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Social and cultural anthropology : a very short introduction / John Monaghan and Peter Just.
"Using examples from their own research in Indonesia and Mexico, John Monaghan and Peter Just give the reader a sense of what it is like to be an anthropologist doing the unique fieldwork that sets anthropology apart from other social sciences. They also provide an account of the 'big' questions that have concerned anthropologists since the beginnings of the field: What is unique about human beings? How are groups of people - family, class, tribe, nation - formed, and what holds them together? What is the nature of belief, economic exchange, the self?"--Jacket.
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- ISBN: 0192853465
- ISBN: 9780192853462
- Physical Description: [xiii], 160 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm.
- Publisher: Oxford [England] ; Oxford University Press, ©2000.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A dispute in Donggo: fieldwork and ethnography -- Bee larvae and onion soup: culture --A brief encounter: society -- Fernando seeks a wife: sex and blood -- La Bose becomes Bakar: caste, class, tribe, nation -- A feast in Nuyoo: people and their things -- A drought in Bima: people and their gods -- Ñañuu María gets hit by lightning: people and their selves -- Afterword: Some things we've learned. |
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| Subject: | Ethnology. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | GN 316 .M66 2000 | 30775305532435 | General Collection | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Social and Cultural Anthropology: a Very Short Introduction
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).
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