Conceptualizing Society

by Adam Kuper

Book Overview

The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the postmodernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view that no theory could possibly do justice to the insights and complex descriptions of ethnography. In this volume, the first papers taken from the first conference...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415755670
• ISBN13: 9780415755672
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"