In Search of the Primitive - A Critique of Civilization

Informationen zum Autor Stanley Diamond was professor of anthropology in the graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, USA. He was the founder and editor of Dialectical Anthropology and a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health, USA. Klappentext Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities-a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. Zusammenfassung Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities-a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Eric R. Wolf 1. Introduction: Civilization and Progress 2. The Politics of Field Work 3. Anthropology in Question 4. The Search for the Primitive 5. Plato and the Definition of the Primitive 6. The Uses of the Primitive 7. Schizophrenia and Civilization 8. The Rule of Law versus the Order of Custom 9. Job and the Trickster 10. The Inauthenticity of Anthropology: the Myth of Structuralism 11. What History Is Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Diamond, Eric Wolf
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138087798
• ISBN: 978-1-138-08779-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology; Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories