Anthropology and the Will to Meaning - A Postcolonial Critique

Informationen zum Autor Vassos Argyrou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Cultural Theory in the School of Social Sciences, University of Hull. His research interests include social and cultural theory, postcolonialism, ritual and myth, southern Europe. He is the author of Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: A Postcolonial Critique (Pluto, 2002). Klappentext Argyrou puts forward a powerful critique of both modern and postmodern anthropology that reveals the self-centered logic of anthropological humanism. Zusammenfassung A powerful critique of both modern and postmodern anthropology

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• Authors: Vassos Argyrou
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.05.2002
• EAN: 9780745318592
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-1859-2
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci; Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)