"Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society" builds
on a collaborative, international project sponsored by UNESCO to
offer an overview of social and cultural anthropology. Not a
textbook in the ordinary sense, this volume explores the "militant
middle ground" between theory and practice, humanistic and
scientific approaches, and symbolic and materialist perspectives.
Rejecting conventional layout, noted anthropologist Michael
Herzfeld brings his collaborators - specialists in their various
fields - into a broader conversation about the ways in which social
and cultural anthropology can illuminate aspects of the human
condition that less intimate approaches cannot reveal.
This volume is not just about an academic discipline; it is
about the theoretical and ethical commitments that have enabled
anthropologists to play a leading role in the critique of racism
and other forms of intolerance. The wide range of topics that
Herzfeld covers has produced a book that will provide students with
a vital overview of the state of the field. But, perhaps more
important, readers will find their eyes opened to the complexities
of culture and society at a time of vastly intensified
communication and contact.
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