A Genealogy of Method - Sondra L. Hausner

A Genealogy of Method

Anthropology’s Ancestors and the Meaning of Culture
Buch | Softcover
92 Seiten
2024
Anthem Press (Verlag)
978-1-83998-648-2 (ISBN)
26,15 inkl. MwSt
This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology’s role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography in turn, the book asks if the concept of culture might be productively reclaimed within a context that acknowledges history, change, and diversity.
What does it mean to study culture – and what does culture finally mean? Whether we compare cultures or delve deeply into the dynamics of a single social order, anthropology’s task is to confront the interplay of the human condition and the cultural form. Tracing the genealogy of our touchstone method, ethnography, and investigating its relation to alternative disciplines that try to get at the heart of the human experience – philology, history, and social relations – this volume considers whether contemporary anthropology might, at last, be able to define culture, after more than a century of investigation.

Sondra L. Hausner is Professor of Anthropology of Religion at the University of Oxford.

Acknowledgments; Introduction The Culture of Anthropology; Lecture One The Question of Religion; Lecture Two The Serendipity of Method; Lecture Three The Relevance of History; Lecture Four The Meaning of Culture; Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Anthem Impact
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-83998-648-4 / 1839986484
ISBN-13 978-1-83998-648-2 / 9781839986482
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