Grasping the changing world : anthropological concepts in the postmodern era /

"Grasping the Changing World collects papers read at the second biennial EASA conference in Prague in 1992. The conference took place in an extraordinary 'postmodern' setting. With the fall of the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe old certainties and time-honoured concep...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Hubinger, Václav (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996
Series:European Association of Social Anthropologists.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The temporalities of tradition : reflections on a changing anthropology / Olivia Harris
  • The present : a bridge between the past and the future / Vaclav Hubinger
  • The 'Bogoras enigma' : bounds of culture and formats of anthropologists / Igor Krupnik
  • The concept of culture between modernity and postmodernity / Carla Pasquinelli
  • Circumscribing the environment : sustainable development, ethnography and applied anthropology in southern Africa / Tim Quinlan
  • Anthropology and the contemporary construction of ethnicity in Indonesia and Britain / C.W. Watson.