The Anthropological Lens: Harsh Light, Soft Focus,9780521808385

The Anthropological Lens: Harsh Light, Soft Focus

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780521808385
ISBN10: 0521808383
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-01-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Anthropology is a complex, wide-ranging, and ever-changing field. This clear, coherent, and well-crafted book is a revised version of a very successful text first published in 1986, designed to supplement standard textbooks and monographs. It covers the central concepts, distinctive methodologies, and philosophical as well as practical issues of cultural anthropology, and it is accessible to the anthropological novice, and of value to the professional. The updated version covers current issues in cultural anthropology, and includes topics such as globalization, gender, post-modernism and public issues, and reflects changes in perspective and language.

Table of Contents

Preface to the first edition vii
Preface to the second edition xv
Substance
1(62)
It's real! Culture beheld
1(7)
Anthropology defined: a holistic discipline
8(3)
Perceiving holistically
11(9)
Wholes differentiated into parts: analytical constructs
20(3)
Culture and experience
23(1)
The concept of culture in relation to nature
24(12)
Society
36(6)
The exotic location of community and culture
42(3)
Culture and community in relation to individual and meaning
45(4)
Globalization, power, and gender
49(6)
Power
55(2)
Essentialism and gender
57(4)
Overview
61(2)
Method
63(50)
Travel
64(5)
Fieldwork
69(9)
Fieldwork and related endeavors
78(7)
Interpretation
85(10)
Generalization
95(5)
The middle ground: ethnographic generalization
100(4)
Deduction, experimentation, and introspection
104(5)
Fieldwork, ethnography, and theory
109(4)
Significance
113(33)
The greatest story ever told
114(6)
The evolutionary and the interpretive perspectives
120(3)
Implications for practice: the mastery of our future and the future of our mastery
123(21)
Harsh light and soft focus
144(2)
Notes 146(7)
Index 153

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