Stanley Diamond

In Search of the Primitive (eBook, ePUB)

A Critique of Civilization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities-a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351615440
• Artikelnr.: 48801768

Autorenporträt

Stanley Diamond was professor of anthropology in the graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, USA. He was the founder and editor of Dialectical Anthropology and a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Eric R. Wolf
1. Introduction: Civilization and Progress
2. The Politics of Field Work
3. Anthropology in Question
4. The Search for the Primitive
5. Plato and the Definition of the Primitive
6. The Uses of the Primitive
7. Schizophrenia and Civilization
8. The Rule of Law versus the Order of Custom
9. Job and the Trickster
10. The Inauthenticity of Anthropology: the Myth of Structuralism
11. What History Is
Epilogue