| Description | | - 'A very good idea, these Very Short Introductions, a new concept from OUP' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
- Authors draw on their own experience of anthropology, including fieldwork in Mexico and Indonesia
- Accessible and stimulating
- Success of the VSI series so far, and plans for expansion
| If you want to know what anthropology is
, look at what anthropologists do
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This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work.
Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important
contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its doctrine of cultural relativism, and its methodology of fieldwork and ethnography. They then examine specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and culture, drawing on examples from their own fieldwork. The book ends with an
assessment of anthropologys present position, and a look forward to its likely future.
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Readership: Students and prospective students of anthropology (particularly cultural and/or social anthropology); interested general readers.
| Contents |
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.
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
John Monaghan, Professor, Vanderbilt University and
Peter Just, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
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