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UNINA9910783846103321 |
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Titolo |
Shifting contexts : transformations in anthropological knowledge / / edited by Marilyn Strathern |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-84073-X |
1-280-06749-7 |
9786610067497 |
1-134-84074-8 |
0-203-45090-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology - Philosophy |
Culture |
Knowledge, Sociology of |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; Foreword Shifting contexts; Forgotten knowledge; Exhibiting knowledge: the trees of Dubois, Haeckel, Jesse and Rivers at the Pithecanthropus centennial exhibition; Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world; Transformations of identity in Sepik warfare; Human rights and moral knowledge: arguments of accountability in Zimbabwe; Globalisation and the new technologies of knowing: anthropological calculus or chaos? |
Cultures in collision: the emergence of a new localism in academic researchThe nice thing about culture is that everyone has it; Afterword Relocations; Name index; Subject index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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To suppose anthropological analysis can shift between global and local perspectives may well imply that the two co-exist as broader and narrower horizons or contexts of knowledge. The proof for this can be |
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