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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction

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Availability:In StockContributor:John Monaghan, Peter JustSeries:Very Short IntroductionsPublish date:2000-06-15Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780192853462ISBN-10:192853465UPC:9780192853462Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:6.70 x 4.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCJKE7AT7B
"If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work.

Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropology's most important contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its doctrine of cultural relativism, and its methodology of fieldwork and ethnography. Drawing on examples from their own fieldwork in Indonesia and Mesoamerica, they examine specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and culture. Including an assessment of anthropology's present position, and a look forward to its likely future, Social and Cultural Anthropology will make fascinating reading for anyone curious about this social science.

About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780192853462ISBN-10:192853465UPC:9780192853462Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:6.70 x 4.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCJKE7AT7B
Peter Just has done extensive research among the Dou Donggo of Sumbawa Island in Indonesia. His research interests include dispute settlement and law, kinship and social organization, and religion ritual. He is the author of Dou Donggo Justice: Conflict and Morality in an Indonesian Society, and is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Williams College.
Over the last twenty years John Monaghan has carried out a number of ethnographic research projects among the indigenous people of Mexico and Guatemala. His most recent book on the subject is The Covenants With Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality. He is currently a professor at Vanderbilt University.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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