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Autore |
Argyrou Vassos |
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Titolo |
Anthropology and the will to meaning : a postcolonial critique / / Vassos Argyrou |
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London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, c2002 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Anthropology, culture, and society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropology - Philosophy |
Ethnology - Philosophy |
Meaning (Philosophy) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Of Scholars, Gamblers and Thieves 1 -- 2. Has There Ever Been a Crisis in Ethnological Representation? 10 -- The Ethnographer as 'Man' 11 -- The Ethnological Representation Par Excellence 19 -- 3. The Salvation Intent 28 -- The Three Strategies of Redemption 28 -- Christian Ethnology and Victorian Anthropology 34 -- Twentieth-Century Paradigms 43 -- The Ethnological Complicity 56 -- 4. What the Natives Don't Know 60 -- The Sociocultural Unconscious 60 -- Heterodox Consciousness 74 -- The 'Heroisation' of the Thinking Subject 82 -- 5. The Ethnological Will to Meaning 92 -- The Impossible 92 -- Sameness and the Beyond 105 -- The Will to Meaning 112 -- At the End of the Game 117. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A powerful critique of both modern and postmodern anthropology. |
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