Arguments with Ethnography - Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion Volume 70 (Hardcover, New Ed)

A major critique of the globalization of the culture principle in anthropology. This study contends that the subjective anthropology promoted through postmodernism represents an extreme development of long established, highly patronizing and misleading evaluations in the anthropologist's creative role in the construction of theory. Arguing that theory building is dependent on the actual study of peoples - a study which is empirically based and historically sensitive - the book advocates the "fieldwork mode of production and reproduction." The simplest model for the construction of empirically-grounded theory involves three interacting sets of factors: the subjective ethnographer and their deployment of current theoretical assumptions; the multi-layered ethnographic "facts" disclosed by fieldwork; and the geopolitical and historical contexts in which fieldwork is conducted.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Release date:	1999
First published:	February 1999
Authors:	Ioan Lewis
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	186
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-84520-283-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN:	1-84520-283-X
Barcode:	9781845202835

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