Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', Wendy James writes vividly and readably. Her new overview advocates a clear line of argument: that the concept of social form is a primary key to anthropology and the human sciences as a whole. Weaving memorable ethnographic examples into her text, James brings together carefully selected historical sources as well as references to current ideas in neighbouring disciplines such as archaeology, paleoanthropology, genetics, art and material culture, ethnomusicology, urban and development studies, politics, economics,…mehr
Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', Wendy James writes vividly and readably. Her new overview advocates a clear line of argument: that the concept of social form is a primary key to anthropology and the human sciences as a whole. Weaving memorable ethnographic examples into her text, James brings together carefully selected historical sources as well as references to current ideas in neighbouring disciplines such as archaeology, paleoanthropology, genetics, art and material culture, ethnomusicology, urban and development studies, politics, economics, psychology, and religious studies. She shows the relevance of anthropology to pressing world issues such as migration, humanitarian politics, the new reproductive technologies, and religious fundamentalism. Wendy James's engaging style will appeal to specialist and non-specialist alike. The Foreword is written by Michael J. Lambek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
Wendy James is the celebrated author of eight novels, including the bestselling The Mistake and the compelling The Golden Child, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Ned Kelly Award for crime. Her debut novel, Out of the Silence, won the 2006 Ned Kelly Award for first crime novel, and was shortlisted for the Nita May Dobbie award for women's writing. Wendy has a PhD from the University of New England and works as an editor at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. She lives in Newcastle with her husband and the youngest of her four children, and writes some of the sharpest and most topical domestic noir novels in the country.
Inhaltsangabe
* FOREWORD * By Michael J. Lambek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto * THE QUEST FOR PATTERN * 1: Key Questions in Anthropology * 2: Dialogues with Grand Theory * SHAPE AND RHYTHM IN SOCIAL FORMS * 3: Species, Space, and Time * 4: Daughters of the Dance * 5: On Ritual and Social Memoey * LANGUAGE AND THE MAKING OF PERSONS * 6: Language and Social Engagement * 7: The Dialectics of Gender and Generation * 8: Human Bodies, Social Persons, and Selves * PRACTICE AND POLITICS IN THE CEREMONIAL ARENA * 9: Place, Home, and Habitus * 10: Work, Wealth, and Exchange * 11: Theatres of Power, War, and Peace * LARGE-SCALE MODERN FORMS * 12: The New Spaces: Cities and Popular Culture * 13: The Modern Person and 'The Market' * 14: States, 'Nations', and the Struggles of the People * CONCLUDING ESSAY * 15: Anthropology as a Human Science: Conversations with History and Religion * Notes * Select Bibliography
* FOREWORD * By Michael J. Lambek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto * THE QUEST FOR PATTERN * 1: Key Questions in Anthropology * 2: Dialogues with Grand Theory * SHAPE AND RHYTHM IN SOCIAL FORMS * 3: Species, Space, and Time * 4: Daughters of the Dance * 5: On Ritual and Social Memoey * LANGUAGE AND THE MAKING OF PERSONS * 6: Language and Social Engagement * 7: The Dialectics of Gender and Generation * 8: Human Bodies, Social Persons, and Selves * PRACTICE AND POLITICS IN THE CEREMONIAL ARENA * 9: Place, Home, and Habitus * 10: Work, Wealth, and Exchange * 11: Theatres of Power, War, and Peace * LARGE-SCALE MODERN FORMS * 12: The New Spaces: Cities and Popular Culture * 13: The Modern Person and 'The Market' * 14: States, 'Nations', and the Struggles of the People * CONCLUDING ESSAY * 15: Anthropology as a Human Science: Conversations with History and Religion * Notes * Select Bibliography
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