Questions of Anthropology

Herausgeber: Astuti, Rita; Stafford, Charles; Parry, Jonathan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781845207496
• ISBN-10: 1845207491
• Artikelnr.: 26382742

Autorenporträt

Rita Astuti is co-author of Constraints On Conceptual Development. Jonathan Parry is author of Death in Banaras. Charles Stafford is author of Separation and Reunion in Modern China. All the editors teach Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Jonathan Parry
LSE1. What Does It Mean To Be Alone? Catherine Allerton
LSE2. How Do We Know Who We Are? Janet Carsten
Edinburgh University3. What Is Going To Happen Next? Charles Stafford
LSE4. Why
Exactly
Is The World As It Is? Eva Keller
University of Zurich5. How Does Ritual Matter? Fenella Cannell
LSE6. What Makes People Work? Olivia Harris
LSE7. What Kind Of Sex Makes People Happy? Laura Rival
Oxford University8. How Do Women Give Birth? Michael Lambek
University of Toronto/LSE9. What Happens After Death? Rita Astuti
LSE10. How Does Genocide Happen? Michael Stewart
UCL11. Why Are Some People Powerful? Luke Freeman
LSE12. How Do We Know What Is True? Christina Toren
University of St AndrewsAfterword