UID:
almafu_9959148206702883
Format:
1 online resource (255 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-52349-1
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9786610216833
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1-134-52350-5
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1-280-21683-2
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0-203-49114-9
Content:
Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the famous 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of methods, aims, knowledge and understanding. The books' unique hypothetical approach takes gift-theory - the science of obligation and reciprocity - as the theme of a virtual enquiry which explores how the discipline has evolved historically, how it is applied in practice and how it can be argued with critically. By asking readers t
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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A sceptical introduction to theories of gift exchange -- The awkward legacy of the noble savage -- Gathering thoughts in fieldwork -- Keeping relationships, meeting obligations -- Exchanging people, giving reasons -- Debt in postcolonial society -- Mistaking how and when to give -- Envisioning bourgeois subjects -- Giving beyond reason -- Virtually real exchange -- Interests in cultural property -- Giving anthropology a/way.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-25443-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-25444-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203491140
