Arguments With Ethnography - Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion

Informationen zum Autor Ioan Lewis (Author) Zusammenfassung A critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. History 'Functionalised', 2. A historico-functionalist debate: (Ernesto De Martino, Michel Leiris and E.E. Evans-Pritchard), 3. Deconstructing Descent, 4. Frontier Fetishism and the 'Ethiopianisation' of Africa, 5. Writing Nationalism in the Horn of Africa, 6. Present and Past in North-East African Spirit-Possession, 7. The 'Wise Man's Choice': Conversion Theories, 8. Shamans and Sex: a Comparative Perspective, 9. Ethnography and Theory in Anthropology, Bibliography, Index

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• Authors: I.M. Lewis, Ioan Lewis, Ioan (School of Education Lewis, Ioan (University of Delaware Lewis, Ioan M Lewis, Ioan M. Lewis, Loan M. Lewis, Lewis Ioan
• Publisher: Black A&C Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1970
• EAN: 9781845202804
• ISBN: 978-1-84520-280-4
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: London School of Economics Mon; London School of Economics Mon; LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, Social and cultural anthropology, Physical anthropology