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Author:

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, author. https://isni.org/isni/000000010921699X.

Title:

Small places, large issues : an introduction to social and cultural anthropology / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Edition:

Revised fifth edition.

Publisher:

Pluto Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

X, 484 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ethnology.
Sociology.
Ethnologie.
Sociologie.
sociology.
Ethnology
Sociology

Notes:

Previous edition: 2015. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- 1. Anthropology: Comparison and Context -- 2. A Brief History of Anthropology -- 3. Fieldwork and Ethnography -- 4. The Social Person -- 5. Local Organisation -- 6. Person and Society -- 7. Kinship as Descent -- 8. Marriage and Relatedness -- 9. Social Differentiation 1: Gender and Age -- 10. Social Differentiation 2: Caste and Class -- 11. Religion and Ritual -- 12. Language and Cognition -- 13. Politics and Power -- 14. Political Identity 1: Ethnicity and the Politics of Identity
15. Political Identity 2: Nationalism and Minorities -- 16. Economic Anthropology 1: Exchange and Consumption -- 17. Economic Anthropology 2: Production and Technology -- 18. Humanity and the Biosphere -- 19. Complexity and Change -- 20. Medical Anthropology -- 21. Anthropology and the Paradoxes of Globalisation -- 22. The Anthropology of Climate Change -- Epilogue: Making Anthropology Matter -- Bibliography -- Index

Series:

Anthropology, culture and society

ISBN:

074534819X
9780745348193

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1381889900

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)