Developing anthropological ideas : the Edward Westermarck memorial lectures, 1983-1997 /

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Imprint:[Helsinki : Suomen Antropologinen Seura], 1998 (Helsinki : Valopaino Oy)
Description:215 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 0356-0481 ; no. 41
Suomen Antropologisen Seuran toimituksia ; 41.
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4234346
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Other authors / contributors:Siikala, Jukka.
Vuorela, Ulla.
Nisula, Tapio.
Westermarck, Edward, 1862-1939.
ISBN:9529573197
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • History and structure / Marshall Sahlins
  • Incorporation and identity in the making of the modern world / Eric R. Wolf
  • How institutions think / Mary Douglas
  • Rationality between sociologists and anthropologists or, the fetishism of culture / Ernest Gellner
  • Misconceived kinship or, how nature imitates culture / Claude Meillassoux
  • Late twentieth century strategies for producing ethnography / George E. Marcus
  • Internal and external memory: different ways of being in history / Maurice Bloch
  • Contentious subjects: moral being in the modern world / Jean Comaroff
  • From one human nature to many human conditions: an anthropological enquiry into suffering as moral experience in a disordering age / Arthur Kleinman.