1. Fieldwork and Ethnography; 2. Culture; 3. Society; 4. Sex and blood; 5. Class and caste, village and city, home and the world; 6. Language and social life; 7. The culturally constructed self 8. The future of anthropology; Further reading; Index.
Peter Just is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Williams
College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. His research and teaching
interests include law and dispute settlement, religion and magic,
and the cross-cultural study of personality and emotions. He is the
author of Dou Donggo Justice: Conflict and Morality in an
Indonesian Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).
John Monaghan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt
University, and author of The Covenants With Earth and Rain:
Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality (University
of Oklahoma Press, 1995).
"I cannot imagine a better short introduction to anthropology... it is firmly anchored in the traditional concerns of fieldwork and participant observation."--Kent V. Flannery, University of Michigan"The most original introduction to anthropological thinking I have seen... The reader is made to experience anthropology as it is practiced, as a process that begins in the field of observations and continues on as an explanatory, interpretive, theoretical, and finally disciplinary activity-- anthropology as it is done rather than talked about. The writing is notably lucid, simple, and unpretentious. The book gives the reader a sense of unique achievements of anthroplogy amopng the social disciplines, and of its position as evolving and never finished business."--Igor Kopytoff, University of Pennsylvania
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