Culture Meets Power

by Stanley R. Barrett

Book Overview

In recent years the concept of power has soared to the top of the anthropological agenda, while the concept of culture has been found inadequate in understanding the contemporary world. The purposes of this study are to explain why power has become a central interest in the discipline, to evaluate the explanatory potential of power, to demonstrate how to analyze power in the ethnographic context, and to consider whether the culture concept can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275978087
• ISBN13: 9780275978082
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"