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9781845207496

Questions of Anthropology

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  • ISBN13:

    9781845207496

  • ISBN10:

    1845207491

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-08-15
  • Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd
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Summary

Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from the quest to control the future and to find one's 'true' identity to the fear of being alone.Each essay starts with a question posed by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame this question in a broader, comparative context. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Questions of Anthropology presents an exciting introduction to the purpose and value of Anthropology today.

Author Biography

Rita Astuti is co-author of Constraints On Conceptual Development. Jonathan Parry is author of Death in Banaras. Charles Stafford is author of Separation and Reunion in Modern China. All the editors teach Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Table of Contents

Preface, Jonathan Parry, LSE
What Does It Mean To Be Alone? Catherine Allerton, LSE
How Do We Know Who We Are? Janet Carsten, Edinburgh University
What Is Going To Happen Next? Charles Stafford, LSE
Why, Exactly, Is The World As It Is? Eva Keller, University of Zurich
How Does Ritual Matter? Fenella Cannell, LSE
What Makes People Work? Olivia Harris, LSE
What Kind Of Sex Makes People Happy? Laura Rival, Oxford University
How Do Women Give Birth? Michael Lambek, University of Toronto/LSE
What Happens After Death? Rita Astuti, LSE
How Does Genocide Happen? Michael Stewart, UCL
Why Are Some People Powerful? Luke Freeman, LSE
How Do We Know What Is True? Christina Toren, University of St Andrews Afterword
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