Social and cultural anthropology : a very short introduction / John Monaghan and Peter Just.

By: Monaghan, John
Contributor(s): Just, Peter (Professor of anthropology)
Material type: TextTextSeries: Very short introductionsv15Publisher: Oxford [England] New York : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: 155 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cmISBN: 0192853465; 9780192853462; 9786612365607; 0191540161; 1282365606Subject(s): EthnologyDDC classification: 306 LOC classification: GN316 | .M64 2000Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information
Contents:
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.
Summary: This book on social and cultural anthropology combines an account of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with examples of anthropologists at work. The book ends with an assessment of its position and a look forward to its future.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148) and index.

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.

This book on social and cultural anthropology combines an account of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with examples of anthropologists at work. The book ends with an assessment of its position and a look forward to its future.

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