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Deviance - Anthropological Perspectives (Paperback)
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Deviance - Anthropological Perspectives (Paperback)
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In this volume composed of cross-cultural case studies in deviance,
the authors show how an anthropological comparative study can shed
new light on the subject. Anthropologists have tended to avoid
studying deviance as a phenomena in and of itself, concentrating
instead on particular sorts of deviance such as sorcery,
alcoholism, and suicide. The authors feel that an anthropological
comparative study of deviance can shed new light on the ubject.
Anthropology's total immersion in the culture being studied is well
suited to a fuller understanding of deviance. An anthropology of
deviance is likely to create new models that challenge many of the
sociological assumptions currently used to interpret and understand
deviance. The results of fieldwork in the Arctic, the West Indies,
India, Europe, Africa, and the Far East are presented in individual
ethnographic essays, and the data is formulated into three new
theoretical models that address the differences between "smart" and
"proper" behavior, the distinction between "soft" and "hard"
deviance, and the social and political uses of "staged deviance."
These innovative models provide a context in which the data
collected cross-culturally make sense in general and make deviance
more understandable. Anthropology lends a greater objectivity to
the study of deviance through a great concern with the validity of
data, a focus on small-scale systems and a meticulous scrutiny and
acknowledgment of the models that will be used to interpret the
data. This unique book improves not only our understanding of
deviant behavior, but of sociocultural order as well.
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