Marc Auge, Mark Auge, Marc Aug

The Anthropological Circle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Marc Aug explores and clarifies the relationship that anthropology enjoys with history and politics, and intellectual divisions within anthropology itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 215g
• ISBN-13: 9780521285483
• ISBN-10: 0521285488
• Artikelnr.: 24307321

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: anthropology without history or anthropology in history?
1. The anthropological circle: i. Two axes and four poles
ii. Evolution, culture, symbol
iii. Evolution, culture, function
iv. Symbol, function
v. Symbol, function, culture
vi. Culture, symbol
2. Some questions concerning the current state of anthropology: i. The philosopher's questions
ii. Meaning, non-meaning and structure: Claude Lévi-Strauss
iii. Symbol and function: Victor Turner
iv. Instances and determination
3. From moral crisis to intellectual doubt: i. The object of anthropology
ii. Ethnocentrism and anti-ethnocentrism
iii. Scientific practice, militant practice
Conclusions: i. New sites, new stakes
ii. Here, today
iii. Social logics
iv. A myth, a necessity: interdisciplinarity
Index.