Understanding cultures (Perspectives in anthropology and social theory)
Editorial BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS LTD.
Festland Spanien
- Verlag BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS LTD.
- ISBN13 9780631221159
- ISBN10 0631221158
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 278
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2001
- Bindung Gebunden
Understanding cultures (Perspectives in anthropology and social theory)
Editorial BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS LTD.
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Understanding Cultures confronts the major theoretical issues involved in cross-cultural interpretation. The book introduces students to rationality among the ancestors of anthropology before proceeding to a wide-ranging evaluation of the Anglo-American rationality debates. At issue is the opposition between scientific models of understanding human action and those models that emphasize human action as symbolic and meaningful, thus privileging an interpretive framework. This long-awaited second edition concludes with a chapter on globalism and cultural diaspora that challenges conventional notions of bounded culture and bounded self and has important implications for refiguring the rationality debates, fieldwork, and cross-cultural interpretations more generally.