03371oam 2200697I 450 991045072270332120200520144314.01-280-06749-797866100674971-134-84074-80-203-45090-610.4324/9780203450901 (CKB)1000000000253703(EBL)181733(OCoLC)310464998(SSID)ssj0000309432(PQKBManifestationID)11237629(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309432(PQKBWorkID)10266601(PQKB)11616290(MiAaPQ)EBC181733(Au-PeEL)EBL181733(CaPaEBR)ebr10603843(CaONFJC)MIL6749(OCoLC)810931618(EXLCZ)99100000000025370320180331d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShifting contexts transformations in anthropological knowledge /edited by Marilyn StrathernLondon ;New York :Routledge,1995.1 online resource (206 p.)The uses of knowledgeBased on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993.0-415-10795-4 0-415-10794-6 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 indexTo 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 found in ethnographic accounts where contrasts are repeatedly drawn between the encompassing realm and everyday life or in value systems which sumultaneously trivialise and aggrandise or in shifts between what pertains to the general or to the particular.ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of KnowledgeEthnologyPhilosophyCultureKnowledge, Sociology ofElectronic books.EthnologyPhilosophy.Culture.Knowledge, Sociology of.306/.01Strathern Marilyn483976Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth.Conference(4th :1993 :Oxford, England)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450722703321Shifting contexts2148762UNINA