Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society
by Michael Herzfeld
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Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this work offers a vision of how anthropology - a discipline that operates through intimate knowledge of local societies - can offer vastly increased understanding of society and culture even in this age of mass communication. In its examination of topics ranging as far afield as the mass media, environmental and development issues, kinship and suffering in transnational settings, the politics of both the nation-state and the local community, the arts, show more cosmologies of science as well as religion, and the relationship between social life and history, this book is not just about an academic discipline; it is about the theoretical as well as ethical commitments that have enabled anthropologists to play a leading role in the critique of racism and other forms of intolerance. show lessTags
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Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, USA.
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 301 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology
- LCC
- GN345 .H47 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Anthropology Anthropology Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology
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- English, Italian
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