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Anthropology: why it matters / Tim Ingold.

LIBRA GN345 .I3726 2018
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English
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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
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