Grasping the Changing World Anthropological Concepts in the Postmodern Era
| Author/creator | Hubinger, Vaclav Editor |
| Other author | EBSCO Publishing (Firm) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge Florence : Taylor & Francis Group [Distributor] |
| Description | 144 p. ill 00.850 x 00.550 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from SocINDEX with Full Text |
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| Series | European Association of Social Anthropologists Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation As different societies merge into one global society and face the concomitant crisis of identity, of purpose and interest, social anthropology urgently needs to bring its methodology up to date: new methods are needed to analyse, compare and understand different cultures across space and time.<br><em>Grasping the Changing World</em>collects papers read at the second biannual EASA conference in Prague in 1992. The conference took place in an extraordinary 'postmodern' setting. With the fall of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe old certainties and time-honoured concepts had become obsolete; at the same time, anthropology too was in upheaval, and long-established patterns of thought seemed inadequate to grasp the rapidly changing realities. These doubts and tensions are reflected in this collection.<br>The first half of <em>Grasping the Changing World</em>focuses on ways of conceptualising, modelling and perceiving the present, while the second half reassesses the theoretical strength or otherwise of social anthropology as a modern science. Combining methodological rigour and originality, this collection will make invaluable reading for all students of social anthropology, sociology and politics and its methodology as it is applied to the comparison and understanding of societies across space and time.<br> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780415102025 |
| ISBN | 0415102022 (UK-B Format Paperback) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780415102025 |
| Stock number | 00081154 |
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