divided

Rethinking the social

Anthropology for the future

Further reading

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Ingold, Tim, 1948- Anthropology why it matters.

ISBN:

9781509519798

1509519793

9781509519804

1509519807

OCLC:

1019834628

Publisher Number:

99976477877